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The rain game, so good. I remember talking to Miami fans on the way in about how it was gonna be close.
He was pulling the long con, damnit Pep, you fooled us!
Irony, Arians takes o line coach from the Colts. The Colts take Pep to replace Arians, Pep takes Stinespring to replace Oline coach.
Joe, looks like TKP needs to advertise there, people obviously aren't paying attention to how important this is.
Seeing Rodriguez didn't bother me. Harris will.
...he's now at the end of he road at VT. He will never become OC again.....and probably not HC either.
That's really odd. I can't really see where he fits on that staff, but if he gets a job in the NFL good for him, I wish him well.
3 weeks after we all wanted the man to rot away somewhere far away from Blacksburg, we really don't want him to go anywhere. I think his talent as a recruiter, as well as his handling of the situation the past couple weeks, has really opened our eyes to what a good guy he really is.
Give him a call?
...not good.
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# | OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Scot Loeffler, Jeff Grimes, and Aaron Moorehead Join the Hokie Football Staff I dont care how old they are, just coach em up.
I'd love to bring in some more youth, like Moorehead. Stanford's TE coach would be awesome, but he doesn't have the ties.
And he does alright with the TE's.
So who would be hired to replace him? Need someone with VA recruiting ties. IMO, move Shane to te coach and recruiting coordinator and bring in a new RB coach. JMO though.
Not knocking him but what could he do? Don't have to recruit in the NFL. That is one thing he does well.
@DoughtySports: Hearing rumblings that #VTfootball assistant Bryan Stinespring is in talks with the Indianapolis Colts. Hmmm.
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# | OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Scot Loeffler, Jeff Grimes, and Aaron Moorehead Join the Hokie Football Staff Bingo. And I think we all know that Logan has the potential to be very good in this system. He's got a great football mind.
well done. Much respect.
But I have to acknowledge that he is a terrific recruiter. I recall reading a story about how he recruited Darren Evans. The story goes that when his wife (back then, girlfriend) was giving birth to his son, Evans committed to Virginia Tech after the birth with Stinespring in the delivery room.
Later, when the Evans got married, Stiney was the first person Darren informed. That's how much respect he has from the players.
I agree he is a terrible game caller, but man can he recruit.
I am sure that Stinespring is disappointed he won't be calling plays anymore, but at the same time, I would imagine he is somewhat relieved that he don't have to continue to receive flaks for his playcalling. I also seem to recall he said he was stressed out because he was responsible for a) coaching tackles and tight ends, b) recruiting, and c) drawing up game plans. That's awful a lot to ask for one man.
So, now he can simply focus on coaching the tight ends, an area of strength, I believe, and recruiting.
With Grimes in the fold, I think they both are going to start landing top recruits soon. The class of 2014 and 2015 are going to be very interesting to watch.
I thinks it stands that he'll be at VT in June.
Coaching staff can't interfere with admissions process.
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# | OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Scot Loeffler, Jeff Grimes, and Aaron Moorehead Join the Hokie Football Staff http://www.roanoke.com/sports/notebookplus/wb/319237
New Virginia Tech offensive coordinator has impressive track record
Friday, January 18, 2013
By Doug Doughty
Most stories about new Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Scott Loeffler point out his connections to such notable quarterbacks as Tom Brady, Tim Tebow, Brian Griese and Chad Henne, but I’m more impressed by what I hear about another Loeffler pupil.
The student is Chris Coyer, who, as a sophomore at Temple in 2011, led the Football Bowl Subdivision in adjusted yards per attempt. That’s not a statistic kept by the NCAA, but it is a mathematical formula that had Coyer first in the country, ahead of No. 2 Case Keenum, No. 3 Robert Griffin III and No. 4 Russell Wilson.
If you’re in that company, however you want to analyze the numbers, that’s pretty impressive.
“Lefty [Loeffler] is a great guy,” said Coyer’s father, Chris, a boyhood friend of mine from Bethesda, Md. “Actually, [son] Chris is very jealous. He was just there with Chris for one year.”
Coyer played at Oakton High School in Vienna, where he was a teammate of Tech’s leading tackler this past season, walk-on linebacker Jack Tyler.
“Lefty is a very smart guy and his system is quite complex on the quarterbacks,” Coyer said. “He puts everything on the quarterbacks. We’re going to find out now whether Logan [Thomas] is just a good athlete or whether he’s a true NFL prospect.”
Coyer averaged 9.3 yards per passing attempt and 8.1 yards per rushing attempt in 2011. Then, Loeffler moved on to Auburn after the 2011 season and Coyer dropped to 5.7 yards per pass attempt and 4.0 yards per rushing attempt.
Judging from Coyer’s numbers, Loeffler isn’t afraid to run his quarterback (“Oh, gosh no,” Coyer Sr. said). Thomas this year had 65 more rushing attempts than any other Tech player.
“He’ll go to the line with as many as three or four different plays,” said Coyer Sr., a former college wideout at Minnesota. “[Loeffler] teaches the quarterbacks to read the fronts more than the secondaries.
“The fronts are going to tell you what the secondaries are going to do because the secondaries lie. It’s imperative that quarterbacks become very, very good at reading fronts. Once they do, they’ll lock into what should be the right play.
“Some OCs don’t have a tremendous amount of plays but they have a lot of options off of them. ‘Lefty’ is a one of those guys who has a play for everything. It’s graduate-level stuff, but, if you get it, you can be super successful.
‘He’s [Loeffler] highly intense; he’s a visor type and when he’s on the field, he’s highly animated. And, the stuff he says, he’s very serious about, but it’ll crack you up.He’s a player’s coach, no question, but he’s highly demanding and highly technical.
“He can dumb it down a little bit, but it bastardizes his offense and it limits it tremendously.”
My question to Coyer’s father was whether Thomas would have enough time to assimilate Loeffler’s system.
“Logan will have to spend copious amounts of time and energy to absorb what Scott Loeffler teaches,” he said. “If he puts in the time and effort and energy, it not only will put him make him extremely successful as a [college] quarterback but also prepare him extremely well for the next level.
“His systems are built to create great quarterbacks.”
We had a safety against FSU, that was the only defensive score this year.
There went my afternoon.
WOw