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Why shouldn't he? This is just my opinion, but why do they make awards like this about how the team is doing? Erick is playing LIGHTS OUT, and should be considered as one of the top candidates to win it regardless of us being 0-2 in ACC play or whatever the pundits care about.
Not because I think Pep was the right person for the job (IMO he is). But because our perception is becoming our reality. I think we all want to believe VT is a premiere program and the OC job is one of the top in the country. The reality: it's not/we're not. I want to believe people would line up to get here...but they're not. Tony Franklin was the best choice...fail. Pep Hamilton was a better choice...fail. I'm just afraid/realizing that we will get a watered down solution. This would be along the lines of a "has been" coach (Long) an unproven assistant (Elliott) or worse (Stinespring).
I'm also afraid the real story behind all this is that CFB has set "conditions" to which a new OC must operate. The biggest of which is, here's your TE coach and recruiting coordinator. I'm guess the "big names" want to come in and set up their own system. Even if everything else was better for Pep (more money, closer to home, high profile conference, etc.), the "Stiney" factor would be enough for me to say "no thanks".
With all of that, I have a deep hope we will get an announcement in the next couple of days that will be a major coup.
...On my third keyboard this week...keep wearing out the F5 button...
Did you watch our team when they were here? Yeah, they made some AMAZING plays and I don't take anything away from them. But I also remember Boise State eating our O-Line's lunch for the majority of that game in 2010, Tyrod getting sacked multiple times, being constantly on the run for his life, and Ru averaging well under his normal production. There were several other games like that too.
I would say that is mostly a product of Oklahoma's offense. They have never been a ground-it-out type of team, at least since I've been watching the game. And they were #8 overall in that one season, and top 37 a total of 3 out of 4 seasons at Oklahoma. In rushing, they were still top 33 3 of the 4 years.
In contrast, our best offensive performance since MV7 was 2011, when we were T-35th. On that team, we had DMFW, Boykin, Coale, and Logan.
In 2010, we had TT, Boykin, Coale, RMFW, Darren Evans AND DMFW, and finished 41st.
In 2009, we had the whole bunch except Evans and Wilson, and finished 50th.
I don't know about you, but I would consider that an over-abundance of talent, and huge underachievement. Granted, none of our running backs are quite as good as Peterson, but I'd say the entire group looked pretty damn good. And we didn't do hardly anything with it.
Is there a smokestack in Merryman? We could go old school:
White Smoke: We have yet to hire an OC
Black Smoke: WE HAVE A NEW OC
Merryman Burns Down: We are sticking with Stinespring
I have to feel like at this point any name leaked is someone who we discucced OC position with but won't be offered or accept it. If there is anything we should all know by now this process is VERY tight lipped. Beamer is taking this very serious and I doubt he will bring anyone in who won't give immediate results.
They both did a bunch without us having a good O-Line. Granted, it wasn't quite as terrible as it was this year, but they were able to make plays. Tyrod was always a huge threat to run, and his speed would make the D-lines stay home in containment more, whereas defenses don't have to worry quite as much about Logan's speed. That is the main difference between the two.
if the other team's fans are cold and want to watch the second half from their hotel room. That is acceptable too, I'd be cool with that.
This coming from a guy who has yet to leave Lane before the clock reads 0:00 in the 4th.
I'm not 100% sold on bringing in Long as the OC (although at this point, just the thought of any changes makes me somewhat hopeful for a better 2013 season), but I wonder if Beamer is considering him as a QB coach. It would probably be a pretty attractive hire for LT3 to have a QB coach that was a collegiate star himself, coached Heisman-quality players, and has NFL experience. I get the feeling that there is a ton going on behind the scenes and so far the rumors going around probably cover less than 10% of reality. I would expect to see multiple coaching announcements in the next couple days, probably right before the Jan. 15 deadline. Disclaimer: this is all idle musings in my head. I have no information whatsoever from any source, reliable or not :)
Is just wrong, dude. Although, it does strangely remind me of a girl I knew in high school. ..
Half kidding
From Coachingsearch.com: "Virginia Tech: Sources tell me former Kansas offensive coordinator Chuck Long has been involved in the Virginia Tech coaching search. Long is currently living in Norman, Okla., and assisting with his son's high school team. I am not certain if Long is the frontrunner to become the Virginia Tech offensive coordinator at this point. I have confirmed that Long has not been offered the job at this point."
but not necessarily better than the VT job. But, if I'm Pep, I'm thinking that an NFL route is still very possible and the best way to do that is to stay at Stanford until Harbaugh needs an OC. Which may be in a few weeks.
Or he can hang around until a clearly better OC job opens up in college, like Bama or UGa or LSU or Texas or UF.
He doesn't NEED to take the VT job to advance his career.
Logan definitely was worse this year than he was last year. So what was different this year than last year?
We have no running backs. The defenses were gearing up for Logan and making sure that he wasn't the one to beat them. We had no running game to keep defenses from blitzing like crazy, or dropping everyone back in coverage. It also didn't help that our O-Line was/is awful.
Why do you think Tyrod was so awesome for us? Because he could get out of the bad situations his O-Line put him in and he had good backs and receivers to help him out too.
I wouldn't blame Logan for leaving, I mean if he truly feels that next year can only hurt his draft stock, then he should go. But I hope we get the right personell in to help him and make him stay. We need all the help we can get.
I honestly think the biggest difference between now and when we were winning is three point shots.
It seems that every game some guy on the other team, or just the team as a whole, has a career night from behind the arc against us. It's that double team down low that does it most of the time. They just kick it back out and swing it around and then our rotation isn't nearly fast enough to contest the shot.
I think this also leads to our rebounding problem, once we rotate to try and contest the shooter, nobody is inside so it's easy pickings for the offensive guys underneath. I love JJ, but sometime don't you have to say, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't let these guys get so many easy looks from out there?"
But the pace does hurt us to, I did like the pace in the second half of this game though.
Beamer should advise the stadium staff to lock the exit gates once entersandman starts blairing. No one allowed to leave untill the end of the game unless for emergencies or cases like the original poster mentioned. Muahaha!
Anything is better then Stinepring. Id rather us hire a rock then put up with one more year of this crap.
Exactly what he said. Someone like yourself staying for even half of the game means more than most people staying for the entire game. The frustration is solely able bodied students who bounce early because "its cold" or "theyre hungry" or the worst, "i want to watch the Note Dame game on TV" etc.
The only game I've ever left with more than 1 minute on the clock is the 2008 Duke game because that one really was too cold. Still made it to 5 minutes left in the 4th though.
He doesn't recruit and hasn't run an offense in close to 15 years, but he can pull an offensive staff together.
Clemson's Hopkins is leaving for the league. They're not on the schedule next year until (possibly) Charlotte, so it doesn't concern us too much. But it is Clemson and it is ACC related. Kinda wish he woulda took Boyd and Watkins with him.
DeAndre Hopkins heading to NFL