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I was a 185 lb kid playing TE in high school. I cut the mess out of fools. Coach loved me.
I bet if she took a ride on a horse....on a treadmill she'd convert on the spot.
Tackling fundamentals. Wrap em up don't just go for the big hit. See Fuller, Kyle and Tyler, Jack for more specifics.
...Favre just snapchatted you a dick pic....
I think its a double edged sword though. Sure kids don't necessarily want to move around but at the same time when they are 17 and being recruited no one really knows 100% for sure how they are going to develop. If they are being stubborn and say I'm only going to play this, they may very well be limiting themselves in the future. You never really know what you can be good or even great at if you don't keep an open mind and try.
I'm not saying that it always works out for the player, but I'm pretty sure Duane Brown has been happy with his move from TE in college. Even in the pros you look at a player like Randle-El and had he not moved to WR he never would've had a career in the pros.
Shit ton of chicks there. Make a man feel like a piece of meat.
Wow. I remember 130 Games in 130 Days getting taken down. Didn't know Phreak was still kicking. There goes the whole day, thanks for sharing man
Good old 17 rip.
Our bread and butter play in middle school
I've got no love for Miami at all, and deep down I hope we stomp them. Realistically though, they're returning the most key people on both sides of the ball of any team in the ACC. I will begrudgingly admit that Al Golden really does seem to be building something down there. Morris is a much better QB than Harris ever was, and Duke Johnson is scary good. Combine that with an experienced O line and you have yourself a recipe for a team with a good shot at beating a lot of people.
I don't know why everyone is so afraid of GT. Short week? Been there, done that. We have good conditioning. Night game? Yes please. On the road? Big deal, we're one of the best road teams of the last decade (though with adequate mental preparation, the venue should be irrelevant). Triple option? Stuffed that pretty well last year and in years past. In the absence of some new, dynamic playmaker, I don't see GT as being any more difficult than any other year. It will be a close game, always is, but it is definitely winnable with our D.
UNC had key losses. Renner is a good QB, but he was made even better by a blistering rushing game from Bernard and a solid O line anchored by Cooper. AJ Blue is definitely talented, but is he ready to be the #1 guy? We'll see. The combination of losses for UNC drops them back from being the toughest game of those three in my mind.
I completely agree about the intensity being back. The new coaches have definitely brought new life to the program and the kids seem to be embracing the culture of toughness that Beamer and Co are preaching. Sometimes, change is good for it's own sake. New people come into town and they bring a certain energy with them simply because they are new.
A lot has been said about the positives of the staff stability Beamer has worked for over the years, and I'm not saying it's a bad thing that he is so loyal to his assistants. I just think that the Hokies did miss the "new blood" energy over the years, and we are starting to see the benefits of the new coaches in that regard.
I absolutely could have chosen to write about the positives of this team, but I didn't want to. It's boring to write article after article about how great an athlete X is, and how good the footwork new freshmen Y has, and how interesting those route combinations that new coach Z put into place... It's boring to write the same thing over and over and I KNOW it's just as boring to read about them because I've read those articles every off season on other websites.
This gets back to what I want to contribute to The Key Play community. I would rather say what I really felt (the offense, as usual, is far behind where the defense is and needs to step their game up), and take a risk at being wrong then to just coast along and write nothing but positive sunshiny pieces.
Why only focus on the positives? I'd rather embrace a program for what it is, flaws and all, then try and only think about the good bits of the program. I think we all agree that its far more rewarding to see a team succeed when you know its had to fight tooth and nail to achieve its goals despite it's shortcomings. But how can we appreciate how hard the student-athletes are working if no one ever writes about how bad they look at times?
Who wants to cheer for a team that steps onto a field and is perfect from day one? Not me. I want to see a team struggle, fall flat on it's face in a public scrimmage, then pick itself back up again and dust itself off and show some character by pushing through that adversity.
That's why I wrote the piece with the "beam bama" perspective to it, even if it meant that the article wouldn't be as uplifting as it could have been. Now, when Virginia Tech goes out against Bama and DOES have a successful drive and DOES get a touchdown, everyone who read my piece will know how truly impressive an accomplishment it was and how hard the student-athletes actually had to work in the off season to make their dreams happen.
