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Roberto carlos disagrees with your free kick statement

http://youtu.be/3ECoR__tJNQ

Cant embed on my phone

Hard to believe that there's a 9 point difference from inside the $EC to outside. Wow. Interesting stuff.

Am I missing something, or is there a very talented #78 missing from the list

I've also wondered if the reason we did not hire a proven OC away from someone else was because Frank did not like "stealing" coaches from other programs, or Weaver would not approve the budget for it.

Basically Bustle's offense was a mix of power, option, and play action pass off of both. Minus the power game on a consistent basis, that is what Fuente's O looks like to me. The 99 season we had an O line that was aggressive and played well together with a very athletic QB. We still have elements of that kind of talent on this year's team. QB performance will mean everything, IMO.

I agree. Beamer may not have been calling the plays, but he had a deep conviction to certain ideas, and I think his hiring decisions (and the resulting offensive coaching strategies) reflected this. It was Beamer's team.

I definitely don't think Beamer was ever intentionally holding back the offense. I think he just did not have a good track record of hiring capable OCs later in his tenure, as you mention. But I do believe a trademark of the entire Beamer era was allowing the offense to take its foot off the gas later in games if we had a decent lead. I don't think Frank ever wanted to run the score up on anyone, and I read somewhere recently where Loeffler said Frank told him in the booth during the Military Bowl "remember to run the ball here, Scot" once we had a comfortable lead.

It makes complete sense once you're up big to just try and run the clock out, play it safe, don't turn the ball over, and not run up the score. But a lot of times, we unintentionally let an opponent get back into the game by calling off the dogs too soon and trying to not lose rather than close it out. I definitely attribute this to Beamer. In no way do I think Frank meddled with the playcalling or vetoed anything, but I think he did have power to call off the dogs.

I thought they misspelled ACC and applied to the AAC instead? Of course they did not accept them either, only partially because of the crayon.

I think your thought on Beamer is completely false. I recommend you read the book "Let me be Frank". It will change your perspective (as it did mine) and you'll see that Frank is not only a very hands-off type of coach who lets his assistants do their job, he actually is a fan of playing offense and scoring. An apparently little known fact about Beamer is that he was a High School Quarterback who played in an up-tempo offense that threw the ball all over the yard (and he loved it!). He actually came to VT with intentions to play the QB position but he was moved to CB for various reasons. Because he played as a CB during his career at VT and hired a hall-of-fame defensive coordinator who stayed on his staff for 20 years everyone thinks of Beamer as a defensive minded coach. It's a lazy and ill-conceived conclusion. The offense over the last few years can be blamed on Beamer only in that he didn't hire a coach capable of fielding a productive offense in this era of college football. It has nothing to do with Beamer holding the offense back with some magical veto button.

WVU actually did apply for admission into the ACC, but it was promptly rejected based on the fact the application was written in Crayon.

2/12 landing spots seem like a happy ending, I'd take those odds.