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# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies Whatever kid- glad he didn't have a change of heart in the middle of his career and keep someone out that really wanted to be a Hokie.
Not only is your stat incorrect, (He was 6-13 last night alone....) but it's short sided. Him getting to the basket, getting to the stripe and knocking them down is huge. Not to mention him getting the other team's bigs in foul trouble. Onoaku was a non-factor last night due in large part to Allen penetrating and creating contact. I should expect this by now from you, though. All you do is bash the kid. Good on ya, pal.
I don't agree with that. Wilson is very effective at rotating the ball, driving to draw for kickouts and he can finish on drives as well as anyone on the team.
Shooting doesn't equal offense. Wilson creates better shots for his teammates consistently. We often play very well on offense when he's in the game.
"Everything he does offensively is difficult. He's really one of our bright young coaches in our game. For the second year at Virginia Tech, he's doing an awesome job."
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Pitino was one of the coaches saying that it was really hard to build a basketball team/culture in Blacksburg. It's cool to see this quote and for Buzz to be getting props he deserves
And let's be honest. Wilson literally adds no offensive value when on the court. Even his ball handling is suspect. I do love his effort on the defensive end... But when Allen is on the bench and Buzz puts in Robinson and Wilson, you know that the scoring distribution on the floor is greatly reduced.
They really need Blackshear to stay out of foul trouble. He seems to get a crazy amount of fouls trying to hedge ball screens too hard and not being able to get to the spot. There is a huge drop-off from him to Pierce/Hamilton and much harder to go small with Leday at the 5 against ACC competition.
Knowing that his contract is heavily based on performance, this probably gives him a nice payday which is awesome because he deserves it.
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10 years 5 months
# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies Yep. The way the system currently exists, it's like a couple of 17 yr olds being "engaged to be engaged".
Seth Allen 3-23 last 5 or 6 games. Those are awful stats.. almost like turnovers.
"It's rare when that kid gets his shot blocked because he makes the contact first."
lol he must not watch a lot of seth allen
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# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies (double post)
Very encouraging comments from Pitino.
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10 years 5 months
# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies I keep a running tab of FBS school rankings by USNews each year, and Vanderbilt (duh), Florida, Georgia, and aTm constantly outrank Tech.
While I thought we played well, I was questioning the defensive strategy in the second half once it was clear that Lee and Lewis were hot.
The ball would get thrown inside and we would double-team the interior player - nearly every time, Louisville was able to pass out of the post and swing the ball to a wide open shooter. A lot of those 3 pointers in the second half were uncontested or the result of a defender scrambling to make up ground. I was surprised that Buzz didn't switch things up with straight man-to-man or go to some type of zone.
Speaking of defensive schemes - this Hokie squad is really good at defending pick-and-roll/ball screens, whether that's through switching or working through the screens to stay with their man. They fly around the court and have generally done a pretty good job of defending teams in ACC play (Duke being the lone exception).
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10 years 5 months
# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies Hot shot coaches hand out far more scholarship promises than they can accept. If you want to make it so a kid can't do it to you, make it so the coach can't do it to him. An early signing period is part of the solution, but there's always going to be shady business in the game of recruiting. We get upset when a kid commits to us, visits another school, and then likes that school but we praise our coaches when we do the same thing by poaching a player. Yesterday, we offered ODU commit Tyree Rodgers. By your standards, we shouldn't want him because he's committed and if he backs out then he's a hot-shot player jerking around ODU, but we'll ignore all of that because he's now our hot-shot player. Double edged swords cut both ways.
He's the most get-after-it OL I've seen in a while, hope he likes us more than Stanford.
It was a great game, but that pace that we ran at through the first 10 minutes couldn't hold up, and a big key to that game plan was them missing shots and us getting the board and running...once they started hitting what felt like 90% of their shots, it pretty much negated that plan.
True. However, I am going to have to see how charged his phone is before I get too pumped.
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# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies People keep getting hung up on the word and the literal definition. It is used incorrectly. We have guys verbally commit, though non-binding, and then have them sign a letter of intent, which is binding. I agree the NCAA should change the terminology to be more accurate to what is actually happening, but does that change anything? Even if so, that has nothing to do with the high school kids who are just a part of the process.
This is a bad practice that teaches these kids to be self-centered and of poor character
A high school kid changing their mind on a decision which will have a massive impact on their future (athletically, academically, socially, etc.) does not make them self centered, nor of poor character. We are fans rooting for a team that represents our school. Players come and go. We need to recognize how much more important this whole process is for the individual going through it than it is for us.
Also, if you're a good shooter, easy to get that hot when you get so many open looks
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# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies He heard we are never going to punt, like that high school coach in Arkansas. Fuente hasn't revealed that publicly so keep that info here.
Absolutely. I just got a chuckle when the thought ran through my mind of a guy who played a game for VT in the 2008 calendar year now being a head coach.
It felt like we had a great gameplan and that it was working through the first 10 minutes, and then we got away from driving the ball for the middle 20 minutes of the game. Still a great game to watch though.
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# | Virginia Tech Football Recruiting: Punter Marshall Long Decommits From the Hokies No doubt all part of Fuente's plan to score on every drive making a punter superfluous...
If that's true, who the hell is he to act like he knows what can and can't be done in Blacksburg?