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With the limited sample size I've seen from each team, that might not be a gigantic stretch. I'd say UNC has the edge on defense, but offensively, I'd say Marshall can hang right with UNC. I'll even go so far as to say Cato>Renner.
I'm ok with it. We got 3 wins while showing as little of the playbook as possible. I'll take it.
This was a question to the fanbase. For some weird reason when you ask this question our fans take it the wrong way. I ask the readers to please read between the lines and get an Idea of what I was trying to say in this post. I'm not saying Beamer needs to go nor am I starting that debate. I'm trying to say how long do you think he has compared to the likes of Bowden and Paterno. I'm not blind by no means nor am I delusional. Beamer has had a great career here and he's started this program from scratch, but Bowden won a National Championship and so has Paterno so besides being the most current winningest coach in college football today. That doesn't really say much.
I know FSU and Penn State took a hit when those two programs lost there respecful head coaches and its going to happen here when Beamer leaves, unless someone picks up where he left off which is hard to believe. As much as I want to see Beamer win the National Championship and retire on top. I'm reminded of something that my coach told me in high school. " People can go a lifetime without winning championships!" and I think that's true, because someone has to win and someone has to lose and unfortunately there's a history of people being great without winning the big one and that doesn't take away what they've accomplished.
So what I'm trying to say is I want this story to have a happy ending instead of a ending like Bowden or Paterno had.
Other than questioning some of the past few years game time special teams decisions I have no problem with him. Maybe he should get more assistance with special teams decisions or hand it over to someone else. However, the Marshall game may have shown a turn-around on STs. It may have been the weather or better play from the team but lets see where it goes.
Cody has had his three strikes on the team now it is time for him to seek help if theses rumors are true and hopefully find success in his life when he straightens it out.
Comparable to UNC?
Planning to enroll in January, I Heard.
Cody should be coming my way.
Yours Truly,
Telvion Clark
Just a opinion, but Bleacherreport may post some pretty dumb stuff, but overall there's some good articles there I created a post to see what the fanbase thought about Beamer.
First, Marshall is in the C-USA. Granted, it is now (or will soon be) the new MAC - but they would have probably run the table (pending ECU still) with last year's schedule. Second, Marshall has a 75%-85% chance to win out. Seriously. I have been saying this may be the next undefeated season from Marshall (they have a few BTW, and yes I expected them to have a serious chance in beating us). I would be willing to bet, that by the end of the season, Marshall might be ranked. They are a good team - and I was really impressed on how they came out and played, especially after a lackluster effort against Ohio.
He got into CJ's stash?
I don't blame Cody, I blame Allstate. Cody has nothing to gain by shanking chip-shot field goals and getting kicked off the team, but Allstate does. Just in the last two games they've gotten out of having to pay $1600 in donations to our scholarship fund. There's no way you can convince me that they're not behind this.
Who knew AJ Hughes had wheels like that?
Saw the same thing. He should have been heading for the back corner or the pylon. Either one would put the throw away from the defender.
Unfortunately, I'm right there with you.
5 days to prepare our team, which is riddled with freshmen who haven't seen GT's style of O is going to definitely show.
The defensive line is going to have to have to play their damn pants off (again) and we're going to have to create turnovers if we expect to take this one.
1995 would work too.
I don't care if WVU is "nobody worth a damn", but they hung 37 on them in a shutout. That's pretty damn impressive over any BCS conference team, and even better one that went to a bowl last year.
Think you sir for this valuable information. I appreciate being corrected on my oversight.
You're forgetting Miami, who is actually ranked. Relatively highly (#15). At best, in ESPN's eyes, it would be the battle for #2.
Anyone know why there was such a terse / gruff embrace by Doc and (presumably) Bud at the end of the game? Is that typical? I know Beamer is a bit more considerate than that.
I've seen nothing from our offense this year that makes me think we can come back from a 2 score deficit. My concern with GT is that they're so good at running the clock out. I have no doubt that Bud's defense will keep them in check and keep the score reasonable, I'm just concerned about those 11 min clock eating drives.
I really hope Loeffler proves me wrong and pulls the curtain off of an amazing offense on Thursday night, shows some new wrinkles, and dominates GT. If that happens, I will be the first to eat crow. Seeing us struggle mightily to score against a team that surrendered 34 to Ohio has me feeling very pessimistic right now.
Every single coach on staff helps/handles a specific part of special teams. On All-Access Wiles was working with punt block. It has been posted a lot on here and written by beat writers that Beamer is not totally in charge of special teams. And I am pretty sure he is in charge of punt return and kickoff return - which haven't been terribly bad.
To connect this with another active discussion in another thread:
The assistant coach is always the most popular coach on the team. People always think he'll come in and make all the right play calls, recruit all the best players, and generally the world will be rainbows and sunshine. Reality check, folks, the players see these coaches in every practice and if the assistant was better, he'd be winning the starting job in practice. The assistant hasn't seen any game action like Beamer has, and I think Beamer has the most potential/highest ceiling out of all the coaches on the staff. Plus, they're not going to demote him during his senior years.
Seriously, though, someone upwards mentioned that he said in his book that he knew when it would be time to go. I don't buy this for a second. I don't think anyone knows exactly when the right time to go is, unless it is moments after winning the championship. I love Beamer, but I don't think he knows better than anyone else.
Having said that, I want him to be the coach until he is not actually coaching anymore. Paterno was serially guilty of this in his later years. Mostly just a figurehead at the end. Started cutting corners a little back in some early 2000's when he was only winning < 5 games a year, recruiting people that didn't fit his mold, wasn't actively involved in coaching, and generally just hanging around to collect a salary because the administration could use him for that.
Beamer shouldn't be forced out like Bowden was, but I think both Bowden and FSU are now better for it. Paterno stayed around too long and couldn't be forced out, and look where it got PSU (extenuating circumstances, understood).
We'll see how the next 2-3 years go with the new offensive staff. If we rebound and get back to ACC Championship(s), ten wins, then stay. If we are permanently resetting to 7 win seasons and games like last weekend, then, well...
Well if you were implying it was because he was stoned I don't think that would have been the problem. I don't blaze anymore but when I did I became extremely "present" in whatever I was doing. If anything, I think that would help a kicker. (I guess he could have "zoned out" though... lol)