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You have no idea how bad Marcus' shoulders were while at VT, do you?

We get that you think your work ethic is 1000x Marcus'.

You're wrong. 100% wrong.

Hope the kid gets his shoulders fixed and gets into the league. Certainly has the talent and the work ethic.

Kid busts his arse for VT instead of getting his shoulders fixed and being selfish and all he gets is a bunch of internet heroes talking about his laziness and lack of work ethic.

Seriously? Why was he cut so quickly by NYG? NYJ? Tell us genius. His shoulders were completely f'd up. How'd they get that way genius?

yes. very good points

And threw up a VT sign for a picture. I love this guy.

Dooleyball!

I have weird box standards, okay. No need to judge me and my box. Look. You just stay in that box up there, and I'll stay in this one down here.

This scheme can go on indefinitely, so long as schools aren't actually losing money.

I'm guessing the incentive for successful institutions to not slip into mediocrity comes from merch sales. Pretty sure any slip from money-maker to subsidized program would be painfully expensive.

I don't know what incentive HOOva football has to not slip into coma. The commonwealth cup? Hell, they don't even remember what that looks like. It's more abstract to them than the workings of Camille's elegantly appointed ladybits.

I imagine their intramural Polo team has been campaigning hard to take over the football stadium. They could make an excellent case they have better fan attendance.

Which kind of raises the question of why Sherman couldn't recruit better receivers.

I think he was a decent coach. I also think we'll look back in a few years and be thankful he moved on. Based on this year's recruiting, and the obvious growth of our current receivers throughout the season, I'm already glad we have Moorehead.

I think Davis would have played plenty this year, but I also think that unless he started showing more effort on every play, Moorehead would have ultimately put him in on passing downs only, as DB's didn't generally have to guess whether Davis was a target.

If Frank Beamer thought Davis's blocking and attitude was unacceptable then HE, not Sherman, is ultimately responsible for fixing that problem

You mean the Beamer is more responsible for fixing a players positional coaching than the actual position coach himself? No way. Then why hire a position coach at all? Beamer is ultimately responsible for fixing the problems of coaching. The position coach is ultimately responsible for fixing the problems with the players they are coaching.

I'm not trying to trash Sherman at all. Sherman was a good coach, except for that last year, but his leaving was tied to Beamer cleaning house. It was not merely coincidentally made at the same time as the rest of the offensive coaches getting removed, rather he was allowed to leave on his own terms. I expect nothing less from a class act like Beamer. Sherman put in a lot of great years at VT and coached good players who went to the next level, but Beamer specifically made a point in stating that what he loved in Moorehead was his workmanship on the field. That even if he wasn't the star receiver he worked his ass off and it paid dividends. Something our WRs needed to learn. Moorehead made the point of emphasizing that the days of WRs not working hard are over. There is a reason why this happened.

I'm not disagreeing with you that Davis was the more explosive athlete. But he was not dependable and extremely selfish. I want players I can count on out there.

Yeah, Beamer was too loyal to Cody Journell. I can only imagine the lengths to which he would go to protect Logan Thomas if he did something illegal. Logan seems like a good kid though, so luckily this never became an issue.

Sherman was/is a good coach, and other than Billy Hite was the only successful position coach on the offensive side under Stinespring. Sherman wasn't fired by Beamer, he got a job at another program. If I remember correctly, he left the program weeks before Beamer cleaned house. Sherman coached a lot of great Hokies and I don't think it's at all fair to trash him because he had ONE player that didn't want to block. What was he supposed to do, bench the best offensive weapon the Hokies had that year?

If Frank Beamer thought Davis's blocking and attitude was unacceptable then HE, not Sherman, is ultimately responsible for fixing that problem

As far as the better player... If I had to win a football game to save my life and I had to choose between Marcus Davis and Willie, best believe I'm choosing Davis 100 times out of 100. In fact, I'd choose Davis over Willie, Stanford, Knowles, and this year's DJ Coles. And at the end of the day, Moorehead would have started him as well. Frank Beamer's staff is in the winning-football-games business and as much as we all love the character of our current receivers, none of them can beat an upper-echelon defensive back in press coverage consistently. Davis could. None of them can stretch the field and catch an imperfectly thrown pass. Davis could. None of them are mismatches in the redzone. Davis was.

A young fan has to start somewhere if he became a fan of VT after a loss like that then Here's to many more seasons

There's a certain point in any thread where I join in. Not because I actually want to contribute to the conversation in any way. It has more to do with how cute the boxes are.