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# | Virginia Tech Football: Ohio State Game Week Depth Chart I'm high on Herbie right now after he picked Kendall as premier cover man for his little awards thing. VHIII and Ramsey seem to steal all the love.
Just thinking about it makes me want to slap Bryan Stinespring and Mike O'Cain
with a malpractice lawsuit.
FIFY
Also, with regard to people talking about Loeffler bringing in more talent if Lawson succeeds, Josh Jackson was incredibly impressive in his first game against powerhouse Rockford. 25/34 for 354 yards, 4 TD and 1 INT, and rushed 13 times for 95 yards and another TD. He looks much improved and very underrated.
are you in Senegal by chance? I'm in Dakar
Doug Flutie doesn't think it's a mistake!
I'm waiting for some sort of pink breast cancer awareness combo to get posted.
ESPN releases a "depth chart" of sorts:
It's official - here is the crew calling our opener on @ESPN
@KirkHerbstreit
@heatherespn
@cbfowler
#Hokies pic.twitter.com/FybdSy7rex— VT Football (@VT_Football) August 31, 2015
Especially if anyone
from an OSUasks you to sit down.
FTFY
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# | Bud Foster: Virginia Tech defense is " more aggressive and twitchier" than Wisconsin, Bama, Oregon Some guys are fast. they have good top speed (no bearing on how long it takes them to get going)
Some guys have great acceleration. They get to their top speed fast.
Our guys have twitch. I like to think of this in terms of jerk. They reach their peak acceleration faster, resulting in blowing by the O-line off the snap.
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# | Bud Foster: Virginia Tech defense is " more aggressive and twitchier" than Wisconsin, Bama, Oregon ECU picked on our secondary with a 5th year senior QB who was shifty and got the ball out and a pretty dynamic deep threat in Cam Worthy. Of their 502 yards, Cam had 227 receiving (most in 1st quarter before an injured Faycson was pulled after 21 points). Part of that was he was picking on a gimped DB, and part of it was that they won their share of the one on one battles we put them in. Other than Cam, the next highest receiver had 77 yards, and they only had 75 rushing yards on the day.
Last year, Georgia Tech averaged over 476 yards/game (142 passing, 342 rushing). We held them to 375 yards (125 passing, 250 rushing). As has been said earlier, we did everything we could to keep them in the game and found a way to lose. Keep in mind that GT won 11 games last year and ended up ranked #8, mostly in part to a very dynamic offense.
Boston College and Miami both ran it down our throats playing power football. Duke Johnson was a monster for Miami and the rest of the team picked that game to play to their potential against a 1st time starting mike backer. Boston College played power football and had good o-line play to pull out the win.
Cincy had a good offense all year, with Gunner Kiel picking apart a lot of defenses. They had 489 yards on us, put were only able to put up 17 points (I'll take that every day). For comparison, they put up 422 yards on OSU, but were able to put up 28 points.
In a nutshell, Bud Foster tries to beat you with scheme and quickness, keeping teams off guard and forcing them to make fast decisions. The weak areas are power running teams (think I formation and big lineman) and teams that can get the ball out fast and beat one on one coverage. I think we match up good against some very good offenses (see stats vs. OSU and GT against season averages), but poorly against others. Bud is pretty good at scheming and identifying weaknesses, and if we can play to our strengths and have an offense that is at least average, I feel good. If not, could be a long day. If OSU can establish the run and get something going off of play action or QB scrambles, the wheels could come off. Bud is going to try to shut down the run first and foremost, particularly with the suspensions at WR. Will it work? We'll find out in a week!
Hindsight is 20/20. Coaches can't base playing players on what the team might look like 4 years out. You play the best players now. If they aren't the best now, red shirt them.
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# | Bud Foster: Virginia Tech defense is " more aggressive and twitchier" than Wisconsin, Bama, Oregon He seems like an athletic guy and a go-getter. Has a lot of energy. I haven't seen anything though that makes me think that he is that much improved over last year.
I hope I'm wrong.
Dress in layers, keep your body moving after the sun goes down. Drink and dance in the stands as much as possible. Especially if anyone from an OSU asks you to sit down.
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# | Bud Foster: Virginia Tech defense is " more aggressive and twitchier" than Wisconsin, Bama, Oregon I'm guessing OSU didn't keep trying to run the ball because they assumed that they should statistically win some of the 1 on 1 battles in the passing game and it might force Foster to add a second DB and that would open up the run game.
That's what ECU ultimately did, and it worked.
Because the flanker lines up on the line and the split end is a step off it. Least that's the way it was when I played.
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# | Collin Carroll discusses how much cash athletes were pocketing in old scholarship system My answer is - enough. They're getting paid enough. They don't need my tax dollars to get paid more.
However, if they want to go out and do an Ad for a subway sandwich (too soon?) or something else, let them do that themselves. I don't care about that. I care that my money is going to pay someone who already has innumerable benefits bestowed upon them from the university / state, and is clamoring for more.
I took issue with R. Sherman's rant about one of us trying to live the "student-athlete" lifestyle. Uh - yeah. People do it all the time! AND they do it without the free-bee's he got. Work 1-2 jobs per week AND have a rigorous curriculum is not something only the hallowed "student-athlete" at Stanford has to go through.
He was measured while carrying a 12 point buck on his back while standing proudly on a huge rock.
I don't mind a rotation, but the overwhelming majority of the snaps should be split among two backs, not three or four. The problem with the rotation at the beginning of the season is Tech was swapping guys every other play, and to make matters worse, in many situations they'd play to the weaknesses of the running back in the game.
I think 2016 schedule is better. Running the ACC table is easier with Miami and GT at Blacksburg and games against SEC Tennessee and at Notre Dame are sure to impress the playoff committee.
Durkin can still be the wildcat guy and the third stringer, save Lawson's eligibility. Even if he doesn't stay all 4 years, might as well have them available, IMHO
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# | Bud Foster: Virginia Tech defense is " more aggressive and twitchier" than Wisconsin, Bama, Oregon Not comparing the defense's. Just the hubris if you will.
Bud comes across a lot less arrogant as Narduzzi but the week before- both basically said, this is us, we're better than everybody, we aren't scared.
Grasping at straws really, just looking for some good football talk.
I figured it out, Cline is our 3rd receiver.
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# | Bud Foster: Virginia Tech defense is " more aggressive and twitchier" than Wisconsin, Bama, Oregon The other part of the equation is that in some ways Bud is the only thing that has keep Tech competitive for a number of years. Without a Bud Foster D I cringe to think what we would be today. You'll find a lot of differing opinions throughout the fanbase on a number of things but Bud is the closest thing there is to a unified thought in Hokie Nation.
I always try to match the team if I'm not in the stands for an effect game. It worked last year. If I don't get tickets and the boys wearing maroon, I'll be wearing maroon.
Maybe he actually is and Beamer wants Meyer to forget about watching tape on him from 2 years ago
I've seen him downtown in Blacksburg before. I am 6'1" and he is definitely shorter than me by a couple inches.