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Did I sound like a dweeb?

It's actually a bit creepy how close some of the guys on there were. Joel's key matchup is right on, TFF went through all of our RBs until he settled on the last one remaining, which mirrored how the season went pretty perfectly, Mark's assessment of ECU being the measure of our focus level, Mason picks us to beat OSU and get bitten by depth (he says on the DL) at some point, French is French, and as Joe predicted, without an effective running game we finished the season 6-6.

Some who were dead wrong on the other hand...
Alex picks Josh Stanford as breakout player
Mark picks RVD as breakout player
Everyone who picked Pitt - Yeah, we lost and it was a big game, but neither of us were really in contention for the Coastal by the end of that one.
The eternal optimism of so man 9-11 win predictions (one of these years, guys. It'll happen).

So goeth college football.

Everyone except for FifthFuller, he nailed it.

Bud will "Contain" GT.

#analysis

Me Tarzan with a French accent and it seems to be happening over and over again.

It's all good, dude. I just thought that "concern about the OL strategy" was a property of Hokie DNA.

With good reason.

No one guy is bigger than the team.

Searels is the OL coach, so unless he's overruled by Loeffler or Beamer, he decides who gets to play and when. If Teller is getting pushed by Osterloh, I gotta believe it's a good thing.

That said, I'm hoping to hear about him taking first team reps again now.

If he can work it out, great for everyone, but I'm not holding my breath.

I think one of the reasons for concern is that the OL, more than any other position, requires a very high level of trust and confidence in the people starting playing next to you.

As a personal anecdote from my limited experience: once in spring scrimmage, coach put me in. Rick Razzano, yeah him, looked at me like who the fork are you? I can't remember if it was him or somebody else though who said, "we're counting on you." That said, it is my strong opinion, even though I can't say what Searles is doing, anybody who thinks subs shouldn't work with the first team is not seeing that it is an opportunity. (And if Beamer was upset with his 2nd string quarterback in El Paso he had only himself to blame. The guy probably never had reps with the first team.) I applaud Searles if that is what is going on.

He is literally the only "sole potential starter" that didn't start the scrimmage with the first group. In fact, he spent just as much time with the twos as with the ones. This wasn't a couple of series, this was half the scrimmage at least.

Why isn't Searels "building depth" at the center or right guard position? The most likely answer is that if Teller was as far ahead of his competition for his spot as Gallo or Conte was he would be running with the first team all the time. It makes more sense for him to be getting pushed (like Loeffler says) than it is for him to be so good that he doesn't need 1st team reps.