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HDubya | 13 years 3 months # | GAME ON: Grimes on Interior OL Competition This Spring (credit to Andy Bitter)

Its a good thing that Grimes is used to defending SEC defensive lines. That will come in handy August 31.

calebo12 | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

Why are people celebrating this? He was a promising recruit when we are severely deprived of talent. Some people just don't seem to realize that some of these guys take a while to develop *coughErickGreencough*. Just look what Ty Garland is doing for La Salle, he's absolute beast mode right now. Our basketball programs future looks pretty damn bleak right now.

HDubya | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

Maybe he was just fed up with the weather here and wanted to get back to Florida.

Brian Marcolini

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| 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

I am incredibly disappointed that I never realized this in the past two years. Spot on.

I Miss Tyrod | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

Best of luck to him. Does anyone else think he looks like Frozone from The Incredibles?

Charlotte Hokie | 13 years 3 months # | GAME ON: Grimes on Interior OL Competition This Spring (credit to Andy Bitter)

I agree with you. I think he is giving a blanketed statement that these guys need to check their heart and be ready to fight it out.

Hokie Stone | 13 years 3 months # | Be The Bully

Parker Osterloh- 6'8", 330 lbs. True Freshman who really should be finishing up as asenior in high school right now. If he has the mentality to match what Grimes wants.. MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

hokiecheme | 13 years 3 months # | GAME ON: Grimes on Interior OL Competition This Spring (credit to Andy Bitter)

It seems like more of the latter to me. A subtle dig saying that no one here has played well enough to have a spot secured

Hokieshibe | 13 years 3 months # | GAME ON: Grimes on Interior OL Competition This Spring (credit to Andy Bitter)

I don't think it's either, really. I think he's just saying that everybody's spot is up for grabs, with open competition across the board.

Mason Naumann | 13 years 3 months # | GAME ON: Grimes on Interior OL Competition This Spring (credit to Andy Bitter)

I have absolutely zero problem with the pistol. Like everything in football/coaching, your players will only be able to execute as well as they are coached.

I'm confident that the new coaches will be able to get everyone on the same page, regardless of the formation used.

Mason Naumann | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

The kid clearly has talent.

Hopefully a change in scenery is all he needs to get it going. Wish him luck.

hokiejoe11 | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

While there is a chance he may have gotten bypassed next year by Smith and Clark, it shows that he isn't committed to making himself better and not letting his spot get taken. They have already started doing individual workouts and if he put in the work, I'm sure he could have secured his starting spot.
Also a factor is that he dates former volleyball player Gabby Talley who was also from Florida and is transferring back down to that area as well.
He did community service with us from his freshmen year incident and was a decent enough kid, but if your head isn't in it, then a fresh start is what he may need and from what I hear that fresh start is at FGCU.

wisec4g | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

That basketball practice facility (or even Cassell) could probably be converted into an a ice rink, without too much effort...

Hokieshibe | 13 years 3 months # | March Madness opening weekend open thread

But I still say there's a big difference between #100 in basketball and #100 in football. That's why we divide the divisions. Because of the necessary roster sizes and costs of fielding a football, the little guys can't keep up like they can in basketball. There's far less parity in football because of it. That's why Appy St-Michigan and JMU-Vt are such big deals.

Anyway, I guess we clearly aren't going to come to a consensus here, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Joe Lanza

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| 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

Brown struggled mightily to find any sort of consistency. Brown's father eluded to Gianatto that Robert might have been homesick.

"I think mentally he just wasn't there. He would go and try to work the kinks out and it's not the kinks. It's the mental aspect,"

For me, worse than his shooting slumps were the brain farts, being careless with the ball, and turnovers. Maybe he was mentally absent, which no amount of talent can overcome.

With Donte Clark and Adam Smith coming in next season, this might not be a major blow from a talent perspective. However, I think it says something negative about the program, the fragile state it's in, and the revolving doors apparently now in Cassell.

Hokie_x3_Hi | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

To all the people that think this is a good thing, know this...Marquis Rankin is now the person who will be running this team. Not that I don't think he can do it, but think about that a little bit...

macraw83 | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

Apparently not, since they down-voted you :P

Blue Collar Hokie | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

meh, it's pretty common in college hoops for kids to transfer. seth lost kids seemingly every year. he wants to be closer to home which i can understand, but dude was a turnover waiting to happen so i dont think it's a serious loss.

bar1990

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| 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

I'm disappointed about this.

Robert Brown's play was far from spectacular this year, but I think he showed potential. Never met him, don't know anything about his work ethic or personality, but (as a brianm11 pointed out) he was athletic, could defend and drive to the hoop. I honestly thought he could've be the centerpiece of our offense his senior year. Guess not. Hope he really is moving just to get closer to home.

jpcvt | 13 years 3 months # | Logan Thomas Interview w/ Dinich

Appreciate LT being honest...but come on, as a fourth year player and two-year starting QB, if they was a clear leadership void, maybe he should have stepped up.

macraw83 | 13 years 3 months # | March Madness opening weekend open thread

Not quite. In 2005, Duke was #133. In 2007, Duke was #109. 2006, data is not available.

This year, Colorado was #156.

Losing to any of those 3 teams would be terrible, statistically, worse than our JMU loss was. But they wouldn't have appeared quite so bad just because they are in the same division as us.

I think what I'm trying to get at is that Division 1 basketball essentially covers FBS and FCS football, and that FGCU basketball would easily fall into FCS if basketball was split up similarly to football. And in that sense, the upsets are very similar.

And this one might even be worse, given what was at stake. For us, that JMU game was just a regular season game. Only thing at stake was the change in the W-L columns. Georgetown was in the NCAA tournament. That loss ended their season.

pbowman69 | 13 years 3 months # | GAME ON: Grimes on Interior OL Competition This Spring (credit to Andy Bitter)

Best thing about competition is that guys are going to have to bring each and every play in practice which carries over to game day in 5 months. Is Grimes quote more optimistic on the potential/development of Shuman and Gibson or damning on wang/miller/benedict/arkema?

deathrow821 | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

To whoever downvoted that, don't hate because I said what you were thinking.

jpcvt | 13 years 3 months # | GAME ON: Grimes on Interior OL Competition This Spring (credit to Andy Bitter)

The Loeffler read was great. I love the idea of being basic on purpose to see who stands out and get the fundamentals down. Also very happy, hopefully, that the pistol will GTFO of the playbook.

jpcvt | 13 years 3 months # | Robert Brown is Transferring

I know he had a down year, but in my opinion it's a major concern to lose a quality guard when your star player is leaving and someone is needed to drive the team. Not to mention with DFS gone too, it's no good to recruit highly ranked players if you can't keep them or coach them up.

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