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maxANDcheese's picture maxANDcheese
| 1 year 8 months # | Duke Vent Thread - time to burn it to the ground

smittyvt32949's picture smittyvt32949
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| 1 year 8 months # | OT: Summer Fishing Thread

We have visited Beaufort several times and been at the sand beach point in Port Royal w our pups. Hiked the beach at Hunting Island state park on an extreme low tide w our pups as well. We love that area. Nice work and thanks for info.

mitchell's picture mitchell
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| 1 year 8 months # | Duke Vent Thread - time to burn it to the ground

Scathing indictment.

Offensive line- we are back to Curt Newsome levels of buffoonery.

I was actually embarrassed watching our OL yesterday. Pop was out there showing some real promise but we just couldn't keep him upright. Given, he should have thrown the ball away a few times but the pass pro was absolutely wretched.

Tuten is a special talent, the best back since David Wilson (13 years now folks), and he has been wasted behind this offensive line.

I think multiple times each game about how much we are going to miss him next year. He's been a treat to watch and he's going to leave quite a vacuum in the backfield.

VTJ12's picture VTJ12
| 1 year 8 months # | Duke Vent Thread - time to burn it to the ground

Pry is struggling enough now with game/clock management without DC play calling duties. I can't imagine him being able to take that back over as he did in 2022 or be the de facto DC while also struggling with the HC game management stuff. Short of convincing Bud to come out of retirement, I think he's going to have to abandon this scheme if he wants to try and salvage his job. He needs to go get a good DC and allow them to bring in their own assistants. This hodge podge of guys who never really worked together before but all have some connection to Pry just isn't cohesive or working. On D or O.

french60wasp's picture french60wasp
| 1 year 8 months # | Duke Vent Thread - time to burn it to the ground

I had a really tough time watching that game. Some guys played really well. Jennings showed out. Peebles and Lawson had terrific moments. The defense defended the run well.

But it isn't cohesion, and the damndest thing... you can see players who have had some success in Blacksburg drop off in performance and effort. I can't blame Delane for the first touchdown, but his pursuit looked lackluster all night. Kaden Moore, after having a terrific game versus BC, has regressed badly. I break down the offensive line in pass pro in my film review, but there are also a lot of plays where they make initial contact and turn and watch. Nobody on the OL group looks frustrated or is challenging their teammates. I know there is a balance/going to far (see Hoffman, Brock), but do something. And the fact that nobody is pushing the top guys is even more damning.

I watched a ton of Penn State film when Pry was hired. I have never seen single high safeties doing some of the things VT's high safeties do. And then Reddish didn't even get a snap, even when Jones (who had his worst game in a long time) went out. I can't explain it. Strong is trying to do too much, while Delane looked like he is going through the motions. Lovett got shoved down once, and slipped once leading to 14 points.

I hate calling for coaches to be let go because we don't know what is being taught, but I don't know how any one of the defensive staffers could be retained at this point except maybe JC Price. And I don't have any idea who could be a new DC unless Pry took over defensive signal calling.

Offensive line- we are back to Curt Newsome levels of buffoonery. And in light of his health condition, I don't say that lightly. Wrong first steps, slow on snap count, not setting protections, not communicating on high school stunts. It isn't defensible, even if continuity is important. You have to get better talent at that position that can execute. Otherwise, no QB is going to have success. Tuten is a special talent, the best back since David Wilson (13 years now folks), and he has been wasted behind this offensive line. If he was running behind the 2020 OL, he would finish eligibility as a Hokies legend.

Frosty's dad's picture Frosty's dad
FROSTY IS A BEAR
| 1 year 8 months # | Week 12 Other Games

Oh my goodness, with getting to see VT play for the first time in a month, I completely forgot to mention that, once again, in THE game, it was bulldog, bulldog, bow, wow, wow!

Yale 34-Harvard 29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KkuhkAyKsM

"The defeat to the Bulldogs (7-3, 4-3 Ivy), in front of a crowd of 27,105, marked a disappointing end for the Crimson's season as hundreds of Yale fans stormed the field at Harvard Stadium to celebrate the Bulldogs' win."

HokieAndrew's picture HokieAndrew
| 1 year 8 months # | Duke Vent Thread - time to burn it to the ground

The thing is once the House settlement lands that very thing is going to happen to a lot of university programs. You're looking at like $20M+ a year in just compensatory payments to players. Nobody is getting fired with that uncertainty in the wind and it is going to affect a lot more than just VT.

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