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Next season game of thrones air date pushed back.
http://news.sky.com/story/game-of-thrones-season-seven-to-be-delayed-104...
Apparently Winter didn't come for filming.
Great to see Acree land a job, doods a beast.
I disagree, and am starting to think you argumentative because we are bored in the off season. I would rather have coaches that teach the game, develop character, and are good at developing players than coaches whose greatest strength is selling kids on something they cannot deliver. A lot of our recruiting battles are lost to teams that win more. Period. I do not our defense is what has kept us from winning, and believe we we could not hire a better DC than BF for anywhere near the same money. I think having an Offence to go with the defense is the first step in winning more, which is what we need to do if we want to recruit with programs that have won the last four years, or have a championship history. Your talk of recruiting over coaching makes me think of all the coaches I hate without respect, and is not what I want out of VT. Yes, I would like to be good at recruiting, but firing good coaches because you miss on recruits to teams with better programs (based on recent win/loss)? Not very VT IMO.
I'll get the weather control device warmed up
Preach on brother Hokie!
That's what she said! Yeah, I got nothing. My apologies.
That, or we lose another to Iowa State. Ugh.
2 things I gathered from this
Tyrod taylor is AMAZING
And chuck pagano is a moron and doesnt know how to study his opponent
I agree. A 17 yr old's commitment is not something I hold too strongly to. He still could re-commit, is we'do have him. Beamer proved you can build a strong program with less rated plaster aLloyd being committed to the program. Unlike UVA getting a bunch of egotistical rated athletes. We've seen 12 yrs of how this works out...
Regarding Bud's system: what have 4-5* DL/LBs done in his system/pros?
October-April are great down here, but damn if May-September doesn't get it's licks in. Everyday this week it's been 90+ and high humidity when I leave for work. If I was a football player, this would be the last place I'd want to be for summer workouts before the season. I'd want a nice, new, air conditioned practice facility in a place with a temperate climate. If only that was an option for Khalen.
My guess is USC-west. A shocker, it's always warm, etc.
When we are evaluating defensive line recruiting, we need to remember that some very promising dline recruits were moved to offense because of oline recruiting problems.
Yep
Wait is that the guy from Maryland and then Before that New Mexico?
I would personally donate $45k a year to keep Mike Locksley out of Blacksburg. There are many coaches who can turn good programs into dumpster fires, but that's where most bottom out. Locksley has the unique ability, metaphorically speaking, to take a dumpster fire and add Cesium 137 and AMFO.
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Look, the fact of the matter is that we will miss out on top D-line and LB talent because Bud's system doesn't transfer to the NFL. Four and five star kids go where they can be prepped for the league. They're not going to learn a two-gap system in Blacksburg. You had better believe that other coaches recruiting against VT point this out to the recruits.
Bud is a defensive genius and would probably showcase top-level talents enhancing their draft stock, but is hard to argue against the notable lack of front seven players from VT getting their names called on draft day. A bit of a chicken and egg scenario, but without proof, how can we expect elite front-seven recruits to automatically trust that Bud will get them drafted.
Add to that the reputation of moving players to fill holes created by recruiting misses and the problem compounds. An NFL sized DE isn't going to come here just to get switched to DT due to needs caused by poor recruiting. Same with an NFL sized LB that would probably get moved to DE to fill holes.
When it comes to elite front-seven players with dreams of the NFL, Bud just doesn't have the appeal that we think he does.
I'm watching TCU on ESPnU now playing against Oregon in the Alamo bowl. How much of Fuente's offense remains at TCU?
I thought Laborn was in North Carolina now? I want to say Shelby... or where am I getting that from?
Luther definitely did not have to play it has ben proven that both Williams and Baron when given substantial snaps , there was not much if any drop off. Baron was best DT last year.
Generally I like it
How about the fact that KIDS can be swayed to other schools not because of our defensive coaches but the fact the majority of our staff is new and nobody knows how we will look next season. Kind of hard to tell these guys what they can expect when Fuente hasn't coached a game at Tech yet.
agreed -I had a casual interest watching and now further enticed, what-with the ODU interest rooting (glad to see them re-upping and then the quality "thanks" to ATL fans) for Bazemore... and if MD23 can understand the Spurs-style of team basketball, he really could flourish...
might even lug the clan down to Phillips to catch a few this year... who knows? maybe Dwight finally grows up!