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I hope he isn't playing if he isn't fully healed. Last thing he needs is to re-aggravate it and blow his chances of playing at all this season. Plus he has an NFL future to look forward to. He needs to be smart, and not come back till he's ready.
so, what I get out of that article is that there is over a 50% chance a five-star qb has a great career (or is at least a long-term starter). And a lot of the washouts were due to behavioral issues. To me, this only shows how accurate these star ratings are (I mean, do you think 50% of 3 stars have amazing careers? I don't).
Trying to best the ACC in staff turnover.
#LOLUVa
I was in the sixth grade.
Hurricane Isabel had roared through the Commonwealth that September
It's nice that we can coach up recruits as well as any, but players are rated 5-star for a reason. You can't convince me that having a few on your roster doesn't help things out.
Eight days before Signing Day. Glorious. Just let TOB call the plays haha
I hear Mike O'Cain is available.
I still lived in Blacksburg.
I've never had dad's stories validated. Glad to hear it wasn't a memory fogged by the Budweiser. Now if only someone can tell me he really did get kicked out of living on campus for shooting bottle rockets under his RA's door.
**correction, looks like I somehow scrolled into the random 2002 facts when I defintely meant to use stuff from 2003.
If a team isn't active defensively, doesn't get in passing lanes, doesn't rotate, and doubles down poorly, how do we "guard" anyone? The only solid on-ball defender we have is Rankin, and he fouls too much normally to consistently play significant minutes. Green and Eddie give minimal effort on defense, Brown's improving on D but is still a liability, and our post defense has been horrific. I don't understand how we "guard" anyone...don't get me wrong though, I do think green is a top 2 guard in the country along with Burke, he just doesn't play defense.
Anyone know whether it was complete or partial? I know that it takes a full year to get anywhere near 100% with a complete tear.
Ohhhhh the good old days!
It was still called the "Bay of Pigs" in the mid-80's. I know, I dated one from NJ, then graduated and returned to sanity. Confession is good for the soul...
You're right. Tone is the hardest working player on the team. And even if he isn't 100% by Bama, you know he will be giving everything he has. You have made a good point, though.
I was one of the first guys to live in the wing. Streaked the beach during a fire alarm. The girls loved it.
The first day of sun dresses was always the best.
Yes Beyer puts in the effort in games and gets the "dirty rebounds" as he said the other day, but I'm talking about as a whole. During the summer, during workouts, etc. Beyer would be a close second behind those two, but that is the problem, of the three hardest workers, two are walk ons. Says something about the players focus more than their talent.
Virginia Tech football’s offensive makeover wasn’t nearly as expensive as market rates suggested. New assistant coaches Scot Loeffler, Jeff Grimes and Aaron Moorehead won’t be filing 1040EZ forms with the IRS, but thanks to Auburn, the Hokies saved more than $400,000.
As Tech’s offensive coordinator, Loeffler’s base salary will be $400,000. Grimes, the line coach, will earn $265,000, while Moorehead, the receivers coach and least-experienced of the trio, will make $150,000.
But Loeffler and Grimes worked this past season at Auburn, which fired head coach Gene Chizik and his staff following a 3-9 finish. Loeffler and Grimes have time remaining on their Auburn contract, Loeffler through June 2014, Grimes through June of this year.
According to USA Today’s database, Loeffler’s base salary at Auburn was $525,000, Grimes’ $407,050.
Until the Auburn contracts expire, Tech will pay Loeffler and Grimes the equivalent of $150,000 annually. Paying Loeffler at that rate instead of at a $400,000-per-year rate, for essentially 18 months, saves Tech approximately $375,000.
The savings with Grimes will be about $55,000.
Moorehead worked three seasons at Stanford, a private school that does not release coaches’ salaries. Since he resigned his position to come to Tech, he’s due no money from the Cardinal.
Moorehead and Grimes will receive $50,000 retention bonuses if they remain at Tech until Jan. 1, 2015.
Former offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring, who’s remaining on staff as tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator, is taking a 17-percent pay cut from 2012. His base goes from $362,230 to $300,000.
Stinespring has been on staff 20 years, the last 11 as offensive coordinator, and head coach Frank Beamer clearly wanted him to remain, despite the demotion. Indeed, Beamer spent part of Friday’s news conference reading a list of Stinespring’s numerous recruiting successes.
The three assistants who departed Beamer’s staff -- Mike O’Cain, Kevin Sherman and Curt Newsome -- made a combined $683,919 in base salary last season, according to USA Today. The combined bases for Loeffler, Grimes and Moorehead are $815,000.
Once it kicks in, Loeffler’s $400,000 salary at Tech will be mid-range by current ACC standards. But there was no chance the Hokies would pay him more than renowned defensive coordinator Bud Foster, who last season made $502,762.
From USA Today’s database, here are the 2012 base salaries for offensive coordinators at the ACC’s other public schools:
North Carolina’s Blake Anderson: $250,000.
North Carolina State’s Dana Bible: $334,392.
Florida State’s James Coley: $351,650. Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher calls the plays, and earlier this week Coley left FSU, his alma mater, to become Miami’s offensive coordinator. Since Miami is a private school, no word on Coley’s pay there.
Virginia’s Bill Lazor: $458,350
Maryland’s Mike Locksley: $507,440.
Clemson’s Chad Morris: $1,306,500.
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson doesn’t have an offensive coordinator and calls the Yellow Jackets’ plays. Quarterbacks coach Brian Bohannon was his highest-paid offensive assistant in 2012 at $212,500.
For total assistants’ pay in 2012, Tech ranked third among ACC public schools at $2,411,046, behind Florida State’s $3,042,050 and Clemson’s $4,181,750. Virginia was sixth at $2,166,138, but the Cavaliers upped the ante considerably with recent hirings of associate head coach for offense Tom O’Brien and defensive coordinator Jon Tenuta.
Ill gladly take him at 90% ability because I know he'll give 110% effort. (As long as it doesn't jeopardize his knee)
I think this team can guard, but what is killing this team is not being active, clogging the passing lanes, rotating to the weak side to give help, trapping down low, and basically being active.
While the up-tempo was great in the first few games, it is clear that Tech do not have the players to keep the frenzied pace like UNC can (although that is debatable right now), and that is being magnified in a nasty way with the ACC slate.
Tech simply need athletes who can play the power and small forward spots (I refuse to use the numbering system that is becoming commonplace these days), and get a damn center who can demand constant double teaming who can score with his back-to-the-basket in the post!
Tech has never had a problem recruiting guards. If JJ were smart, he would travel to Villanova or VCU and ask what he could do in order to be competitive in the ACC. Villanova likes to use the 3 guards and 2 forwards line up, and they are extremely athletic. VCU loves to push the pace and run their patented HAVOC system.
It is anybody on this forum that are saying the zone are the problem.
It's easy to blame the losses on playing different defense style, which is utterly rubbish because it's basically fundamentally the same, all requiring feet to be active and heads on a swivel.
I am trying to say the thin bench doesn't help with the team, which is becoming almost the norm in Blacksburg, and that is NOT good.
JJ is going to have to start recruiting athletes in order to compete with the ACC, otherwise, I fear that he might crash and burn.
i agree