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Don't forget the always-useful "halfass drive to the bucket and flailing-ly put the shot up" routine. Malcolm patented that move.
Sure, the team has gotten better since Greenberg took over, but I still don't think he has given Hokies what we deserve. 1 tournament in his 9 years as head coach, with all of the money and resources thrown into the program is unacceptable. Now let me be clear, I am not saying it is time for Seth to go, I love him as a coach and I love his intensity (except for his pop-ups on hokiesports.com). But I do think something needs to change. The team has regressed since we played 32 tough minutes with 'Cuse before they pulled away. We have the pieces to be a very good team and a top-5 team in the ACC. It is Seth's job to get us there. Green and Hudson are great up top, and despite JTs injury we are strong enough to compete down low. While our "big" men are a little undersized, we make up for it in Eddie's outside shooting ability. Most of all, let's get back to being physical. What happened to the days where we got on the floor and got dirty. Where we won those 50/50 balls and that alone kept us in games. Our talent is at the right level, adding physicality may put us over the top.
Wha, what happened?
I wish we could get into these guys heads to know what they are thinking. If there something else bama has that we don't? Is bama offering something we won't?
Situational awareness is sometimes (many times?) a weakness with this coaching staff. I think there is a mentality of trying to always beat the other team straight up. Sometimes a little trickery is what we need to break the game open. Use the rules to your advantage when you might not match up phyiscally or talent-wise.
your reasoning for attracting big guys to our athletics team. I'm gonna continue to push that stat and hope others do as well
"Recruiting has picked up since Seth has taken over, but he seems to have hit a ceiling. Great job getting the program to where it is, but I think he might have maxed out."
Sounds like similar comments I've been hearing/seeing all over the web about another coach...
Automatic Qualifier?
Trolling refs = my favorite
We have seemed to shy away from the Ronyells and Jimmy Williams the last 5 or so years, which is good, but I think every now and then we need to take a shot at guys like this. I remember being furious when they would kill us with personal fouls, but it seems the last few years we have almost been too nice. Gayle comes off as having some of that attitude without hurting us, but we need a few more like him. The "big boy" schools seem to be able to harness these personalities for the most part. I wonder who we don't even attempt to go after just because their attitude dosen't seem to fit our new standards.
The freshmen aren't producing like they were in the first 12 or so games of the season.
Also, Green IS NOT Malcom Delaney. He has yet to completely take over a game and put a spark in his team. He averages under 20 ppg as well.
In addition to that, the last two games, and some of the ones before conference play, we let the opponent get out on a run from the tip... Then we're left to play catch-up for 40 minutes. That DOESN'T WORK when you don't have good enough shooters or consistent enough defense & rebounding to come back from a 10-plus point deficit.
Seems like we're doing an okay job of it this off-season. If all goes well, we have a number of three- and four-star recruits headed to Blacksburg after Signing Day. We can only get bigger and better. I think we're showing promise by actually recruiting OLs instead of using converted Tight Ends to play line. I've never understood that.
Plus, if you think about the young talent at RB that we could possibly have coming into the program with the talent that is already there, (Michael Holmes, who will hopefully start next season) we could potentially have a stable of horses like USC (or even ourselves) had a few years back. And they would all be freshmen or redshirt freshmen -- excluding Tony Gregory, whom I really havent seen a lot out of when he gets reps anyhow.
The future is bright.
12. Michigan - Originally ranked down at 18th, but the booth above overruled it.
i wouldn't say shocked as much as disappointed. this kid will be recruited, literally, by every major college football program in the country. with all those options, you can't call it a shocker if he chooses somewhere else, just a huge disappointment (for us, he'll be a stud where-ever he lands).
