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Sports can bring out the best and worst in people. Sounds like your daughter is already entrenched on the right side of that equation.
I agree. It certainly won't help kicking this team at its lowest point. I'm not sure what it was like for those that went to VT in the 90's and early 2000's in the stands of the games, but I've noticed a big disconnect between our fans and this and last year's team. maybe we've been spoiled and maybe not. But the only thing that's going to help this team and others to in the future is support.
I was thinking of taking my children to a VT game, but when I see that it makes me pause in a since, because I want to have the opportunity to take them there, but I don't want them to be around the negativity and language that comes with some of the fans.
I've never had a problem with fans getting frustrated at the way a game is unfolding; even if it's cursing the coaches or players. It shows passion and getting caught up in the moment. Now, the fans who do that and still don't support the team in crucial moments need to be Gibb's Slapped.
Both are equally obnoxious about it. At first, I thought it was only an SEC thing, but Virginia Tech fans have proven me wrong. The SEC might have more fans that are like that, but VT's are just as vocal.
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Keep in mind Edmunds is a r-Fr and there are other talented backs on the roster. It might be a tad unreasonable to expect him to carry a Tyler Gaffney-esque load. 16 carries seems just on the lower end of just right for what the coaches want from him (18-22 carries/game).
Being in Sam Rogers' way if he's upset about anything.
I'm a scientist; I live for a good debate ;) I appreciate the depth of your posts, so I enjoy posting back.
I think it's hard to look back on the 2010 team and try to compare what's happening there to what's happening here. Boise did have a ton of talent on that team. As much as I hated them and didn't believe that they were always worthy of their ranking, those guys could play. It's also not like we got manhandled in that one; it was fairly evenly matched, and if we had converted one more 3rd down there, we won, so I view it as rather even in terms of the combined effects of talent and coaching.
The JMU debacle has a lot of underlying problems, I think. Emotions were likely to blame, as was fatigue from having played just 5 days before in a very physical matchup. I put some blame on both scheduling and coaching. But that's not what's happening here, this year.
We are re-forming who we are as a team, principally on offense (because our D is phenomenal) with a hodge-podge line and various skill players that have different strengths and varying levels of experience. We have brand new coaches trying to overhaul everything, from game plan all the way down to fundamental mechanics of footwork, catching the ball, throwing it, etc. We knew this would be an up-and-down year. It had to be. Next year will probably be somewhat frustrating, too. I'm with you in that we should give everything a couple years to pan out. See how the new coaches recruit and develop those players. I'm looking to 2016 as my year to judge whether or not these guys are going to build us up to be as successful as we, the fans, want them to be.
Not winning the Commonwealth Cup every year for the rest of time.
Not death, but a cage?
haha this guy gets it
Easy tiger - I'm completely the opposite. Totally apathetic about the terps. Who cares? It's Maryland.
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VTGuitarMan,
I must say you've got a point. And you have to understand when I post I'm posting to other as well not just you. So its not a personal post. Like I've said in all of my post I love a good debate. I think others on here take my posts serious and personal and its not intended to do that.
Now, I understand what your saying, but please understand what I'm trying to say. The lack of recruiting coherency that you speak of is true. I'm not downplaying that. But what I'm getting at is the teams that we've lost to are you saying that they had better talent than us? Does Duke, BC and Maryland have better talent then us? I don't think so. We may not have had as much talent as we've had over the previous years, but we've surely out recruited Duke right? How about when we played Boise? We had a ton of talent correct? Tyrod, Boykins, Coale, Williams, Evans, Wilson, and plenty of more talented players. Why did we lose to Boise which didn't have better players than us or recruited players than us. I don't like to use recruiting sites because I feel like it doesn't mean much, but talent is talent no matter how you look at it. It's how the coaches coach those players up at this level and polish them and put them in a place to perform and succeed is what makes them prepared to play.
