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Personally I don't think our secondary played that bad last week, it was the D-Line. We moved Exum back to safety, and it worked. With the recruits we have coming in next year, and with (hopefully) no one leaving I think our secondary could be pretty strong. I feel that if we can get manning game ready, we'll have the depth we need to compete next year.
Miami may lose out. (VT may as well)
That team has been hammered twice and needed a miracle to beat GT. They beat NCSU.
Miami is going to lose this weekend to UNC and next weekend to FSU. Then, if we beat them, we're in at 5-3. Miami also plays Duke and uva on the road...both losable.
The first thing that popped onto my head BCH!
Why do you think we would play in the ACCGC in your scenario? We would have 3 conference losses and Miami will not have 3 conf. losses. Miami will play for the ACCCG
want to see some passion and some fire. Watching other games on Saturday seeing the entire Florida team energized because Matt Elam killed anything that moved on the field including his own teammates, and the entire Texas sideline jumping up and down as they scored to tighten the game against the cousins in the 2nd quarter. Our sideline looks like a silent auction at times. If we are going to lose at least lose going 100 mph and flying around on the field and start having fun again and not worry about whats already happened this year.
Toughness, resilience, and perseverance are all things that can't be taught; they must be practiced.
Our coaches haven't struggled like this in some time, how are they supposed to know how to react? How do they coach when they don't have the talent they're used to?
Our players haven't seen times like this either, how are they supposed to know how to react in this situation?
This season is still salvageable, but in the long term, I just hope we learn from this season. Whether it be a recruiting changes, coaching changes, practice changes, game plan changes, etc. We've been due for a rebuilding season for sometime, hopefully that's all this is.
The 3 oldest coaches in FBS (Spurrier, Snyder, and Frank Solich) are all currently UNDEFEATED. There's no reason Frank Beamer can't bring us back to the glory days!
I think that we should be able to beat the Dukies, BC, Hoos, Miami and keep the FSU and Clemson games close. Win ACCCG and force Heather Dinich to eat yet another pile of crow.
Too optimistic?
Bleacher report ranked VA as ninth best "hotbed" for high school football recruiting
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1269478-the-25-best-recruiting-hotbed...
We lose top talent in VA because we lose football games (and I'm not talking about this season, I'm referring more to the big games that we consistently lose). Obviously, coaches, playing time, redshirt or not, distance, etc all go into a kids' decision, but no matter how you slice it, when you lose football games, you lose football players.
I can't tell you the insider details on Shane's recruiting techniques and I don't think anybody on this site can (if you can please share), but I think two things help us/Shane recruit better. (1) He's younger than the rest of our staff so he can relate to these young guys a little better, and (2) He has SEC bloodlines. He's been with more that one SEC program so he's learned from the best, a couple of times.
(Insert Beamer's patented eye-level fist shake here)
I don't think he's a great CB. He's good, and with our current talent, he's certainly better than everyone else. But, as Foster said in the post-game this week, he's a good "freelancer" and hasn't really been asked to play a traditional CB much before.
I think he could be very good at FS. That would leave Bonner v. Manning to start at CB, which isn't awful. Bonner scares me a lot less at CB than he does at safety.
...and none of these backs is remotely close to making that work.
I'm at the point where I basically stop trying to run unless it's LT. Throw it 50 times a game.
I want us to right the ship and win the rest of our games. Is this realistic? Probably not, but I don't think the players have quit on this team so I think its possible that we can get much better. Most importantly though, beat uva.
Our recruiting practices in general would make for a great post later on by some of the resident football geniuses here...
I think it would help us to be in big games more often and would step up our recruiting efforts. I honestly think we could be competive in the SEC East..of course it will never happen
That is all. It would also be nice if we didn't lose to effing Duke and BC.
Have the excuses stop. tired of hearing the team say "we are better than that" hello! You are not better than what you've accomplished. One can get better but by no means are you better because if you we're then the outcomes would be different. This includes the coaches! Recruiting is the key and has been well documented here. Coach Dream can recruit although he can't coach a lick! Which has hampered our progression and until that is addressed each and every year we will be left pondering these question. Wholesale changes in the coaching staff must and should happen. Most important is to be the dog mess out of UVEEA.
All I want is to beat the piss out of UVA and hopefully continue the bowl streak, but with what the team has shown so far this year I can't really get my hopes up for anything else.
I was saying that before the season began, hoping the underclassmen would win all the key spots. I thought VT would have a really good chance at a strong BCS run in 2013, but I've begun to temper those expectations. I think it is still possible, but I'm beginning to think the O-line and Secondary will not be solved by 2013.
So, I would like to see more playing time for Manning, Bonner, RVD and Cole. Grey needs to figure out who can play corner and who can play safety. Right now, I don't think he has a free safety, so maybe he needs to try Kyle there and switch Bonner to corner. I don't know. I would also like Via to full-time back-up, spelling Wang and Benedict. Those two guards need a lot of work. I would like to see what VT has in Gibson and Shuman, but I understand it is unfair to Painter and Becton, both of which have the body size to be late round gamble in the NFL draft. Selling out on them would not look good.
when joining a team running a 3-4. As a Redskins fan, I know both Kerrigan and Orakpo were both DEs in college, and now both are starting OLBs.
Jason Worilds seems to be doing fairly well in the Steelers system. He may be a starter/key reserve for years to come. So, I think he's actually an example of a success, not a failure.
I think the lack of success of NFL caliber D-linemen and linebackers has more to do with size. VT typically employs undersized but quick linemen and backers, which typically don't have as much success in the NFL. Darryll Tapp, Corey Moore, and Cody Grimm are prime examples who are extremely athletic but just don't have the size to be elite at their positions. If VT gets LBs with size and quickness, NFL scouts will recognize that, regardless of defensive scheme.
YES!!
But, is it possible to cover all the gaps and still have a safety valve? I think having all defenders within 2 yds of the line of scrimmage is asking to get a TD scored on you. Yea, you want to get a stop, but I think it's a terrible idea to not have a safety 5-7 yds off the line of scrimmage.
Fuck this season. Lets just start practicing for Alabama now.
It's a sad, sad day in the ACC when the teams left undefeated in conference play are Duke, Miami, and Maryland.
/poursoneformyACChomies
Hmm, dunno, I don't remember that FSU game as well as I do both Nebraska games...
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