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Thanks for the hard work, JLM. Really eye-opening stuff there. I want to give our coaches the benefit of the doubt, but what are the odds something like this ever happened at VT? I'm pretty sure no one is 100% innocent when it comes to recruiting.

3. if the o-line doesnt come around then vt should have 2 openings

Newsome went to coaching the entire offensive line and recruiting the 757 to splitting both duties with Stiney. Stiney has a lot of history as an offensive line coach, I have to wonder if Beamer is positioning for more moves next season is certain coaches don't step up.

Just my thoughts in ranked order of my deemed importance/impact:

1. Shane and
2. Cornell, great moves, get them in anyway you can for obvious reasons
3. Splitting O-line duties: maybe more coaching will finally get this train in gear it's been the weak link too long, not the playcalling IMHO
4. Stinespring/O'Cain: Seems to me like a window dressing reorg that you see in corporate America all the time with no real expected tangible results other than to try something different and to say that you tried. Which is not a bad thing, you need to at least try. But to me our playcalling won't really improve
5. Stiney at the beach, good but cancelled out by Cav disgruntledness
6. Shane as Assistant Coach and its impact on the annual Bud Foster leaving watch
7. I like the realignment on the Defensive coaching side

Beamer said in his interview with KT that we need more screens, and I am glad that they are thinking like that. I am a fan of thoughtful systematic change.

I have been reading about all these changes and I can see that there are a lot of mixed emotions among us Hokie faithful. My take on these changes is that its been past time to make them, alot of these should have came right about 2003, thats when we would start out hot and dive the last 4 games of the year. There were alot of 8-4 years after we played for a national title. I personally think we are gettin back to the basics of Hokie football, great special teams, a lockdown defense and a pretty good offense. Our teams of the past would have never lost to JMU or anybody even close to that, theres a few games that were a little to close for comfort along the way as well, against subpar competiton. Also our national title team rarely lost to top 10/ top 5 oppenents now we didnt beat them all but we did win the big games that we needed to, except the natl title game, and 2001 against miami. But we showed up in those games, scored some points and shut down some pretty damn good offenses along the way as well. I am excited for these changes, as all of you should be. It is time to stop bottom feeding and getting beat by the sec and everybody else, its time for the Hokies to put the ACC back in the top echelon of college football. Its time to get back to Beamerball, and scoring points on D, blocking kicks like crazy and making noise in the top 5 and in the BCS. Its time for the Lunchpail, its time to fear the Hokies....!

"I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin." -Neo

This isn't a pro O'Cain rant by any means. However, this excuse of why fire stinespring after his most productive season is a bit silly. Did no one remember the atastrophe's from the years following up to this. Tyrod was a senior, had a stable of RB's, mediocre line, and experienced receivers this last year. it wasn't until half way through he realized Danny Coale could get open on a slant and that every 3rd and short need not to be a draw. The team as a whole broke down with the JMU and Stanford losses. Coaches were at the top of the debacle so I don't pinpoint anyone in particular but in the Stanford loss we couldnt get any TD's in the second half. Even a FG? Many of our wins came after the half. Thank Stiney all you want for adjustments but credit is namely due to getting into a rhythm and feeding off turnovers. To his credit outside of gamedays the man is hands down our best recruiter in one of the best pipelines in the country, va beach area. Will Mike cause our O to explode? probably not. As a QB coach he's been decent. Maybe a B grade. Tyrod, with all that talent, could have been stellar but we're not here to coulda, woulda, shoulda like everyone else. I just think Stiney worked more with what he thought the QB and O as a whole could handle versus challenging them with a winning gameplan. Chalk full of adjustments and diversity. Let's just see how year one as OC goes with greenhorn LT goes before we clamor against him. There'll be hiccupps i'm sure.

FireBryanStinespring frequently makes me want to dropkick kittens.

Still LAWLing 40 minutes later after reading that.

As the BF said, if we really wanted a new OC, we should've called up Kevin Rogers before BC got to him. This decision is a half-step... I haven't decided if it's a half-step back, or a half-step forward.

Well I think the problem with that is Beamer didn't have another coach to "elevate". In all likelihood the trade would have been Rogers for O'Cain. My guess is Beamer didn't want to sacrifice all the work Logan and O'Cain have put in. However if this turns out to be a beautiful disaster the Fridge will be out there next year.

I'm not sure if O'Cain is going to be our answer...but (and I may be wrong and I may deserve to be slapped with an "I Told You So" later) I think Stiney needed to go. I didn't jump on the fire Stinespring bandwagon right away either. He had an AMAZING offense (despite the O-line's weaknesses) to work with this year and disappointed me time after time with his calls. (ESP during the Boise St game). No the Boise St. loss was not only his fault, but he disappointed me during about every game the entire season. I'm not sure what play book he's been reading from for 3rd and long plays...hell most of his 3rd and SHORT play calls...but he needs a new one. Some change needed to happen and I'm happy to hear about this one. And this is what a lot of us have been asking for so no complaining about that this season.

Ultimately ... only time will tell.

I think the Hokies had a successful season...despite Stinespring's sub-par performance calling plays. And I think that Mike and TT had a lot to do with that and deserve the credit.

"his recruiting capability isnt more valuable than his coaching ability"
Def agree here.

this seems like a backup plan once fridge fell through, could even be a 1 year holding plan(i'm speculating, no info)

i thought stiney had his best year as an OC last year, and i had fallen off the fire stiney bandwagon. however he is our ace recruiter and this allows him to focus on bringing the best talent to blacksburg.

i'm not a big o'cain fan after the whole sean glennon debacle, but he help turn tyrod into one of the greatest hokie qbs

i really thought with hite leaving it would allow stiney to open up the offense, with o'cain i don't see this happening.

going to be an interesting spring and fall

Year	Rank	Name	Games	Plays	Yds	Avg	TDs	Ydspgm	Wins	Losses	Ties
2004	110	Clemson	11	735	3252	 4.42	27	 295.64	6	5	0
2000	58	UNC	11	791	4082	 5.16	31	 371.09	6	5	0

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