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Shane Beamer to Memphis!!
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE.
Frank's first win was against Navy. Would be kind of cool to see that be his last one too.
He was also a SI 'Face in the Crowd' in high school
you are correct. 'apart' would mean separate from. 'a part' is, well, exactly what it looks like.
I mean, the man took a situation that many, many programs bungled to a glorious extent (FSU with Bowden, PSU with Paterno, UTenn with Fulmer, LSU with Miles, UGa with Richt) and handled it masterfully. Between how he handled Beamer stepping down to the search to find the new coach to landing the top young name on the market while numerous other power programs were searching, to being able to keep the identity of VT football, with our dominant defenses intact by retaining Bud, this could not have been handled better. Between all of this, and what he did with getting Buzz for basketball, I don't think there is a better Athletic Director in college athletics right now.
yeah that QandA gave me a Hokieboner. I'm tired of trying to force kids into a system. I'm ready to build a system around the kids you have. I think that is a much better approach that can yield terrific results in less time. Like he said, though, it's not easy to accomplish. I think his track record proves that he can do it, though. He did it at TCU with Andy Dalton. He did it again at Memphis with Paxton Lynch. I have faith he'll be able to do it again at VT. Loeffler had a track record before he came to VT and despite cautious optimism in light of his obvious football IQ, the track record he had before arriving proved to be an accurate indicator of what we would get from him. The fact Fuente has the exact opposite track record to Loeffler makes me really excited.
Just so long as Whit is around to do it.
Not from Memphis, but I did enjoy this article about Justin Fuente's time in college.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/11/30/in-justin-fuent...
His college coach at OU, John Blake wouldn't speak to him and Fuente was getting a raw deal. They say he was pretty broken and then he went to Murray State where he slowly found his love for the game of football again. That led to him becoming a QB coach for Illinois State and the rest was history.
Zombies? Bad Chipotle? Charlotte McKinney?
Can Frank Beamer Become Gary Patterson? .... looks like the answer to this is: No, Frank Beamer cannot become Gary Patterson, but Whit Babcock can find his next Gary Patterson.
The more I read about Chris Del Conte, TCU AD, the more I see the similarities and shared visions between two AD's.
As well as 'apart', which is a word but I think it needs a space in this context
This is Notre Dame we're talking about.
Good idea.
I appreciate Whit. He outdid himself both with the Beamer farewell tour and the Fuente hire. Fuente is already in house calling recruits this week. He handled everything I've seen about as well as I can imagine, all the while keeping everyone as happy as possible.
Of course the Whit acknowledgement needs to permeate every thread on this forum, and I think it does.
He had some pretty Whitty remarks at the presser today too.
CAN'T STOP HAPPY CRYING.
Best Monday ever.
What I liked best about the interview with Coach Fuente was this question asked by a reporter and his response:
REPORTER:
"That forcing the tempo and you mentioned the system you brought from TCU to Memphis, what are the roots of that? Where did you learn offensive football? Does it go back to your playing days in high school, at Murray? I'm just curious as to the roots of it."
JUSTIN FUENTE:
Well, when I took over at -- when I got the job at TCU, I was a running back coach, and I had been a 1-AA offensive coordinator at Illinois State at a pretty young age, and we had a couple good coaches on our staff, Coach Wiggins was one of them, that we kind of got together and we were a little more traditional I-pro team and we had some good players and had some success. I moved to TCU as a running back coach and really was enamored with the way that they ran the ball at TCU at the time. They got the ball to the perimeter; they ran some option stuff; they did some things formationally. I think that had a big influence on me, and then eventually I became the coordinator there. I've really, in short, taken bits and pieces of what we've done in the past and tried to build it together. I think the true mark of it is molding it towards your personnel. That's the most difficult job and the most important job in terms of offense or defensive football is what can our guys do well, what can we get them to do well, what are their skill sets, and trying to mold it to fit. It does you no good to say that you've got this certain offense but yet you don't have the guys with that skill set. You've got to mold it to what they've got, and that's a lot easier said than done, quite honestly. That's a big challenge. So we've taken bits and pieces over the years, different influences, talks with other people, and then tried to mold it to what we had.
And... he still paid some mad respects to Jim Weaver today. The fan service he can orchestrate knows no bounds.
You just can't quit, can you? The avatar, the state flag, the 100-leg background...
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10 years 8 months
# | Report: Memphis Assistants Holman Wiggins and James Shibest to Join Justin Fuente at Virginia Tech He should already be a lock as "Director of Player Development".
Literally.
Let's not forget about Dr. Sands either. That man has quietly contributed quite a lot and he deserves some credit too. I think VT has incredible leadership at the moment and we should feel extremely fortunate for that. VT has an extremely bright future, both academically and athletically, due in large part to the work of Sands and Whit. The committees which were assembled to hire those two men also deserve some credit. They did incredible work and made extraordinary hires to set VT up for success in the long run. I'm extremely proud to be a Hokie right now.
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10 years 8 months
# | Report: Memphis Assistants Holman Wiggins and James Shibest to Join Justin Fuente at Virginia Tech Vincent Fuller?
I'm all in and drinking the Fuente Kool Aid, but I love the selflessness of Bud Foster. You know he wanted that job and it probably sucked to not get it, but the fact that he's sticking around says a lot about him as a man. He loves Virginia Tech as much as Frank and he proved it by staying. I feel really good about our future today folks...definitely a Tech Triumph on all fronts to me.
I'm curious, where have we ever seen our current coaches talk about recruiting to their "system" on offense? Seems like that's been a much bigger issue defensively. All the talk this year was about how Loeffler could use his TEs, and how he would move things around to create matchups for them. For the most part, that's what we've seen.
Keep in mind, a lot of the depth issues we had this year are still there, although with the redshirts and hopefully a couple skill guys that might come to provide talented depth, we're in a much better spot than we were at any point in the past 4 seasons. I'm cautiously optimistic we'll see immediate offensive results, but I hope we don't get too caught up in offensive rankings at TCU or Memphis and think Fuente will immediately turn ours into a top-10 unit.