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# | Buzzketball Loses a Coach, Gains a Recruit, Left With More Questions 
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We still bring back everyone (minus hudson) and buzz and signed the best player in Canada? I'm good.
This. We improperly utilized him, but even when we actually featured him the last few games of 2014 with our offense as is, he actually had one of the most productive stretches by a tailback we've had since David Wilson until Travon broke out.
Their parents driving them on a visit might especially without the history of programs like KU, SU etc. it also means it takes assistants more time to go see potential kids in Richmond, 757, DC, NOVA, Charlotte.
"now we just need to get ECU, ODU and div II schools off the books"
There are no Div. II schools on our schedule.
We were anchored for the first half of the charter trip. Caught a 7 foot wide ray and broke it off before it got to the boat. My dad got a 6 foot long shark about 125 pounds to the boat. Caught a couple other small sharks. Caught 5 spanish on light tackle while we were waiting for our cobia. Then we bounced around bait balls with no success. Anchored at another spot but no luck. Only a couple cobia caught on Tuesday including charter captains.
Yes, you can't change geography, but B Gregory was in the heart of Atlanta and he couldn't get the recruits either. Hypothecially, if Coach K was at VT, we would not have any problem recruiting anybody. The bigger point is, you have to win. If you win they will come, sort of speak.
For real though, I was riding a bit high on the success of this season and thinking we were the cream of the crop. I still need someone to knock me off my high horse though for football....fuente-foster looks way too good to be true on paper...
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# | Buzzketball Loses a Coach, Gains a Recruit, Left With More Questions Recruits don't give a shit about travel if it means they get to play for a winner
I believe from this in depth analysis that Fuente can change the play without moving a bunch of other players around, which Loeffler had the whole team move around.
You can not change geography. Recruits and coaches have to travel to get to urban areas.
Nice article but what this really points out was how little the previous AD did to move this program. It is not far fetched to say that Weaver set the program back 10 years with his firing and hiring of a couple coaches. And I don't buy that B-burg is way out of the way. Look at the recruits that Greenberg had before he was chopped. What you need is a commetment from the AD, the coach and the entire university. It will take a little time and we are ahead of schedule in my book.
Haha that's almost as bad as the people naming their kids Abcde, pronounced "AB-si-dee."
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# | Buzzketball Loses a Coach, Gains a Recruit, Left With More Questions We did end up losing out on Evan Maxwell. Quality big men being a limited quantity this transfer window got him an offer from Kansas so off to the Jayhawks he went.
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# | Buzzketball Loses a Coach, Gains a Recruit, Left With More Questions "Tweet master Aaron Moorehead"
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# | Buzzketball Loses a Coach, Gains a Recruit, Left With More Questions You gotta start somewhere. As long as we have Buzz or someone with the pedigree of Buzz leading the ship, everything else will eventually fall into place. Its a process that won't complete overnight, and we might have some missteps along the way, but as long as those don't start to pile up, we'll continue trending upwards, and eventually we'll have the resources we'll need to be the kind of program we want to be.
We started as quite literally the laughing stock of both the ACC and the Commonwealth. We are on the verge of being legitimately relevant. I try not to focus too much on where we have been and where we currently are, because where we are going is what truly matters.
Which further proves the point. Can't have all your eggs in one basket like that in recruiting.
I think it's better to say "that's how you get Michael Holmes as your starting RB." A capable offensive line and proper utilization would have led to Coleman being more successful. We should have used him similar to how Smoke Mizzell is used as a short pass, catch and run back. His biggest problem was pass protection and an inconsistent line.
We don't adjust to the defense, the defense adjusts to US!
We do adjust to the defense, but we don't change the formation or the play in most cases. That's the key difference.
Yeah, so...
Alexander-Walker has already signed, right?
...right?
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# | Buzzketball Loses a Coach, Gains a Recruit, Left With More Questions Gonna miss Chew but I totally get why he would leave right now if that's the best thing for him. Dude was a great recruiter on the AAU circuit. Side question: today is the last day for recruiting for this year. Anyone heard anything on any incoming signees?
To be fair, Coleman was expected to be 1000 yd rusher. We weren't stuck with a walk-on, or barely recruited RB. We were stuck with a 4-star back that didn't pan out.
I must be an old meanies or something, but I just couldn't help but laugh when I saw that video.
We can run every play in Loeffler and Stinespring's playbook as long as we don't do THIS!
Which I'm pretty sure Fuente's approach is the opposite of this. As in, this will never happen again. We don't adjust to the defense, the defense adjusts to US!
I mean, this argument holds up water if kids are funnelling into the programs the closest in vicinity to where they live and go to high school. I would say this is true for less than 10% for all Division 1 athletes.
Top recruits go to places where they will win and be best prepared for play at the NBA level. The worst kids will go to wherever they were offered a scholarship. For everyone in between, they'll go to where they are in the best situation to contribute. I'm sure for some of them, vicinity is a part of it, but its not a large portion.