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You and Ms. Wagner should be friends.

That makes way too much sense for the NCAA to put into effect.

I have been a proponent of this for a long time. Start the process a little earlier, and you'll get coaches only making more serious offers, rather than the current "shotgun" approach that gets kids left out when they think the big boys want them but really don't.

It's easy to protect everyone, too. LOI can be voided by the recruit if the coach changes, an NCAA investigation is initiated, or the school drops their intended major. LOI can be voided by the school if the recruit gets in trouble with the law or fails to qualify. Done and done.

Good job again on this.

I really like the way this staff is able to predict the adjustments other teams will make and game plan accordingly. One of my biggest issues with our previous offensive staffs was how long they would allow other teams to do something unsound defensively against certain formations and tendencies we have, without punishing them. I still get angry every now and then when I think about (During the Stinespring era) how defenses for years were able to cheat an extra defender against us in the running game on the two receiver side of the field without us ever taking advantage of it. Even when we did make adjustments often times they (Opposing defenses) would get away with something for an entire game and we come back the next week with an answer, only to find our next opponents are defending it completely different. At times, we would make adjustments at half time but rarely did we have something that same drive or even the next drive. We did a very poor job on scouting ourselves and probably spent too much time scouting how our opponents defended other offenses. I believe that scouting your own tendencies, formations and play calling patterns on offense is just as important as understanding those traits defensively and I think this staff is exceptional in that regard. French pointing out the adjustments we made giving different looks off of speed option is a prime example. Our first four opponents had not overcommitted to that look but our staff knew that ECU probably would and had several plays designed to combat that.

I am also a big proponent of using trick plays or rather, unconventional plays early on in the football season. I know it looks like it is showing our hand on some things that could maybe be used later in the season in a close game but personally I feel like it is more effective to give defenses more things to see on film. As French pointed out, just having the threat of running a reverse (Or reverse pass) off of a speed option look will keep backside defenders more honest for the rest of the season. That backside defender or defenders having to hesitate can often times be the difference between a 7-yard gain and a 70-yard touchdown. This staff looks like it will always make defenses pay for overcommitting against certain looks/plays and the more you are able to do that, the more you are able to dictate the kind of looks you can potentially see defensively and it ends up making preparation and execution even easier on the offensive side of the ball.

I also have to wonder if that 50k number is only for the Blacksburg campus, or if they are planning to beef up some of our satellite locations around the commonwealth. Would not surprise me if the majority of that figure is going to come from the satellite locations.

I like official visits during Junior year, i would like to see official offers only, if a coach gives you an offer and you accept right then and there the school is stuck with you.

If you remember the name Jimmy Williams, former Hokies' CB, he also hails from Bethel High (though I think he played his first 2 or 3 years in HS at Hampton)

It's been especially bad since I've given everyone shit all week

Edit: I made a bet with my co-worker, and if ECU lost he had to change his profile and cover photo to the Hokie Bird and the final scoreboard. Doesn't seem like much, but I wanted public humiliation so it was worth it to me.

So the #7s don't get to participate in that (dis)honor? Seems like it would be right up their alley.

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Yeah, I knew that format wasn't going well for them. I'm just an American who doesn't live in the Pacific time zone, and therefore pays zero attention to PAC-12 football.

Hey Egbert, I found Mark.