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13 years 12 months
# | A Look Back to the famed Hokie Wide Tackle Six Defense and How It Influenced The Current Hokie Scheme He had a concussion and it hurt our secondary. After that Boyd was able to find quick check downs due to loose coverage. My thought is that the linebackers/DBs adjusted or started sitting back to provide passing support, this slowed pressure at the line, which allowed for easier running.
In this case it is about a scholarship to attend the university and play football. I don't think there is a difference in value. Uva worth 2X Alabama football? I think not!
Agreements and contracts generally have penalty clauses to protect each side's interests. In the case of student athletes signing on to play for a school they know going in that if they want to transfer they need to sit out a year. The schools make an investment in time pursuing a recruit and money for a scholarship so there should be a disincentive to seek transfers.
What hardship could be suffered by sitting out a year? I don't get the connection between immediately playing football and wanting to be closer to an ill family member. Maybe the family member doesn't have a good prognosis so might not make it another year.
I think if the "wait a year" rule is to be waived in this case then as a compromise he should have to sit out a year in the future.
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13 years 12 months
# | A Look Back to the famed Hokie Wide Tackle Six Defense and How It Influenced The Current Hokie Scheme Through the first half, Andre Ellington was averaging like 1.3 yards a carry with 23 yards total. So something else broke down that lead to Clemson being able to run the ball like they did in the second half. (He finished with well over 100 yards.) A similar thing happened with the game against Miami, where LM just gashed us in the second half.
while working on my 2012 trailer and looking at the footage I have of number 18...I think he is going to be really special this year.
However, I think it's hard to prove that last year's line was anything but good to excellent. They had two really piss-poor games, both against Clemson. Andre Branch ate out lunch in Lane, and the wheels fell off in Charlotte. I'm still not sure if they got worked on talent or scheme, probably a combination of both.
Like you, I'm reserving judgement until the season. When Newsome was first hired, a lot people including myself were fooled into thinking it would be a quick transition and he'd produce excellent lines right away. Unlike the NFL, there are no ready made free agents available to support such a change. He had to bring his guys via recruiting, then build 'em up. Also, it didn't help that there were a few busts along the way. Things seem to be running smoother now, and we seem to be replenishing talent along the line with better success. I'm banking on us fielding a better than average to solid line because their the last few seasons have been trending upward and Newsome has his players.
If this group is healthy, and they don't produce, then that's on Newsome. They know the system, and there are some really talented kids playing for us. Fielding a great o-line in seasons only when it's 4/5s seniors doesn't cut the mustard. However, he only way I see us struggling mightily is if there are injuries to both tackles. I wouldn't want Via protecting LT3, and there isn't much in the cupboard.
says Watford transfers.
If Coles is healthy, and a reliable possession guy is found, I am not worried about the receivers. I still am of the opinion that Coles should have started over Boykin last year based on effort and ability, but Boykin was a senior and they were not going to bench him. Route running is the big question mark for this group. They need to be sharp and sell underneath routes to get DB's to bite on the double moves that were so valuable to the Hokies down the stretch last year. This is going to be a very vertical offense.
hear all the wahoo fans compare this to when we had evans,williams, and wilson. It's going to be awesome to watch the messiah screw this one up.
what james gayle said,he's gotta be the best shit talker we've had in a while
When I hear VT fans ranting about the O-line, my mind typically goes to the 07 LSU game when we knew we had no line protecting Sean Glennon. We knew before the season started it was bad and I remember hearing all about it everywhere. Our starters are solid. If anyone gets injured in practice, including Via, then I will start to worry, but for right now I'm thinking about something else.
Coles and Davis were not totally reliable last year-I still think Davis played a large part in our first Clemson loss-and we are assuming they will step it up a notch this year? They have the physical gifts but they still need to prove they are reliable. Is Roberts 100%? The backups have too limited experience to know what they will do in a game and we are blessed with a likely first round draft Cam Newton QB who has the talent to beat Don Strock's passing record....with these receivers?? Rate this receiving corp against previous ones and it worries me. Someone please ease my pain right now.
I can't remember a single offseason when we didn't hear about how great the offensive line was going to be. And this year with relatively little experience returning- I'll reserve judgment until I see them on the field, but I'm not going to get my hopes up based on how the coaches talk them up.
French have you seen a list of walk-ons yet. Someone wrote that Brandon Sturdivant isn't coming. I think he wrote " no college" on his twitter account. Just curious, some of the kids we offered walk-on offers to were good. Big fan of your work by the way. Thanks..
I agree 100% with your analogy and point but from every article I have read I just can't find any significant reason for him to transfer away. If you look at just some of the kids we are recruiting, Fisher, Kamara, Brown all those guys switching high schools this year. Then seeing these guys who switching universities and then talking about not getting a fair shake. I just think that ( a) they should have knew the in-state kid is getting first look. (b)there are consequences and repercussions to transferring. (c) they should do their due diligence and visit and research the coach and university and see how other kids were treated in the past before making a commitment. Just old school I guess. Great point though. There are absolutely cases where kids should be able to get out and leave.
it doesn't matter who their QB is...they're still wahoos.
