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13 years 7 months
# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" Ballocks on he-who-shall-not-be-named for beating him for Rookie of the Year
I would *love* to play Tennessee every year... assuming we won. My sister is a Vol
#SEC4VT
I'm extremely skeptical, but at this point, anything can happen. I simply do not see what GT offers except the Atlanta market, and I think that is dominated by Georgia.
I'm sure that Mike Slive is already licking his chops to raid the ACC. So, count me as a #VT4SEC member.
Quantify this statement please?
Cuz from what I've heard (re: rutgers, umd) all you have to do is be in that AAU smarty-pants club to get an invite.
"G.P. 'Bud' Peterson" ?????? Hahaha Damn they would even fit in with the B1G and good old E. Gordon Gee of "the" ohio state university. (as opposed to "that other" ohio state university that exists out there, right buckeyes)
UVa would never join the SEC (even if for some unknown, god-forsaken reason they were offered a spot) for one simple reason:
ACADEMICS
The SEC is not a notably 'smart' conference like the ACC or B1G. UVa doesn't want that stigma attached to their snobby, snooty, uptight, high-horse university. Football dominates over school in God's Country and UVA don't roll like that. They will end up in the B1G or go down with the ship in the ACC.
He spelled Georgia wrong.
Talked to a source in GT athletics - the move is probably going to happen. Unfortunately.
is the antithesis of what the Big Ten wants in a program.
#VT4SEC
They ended up hiring Trent Miles.
http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-state-sports/2012/11/30/georgia-state-hires...
Does B1G have lacrosse? #loluva
#VT4SEC
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13 years 7 months
# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" I could see Becton following similar footsteps. He's a natural offensive lineman who has played very well this season. Of course he will struggle the first couple years because of Newsome, but he could be a great NFL prospect.
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13 years 7 months
# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" He was best utilized in his offense.
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13 years 7 months
# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" Could be next. Both are pretty freaking sweet atheletes, but they're struggling with Stinespring and Newsome.
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13 years 7 months
# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" Shucks, heck...that things there was only about 4 or 5 comments away from being a positive article.
- signed, Frank Beamer
Makes perfect sense to me. Round robin the E1 W1 and W2. Be sure to maintain traditional rivalries. Might not always get perfect home and homes that alternate every year, but its no like we would be downgrading our home games. Sure beats GT, A.Peay, BGSU, Duke, FSU and UVa being a "good" home schedule season.
Honestly, the SEC will make it much more difficult to win the national championship, but it would be a step forward that would preserve the excitement of Virginia Tech Football. Learning curve...sure. Long term solution... absolutely.
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13 years 7 months
# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" Eddie Royal's first NFL regular season game? This kinda reminds me a little of that...it's apples to oranges, but another example of our stars going on to bigger and better things at a higher level. Eddie was great, but if he's competing in the record books in the NFL as a rookie, he should have been a Heisman contender in college.
from wiki:
"Royal started and played in his first NFL regular season game on September 8, 2008, in a 41-14 road win over the Oakland Raiders. He caught nine balls for 146 yards and one touchdown in his debut. Royal's 146 receiving yards were the most by any wide receiver in the first week of the 2008 NFL regular season.[3]"
"Eddie's 91 receptions are second most in NFL history for a rookie, behind only Anquan Boldin who had 101. His 980 yards and five touchdowns are both Broncos rookie records. He was seventh in the league among wide receivers in receptions, and sixth in the NFL in total yards.
Early in the 2009 season, Royal became the 4th fastest player in NFL history to reach 100 career receptions."
They took Pitt too lightly, the players said as much after the game, but I think the defense was hungry, and out to prove people wrong after the Cincy and UNC losses. The team came to fight at Clemson and against FSU. It's really hard for me to question anyone's effort, because I don't know what's going on in their head. Is the offense not trying, or do they look half-speed because the complexity of the offensive scheme has bogged them down?
"Low,'I think we're going to see more conference expansions. I can tell you that the SEC has their eyes on Va Tech.'" @finebaum
http://dc.sbnation.com/2012/5/22/3036609/conference-realignment-virginia...
East 1
UGA
UF
UK
Vandy
East 2
VT
USC
Mizzou
Tenn
West 1
Bama
Auburn
aTm
Ole Miss
West 2
LSU
Arkansas
Miss State
NC ST
I think that kind of makes sense?
East - UGA, UF, USC, Vandy, Mizzou, TN, UK.....VT
West - BAMA, LSU, aTm, Miss State, Old Miss, Ark, AU..... NCST
The crack showed up, in my opinion, in the Austin Peay game. Their running back went crazy all over Bud Foster's defense after holding Georgia Tech option offense in check all night few days before. Logan Thomas also struggled with passing the ball with accuracy.
I think it comes down to coaching the positions and teaching the technique.
As somebody is so fond of saying, "The coaches aren't the ones throwing the interception, sacking, etc, etc," which is true, but that is still on them to put the players in position to succeed.
The mistake the entire coaching staff made were believing the wrinkles they installed in spring would take only a few weeks to be built into the players. It usually takes 3 years for the system to become fully entrenched.
I spoke with my father-in-law, a Clemson grad and fan, about the offense struggle. He told me that Clemson have only have 70% of their offense play installed. He said that after I made the remark that it would be year 3 of Chad Morris' offense, and think about that. It is year 2 and Chad Morris only have 30% left for the offense to be installed. Folks, this is how a good team get better, by learning the fundamental, basics of the schemes, and build on that.
French touched on that in one of his film review, and I agree completely with him.
The other example would be Georgia Tech's triple-option offense. It took Paul Johnson almost 4 years to have the best offense line in his tenure at GT, and if he stays at GT a bit longer, their offense are going to be wreaking havoc in the ACC or B1G, wherever they ends up.
My final point is - the mistake of the coaching staff were compounded by believing their players were equipped to handle the new wrinkles, the increase in tempo, and the no-huddle looks.