I agree completely. I think Moorehead will become a star coach, I hope that he has the opportunity to do that at Virginia Tech and not somewhere else. At the very least, I'm excited to see what he's going to turn these young studs he's got at Wide Receiver (Stanford, Knowles and Carlis Parker) into over the next few years.
Great graphic amigo. Women's rugby, who knew?
keep. their. heads. up. = #1 always and what high school & lower coaches should constantly be on the lookout for.
Other than that:
As a life-long undersized Center who later became an oversized Wide Receiver my final year of high school, I think there was never really a solid emphasis on blocking techniques for WR's in high school. I always loved the plays where we could come down and lay our bodies into an unsuspecting LB on an outside run while the FB swung out and was faced with either a CB or Safety.
Maybe Oklahoma drills featuring WRs vs. CBs with a couple of extra sprints on the line would be enough to get the guys fired up to block?
A really underrated QB & RB skill is the ability to sell the play-action, but I know our coaches never really focused on that with QB's. It sucked because our bread and butter play was a counter run (I'll never forget the god damned "17 Rip" for as long as I live), and we'd usually run it 25-35 times a game (my coaches were terrible, by the way).
Whenever we ran the play-action version, it was usually ruined because neither the QB or RB sold the fake very well.
Also, a pivotal skill for LBs is the use of their hands to disengage blockers.
man... I forgot how much I wanted to coach footbawww. Have fun man!
Well, I think its obvious that this particular white unicorn is at TKP because there are no UVA football fan sites.
a) They need fans to have a fan site. See Spring Game
b) They need a credible football team to have a fan site, and this doesn't count:
Although admittedly they probably have a better chance at beating us than the actual football team.
Not much advice to give, but if you're interested in Wing-T help, watch some Brendan Motley footage. He played in that style offense at Christiansburg High.
As a WR, my high school coach taught us two seemingly opposing lessons on how to catch the football.
Soft Hands: Ever see the egg scene in Mighty Ducks. This is where he got it from. Threw ten eggs at us at various speed (not really fast overall), distance and height. We had to catch and protect the egg from being broken. Was good fun but you had to do the same number of suicides as broken eggs.
Attacking the Football: attached a football to a small bungee type cord and threw at us. The idea was that he would pull back on the ball at the last moment to encourage you to attack the ball to prevent the DB from touching it. Only he would again throw you ten balls, some he pulled back and others he didn't. Sometimes only would pull back once. If you were lazy and got caught you had to start running a suicide at that moment.
He was big on suicides. And throwing things at us ten times. He had some other gems about footwork, routes, getting out of jams, and cuts but these were two that stood out to me. We only did the egg thing once or twice a season to illustrate the point. But we did the attack drill A LOT.
I didn't see if they turned it on. As far as I could see from behind the scoreboard, right now they are just doing a lot of wiring.
It is guys beating bigger, stronger, and faster guys with technique. Low man wins. That is the essence of the sport. Watch any 1960 Packers film. Watch the Sooners run the wishbone in the 70's. on the back side of plays, you cut block if you can't scoop your assignment. I oppose high-low blocks, but chop blocks are a sound fundamental part of blocking.
You keep me in stitches Horse, more oatmeal-covered turkey legs for you equine sir.
Agree to disagree. I'm all for rough play. I think the new targeting rule is bullshit and that NCAA has watered down the game way too much. However, I also believe that chop blocking is something that should have protection. It can end someone's career in an instant. If it were legal this year our OL would be destroyed with just one or two injuries.
Nice example of running up the middle right there lol
Maybe the rules need to change on cut blocks, but I don't think trying to injure players is Paul Johnson's goal. Instead the purpose is slowing them because they're having to focus more attention on protecting themselves and can't focus exclusively on getting to their gap and/or getting into the backfield. We hear from our coaches all the time about players' heads tying up their feet, and more than anything else I think that's what GTs offense strives for: give the defensive players a lot to worry about-am I about to get cut? does the QB still have the ball? does my teammate have a good enough angle on the pitchman for me to go ahead and commit to going at the QB?-so that they're thinking about what they should do and aren't reacting.
I'd give Jeff Grimes a bonus if the Hokies chop blocked on every single play. That is the way football was meant to be played. Not playing paddycake and dancing in place like guys block now.
All fan blogs could use more people like you 3rdand31 BRAVO!!