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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver I think Leoffler's system was catered more towards pro players that have much more time to work on the verbage, formations, reads, etc.
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10 years 3 months
# | Evans seems to be getting more First Team Reps: Notes from the 4/5/16 Practice What used to make me scratch my head (in the Stiney days) was when a Kick/punt returner would return a kick/punt, stay on the field (looking winded) and get the bubble/slip screen or reverse on the first offensive play of the series. Really??
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver Man, you're in the deep end of the Kool-aid pool. You're remembering what you wan to remember and forgetting what you want to forget
When did Beamer say "we need to build on this win, learn from this win."? If you guessed after the Ohio State win you'd be correct. Does that sound like a guy who -- after one of the biggest road wins in program history -- was all unicorns and rainbows? And even though he wasn't effusive in his praise and said -- over and over -- that work remained, how did that work out the rest of he season?
And when the chips were really down -- and they'll be down for Fuente at some point -- how often did the players respond to Beamer and his apparently different approach? How many of his good or not so good teams over the years could people say at season's end had quit on him? Maybe one?
Coach-speak is almost entirely for media and fans. Unless a coach says something really out on the end of the bell curve, players don't pay much attention to media sound-bites because they live the real thing every day.
If Fuente is successful it's because he can coach and motivate and organize a college football program, not because he can spew a bunch of well-trodden cliches to the media. The world is full of coaches that said all the right things to a fan base in year 1, but couldn't coach their way out of paper bag and had the media and fans rolling their eyes at by year 3.
And a great name, to go with it.
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10 years 3 months
# | Sleeker Settle Making Noise on a Deep Defensive Line, Tremaine Edmunds Set for Breakout Year The interesting thing to me is in something that Bud Foster said regarding the new tempo in practice. It seems as if the defense has had to adjust as much as the offense. The reason this important is because this will continue to help Bud's group be more prepared for the up-tempo spread type of offenses that we are seeing more and more of in college football.
Not sure what the expectations should be this year, but I'm excited to see everything begin to get worked out on Saturdays in the fall!
Welcome and have some legs.
No reason given at this time.
And a great name, to go with it. I will miss him, but it seemed like he was already gone, didn't it?
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver Oh, well, I disagreed with you at first, but I guess if you're putting your foot down like that...
Honestly, it is a change of tone from the previous regime. "Coach-speak" is just a term for when a coach speaks in generalities rather than specifics, but you can derive an overarching philosophy even from generalities. If you take Fuente's responses in this article and compare them to Beamer's responses since circa 2011, it's clear that there is a bit of a culture shift transpiring within the program.
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver I think that Frank was definitely a calm, cool and laid back guy on the surface, but by all accounts, his inner circle was quick to point out that he was a highly competitive guy in all respects. Time and age may smooth out some of the rougher edges, but I suspect he still burned with intensity inside, and those who knew him well said so.
Oh, I didn't see that in the report I read. Was there a reason?
What do you mean "like" a little fairy?
I Love Buzz Williams. He is a GREAT man. Me saying that has nothing to do with VT Basketball performance. Buzz Williams is a life coach. Just reading his twitter page is life changing. If he ever left VT, I would still listen to what he say where ever he is at because it could make me a better person, and that is from a great distance away. #GETBETTER
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10 years 3 months
# | Sleeker Settle Making Noise on a Deep Defensive Line, Tremaine Edmunds Set for Breakout Year good catches there. would have loved to see more of this last year.
🎸OG LEG KING 🎸
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver Of course it is. Outside of Foster, that's all we're going to get. But to me, it's refreshing to at least hear the head man talking the way that coaches of all the other top programs do. It's optics. Beamer came off to many as very laid-back, which may or may not have been the truth. Fuente appears more driven, the kind of guy you believe is driving for championships. I won't speculate on what dividends that may pay because that's not a matter of what he says, rather what he does during practice and game-planning.
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver Of course it is. I think the point here is that, at least in Blacksburg, we haven't been hearing this form of coach-speak. Frank was always praising the kids and team for their effort, which is fine and great but Fuente isn't going in that direction. Whether it's coach-speak or not, the players are listening to what their coach has to say even to the media and I think that what Coach Fuente has been saying could be more beneficial than praising the team.
I say it isn't harsh enough.
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver Oh please. It's all 100% USDA Prime Choice Coach-speak.
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver This sounds like something everybody who ever put a whistle around their neck has said. In addition to Nck Saban, I'll bet Mike London said something similar more than a few times too.
When a coach says he's satisfied and sees no need to move forward, I'll know that hell has indeed frozen over and we'll have a real headline.
🎸OG LEG KING 🎸
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10 years 3 months
# | Experience Standing Out to Fuente, Devin Wilson Trying His Hand at Wide Receiver Sure, but contrast it with Beamer the last few years. When asked about how things were coming along, all we heard out of him was that the team "gave great effort" and "I think we're gonna be a real good football team." Generic. To see Fuente say that we've gotta keep pushing and that he's never satisfied is certainly pretty standard coachspeak (especially among the really driven coaches) but that sense of urgency is refreshing for our program. I love Frank, and everyone said he was always competitive, but I didn't get much of a sense of that. With Fuente, I do.
TURN UP THE WICK
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10 years 3 months
# | Evans seems to be getting more First Team Reps: Notes from the 4/5/16 Practice and more Marcus Davis's....
Long time reader, first time commenting on the TKP thread.
I was Travis87972 and this victory tastes delicious. A strong close to a good NCAA basketball season in Blacksburg.
I'm glad that the team is getting deserved attention, but I do wonder how things will go next year now that this team is a known entity.
Now let me be clear - while I get the impression that the team won't let expectations get in the way of what they want to accomplish, it's an entirely different animal when people start intensely gameplanning for you.
The big question mark I see is interior defense - with Henry graduating and Pierce transferring, we'll need a big leap from Blackshear and a healthy Hamilton to get this team to the next level. And who knows what kind of production you can expect from Khadim Sy, but I have a feeling Buzz isn't expecting a huge contribution from him.
Regardless, it will be exciting to watch this team next year as they have a great foundation in place.
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10 years 3 months
# | Evans seems to be getting more First Team Reps: Notes from the 4/5/16 Practice I'm convinced Urban Meyer's counter to the Bear front in '15 came after reading French's breakdown and analysis.
Calipari is the bill belichick of NCAA.
Not breaking any rules, but pushing em as far as they'll go