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10 years 7 months
# | Can We Talk About How Good Our New Special Teams Coach, James Shibest, Is Going To Be? Why should we not do that? It's entirely legal and it probably affects his punting the rest of the game. Hell, I'd coach the guys up to try and do that every time.
You say you're less than an hour from Charlotte, yet your use of "hella" suggests Oakland, California.
I don't see that as a dig at Beamer at all. I get that Spurrier has a rep for that sort of thing, but he's usually a bit more direct. To me, it just sounds like a hollow excuse for quitting when the going got tough. Nothing more.
I think VT is generally on the "we measure people by character, not the vices they can get away with" program.
I like Searels as well. He did a nice job with what he had to work with.
The O-Line was a weakness, but he generally managed to get it working well enough to run an offense behind it.
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10 years 7 months
# | En Fuente-> 2016 Recruiting Rampage - TONS of offers so far He only played in 3 games, so no. He should be eligible if the he really wanted to pursue it. Given that coming back for 2016 still seems unlikely, trying for 2 more years really just seems pointless. If he comes back next year and stays healthy, he'll have a degree and there's going to be no reason for him to stay.
I guess I just took it as this "kids a 2/3* athlete he cant be good."
There are enough surprises and busts, especially in the 2-4 range. Now unanimous 5 star guys, looking through them in the past 6-7 years, Im actually surprised at how much sucess theyve had, barring injury or character issues theyre basically gaurunteed All Conference. I will give the ratings that.
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10 years 7 months
# | Hokies Can't Quite Get Over the Hump, Fall to Northwestern 81-79 in Overtime 37-3 is still possible!
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10 years 7 months
# | Loeffler's Adjustments Help Fuel a Victory in Beamer's Commonwealth Cup Swan Song The white face masks just make for an overall aggressive look - love them too.
Did he play past the cutoff?
He would likely translate to a slot receiver/return man. Probably wouldn't play in the secondary unless injuries hit badly
The blitz! Leg for referencing the best show of all time
Sure seems like they would move it to the offensive side of the ball, but that's the million dollar question of the day. I know I just really appreciate the fact that Whit got as many of Fuente's guys here as soon as he did. Has to give us at least a smaller edge in recruiting just based on the amount of time they will be able to dedicate to recruiting vs having to prepare for a bowl game.
I also live in SC, wife is a die hard Gamecock, even do season tickets for the Cocks and Hokies. The die hards want to hate Spurrier for the way he left but they struggle to hate the guy that pulled them back into relevance. I get it.
I dig the guys' charisma but my suspicion is that he left to preserve his own accomplishments and started hurting this program 2-3 years ago. Spurrier has only had 1 losing season as a coach in college, 1987 as his first year as a coach at Duke. I've heard that the guy essentially stopped recruiting 2-3 years ago, just didn't put the effort in. On top of that, his appointment of several key coaching staff members were poor choices. He appointed his son as recruiting coordinator after Shane left when his own son told him he had no interest in taking the position!
I think the guy got 'tired' of coaching 2 years ago but wanted to ride it out UNTIL things got this bad. The guy hasn't had a losing season in almost 30 years and I don't think he wanted to go through another.
Yep. See Klempsin and UNC-CHeat.
Good to know thanks for the link. Either way between Cornelsen and Fuente, they did an excellent job developing Lynch, which makes me happy, but really helps Lawson, who it would seem better fits the spread. I'm not sleeping on Motley either, but It would be nice to see what could be drawn up for his skill set. Just my opinion, but it sure seemed like there wasn't much succession planning after Brewer went down in the OSU game.
Yep, Spurrier saw the writing on the wall when SoCar got beat down by UGA. For a guy who's so used to winning and destroying UGA, he couldn't handle that after years and years, the Bulldogs finally gave Spurrier the beatdown they always wanted to. The season was going down the drain and he saw he had to deal with Tennessee, Florida, Clemson (all losses) and he wouldn't be able to take the losses.
Spurrier is basically the guy who will flip over a board game when he's down so he doesn't have to deal with the fact that he was about to take an L.
True. Just sayin' though, that it's not unheard of to take a guy who's tagged as a high pot and give it a swing even if he's "just a position coach".
As much as Beamer always gave his aw-shucks responses and praised each and every team he played against ("Love that program, they'll get after ya") that brought respect and goodwill from opponents. Spurrier was the exact photo-negative of Frank. He would throw a TD to hang 50 in Athens because "heck, no one has ever done it". Which as a fan, was fun to have someone who was a thorn in other coaches sides and could back it up with verbal jabs. The guy knew how to rile everyone up.
However, when other coaches see that your team sucks and that you are on the hotseat/debating retirement, they are going to want to put a big FIST in your ass on your way out and have no mercy or class in doing so. I don't think Spurrier was being gracious, I think he didn't want the 3 month long curb stomping that the SEC coaches were going to want to put on him on his way out the door.
If Frank just walked out one game and never came back, I dont know what we'd do...it would have been too sudden, we wouldnt have handled it well, couches would have been burned, storefront windows broken, mass looting, it would have been bad.
These responses satisfy me...
Somebody send that man some co-eds as a reward.
How very SEC
Anyone else surprised at the lack of sitting HCs moving to new jobs?
To me it's just demoralizing and destabilizing for a coach to just retire mid-season and practically abandoning the program entirely. I know Spurrier is Spurrier, but I still thought it was just an odd move to not retire at the end of the season.