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Well that got fixed fast.

ACC is going to allow satellite camps as long as the NCAA does.

Technically yes, but practically no. Rather than look at population of the city proper, look at the population of the metropolitan area. It is a better indicator of city size since city lines are kind of arbitrary. For example, Columbus is 217 sq mi, while DC is only 61.

DC 6,097,684
Boston 4,774,321
Seattle 3,733,580
Columbus 2,021,632

Columbus is definitely a large city, but the metro area population knocks it down to 32nd in population, closer to Cleveland and Austin.

interesting perspective. I don't know enough about football to know whether you want to have a QB who can make quick reads after the snap or not at the collegiate level. I think the biggest concern that I had was someone pointed out if the QB is only looking to one side of the field a WR could break wide open on the other side and the QB would never see him. I guess I'm saying it would be nice to have a QB who wouldn't miss a wide open opportunity like that.

right there with you bud. love sam to death but he is limited as a running back and there is no big play potential unless the play is perfectly executed by everyone on the field where some of the other guys we have have the ability to make something out of little or nothing at times.

there are not many college QBs who are making reads all the way across the field. not many NFL QBs either. most of your progressions are on one side of the field up to 3. the time is requires to progess all the way across the field is quite honestly not something we have the luxury of right now butttttt we do have something that can counter act that... mobile QBs who can buy time and or break the pocket and run which we got to see some in the spring game. making reads across the field is one of the most overrated things when judging a college QB.

johnny manziel- Heisman winner couldn't even make a 1st read
tim tebow - Heisman trophy and national championship winner same as above
Cardell Jones - national champion winner same as above
Cam Newton - Heisman trophy and national championship winner same as above

of the last 8 national champion winning QBs i would say only Jamies Winston was the one who could somewhat read a defense when he squinted really hard... bamas QBs I doubt had more than 2 reads. play action throw deep. any other time throw underneath and don't throw pics

French could break down if he wanted. but some of the stuff he broke down last year on leftys pass plays with the triangle route concepts they were designed to attack coverages on both sides of the field but the timing of the play is so important that if you go through the progressions to quick you will miss the open receiver and on the opposite side of the field the routes are also designed to be on that same time pattern because most routes only require 1-4 seconds to run because anything longer will result in a sack.

id prefer to see Heisman and national championship QBs here at tech than a 1st round draft pick who can read all over the field. Tom Bradys and Drew Breezes are few and far between.

this is just my humble opinion.

Correction: it was 8 airplane bottles, and only one or two were fireball. I also threw in some shitty vodka, some Chivas, and some wild Turkey.

I think part of the problem with RB usage under Beamer was he tried too hard to "play to their strengths" and he ended up pigeon-holing all of the backs he had. They had very specific roles. Ideally, you ask all of your running backs to do the same job. They might all have different styles and skill sets but you train all of them to block and train all of them the same sets of plays. That way they are, more or less, interchangeable. Then you give the RBs carries until they get tired. When you're going up tempo, RBs will tire very quickly (same with WRs) and it's important to be able to swap them out with some frequency. Especially if you're putting together a 10+ play drive. That is why WR depth has been such a hot topic this off season. To run at the tempo that Fuente would like to move he needs lots of bodies to rotate through during a drive.

i'm fine with rotating backs out to give them a rest, but I don't think you should have a designed set amount of carries each back gets in a rotation. You play the hot hand as much as you can. With some of the shane beamer rotations we would take a hot RB out because it wasn't his series and then go 3 and out.

"Hokies in the NFL just cannot catch a break"

If even Danny Coale cannot catch a break with regards to injuries, then those things must be damn near impossible to catch.

I'm not disappointed in French. My understanding is that he wants it to be published almost as badly as I do. He wrote the 2000 word piece a while ago and Joe is just waiting for the perfect time to drop the article, I guess.

But you are correct, he never did specify which Wednesday. It's torture! Torture, I tell ya!!

In all fairness to French, he didn't specify which Wednesday it would come out.

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