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# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" 
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# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" 
I think their position is very real. It's defensible and transparent. UVa assisted us to get into the ACC, we won't leave the ACC and leave them unstable. It's a non-starter.
They stood up for us, we'll stand up for them.
Nobody cares about attendance anymore. It's just demographics and cable subscriptions. Attendance is gravy, home or away. The money comes from the TV.
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# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" I want to see these coaching changes made as bad as anyone else. But I kind of feel like this article isn't as damning as people are making it out to be. It's not like Duane said "Coach Newsome screwed me up bad and I wish I never played for him". He is just saying he had to focus more on technique when he got to the NFL. I am willing to bet that a lot of OL struggle with that when the transition to the pros. They probably get away with relying mostly on their pure athleticism in college. A good coach should correct that because it will make a dominant athlete that much better. And it will make him better in the NFL which is ultimately a good selling point to recruits ("I produce NFL OL that NFL teams draft because of how I develop them") But if I were to make a case in Hokie Court to get a new OL coach, this wouldn't be my smoking gun. It would just be a piece of ancillary evidence.
Does anyone actually think that nothing is happening? I see some people on twitter "pooh-poohing" this GT rumor, but there's too much smoke for something not to be on fire.
The Maryland move started the same way ... 'rumors' from sources of unknown reliability on Friday, then boom, everything was basically wrapped up 3 days later.
If I recall correctly, the ESPN SEC blogger said the SEC's first choice for expansion would be VT, and if they could get VT, they'd take whoever else they could get. I think he said that was the case with A&M.
There may be many twists and turns in this conference realignment saga. I think we will know something from GT today or tomorrow. If Ga Tech's president doesn't issue a statement then I think they are going. I don't even think they have an AD right now. I think he left or is leaving for Clemson.
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# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" Summary of the Hokie program since 2003: No team has done more with less on defense, and no team has done less with more on offense.
There is no name for the offense they need. You get the offense that Harbaugh ran against Tech. This is a formation based offense. He uses different formations and "packages" to run mis direction from the formation and the actual play. You can run anything ...shotgun, option, ...mix that with the spread that Druck ran --which is very simple for the QB to read.
WE NEED TO ATTACK and not just set up for 3rd and long or get ready for the field goal. The landscape has changed and if you cant hang up 25-30 a night --you wont be ranked in the top 10.
I wish the Hokies were Dirty Dick Slater. He was a bad bad man.
To reiterate what has already been said:
pppffffffffffttttttttttt
1. UVa and UNC are not as much of a package as UNC and Duke....UNC will not leave Duke, and therefore will not join the SEC even if that offer ever came
2. UVa would not join the SEC
3. UVa gets about 70% (guessing) attendance in their current stadium, which only holds about 63k, and the closest they get to traveling to away games is watching ESPN on a treadmill
4. Back to point #3...the SEC would never invite a school with such a fan base; this would also be considered for UNC who doesn't have spectacular attendance either
Most people think VT is the next logical choice for the SEC, which could bring a NC State/VT pairing. Of course, Missouri? If they are willing to make that leap then the $EC may be doing some other strange thing that will make no sense when it actually happens.
Unless thats a post from the current offense....then VT10, he was being sarcastic.
The thought of UVA in the SEC... they might as well be in the NFC East
I wanted them to add UVa so we could bolt for the SEC. I am a little nervous that the SEC would choose UVa over Tech b/c of a UNC/UVa package deal.
where does greg "the hammer" valentine fit in here?
the gweat american dweam ... dusty whoades
I agree that BC would be a better fit for the B1G geographically and academically, but the TV market argument in regards to Boston is somewhat flawed. Yes there is no competition in Boston and yes it is a huge TV market, but I am originally from New England, and with the exception of pockets of Massachusetts, New England is predominately apathetic toward college football. Shoot, football in general is not a big deal in New England (soccer is unquestionably more popular), and while people root for the New England Patriots, its more of a regional pride thing than it is a true deep-rooted following. BC was a regional "suitcase" school prior to Flutie's Hail Mary, and only then did it become nationally relevant and start jacking up its admissions criteria and shooting for all of the New England Private/Catholic schools. So sure you'll get people who COULD tune it, but you will not get the week-after-week fervor you'll find elsewhere in the country.
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# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" DON'T YOU GUYS REALIZE IT? WE NOW KNOW HOW TO FIX THE O-LINE!
Also, film study plays a huge role in the success of a left tackle, or any position in this league. That was something else I had to learn my first couple of years.
SOLUTION:
FILM STUDY!!!
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# | A Damning Indictment of Bryan Stinespring and Curt Newsome by "The Best Left Tackle In the NFL" Look at all the offensive talent we've put into the NFL during Stinespring's tenure! It's an absolute disgrace we haven't accomplished more on offense. It's sickening when you think about the amounts these coaches are getting paid. No other profession on the planet would tolerate this. Except politics maybe.
I think Boston College is a more logical target for the Big 10 than GT given their dual goals of getting big TV markets and attracting Notre Dame. ND has played Boston College every year for decades. As they lose more and more traditional rivalry games, their ability to negotiate TV contracts as an independent goes down. There's also no SEC competition to deal with as there would be in Atlanta. But then again, college football is much more popular overall and the demographic trend is in its favor, so maybe GT would be more attractive.
It is a real shame that Weaver and Steger were too stupid to see this coming right from the start. They've cost the university tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars by not moving to the SEC during the first round of expansion. And that's assuming we finally come to our senses and leave soon. If we stick with the ACC while the ship sinks, the losses will be incalculable. The Big East part 2 is not going to keep its automatic spot in the college football postseason.
Does anyone remember Weaver's excuse for not going to the SEC? He thought we'd have to expand our stadium SO LARGE that the higher revenue wouldn't cover it. I wonder what his real agenda was.
last i checked ... our defense had an inspired effort against georgia tech and you should probably look at the box score of their game with presbyterian before you claim that they stopped them .. look at their rushing totals game by game (the only team that had a better effort stopping their rush was byu and that includes georgia).
team played - total rushing yds - (yds per carry)
VT 192 (3.5)
presbyterian 469 (8.1)
uva 461 yds (9.2)
miami 287 yds (4.9)
middle tennessee 238 (4.5)
clemson 339 (7.4)
bc 391 (5.1)
byu 117 (3.3)
maryland 370 (6.6)
unc 380 (5.7)
duke 330 (4.6)
georgia 306 (4.6)
then, take into account that georgia tech allowed an average of 31 pts/game, 11 more than VT put up. that average takes into account 3 pts put up by a shit fcs team (presbyterian). drop that game and VT scored almost 2 TDs less than GT's defense gave up (on average). let's point fingers at the offense if you're gonna point them. did VT's defense have some bad games and give up some big plays? yup -- but not that game.
I was thinking the same thing!
Since I have been serving as the defacto film guy, and 90% of my expertise is offensive line play, these statements affirm what we have seen on film in our scrutiny over the last two years: that regardless of the players that are rolled out, we see across-the-board poor basic fundamentals of offensive line play.
The players have changed, but even the most talented guys (Sergio Render is a GREAT EXAMPLE of someone who had outstanding physical gifts, but did not have a solid jab step technique for reach blocking or gap down blocking) didn't have that extra refinement. That refinement comes from meaningful repetition. Meaningful repetition would have resulted in a much more refined NFL product.
Red flags are everywhere. No jury in the world would side with Newsome at this point.