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#AllTheHokiesOnThePackers. Whats your opinion on B.J. Raji? Think we keep him??

Is there another type?

Town of Christiansburg plowing has not come by the house on either adjacent street (corner lot) yet. I am a little disappointed in them, I live right off 114 not far from the mall not in the middle of nowhere.

When you ask Mom for some ice cream, do you ask for a slice of ice cream? No.
When you go to Baskin and Robbins, do you ask for a slice of ice cream? No. You ask for scoops. How many scoops would you like on that cone? 3 please.

When you are served ice cream cake, do you ask for 3 scoops of ice cream cake? No, you ask politely for a big slice.

You have already conceded that it's not cake. That leaves pie.

Your flimsy argument against it being pie? I don't think it qualifies. Can't even enumerate your objections so, you know in your heart that, it's pie.

Fess up and got yerself a nice big slice.

Won't be any bounces in that game

Not to me. The number of downvotes I get = The number of idiots who read my post

Tech runs an offense. Most college teams against man to man run a motion offense with different derived variances depending on how the defense is guarding, switching, and helping, or sometimes a flex offense for some teams. (but this is not a "set" play) "Set" plays are more situational and are not run continuous in an offense. They are called and they are ran but not as much as you think (and this is dependent on the coach). This isn't football where the coach will call in a play every time we have possession. The only "set" play run consistently (by VT) are inbound plays (either under the baseline or sideline out); however, situationally we call set plays in the half court.

I think there is some confusion to what a set play really is. A set play is a strategically planned and choreographed play to get open shots and score points. Generally speaking the sequence is run through just one time (where as our offense runs continuously). Set plays are quick hitters to score points at a certain key point during the game. They should not be your entire offensive system and it is almost non existent that a college team will run their entire offense with just set plays. An example of a set play used in college would be we are in time out and there is 4 seconds on the shot clock and we are inbounding under the basket. Here we would call a set play, in this case and inbound play. When our PG is walking up the court into half court and looks back at JJ he is for the most part seeing what variation of motion to run and making sure he is seeing what the coach is seeing and they are on the same page. I would be willing to bet that we only have a handful of set plays for given situations and i am also willing to bet that most of these are entry or inbound plays. The amount of set plays a team has depends on how experienced the coach is.

JJ's getting another year. I'm at least 85% sure of that, and honestly it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about him other than Babcock. I know people aren't going to want to hear it, but a big reason to keep him? The super cheap contracts of him and his staffs, as then Babcock has a year of change in the fundraising department.

I know that this will probably rile people up, but I think he should get another year as well. Selfishly, I want to see this press that they have engaged (with some success, I might add) used in a larger quantity, which will only come when they get Mueller and the three guards from this incoming class. You can't say that you've "seen enough of JJ" when you've only been able to see about half of him.

Isn't the AJ Hughes effect measured in Tb (or trickin bitches)?

Packers have a similar player to Hopkins in Mike Daniels who is undersized but was great in the sub package with 6.5 sacks on the year. Would love the Pack to develop Hopkins the same way :)

Had 14" here near Dulles. Roads seem plowed now for the most part (even the neighborhoods).

This is my theory:

The team is young and the motion offense we run can often times become very rote or repetitive in nature in its execution. Instead of reading their defenders, i think our players are more concerned with maintaining the continuity and filling into spots and never fully taking advantage of what the defense gives them (in short they are flustered and thinking too much). Motion offense is about reading what the defense is giving you and spreading the court. They look so concerned about going thru the motion instead of reading their defenders. We are thinking too much about it and that will lead to more players standing around. I don't think we have the experience or enough talent to run this effectively against ACC defenses. Motion offenses also are also ideal for great 3 pt shooting teams and teams with excellent guard play because lanes are more open from spacing for dribble drive penetration. This is why Duke's motion offense is so effective.

Ive seen us play some flex before. The flex essentially opens up the two most easy shots in the game, the elbow jump shot or the underneath layup. I think it would be a better offense for our team to run, however the flex is very easy to defend for teams that are sound on defense (most ACC defenses) so its almost like we are damned either way where the flex is to simple to defend and motion is too much for us to run. The flex also requires good interior forward play and a good "finisher" player. Maryland basically won the national title years ago with this offense. They ran it probably 60% of the time. They had no real 3 pt threat and and average at best guard play, but what they did have was good forwards and a good finisher (Juan Dixon). We ran alot more flex back in 07/08 (probably 70/30 motion/flex). We had a finisher with Deron and better forwards then.

I think our problem is more so the talent isn't there (compared to other ACC teams), experience (from the coaches to the players), and our defense isn't what it used to be. No matter how many points we score we need to be able to stop the other offense. I think this is on everyone though from coaching down to players.