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hokieman32's picture hokieman32 | 10 years 17 hours # | Buzz Williams vs. Tony Bennett

To be fair, the Big East when Buzz was there was comparable to the current ACC. Not disagreeing with you, only pointing out the Big East prior to the most recent realignment was the best basketball league top to bottom.

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| 10 years 17 hours # | ASK FRENCH- What are your Hokie football questions before fall camp kicks off?

I mean what the hell... So our offense was so damn predictable that a fan was able to put together a playbook on how to fundamentally beat our pass protection, and somehow that's the fan's fault for figuring it out?

Homie don't play that. You shouldn't be employed by a major football program if your scheme is that easy to figure out and dissect.

HokieEnginerd's picture HokieEnginerd | 10 years 17 hours # | ACC Media Picks Hokies to Finish Fourth in Coastal Division

This offseason can't end soon enough. All of this free time is making people say stupid things. So many people were acting like the recruiting world was ending a for the last few weeks and then we have a big recruiting weekend and pick up 5 (supposedly) commitments and everything is right with the world. Sometimes I think mood stabilizers should be handed out with Internet connections.

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| 10 years 17 hours # | What other Cities could the ACC move the Conference Championship Game to.

Counter argument - 160k-180k fans in one stadium for the game, which is about twice the size of any venue they use now. Considering how they obviously don't give a crap about the fan experience due to the fact they play the Final Four in full size football stadiums with terrible sightlines, I really don't think its that far out of the realm of possibility.

The only, and I mean only, drawback would be the weather.

kff17's picture kff17 | 10 years 18 hours # | ACC Media Picks Hokies to Finish Fourth in Coastal Division

Amen. There's been a really weird shift lately. When Fuente kept Bud on, everyone thought it was the biggest slam dunk of a coaching staff. But the last few months, especially since the Garbutt decommit, there has been a lot of ripping on Bud and saying we might have been better moving on and acting like hes struggling at DC.

Cnote91's picture Cnote91 | 10 years 18 hours # | What other Cities could the ACC move the Conference Championship Game to.

even if it goes well i don't see it becoming a host city or even an option:

a) weather is too crappy for a non-dome city
b)pain in the ass to get to for most people
c) i've never personally been to bristol, but i doubt there's enough going on to host the weekend parties and such; i imagine sponsors would hate it

those are just the top 3 reasons i can think of

Chris's picture Chris
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| 10 years 18 hours # | ACC Media Picks Hokies to Finish Fourth in Coastal Division

The defense has not been horrible by any reasonable metric and certainly not "the last few seasons." I'm really growing tired of this narrative. We have had to play the type of break don't bend defense the last few years because our offenses have been absolutely terrible, plus the secondary has been tormented by injury and forced Bud to move away from more nuanced coverages to help the younger guys. That isn't to say we haven't struggled with running QB's (which is a common ailment to most defenses) and we have had some gap integrity issues, particularly last season and the 2014 games without Chase Williams. Even so, we had a highly rated and probably championship caliber defense just two years ago in 2013. 2014 was a good defense that injuries took a toll on. Even with our "pretty horrible" defense we have performed better against quality offensive teams than even the current golden boy of the ACC in Clemson, why don't you compare our last few games against GT and UNC with how Clemson has fared against them. See what happened to the other teams who played tOSU in 2014. I understand that we are used to totally stellar defenses, but it seems like you people live in this bubble of totally unreasonable expectations. We need to get better on defense, we have some troubling issues with gap integrity, depth needs to be addressed at some important positions, and we will likely need to adapt our defense moving forward (which is happening, by the way) as does any team to keep up with ever changing paradigms of offense. We have been spoiled for many, many years by great defenses who managed to hold strong under unreasonable expectations, and far too much being asked of them. You know what's been the achilles heel of Alabama's (often #1 ranked) defense? mobile QB's. Do you know what the achilles heel of Clemson was last season? Big plays, often playing poorly in space in their zones or poor reads against the option (excluding GT, when it was expected) see how a 5th string walk on QB for Syracuse ran a successful offense on the ground with some relatively basic option concepts.

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| 10 years 18 hours # | Buzz Williams vs. Tony Bennett

Whelp, that escalated quickly...

For what it's worth SevenLayers... I thought this was great and was ready to poke a little fun at the Hoos. I guess I'll save that for a different day. NVM...

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