11. Boise State - Doesn't travel well enough to be ranked in the top ten of this BlogTroll.
best line i've seen in weeks.
sorry, done on phone.
first, you aren't paying attn to the resources vt is putting in sakerlina, nc & ga. outside of a few schools, vt has pulled out of fla, due to putting in so much time only to,lose so many late in the process. also, some attitude issues with fla kids
the big 10 is not crawling with top talent & the ones that are don't give a shit about acc schools.
we we aren't ohio state, by name, history or especially budget. their athletic dept dwarfs ours.
hamilton will go too rutgers. why do think every top program missed on him? or was it just vt missing on him.
we finished 2nd to bama on jones. how much better do you want? now notice diggs, compare his final list vs jones final list. let me know if any are the same. they aren't. they don't like each other, at a point you pick one to recruit & ride it. they made the right call. tho, I'm sure you have something against it.
if vt doesn't get 2 of their final 3 state kids, trashing is understood. do you think the other schools don't work at recruiting too?
maryland is going to be tough to get kids for a couple yrs. md, psu &uva are going to get bloody there.
should get fuller tho.
I understand that we shouldn't worry too much with recruiting in CA/West Coast/even TX because of cost/distance but it's widely known that 99% of our recruiting efforts are ONLY in the state of VA. Don't get me wrong .. VA has talent but we're NEVER gonna get it all. We should at least be targeting recruits on the eastern seaboard (other than FL .. look at the talent in NC,SC,GA) .. We've gotten better with NC in recent years and have always grabbed one here and there from PA .. But we need to do better. SEC and Big 10 country is CRAWLING with 4 and 5 star recruits .. Let's start cherry picking from other teams like Urban does. We settle WAY TOO SOON in recruiting season with 2 and 3 star recruits. With family close, we should have had a legitimate shot with Darius Hamilton, with Stefon Diggs, a better shot with Jones ... and look at Clemson's recruiting class .. CLEMSON -- an ACC team smack dab in the middle of SEC country .. How does that happen??
Yes -- The coaches do well at coaching 2 and 3 star recruits up -- but what would happen in they were "coaching up" all 3 and 4 (and the occasional 5) stars?
I know that Blacksburg isn't the most glamorous place in the country -- but geez -- our program has to be appealing enough and it is good enough to bypass 2 star recruits .. who are offered 6 months before signing day.
The BCS Nat'l Championship should simply have a slot for an SEC West team on a rotating basis.
you named your dog after a kicker? ;)
I'm not an X's and O's guy when it comes to hoops, but that first half last night was just about the ugliest basketball I have ever seen. Ever.
Maybe its just me remembering the Ricky Stokes era, but personally I do think we should ride the Greenberg train a while longer. The program has come a long way under him. Like somebody else said, with this recruiting class, next year may be the pivotal year.
Why they hell can't we attract any of the big guys for football or basketball?? We are known for a hybrid (aka small and aggressive) defense in football and we never have any solid big guys in the paint for Bball. No, I don't count Jeff Allen as a solid "big guy."
We are ranked number 1 nationwide for on-campus food.... that alone should attract some 7 footers and some nasty 315 pound O Linemen.
I don't get it...
I about shit my pants when I read that. I wonder the same thing too. Where are the stud 5'11 white 3 point shooters that every other team has??? haha
I walked by him on campus a while ago, so what exactly is the reason for him not being on the team this year?
I'm sure it's just part of the bigger problem --lack of offensive identity, poor fundamentals, general cluelessness-- but we don't seem like a tough team, physical team. On the "missed" over the back on Eddie, if he goes up hard and brings the ball down with a little authority, then I think he gets that foul call. We never attack the basket. Most of the time we settle for chucking up three-balls instead of driving, and when we do move down the lane we look indecisive.
Anyways, I'm just going to look at this for a while because it makes me happy.
I think you have to give the staff credit when it comes to evaluating talent. They've proven time and time again they have an eye for diamonds in the rough. You could probably argue as many four-star players washed out as two-stars. Rivals is probably the best recruiting services, but they're not the end all, be all, final say on players. They've been wrong, many times, before. Furthermore, we offered grey shirts to most of the two-star kids.
Beamer's website put out this nugget last week:
That's putting your nose to the grindstone and doing work to find talent.
In the long run more four-star players will mean better things for the program, but don't get bent out of shape of Rivals stars.
/gets off of soapbox
Our last four recruiting classes, we are pulling more out of state players.
Although, I believe what Beamer believes: the focus should be Virginia outward.