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And I am more than willing to give the man his dues. I know the highlight of his tenure as OC will be that win over OSU and some other great games, bowl wins over Cincinnati and Tulsa come to mind.
I am merely pointing out some of his deficiencies as an OC. I know that the guy did his best job for VT and I've read enough about him on this blog site and others to get the idea that he is really knowledgeable about college football in general and QBs are his specialty.
I don't think it's implausible to think that Coach Frank Beamer put constraints on the offense (or defense) in some ways. There is certainly evidence that he restricted what our offense was allowed to run in order to minimize risk of turnovers. Just think about how we NEVER threw the slant route for years and years and years. Vick, Randall, Vick2, Glennon, Taylor may have thrown all of 5 slant route passes combined. Do you think that that Bustle, Stinespring, Rogers, and O'Cain all magically came to the same opinion on slant routes?
Finally we started throwing some when Loeffler came in and we had LT3 behind center. (Brewer was arguably too short to be reliable throwing the slant .. unless of course we did something to accommodate his height like cut-block to create passing lanes on the play side, but I digress.) So maybe Beamer gave Loeffler more freedom in that regard.
Looking at this photo improved my deadlift 40%
Any time I get an excuse to post this, it's happening.
I am not saying that OC Loeffler left the VT offense a mess. Nor am I calling him the anti-christ nor Hitler reincarnated, with regards to college football universe. My only point with this particular blog post was to introduce more evidence that we can piece together to discuss/talk about how much of the issues we as fans had with the offense under OC Loeffler. I'm actually pulling for him to be successful at BC, expect when they play VT of course, because I do think he is a good football coach. I just not completely sold on the idea that he is a good OC.
He wasn't under the radar. He was well regarded. The weird thing about his recruitment is that Tommy Reamon (high school coach) told programs not to recruit Vick if they were recruiting Curry. Thus, he didn't have the major offers his talent deserved as practically everyone targeted Curry.
So you're saying that if Stephen A. Smith wrote a piece or gave an interview about Virginia Tech, you wouldn't take him seriously? It could be that Mr. McDaniel is privy to some information that he has gathered while covering the ACC. I'm not saying definitively that this is the case, I'm just saying that I am not going to automatically discount what he says nor just make-up my mind that he is not knowledgeable about Virginia Tech. I guess I just don't get what the issue is with Mike McDaniel.
I jumped out of my seat when I saw his face.
Does Hilgart favor mass over explosiveness, strength over agility, heavy weight over high repetitions? No.
Eh could be worse I guess. I want to know his position on squat depth (Please be ATG) and powercleans from the hang position vs. the floor (Please be floor).
Well, it just got announced that it has jumped to 1.4 Billion. So I wouldn't be surprised to see 1.5 or even 1.6 at this point.
I have played in many games like this one, where the other team is just a whole better than you are. You know going in that we have to play perfect. There was one game we played and were not that good and we were playing the 1st place team. At half-time we were down 1 point and one of the guys on the other team says to me "You guys are a lot better than your record" and my reply was "You realize we have not missed a shot yet". We got beat by 20. So the moral is talent usually wins, but the effort was great.
Although I recognized that it was not the most well thought theories, bordering on the tinfoil hat area of my personal psyche; I think people are putting way too much thought into this. Like I said in an earlier post on TKP, being a sports fan also means embracing the irrational, illogical and superstitious nature that I normally suppress as an engineer at work. ;-)
This article from Rivals says that Vick and Curry played before rankings started but -
It's safe to say that Curry would have been a five-star as well, while Vick would have been a four-star player
edit: To be fair, I was 8 years old when Vick was recruited so i could be wrong. I do recall in my limited research that I've seen him listed as 4* though. Maybe those were retrospective rankings though? (if that's even a thing)
Ok someone in the know can you explain how this works? He is over all programs but stays mostly with the football team, does that mean other programs have their own lead person? Does football have someone else who is there point man?
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# | Ben Hilgart to Lead Virginia Tech's Strength and Conditioning Program Yea I'm afraid of him.
I wish we could have practices at IMG academy, that school is absolutely loaded with talent, would have loved to land a guy like Rashaun Smith (Clemson) or in a pipe dream (because we always whiff on these) land Kaindoh next year.
I will admit I didn't read the article, but spring practice is normally longer than the 1 week off in the spring. I have no problems with the team traveling during spring break and practicing in Florida. Does the team have to follow the 20 hours per week limit during spring break?
I have a huge problem with them traveling to Florida if classes are in session. Then they are definitely going to break the 20 hour per week training limit.
He doesn't look that tough......
Seriously though we are assembling some bad-ass coaches and if their abilities match their looks, we will be incredible.
Nickname should be Mr. Squarejaws.
Scarily enough is the fact that with a really good year next year, Ford could be closing on the all time receptions, yards, and TD's at Tech after three years.
Has worked for anOSU, New Mexico and Arizona State. Will be interesting to see how the players take to him.
Those plays are part of the reason why I think Bucky needs to stay for at least one more year. Show improved effort to those NFL scouts.
It will be interesting to see the effectiveness of Loeffler in the future, his stats dont bode well for him to say the least, but I agree, where we were 4 years ago, there HAS to be credit given to him and the staff, maybe we didnt perform on the field as hoped, but the level of talent has certainly improved.
I also think his time at Temple, could be attributed to Loeffler or it could be attributed to Bernard Peirce, I think there are pretty even arguments for both.
Offensive Efficiency for Temple (per ESPN)
2008 - score 26.3 rank 102nd
2009 - score 45.8 rank 70th - Pierce rushed for 1336 yds (freshman year)
2010 - score 38.6 rank 83rd - Pierce was injured missed about 5 games
2011 - score 60.2 rank 36th - Pierce rushed for 1481 yds Loeffler OC
2012 - score 40.7 rank 80th - both Pierce and Loeffler gone
Football is so interconnected its really hard to pinpoint metrics that pinpoint the effectiveness of a coaching staff...
He's going to be challenging Vance Vice for the award of best mug on staff.
Not surprised one bit. I love the fact that the jackpot is so big, it won't fit on the electronic billboards here in Georgia. It just reads "$999 Million."