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I'm glad to finally be apart of TKP community, I just have one question. How do you embed images in a post. I'd love to enhance my post with beautiful images I find online, but I'm not quite that techno savvy just yet.

hey all, been reading tkp religiously for about a year now. brief intro, went to tech for a while to study mechanical engineering but couldnt keep the grades. right now i'm going to school online to get my degree and plan to join the marine corps after graduating. in my short time at tech i fell in love with the program and what it stands for. though i may never get that vt degree, i will always be a die-hard tech fan, through highs and especially this year lows. at the end of the day i bleed maroon and orange just like my 66,000+ brothers and sisters every fall saturday night.

Welcome. Let's hope that the last couple of weeks give us something to get excited about

(...like Wyatt Teller announcing he plans to be the starting left tackle next year. SHABOYGIN!)

The fact that every summer we send our coaching staff to another program to learn a new offensive scheme indicates that the offensive minds we have are not capable of being creative enough to coach at this level. Sure, if you run a spread style offense and you want to incorporate a few new wrinkles to an offense that is currently stable and successful that's fine by me. Go visit Urban Meyer. Go check in with Nevada and learn more about the Pistol. But, you can't totally re-learn how to run an offense in one week. You don't go to school for 3 1/2 years then decide to change your major and expect to graduate on time. It's all common sense. Sometimes when something is broken, you can't fix it without buying some new parts (coaches) to fix it. It's not fair to the players or fans.

I'm sorry but I don't care if Stiney is a great recruiter and nice guy. He is wasting the talent with a failing offense. You know what really draws top players to your program?? Winning Big games and scoring lots of points. Change must be made with this offense. Losing 6 out of 10 games is not acceptable.

To touch on Frank for accountability... Beams was happy with 400 yards of offense against Clemson. Well, Clemson is giving up over 500 yards in ACC match ups this year. This makes me think he is completely out of touch with what is expected.

I think he fits in C with Michael Vick.

..."straightening out the offensive staff." The answer is "fire everybody." Clearly Newsome should go. Clearly Sherman isn't coaching his position well (and isn't much of a recruiter). Clearly we need a new OC, who likely will come in as a QBs Coach, so MOC is gone. Clearly we need an OLine that is the basis of our offense, so go get the best guy you can find.

So, realistically, that's not going to happen.

We know Shane isn't going anywhere (and he shouldn't) but he can coach about any position (as well as he is coaching RB's.) Of note, what's Cornell Brown doing? We hardly play Whips, he's not recruiting anyone. Should we move Shane to defense to replace Cornell?

Go get a OC/QB coach. Go get the best OL coach money can buy. Find a place for Shane and Stiney. Gray, Wiles and Foster are safe. Everything else is up for debate.

That's a lot of potential turnover.

Glad to find this place.

If the offensive coaches are evaluated by the production of their players on the field, then they have all tremendously underperformed. Like French wrote, I too believe Newsome and Sherman are the most guilty parties. However, from an organizational standpoint, the offense is a mess. The dynamic of O'Cain calling the plays and Stinespring formulating the game plan isn't working. Among the coaches, there's just enough cross-distribution of responsibilities, so there's minimal accountability, and it never falls on the Frankinator's desk. However, this is his offense, and he's picked the people to run it. He needs to be the one to clean up this mess.

I don't care what offense we run, I just want us to have capable people to execute it. Weeklong seminars at various colleges where our staff learns schemes second hand won't cut it. The media guide lists our offense as, "Multiple". I cringe every time I read it. A little bit of what Florida did in 2005 + what Ohio State did under Tressel + Texas' new offense + Clemson's motioning + Nevada's Pistol + ... = an unfocussed attack with too many concepts to be successful. If you want to be loyal to your staff, then let them do what they know and are good at, whatever it is.

To pick against the spread. Hey guys we still beat Duke. That counts?

Louisville -- Legaux!!!!

Texas Tech -- Boy do I believe in Kansas State but this one smells funny. 45-38 kind of game.

Florida -- Mark Richt has lost control of his defense. The World's Biggest Cocktail Party will be serving up fresh Bulldog.

Ohio State -- I feel weird about this one as tOSU barely squeaked by Purdue last week. Then, PSU lost to LOLUVA. I'll probably end up eating this one though.

Notre Dame -- Oklahoma just loves to shit the bed.

Mississippi State -- 23.5 points? LAWL

BOTW: Tried UFO Pumpkin last night by Pyramid. Great beer but I wouldnt have all six in a sitting.

Based on our success over the years, (the whole winningest team since 1995 or whatever it is) I feel that we aim for these two things every year. If an ACC championship comes along with that, awesome. If it doesn't? Well that's good news for the ACC then... Based on the brand that we have, I feel these are reasonable goals. We aren't going to be competing for a National Title every year. That much is obvious. We aren't getting the players that will bring us there every year, and the coaching really isn't at that level. To be a National Championship coach, you either have to be A) A fantastic recruiter(Nick Saban), B) An Innovative coach that installs a system that works wherever it is put into place (Urban Myer, Chip Kelly), C) Get lucky and find a once in a lifetime player to carry your team to the title (Gene Chizik), or D) The luckiest coach in sports (Les Miles). Many could argue that Beamer most closely fits into the B catagory with defense and special teams, but the fact of the matter is that it is no longer innovative and succesful, so he therefore doesn't qualify.

Does this mean that maybe once or twice in a decade we could have a team where the parts fit together really nicely and make a run? Absolutely, but at the same time, it forces us to attempt to remain one of the top teams nationally in addition to being the best in an ACC that has been down for quite some time. As of late we're been a Big Fish in a small pond that just gets eaten every time it tries to head to deeper waters.

I agree if Thomas and the upper classmen who have under performed stick around we could have a great season.

Lville wins, but the nattiboys get the points
Red Raiders get the points, but good 'ol Bill pulls the game out for K-state.
Gators chomp the dawgs. The fans don't remember large portions of the game, for some reason, though.
tOSU in my I-don't-know-why pick of the week.
Golden Domers don't have a prayer against the Sooners, who cover.
Buldogs are one of the other teams with maroon as their color. Their unis are nice, too. But unis don't win games against the evil emperor. Bama wins, but the Bulldogs get enough points to keep them under the spread.