I agree with you Caleb has a ways to go to start but I was very impressed with how quickly he was able to see the feild and perform when he did step onto Worsham. Farris has got the nasty attitude on the feild and plays to the whistle on every play. Small sample size but compared to how long it took some of the highly rated guys I was surprised to see him play and impressed when he did considering his youth. I agree though don't really feel comfortable with him starting over one of these guys yet.. What is going on with Shuman and Gibson? Those guys were big time recruits and haven't heard anything positive about those Big-Uns yet..
So if you were employed somewhere and stuck in a job where you had no upward mobility and very little chance of getting a raise, you wouldn't entertain offers from other companies that gave you 2x as much money and a more senior role? I mean, if you did, what happened to your loyalty and work ethic?
Just putting a counterpoint out there. It's nowhere near as black and white as either you or I make it out to be. In some cases, kids are just waffling aimlessly and avoiding competition and looking out solely for #1 and have no sense of commitment. In other cases, there's a bona fide reason for somewhere to pursue another option.
If Caleb Farris starts, they are in a world of trouble. When "top heavy" is the first adjective that pops into my mind about an OL, that is worrisome.
It doesn't matter. Newsome just wants to push Benedict and Painter. Ultimately, if Benedict isn't very good, Via is going to start at right guard where he rotated with Brooks.
This is going to have a trickle down effect for years to come. If you read any articles on Recruit 757 every year there are masses of players switching high schools to get playing time or to get into a better program. What kind of message is this to the kids? What happened to loyalty and working hard to overcome more talented players ahead of you on the depth chart. The whole 7-on 7 scene out there is starting to get really sketchy and is contributing to the problem although if run correctly is great for getting the kids noticed. I just don't like the message this is sending kids. Why even sign a letter of intent if you dont have to honor it or there are no repercussions to transferring when things aren't going your way. If you transfer you sit out a year it's always been that way. I just haven't seen any evidence of any serious hardships on Sims behalf. What next year??? What about Rocco and all the hard work he has put in at UVA??
What guidelines does the NCAA use and what is the process for waiving the rules? Not saying it isn't justified but why have a rule if it is so easy to get around? Isn't the rule there for a reason? I guess in this case Uva can't be accused of recruiting away, which is probably the reason for the rule. The NCAA probably also thinks that it won't make a difference for uva's performance. However, if it was a recruit leaving uva for Alabama it might be a different story.
Should we force recruits to keep their commitments if they get homesick or don't get the playing time they want?
Their argument must have been something like this; "He really isn't that good of a player because he did not play for Alabama and was not in line to play. It was not because we really need a good QB. We have plenty of QBs so he is not likely to play this year anyway."
We shall see how it turns out.
Great read. Maybe it's just me, but given Via's experience and versatility, doesn't it make sense to start him at RG? Especially given Benedict's challenges this spring, the rust after having not played for a few years, and the severity of his injuries. It seems better to bring Benedict along slowly in a rotation rather than starting him against Georgia Tech. I realize that takes away Via's ability to spell Painter at RT, but it sounded like VP locked that down this spring and maybe wouldn't need the sub.
meh. what's their first game? southern pinellas county community college? jimbo will suspend him for the first half of that game.
Interesting that the past 4 years we've had 2 seniors represent, and this year it's 2 juniors instead. Just goes to show we've got a young team and should be solid beyond this year if we don't have guys leaving early.
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14 years 1 day
# | A Look Back to the famed Hokie Wide Tackle Six Defense and How It Influenced The Current Hokie Scheme We were tiny on D in 2010. Remember getting gashed repeatedly by just about everybody we played? I remember the first half of the Stanford OB and watching one of Stanford's 300 lb guards kick out and just flatten Eddie Whitley. I saw that and knew we were in trouble.
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14 years 1 day
# | A Look Back to the famed Hokie Wide Tackle Six Defense and How It Influenced The Current Hokie Scheme Stopping the run is one of the basic tenants of the defensive scheme. So obviously if it doesn't work the scheme breaks down because it also means not being able to pressure the offense and the QB into poor decisions.
Is that a weakness of the scheme?
In these cases why couldn't we stop the run?
I can't disagree with anything you've said there, but Newsome has had his guys in the system for a few years now with mixed results. Last year's senior heavy squad was a relative success, but as you point out got exposed vs. upper echelon competition.
And there are going to be injuries. Every team has them every year. They've got to get to a level where they can overcome a normal amount of adversity. So I'm worried.
I think it's going to be an uphill struggle to win the ACC this year. They can do it but it's going to take some serious grit. It's going to have to get real gritty. Go to home depot, buy a bag of gravel, pour it into a cereal bowl with some milk and then eat it. Now you know how gritty I'm talking.