The following game that we lost to JMU. Do we recruit better than a D2 football team? I think yes, we do, but we lost even with such a talented team with Tyrod which is one of my favorite players of all time for Tech playing with many others. That's not a coincidence, in my opinion others in fanbase will blame Weaver for the schedule which is silly. Because that's "darn if you and darn if you don't", if we won this wouldn't be a problem.
So to sum up everything because yes I know I went everywhere and back lol. But it basically seems like the teams that we've lost to were not as good as us so why did we lose with talented teams from the past against teams like JMU and Duke this year and others. I just think that coaching has to come in on some of this to a certain extent and it starts from the top not the bottom with assistants. If you were a HC would you have coaches getting paid to do something that they're not good at? I mean it makes the HC look bad. And I'm not blaming it all on Frank, but what I'm saying is its not all on everyone else and he escapes the blame for somethings not all. As for the new staff I think they have promise who could call for their heads when its only been 1 season here. I would like to think next year we'll be better.
I like to think that Team Chemistry is something important that's brought down from the coaches this isn't NBA or NFL. It starts from the top not at the bottom. So why does everyone place blame on the other coaches and players for the losses? Please explain to me. Stop with blaming Stinespring and O'Cain this is silly. This team wasn't called Stinespring and O'Cain it was called Virginia Tech and the Head coach is Frank. Stop with blaming just them. It's time to accept responsibility for not getting this team to play no matter what. Yes, that's a coaching error.
Nic Saban and I hate to use him for examples, but he's the best at what he does. He gets his team up to play no matter what whether its for a cupcake team or its for top ranked team. He holds his coaches accountable so what is wrong with this being about coaching?
And as for Tyrod no one ever said he wasn't good for us or downplayed what he meant to us. I said how would he and other have been if they went to other teams. If Tyrod had a line like Andrew Luck could he have been successful? We will never know! That's one of the great things about College football. The argument that we want Logan to be like Tyrod is absurd to me how many years has Tyrod been gone? The first year that Logan was our starter we changed up the entire offense for him. So how can you say that we didn't have a plan?
And please I remember all of Tyrod's highlights I've seen them and watched every game that he's played in. So I really don't need a recap on what he's done for this team. And I mentioned in my post that recruit rankings were overrated. I was comparing that to FSU's team that we played against in the Sugar bowl when Vick was here. I said if Rivals or 247sports was around I can tell you that those kids weren't highly recruited. So which brings back to my point why did Boise beat us when we had waaaay more highly recruited players than them? Why did JMU beat us? Don't we recruit better than them? The talent excuse is getting old. We don't recruit as well as Bama or a Michigan does, but we recruit better than BC, Duke and Maryland and other teams that we shouldn't have lost to in the past.
I hate to say it guys that's a overall coaching error. From top to bottom. Let's face it orders don't come from bottom to the top. They come from top down. So to blame everything on Stinespring or O'Cain is literally joke. They aren't the head coach if they weren't coaching up to there standard then who's to blame for not making changes earlier???
Hey man, don't start with me. We've all got shit that pisses us off and makes us tick. I've got my shit and you've got yours and the world keeps on spinning. But I'm not gonna forget this or let it go until it's corrected.
The money raised can buy treadmills for a lot of needy horses, like this guy:
Sadly, unless there was a second commercial that I missed, the TV spot did not feature the horse.
I agree with you CoastalHokie.
Why is it wrong to blame the leadership for consistently exhibiting an inability to get this team to perform? When I was in the Marines I learned a saying that I think is incredibly true. "The speed of the Captain is the speed of the crew". And in our case the Captain personally coached the most underperforming unit on the team, maybe a correlation exists?
You have to remember that Auburn already had the players for the offense that Malzahn runs. He was only gone for one year. Made it easier for him to hit the ground running, or throwing as the case may be!
Truly a noble cause. I'm sure Horse On a Treadmill has some relatives affected by this horrible disease.
Either it was parody, or those were seasoned basketball fans who forgot what sport they were attending. But yeah, Duke has pretty much had the year I was hoping VT would have.