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Plus Durkin's uncle is the new head coach at Maryland. Plus Scot Loeffler is unlikely to retained in any capacity.
I wonder if Loeffler might be with the Terps come next season. Have they announced an offensive coordinator or quarterbacks coach yet?
Need I remind you that while employed by LOLUVA, we are legally obligated to hate this man.
You do remember who our AD was in 2000....right? No way either of those guys are on our radar then.
I like the sounds of the end of the article:
Loeffler then went on to talk about the role of the quarterback with the transition of the new head coach Justin Fuente. Loeffler hinted that Lawson will be getting a lot more reps with the new regime in town.
"We're repping a lot of the younger guys in practice" he said. "I'm excited for the new coaching staff, I'm excited for the players. It's going to be a great transition in Blacksburg."
Think we might see Lawson used a bit in the bowl game?
Exactly!
My whole approach to this revolved around what we did with Tyrod. I was all snug in my bed, while visions of Dwayne Lawson jukes and touchdown bombs danced in my head!
Or the fact that the scoreboard graphic read Virgina Tech all game and that their main half court camera was apparently using a tinted lens and made it look like half the lights were out, but hey, you get what you pay for.
Man of the Year (not the Schoolboy Q version) will forever be one of my favorite songs of all time
I believe Motley is on track to graduate this year. If he is not the #1 guy coming out of spring, not sure he will stick around. Also Durkin may be a TE already - that meeting room could be Lawson and Jackson next fall - very thin.
"He needs to take the next steps in the mental aspects of being the guys."
I'm sure coach Justin Fuente will help Lawson take the next step like he did with Paxton Lynch and Andy Dalton.
Let me clarify.. somwhere between being 2-2 and 3-5.. I was one of those people clamoring to see reps for Dwayne Lawson.
I was all-aboard burning his redshirt with Brewer's questionable timetable and the existing trend of the season. But I expected to see the kid take far more than 10-15 snaps over the course of year!?
If not to let the kid take his hits, learn some lessons and grow into the position.
Completely agree! Remember when we threw Tyrod into the wolves den in Death Valley?! Tyrod was a true freshman then (let's forget about the Dilly Dally QB Glenrod Shuffle from then on) - Lawson could have faced the same thing, and earned some game time experience. Now what we don't know is if we would have fared any different, but we would have gained real game time experience with the potential future starter.
Chief Keef is bad rap, Logic isn't.
At least next year we'll have 3 QB's (Motely, Durkin, Lawson) capable of running all the plays and should be interchangeable.
I heard people say that was what brought Lawson here instead of Miami, was that Loeffler promised he wouldn't be redshirted his first year here. Not sure if it's true or not, but at least that would make some kind of sense. But I agree, it was a mistake to burn his shirt.
I felt like they forfeited the redshirt because they could feel the seat getting hot and needed a backup plan to the backup plan. I understand that if Motley was injured they needed to have someone ready, but my problem was that young Chris Durkin should have been the next man up. He had been in the system for a year already and has the similar run-and-gun skill set as Motley, which should mean the game plan would not need to change much between Motley and Durkin. The other issue at the time was the lack of any sort of run game which could be relied upon to win games, meaning the coaches had to make a more desperate backup plan.
I wish Scot would have elaborated on why they chose to burn his redshirt if
There's a reason he hasn't played this year. He has the capability, and he can learn. But, It's the little things he needs to improve on to be the guy.
At one point, injuries were piling up. Was Durkin too far into a position change to TE to be the guy we used to run some wildcat in the instances we used Lawson?
Was it part of his recruitment, that he was promised not to be redshirted this year?
None of this situation made sense to me. Why bring him in for guaranteed QB runs and burn redshirt when you have Brendan Motley/Chris Durkin who does the same things? If not to let the kid take his hits, learn some lessons and grow into the position.
so he wasn't ready mentally so lets throw him some time in a useless game to burn his redshirt!
if that doesn't show the disconnect within the old staff then idk what else does. so many odd quotes over the last year or two
Burning his shirt was a terrible mistake.
Details are not the issue, I find that Lefty is at fault for not preparing the Backup QB, first with Leal, then it happened to Motley against OSU, and then brewer goes down and here we are talking about Lawson. Its the QB coach's job to prepare the backup. Ever since we went with OC/QB coach we had this issue, maybe the OC should not coach the QBs. Maybe thats what the issue is, not having enough time to prepare the backups
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you should probably lay low for awhile...
I meant keep resisting the Jersey jokes.....I've lived in Jersey all my life except for when i went to Tech....
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is this from heavyweights....
i would say no.. last thing you need is a guy like lawson taking useless reps tear an acl or breaking a bone. If they didn't use the younger guys in the season why use them in the bowl game?
IMO the younger guys are actually getting decent reps unlike in season and we are resting guys that have taken a pounding all year like brewer, mcmillian, ford, phillips, bucky and malleck so they're all healthy and ready for the bowl game.