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soo I was going to update your post based on the text, then I watched the gif which seemed like you wanted to turn upvotes into downvotes? so I downvoted you...
I'm guessing you missed this comment, then
Sliding back a few years, into the prime, we get 25-16 between 1999 and 2009.
In Beamer's "peak years" he was .610 which is pretty darn good and definitely a heck of a lot better than .300.
I think we're all getting caught up on silly, trivial details. Beamer was better than Mendenhall against ranked opponents. The reality is that it's hard to beat ranked opponents. That's why they're ranked. There are only like 12 active coaches right now who have better than .500 records against ranked opponents and around half of those coaches have coached Championship winning teams.
I don't think win percentage against ranked teams is an accurate metric to use when comparing coaches and it's kind of silly to compare Mendenhall to Beamer since the two will never coach against each other. I think the original point of identifying his record against ranked opponents was that despite the fact BYU has done well in his tenure against mediocre competition he struggled when he had to coach against good teams.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but you're getting a bit obnoxious right now. So here's this which is up to 2009. I can't find anything more recent. As of 2009, 8 teams had a better than .500 record versus ranked teams. Those teams were OU, OSU, USCw, Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, Alabama, and Florida State. All of those teams had played over 250 games against ranked teams. At the time, this was before our recent slide, we were 46-86-1 (.34962) against ranked teams which was 22nd overall. That's less than half of what those top guys had played.
That play against ECU was one of the worst defensive efforts I've ever witnessed.
That stat was for coaches. I'd be curious what it would look like for teams.
Only one team had a better than .500 record against top 10 teams. I'd expect higher for top 25 teams. I'd also expect higher for teams if you just looked at their "peak" years.
Yes, it's very difficult to beat the top teams.
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They can't. This is just another state legislator introducing a bill they know will get nowhere, simply to earn points with his electoral base and get his name in the news.
Pretty sure we don't play ND until Nov 19th.
He's talking over the course of the season, not in any particular game. We'll always have a few slobberknockers on the schedule. But on the whole, Fuente's offense should complement Foster's defense more than Stiney's or Lefty's did.
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I saw what you saw. He was a competent Mike the last three games. I think a lot of people have convinced themselves of a narrative that it will take a spectacular level of play to alter.
Earlier in the season, Motu was not good. To be honest, I don't think he was ready, and that's a product of our recruiting failures at the position rather than an indictment of Motu.
OK, now go back and try that for "ranked teams".
You're pretty damned good if you're .500 all time against top 10 teams.
Edit: What I think is interesting is that most of the teams at the top have played a lot more games against top-rated competition.
But if you want "sad", UVa is beating VT in this stat, at 16% vs 15%.
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# | ESPN: Which college football program made the best coaching hires? That list is already linked above in the WSJ article. 50/65 P5 head coaches have a losing record against top-25 competition. That's pretty universal.
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# | Hokies Defense Offers Glimpse of Future Against Hoos We face 2 talented teams on the road in the first 4 games next year: Tenn and ND. I would expect us to still rely heavily on defensive performances those games and not really anticipating early leads.
Question re: the QB runs we've been dealing with the entire season (and the example shown above). The offensive line effort has been referred to as "down blocking our DL and then having a back-side lineman / HB come across to burst through the gap" or something along those lines. Can't that just be called a "counter"? What's different in calling it a counter rather than the more long description?
I agree. I think the (correct) early season narrative that he was frequently out of position has biased a lot of viewing during the final weeks. I think Motu was significantly better. Not perfect, sometimes a little bit off or slow to react, but playing at a considerably higher overall level. I also noticed that his tackling, over the course of the season, became much more assertive. He was driving the offensive player down, rather than falling backwards with him, as was so often the case last year.
4* OT Malcolm Pridgeon, 5th overall JUCO player in the nation set to visit Virginia Tech after dead period, according to 247 free JUCO signing day article.
Has also taken visits to Florida, Baylor, and WVU. And boasts Bama and Ohio St offers among others
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# | ESPN: Which college football program made the best coaching hires? For context (somewhat outdated at 2010 only), here are the records for FBS teams vs. top-10 competition:
https://sites.google.com/site/collegefootballhistory/record-vs-top-10-te...
Spoiler alert: only USCw has a record over .500.
I was eating a snack while reading this and after watching the first video I lost my appetite. It came back by the LOLUVA footage though.
I was just about to say, I hardly remember Motu being out of position at all over the last three games. I did notice him take some questionable angles, which I think might be an issue for him a while longer yet, but he was consistently where he was supposed to be down the stretch.
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# | ESPN: Which college football program made the best coaching hires? The drink swig should help you remember. It does that for me.
It's all relative.
You'd think that only top 5 teams have decent records against top 5 teams. Any team who hasn't been there much (or isn't in a division where they face these teams much) is going to have a bad record there.
But if you're a top 25 team regularly, you expect the "beating ranked teams" stat to get better.
He may have inproved his positioning toward the end of the season, but numerous times during the UVA he was getting blown up by the tailback, who might have weighed about 190. In Bud's system, the MLB is key and you to agree the drop off this year has been noticable. VT can not sustain their defense with type of play at the MLB.