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First you stick it, then you kick it
Yeah, I don't really like it either. Doesn't really add to anything, and annoys me for some reason. Nothing personal.
Yeah, I've seen this over there as well (I have a guilty pleasure of cruising over there from time to time as it can be quite entertaining). It's an impossible way to build a program. You can find immediate success and create some great seasons, but the variables are so ridiculous... you're always chasing, always working on team cohesiveness. It puts an incredible amount of extra work on the staff.
I understand these types of things exist regardless, but when you completely ignore high school recruiting (what UVA does to a large extent) and rebuild your roster every single year with the portal I think you're playing with fire. Additionally, how long will donors continue to purchase a $20+ Million to have moderate success (that is what making it to the ACCCG and losing to Duke is)?
Sorry, but no. It's gotten creepy at this point. Hope I can skip over it quickly all creeped out many more times, though.
There is nothing wrong with agile, the issue is all the poor implementations that miss the point it was designed to fix and now you have more issues, but velocity is up so who cares.
🤞 Here's hoping there is cause to continue deploying it frequently. 🤞
if you recruit out of high school well, develop well, and are good at retention
But how many programs have the resources, infrastructure, and coaching expertise to do all three of those things?
Trading consistency, cohesiveness and money for developed players with limited eligibility.
The rationalization on the penn state forums is quite entertaining as well.... schadenfreude Is my pal.
Shot blocker is much needed.
Love it!
Kick it in! Kick it in!
There's been an interesting debate going on for the last month over on the Sabre.
While they all admit their HS recruiting has been shit, most are trying to justify by saying that's an outdated model and the Hoo's are part of the new wave of building by portal.
There is a small group that continues to try and point out the fallacies of this approach, but they are definitely outnumbered.
As a father to a collegiate kicker, cannot stress this enough on how this can impact the kicking operations. A really good holder not only brings the consistency of bringing the ball down for the kick, they also can grab a bad snap and make it a good hold too.
Kicking operations is a real thing and is practiced with motion, repetition, and a stop watch.
Well he'll have a handful of kickoff tackles a game since we'll be scoring so much.
Now my favorite team has more than one "Ex" too. As if I didn't identify with Hokie Football enough already.
BRUUUUUUUUUCE!!
OK, I'll go way back - Jim Kelly of Miami.
You know what they say, Missouri loves company
I have been burned before (not necessarily by this coach or team). 😭
Speed cures all ills
FFS! Every time you think Stu Holt couldn't possibly be worse as an ST coordinator you come across an anecdote like this and are proven wrong.
Yes actually. He was adamant on who the holder had to be and that screwed up timing and the smoothness of the whole kicking operation. Go back and break down the film. In years past Peter Moore was the holder, whereas this year Veltsistas was and just like his punts he was slow to get the ball down. So yes that was on Stu, he made that decision.
Sure.
But I still remember the rationalizations for keeping FSU out, though they were conference champions and undefeated.
This year proves that playoffs can still happen without Alabama and Ohio State in the semifinals. It'll be hard, but we can shoulder on.
The only time this Raider has ever been happy to see a Tiger.
Regardless, we never played Roethlisberger. The link I posted is his college game log. Never played Virginia Tech. We faced Miami(OH) only once in 1997 and lost. QB for that game was Sam Ricketts. They beat us on a blocked punt for a TD and we couldn't hold onto the ball with two fumbles.