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I heard they added numbers in October and that is a big reason why nobody has won it yet. Is that a standard procedure to decrease odds at a certain point? Or did they make the decision in order to drive up the purse? I know virtually nothing about the lottery...I've never paid it any attention before but it's hard to ignore when everyone everywhere talks about it non-stop.
I guess what I meant was Loeffler to BC makes sense. Maybe it's not necessarily a great fit but he's worked with Adazio before and they were successful as a team. Adazio needs some improvement offensively and BC isn't going to draw top-end coaching talent. Loeffler needed a job and there is familiarity with Adazio so it's an easy sell for BC to get Loeffler. On the other side of the coin, BC badly needs an offense and Loeffler, sadly for BC, is probably about the best possible candidate they could realistically lure to Chestnut Hill. A perfect match IMO.
The rules are set by each state but they tend to be consistent. Virginia's rules are in a pdf link under legal stuff on the bottom of this page. Section P of that pdf talks about your beneficiary getting payments if you die.
Nice job, Mason. Glad you pointed out it takes several factors for plays to work. Good schemes, timely playcalling, and athletes who are dedicated to their craft and put in the hard work to make it happen.
Looking forward to the next chapter in these young guys' careers in the Orange and Maroon.
Well this is spectacular...
Agree. Except I'm not sure that Loeffler will be a good fit with BC. But I'm not sure he won't either. It's not that his philosophy doesn't fit there, but that it requires certain players to make it work. Sometimes he'll have them there, sometimes he won't.
I think the number of places where his philosophy will work is dwindling. I think he would be really successful at a place like USC (but then lots of guys would be great there).
By this logic, the only options on the table are to pay them at least what they made before, not retain them, or I suppose, setting the minimum position salary at Wiles level.
None of these options were acceptable to all parties.
I thought it is pretty interesting the way you and Mason and French responded to the thread.
Sounds like we have a new coach who may not have as deep a rotation but will have a rotation nonetheless.
I've often wondered how the energy systems are supposed to work with a one back system.
Runs are probably anaerobic and those systems need time for full recovery. You have a run, you get another one you can almost be assured you are operating at less efficiency. Now, it may matter more that you are involved in the "offensive flow" in some way shape or form, or that the new RB is not involved in the "offensive flow". You have to really pay attention and talk if you are going to be inserted into a game and not drop off just on not understanding what is happening in the trenches.
Ages ago we used to go after single guys. Someone had a 20-40 yard sprint to cover, we'd rotate a fresh guy there and do it again. It is literally impossible not to fall off dramatically if you can get a guy isolated with 3 short term sprints. Now it is hard to get the guy isolated 3 times in a row. But many skill athletes are called upon to perform at a high level 3 times in a row. Most folks would say you fall off unless you've had 3-5 mins or rest time.
Similar thing with the "Bucky is out of shape" idiots. Ummm... Bucky wasn't just 5 yards sit and wait kinda TE... he was turning it upfield. You can't do that time and time again without recovery. Rather have a guy his stature in the game winded than on the sideline recovering, but acting like a guy that big can sprint forever is lunacy.
Not sure I buy the consipiracy theorists, saying this was some kind of FB orchestrated play calling. Sure SL may have gone a bit conservative at Frank's high level direction to protect a lead, but I cannot imagine SL was not calling the plays. Similarly the notion that Frank's son was foisting a RB rotation on SL seems completely absurd. The VT offense and system seemed a shambles. And it is easy to put bits and pieces of info from different sources together and make it seem like SB was holding back our offense based on a misguided RB rotation. But ... come on man. Either you OC is on top of stuff and getting what he want or he isn't. SL doesn't seem like a delegator to me. Not buying that at all.
I'll add to it then when I'm off my iPhone.
Cue the trombone playing, "Wah waah waaaah." for Bucky's whiff of a block.
He could've taken out two defensive backs there. ^_^
But, good analysis and write-up...definitely looking forward to next year
Michigan is in the enviable position of having a large football budget (over $64 million surplus for the 2013-14 fiscal year) so the resources would not be a problem.
Seems to work.
I would have copied and pasted a quote but it won't copy, not sure if article is somehow protected.
Fuente...and VT is in the mid-20's in staff salary. So we could offer pay raises to 60+% of the P5 and all of the G5 DB coaches.
except, the main issue with the rotation wasn't that we were using 3 or 4 backs. It was HOW they were being used. I don't have an issue with using 4 RBs in a game. I have an issue with using 4 RBs on a 5 play drive.
French alludes to that here:
Now, their timing for making switches and the use of those backs when on the field... to me that is fair game.
The issue with the RB rotation was how they were used. Not that we were using 4 of them. I think you've mis-understood that this entire season.
I will give Harbaugh credit for working within the rules, but at some point the SEC and ACC (if not others) are going to have to put their foot down and get the rules changed. Michigan (as the article states) has a huge budget that will allow for such travel, which serves really as de facto exhibitions to talented prospects. If the other conferences change their rules to allow such satellite camps and practices, it will come at a huge cost, one that is intractable for most other programs. So without putting a stop to this activity, the disparity between haves and have-nots (or "have-lesses") becomes even larger.
I can't imagine the big Florida schools being OK with this, to say nothing of the other major programs nearby.
That's a whole lot of dots to connect to support your theories.
Loeffler's play calling - especially early in his tenure -- bore little resemblance to Stinespring's, IMO. Just think of his use of the inverted veer with LT...when did Stinespring take that approach schematically and thus with the play calling driven by that?
Yeah because unlike their rivals OSU, they're not there to play school /s
I'm going to have to check this out. When I saw the "other big movie", the preview was for The 5th Wave, which also had a big ship appear. I'm skeptical.
I was saying this all season, but would get little agreement here because the RB rotation was an easy target. There is nothing inherently wrong with a RB rotation. Some of VT's best seasons were when the carries got spread around among 3 backs and the QB.
I would argue that McMillian got overused (and misused to a lesser extent) once they committed to him as the number 1 back. I would not be shocked at all to see more Trey Edmunds in the mix next year.
Good stuff, I am hoping Ford has lots of help next year so he is not carrying so much of the load, even superstars need to take a few reps off...
The outside linebacker to the field, Matt Linscott (No. 38), is responsible for any short routes that happen from the hashtags to the sideline
That should be hash-mark shouldn't it? Crazy how twitter has made it's way into everyday talk.
Great article, Mason!
I remember the play that's shown in vids 2 and 3 well, while I didn't see it in slow motion, my first thought was that Bucky should have destroyed #24 with a block. His effort was even worse in slow motion.
If he's going to be an NFL caliber player, he needs to put people on their asses.
this is ridiculous. Loeffler left our offense 10 times better than it was when he got here. Even if the stats don't show it. Fuente and his staff have a lot less work to do than they would have if they were hired 4 years ago. To say he brought nothing to this offense is just plain wrong. We may not have gotten the high-flying Clemson offense that everyone wants around here but he improved the talent and installed concepts that we had been pining for for ages. The passing structure improved dramatically and we saw some spurts of brilliant play calling / play design. IT wasn't consistent and Loeffler may be stubborn when it comes to his game-plans but he's done more to help set this offense up for success than anything else. BC's offense this year was historically bad. They were just about dead-last across the board. I think Loeffler is an up-grade for them. I'm not surprised he ended up there. I've been suggesting that Loeffler would be a good fit with BC for 2 months now. He'll do just fine there.
I feel rather certain that with sales from hype and press right now, this will jump to for sure $1.4B, possibly even $1.5B.