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But... but... Sandsman is the one who hired Whit!
Oh, that president. Never mind.
Great write up as usual French!
It bolsters my blind faith that Foster & co will put up a solid or better defense next year.
That coupled with my newly found optimism about the offense make me truly excited about next year.
With Fuente's Offense and all the playmakers we have, the offense has a chance to actually be GOOD, if not downright explosive, if the OL matures and continues to improve.
Now there is a concept - a truly good offense and a Foster defense - could be the start of something special!!!
Now lets go stomp Tulsa and send uber classy Frank Beamer out with a win! GO HOKIES!!!
Motu was out of position a lot early in the season. I think he made a marked improvement by the end of the year.
Dadi's jersey had been shredded from being held all day (with few, if any, called). He switched jerseys at halftime.
Because THIS is the comment that started this strand:
Beamer didn't have a great record against ranked opponents either, and i'm talking about in his prime.
What I think he's saying is that you can't so much bash Mendenhall on that, particularly since he's still an active coach. Even in Beamer's peak years he was close to .500 against ranked teams.
I think that may have been the game where he got held so many times it tore his jersey up and they had to replace it at halftime.
That was like a few years ago when VT had a 1-24 record against Top 5 teams. Can't remember when it was. But that was such a stupid stat. It's extremely hard to have any kind of decent record against Top 5 teams.
Exactly. Those coaches are some of the best coaches, except for those whose resume is very small at the moment. A lot of those coaches also inherited teams with historical success. Beamer inherited a team with little history. Up until we went to a bowl game in the 93 season, Beamer was 2-17-1 versus ranked teams. Beamer's record vs ranked teams since 93 is 43-36.
I admit, I read this as "krabby panties" at first.
Ok, I might need my eyes checked, but I can't find Dadi on that ECU play. Is he wearing 94 for some reason that day? 94 is supposed to be Trevon Hill, who was out for the year.
I never have and never will understand that question. Here you have a coach with a limited amount of time and, yet, there are many who want to use the time to ask about people who will never be Hokies.
All coaching staffs do their own rankings. Then their offers create the public rankings.
Gotta love that cheezy smile on Wiles face. Almost like a "You know you love krabby patties, don't you squidward?" smile.
For reference:
Teams are ranked for a reason. Theoretically, a ranked team only has (ranking-1) potential teams who could beat them and they're not likely to play more than 3 or 4 of them in a season. It would take way too much time to figure out, probably, but how many of those wins over ranked teams were wins by the higher ranked team over a lower ranked team? I think another thing you'll notice about that list is that they've all coached ranked teams and a bunch of them have won Championships. That's a list of really really good coaches.
From that list, Malzahn now has a losing record at 9-10, Sumlin is 12-12, and Petersen is 10-12.
I do hope those days are over
Great right up Frenchy, but I have to disagree about the Hawaiian Surfer Dude. He makes a play about every 5 down and is completely out of position the other 4. We are in trouble next year if we can't get our MLB play back to where it used to be. Just an opinion.
I remember when it was rumored that Larry Coker offered kids at Miami based on their Rivals rating.
So this is from last year, but here is the list as of 2014 of P5+ND coaches who have don't have a losing record all-time and at their current (in 2014) school:
Nick Saban, 50-35 All time, 28-12 at Alabama
Gus Malzahn, 5-3 All time, 5-2 at Auburn
Jimbo Fisher, 9-5 All time and at FSU
Mark Richt, 34-31 All time and at UGA
Les Miles, 40-31 All time, 37-19 at LSU
Brian Kelly, 15-11 All time, 7-7 at Notre Dame
Urban Meyer, 25-12 All time, 5-2 at OSU
Bob Stoops, 50-23 All time and at OU
Mark Helfrich, 2-1 All time and at Oregon
Steve Spurrier, 65-52-1 All time, 18-23 at USCe
David Shaw, 14-4 All time and at Stanford
Gary Patterson, 14-14 All time and at TCU
Kevin Sumlin, 8-7 All time and 5-6 at aTm,
Jim More, 5-5 All time and at UCLA
Chris Petersen, 8-4 All time, 0-0 at Washington
Frank Beamer, 43-50-1 All time
15/65 coaches don't have a losing record against ranked teams as of last year. I'm sure that's changed this year, but that just shows how difficult it is to beat ranked teams.
Good question, I think we were hoping for Mihota AND Dooley to be able to pick up the slack. I know everyone loves Hill, but he's still coming back from a major knee surgery. It might take 2 years to get fully back. Haven't heard anything on Gaines. Maybe Baron can slide out some. I wish there was more depth at Backer so we could move Edmunds3 to Stud.
Finding 3 quality DE's to rotate with Ekanam is the key to the defense next season.
also bonner is playing on the same team as whitley.
This is the comment you replied to
Still over .500, and better than Bronco.
this was your reply:
Come on. Are we really going to defend just over .500?
At a certain point we should just admit that this wasn't a bright spot.
slightly over .500 is still better than .300. I don't understand why you're insistent on pointing out that it's not very good. The original comment was that it's better than the .300 mark Bronco accomplished.
Who cares if .500 isn't as good as the 1.000 that I'm certain all of the SEC schools have accomplished (don't have time to fact check)? .500 is in fact better than .300. Just accept that and move on.
There are only so many times someone can ask why recruit X didn't sign with Tech right?
I think being able to play with a lead significantly more often is what will make the biggest positive impact on our defensive performance next season.