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# | Virginia Tech Coaching Mega-Board 1.5: Justin Fuente and Larry Fedora 
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I don't put as much stock as French into RichRod's scheme handicapping his recruiting.
Certainly a coach needs to recruit players that fit his scheme, and most big time recruits want to see a path to an NFL payday. Outside of the o-line, the fundamentals of skill players in RichRod's scheme will map to schemes in the NFL. There are very few successful non-"pro-style" NFL QBs. NFL QBs can be dual-threats, but they have to be able to throw the football. Otherwise, it'll catch up to them (injuries, defenses will figure them out, a special coach goes back to Michigan). It's a credit to Rich Rod he helped Pat White get drafted as high as he did. It's a college coach's job to get his guys to the NFL, after that, it's unfounded to criticize him when he's no-longer coaching them. I have heard countless coaches say something to the effect of, "if a kid can play in the league, they'll find him."
I frankly don't think RichRod is a tremendous recruiter. (And I wouldn't regard him as a great in-game tactician like Paul Johnson, or Foster. He definitely innovated spread systems on a chalkboard though.) Urban Meyer, Tom Herman, Gus Malzhan, Chip Kelly, etc... all run "gimmicky offenses" from an NFL perspective. However, they all recruit well. The former two live and sleep recruiting. Kelly is a good recruiter and had the Nike Swoosh. Gus has the SEC.
My overall point is, good recruiters are going to sign great players for their scheme. If we have a spread guy and he's a great recruiter, we will get good players. If we have a pro-style guy, and he's a bad recruiter, we won't sign great players.
And he got smacked the week before by Navy. Womp womp.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal Would the Big 12 add yet another Texas team? I mean at what point does the Big 12 just become all of Texas plus Oklahoma?
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal What's the highest bid, Bob?
ME!!!!!!!!!!!! With an entire box of tissues!!
Richt, shot in the dark
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal Pour one out
But for real though, RIP P.S.H. What a talented actor. One of my faves.
people are people. The higher the stress of the situation, I've found, the more likely people are to act like teenage girls, whether they like to admit it or not...
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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia Excellent article, Alex.
I was browsing the VT Yik Yak the other day, and a student said 'Thanks Frank! If it weren't for you, a lot of us would have probably chosen other schools to attend.' Someone else replied and stated that it simply wasn't true - which may be the case, but probably not likely. Frank's tenure as coach and success did a lot for the entire University and the growth associated.
But after VT made their National Championship run in 1999, applications soared, and the campus went through a decade (and then some) of rapid expansion.
I know there is additional data out there, plus what Alex uncovered here, but Frank did a lot for not only the program, but the entire school, the town, the region, and the game of college football. We have been blessed to see the changes under an ethical leader, who cares about his community and his players/coaches.
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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia Completely agree - i just read my comment again and i need to add a couple of words, because what you stated are my thoughts exactly.
Aw snap
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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia I was browsing the VT Yik Yak the other day, and a student said 'Thanks Frank! If it weren't for you, a lot of us would have probably chosen other schools to attend.' Someone else replied and stated that it simply wasn't true - which may be the case.
I once read that applicants increased >30% between Vick's first start and his last game. Assuming that no one else like Frank came and created a football team at VT, VT would be completely different. There would likely be a smaller student body, less alumni, and thus, less donations. I think we'd be a lot closer to JMU - smaller student body, less focus on STEM fields (purely because STEM fields typically require more capital to finance).
Without Frank, our university would've attracted a different student body. Our administration(s) would have allocated resources and analyzed/made decisions differently. This would have resulted in a significantly different culture at Virginia Tech.
THANK YOU FRANK!
As part of the deal, ND gets to hoard all of the NBC money. And are allowed to continue the deal with NBC. (Maybe they knew the ACC network was a unicorn...)
I'll be in the west stands too. I'll just say hey to everyone i see. Say hey back if you're one of those people so that I know it's you.
Basically it says "Hey ND, you can have one of our better bowls, like the Orange Bowl or Russell Athletic Bowl if you do well, but you have to share the money. We'll share with you too, but you don't get to keep it all for yourself. BUT if you make it to the top, that's all yours." Essentially, it never forces their hand to make them have to join a conference, unfortunately.
When I was at Tech in the mid 90's, we would go to Ton80 for $5 pitchers of Yuengling black and tan during Monday night football. During that time, we couldn't get Yuengling in Maryland!
Looking for something in the +10% range, that I can't get in Dogfish country. It's nothing personal against Lager.
That's a good one. Joey's a big dude, but imagining Wade as our kicker is pretty funny. Props to you for doing your research though and trying to learn what the players look like. To be honest, outside of the big names on the team, I wouldn't recognize many of our players without their jerseys on.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal I have to agree with you. I really like Herman. I don't like him just because of what he did at Ohio State, but also because of how he is recruiting to Houston. He currently has a top 35 recruiting class at a non-P5 school. Most of his commitments are also from Texas, which is a place where he didn't have many ties to going in. Now he has a lot of ties in the Ohio River Valley (He's from Cincinnati), but he now has ties in one of the hotbeds of high school talent in Texas.
DON'TNEEDNOSTINKING⭐
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# | Michael Brewer Writes About What It's Like to Play for Frank Beamer Regardless of W-L record, Brewer will go down as one of my favorite Hokies.
So you're the jerk that drank my crystal ball!
Wanker
100% agreed here. I don't know much about Fuente's recruiting. TCU was not a power 5 team when he was there. I imagine it's tough to recruit at Memphis, a non-P5 program coming off of many terrible seasons.
Fuente (or any head coach) does need to demonstrate (before being hired) that he has a specific plan for recruiting. We always talk about how we have an identity on defense, and how we need an identity on offense. We need an identity in recruiting as well. We don't necessarily need a member on our staff who has a history of getting multiple blue chip recruits every year (although it would be nice) but we need position coaches who land recruits more often than not. We need a head coach who has a recruiting strategy, and that strategy needs to be ingrained at all levels of this program (Administrators, Ops, head coach, assistant coach, GA's, social media marketing, etc).
Right now, our major pitch is the family atmosphere. This is echoed everywhere - Frank and his assistants talk about it all the time. VT Athletics tweet about it all the time. Marketing is aware. Someone (likely in our athletic/marketing department) submitted geofilters to snapchat. Fuente may or may not want to continue this identity. Whatever the case, it's his responsibility to ensure that the athletic department, his assistant, position coaches, etc. all buy in 100% to his recruiting strategy.