Ryan4VT 4,554 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 VT just announced Fuente as the new head coach at VT. Welcome home!!! Slam dunk hire for Whit again, it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurricaneWarning 212 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 We'll have to wait and see.... I'd have waited and went after Richt myself. Canes00 and Bearcat Bob 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 We'll have to wait and see.... I'd have waited and went after Richt myself. There is one University in the Commonwealth that has a head coaching vacancy... dshreeves and HurricaneWarning 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 Richt would have been a great hire but you dont want to wait and potentially miss out on both. I like the hire. Young guy with a successful spread offense, which Tech seems to want to do but has yet to succeed at. Richt and Foster would have been one hell of a duo Ryan4VT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 Just watched the presser announcing Fuente...impressed. Ryan4VT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker 82 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 Will be interested to see the rest of the staff. I hope Gray and Wiles stay around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixcat 2,919 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 Just watched the presser announcing Fuente...impressed. I watched it also. I am not a VT fan but follow because of my wife. I can't figure out if I am more impressed with Whit Babcock or Fuente. Babcock seems like one of those guys everyone gravitates toward. He seems to understand short term "splash" may get headlines but success is built over time. He could have gone after guys like Richt but, would the program be better for it in the long term? My guess is, no. Fuente didn't give me the impression that the moment was too big for him. He was self-deprecating and funny, yet, grounded in his family and in the knowledge that he can't tread water by moving away from the past 29 years of VT football. That is a combination that will suit him well in SWVA, I would think. It also sounded like several other Memphis assistants will be coming over after the bowl game. If Brad Cornelsen is one of them, VT will have two assistant coaches that are beloved if Foster stays. Ryan4VT and GMan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 (1) Can Fuente replicate his offensive success in the ACC, which takes defense seriously? (2) Can Fuente recruit the talent needed to push VT into the Clemson/FSU territory? (3) Can he avoid friction with Shane and Bud, especially Bud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixcat 2,919 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 (1) Can Fuente replicate his offensive success in the ACC, which takes defense seriously? (2) Can Fuente recruit the talent needed to push VT into the Clemson/FSU territory? (3) Can he avoid friction with Shane and Bud, especially Bud? Just my unbiased opinion....... (1) Can it really be worse than it has over the past decade? (2) Recruiting is overrated to a certain degree. Major college programs need talent to compete at the highest levels but part of that talent is developing what you have. That is what got Beamer and company to the peaks of the program in the late 90's and early 00's. Player development is far more important in my opinion. (3) I heard them speak of Bud staying but I didn't hear anything at the press conference about Shane, or did I miss something? This could be a huge positive for the program giving stability to the change of leadership or a huge negative distraction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 (1) Can Fuente replicate his offensive success in the ACC, which takes defense seriously? (2) Can Fuente recruit the talent needed to push VT into the Clemson/FSU territory? (3) Can he avoid friction with Shane and Bud, especially Bud? (1) If VT could have success in the ACC with the $hitty offense they've had for the past 10 years, I think Fuente's offense will be fine...especially with Bud's D... (2) I think VT will make a move back into the VA talent pool with this hire... (3) Shane won't be part of the coaching staff. Pretty certain he will be taking on another role... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 Good story from Will Stewart... Bud got on a plane to meet a prospective head coach ... ... but wasn't told who it was until he was halfway there.It was an amusing story. Bud said Whit put him on a plane to go meet a prospective head coach, and they didn't even tell Bud who it was until they were halfway there."I thought they were going to blindfold me and spin me around 3 times," Bud joked.He met behind closed doors with Fuente for an hour and a half. Whit was there, too, but Whit said he stayed outside and just let the two of them meet and talk by themselves.Bud wouldn't say where this meeting was, or what day it was.Great stuff. Cloak and dagger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 Now that Richt is available part of me is second guessing the Fuente decision. Richt is by all accounts a great guy, who has some history with Bud(the way I understand it Bud almost left VT to work for Richt at UGA), has recruiting ties to GA(a loaded state) and has had success in the SEC(how many people can say that?). Then I think about what I really want for VT, I want Beamer 2. I want a young coach, who has been around a little, is a good man, is likable and will bring continued stability to the Hokie program and who may just be in Blacksburg for the next 15+ years. I want to be competitive every year, win the Coastal division every other year, win the ACC every few years and get into the playoffs(with a chance at a national title). What I dont want fot Tech is to get into the big school football rat race where a HC is determined only for what he can do in terms of Ws/Ls, where the HC has 3-4 years to deliver then hes gone, where VT is recruiting the majority of the team from FL, TX and CA(the program was built on VA players and I want it to stay that way, VA based and supplemented with players from the East Coast), where VT puts up with outrageous behavior in an embarrassing quest for national titles. Maybe Fuente is that and can do that, and maybe he isint but I feel that he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHS03 99 Report Share Posted November 30, 2015 Dat buyout doe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 ...where VT puts up with outrageous behavior in an embarrassing quest for national titles... Which was Virginia Tech embodied in so few words from 1993-2007... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 C'mon man, it's not like they killed the President...they were good boys, just a little misunderstood... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan4VT 4,554 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 Mister misunderstood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityofRaven 2,444 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 C'mon man, it's not like they killed the President...they were good boys, just a little misunderstood... "Earl... Are my boys too much trouble for you?" - Frank Beamer "No, Coach. They're just kids." - Earl sixcat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixcat 2,919 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 "Earl... Are my boys too much trouble for you?" - Frank Beamer "No, Coach. They're just kids." - Earl Can't go wrong with a well timed Varsity Blues reference! cityofRaven and 1inStripes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtiger 1,740 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Which was Virginia Tech embodied in so few words from 1993-2007... They werent that bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 They werent that bad If the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice is ripping your athletics department, it's that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan4VT 4,554 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 VT lands the number 1 JUCO QB in the nation. HUGE signing by Fuente. Massive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenwave17 13 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 Watched his highlight films and shew I can't wait to see what fuente can do with hin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Account 5,203 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 VT lands the number 1 JUCO QB in the nation. HUGE signing by Fuente. Massive. Offers from Missouri and Nevada. Yep, next John Elway. FWIW, you have 2 better QBs on your roster... Canes00 and RCITYHOO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EH31 2,518 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 Offers from Missouri and Nevada. Yep, next John Elway. FWIW, you have 2 better QBs on your roster... LOL That's exactly what I thought when I seen the article about him signing. expectations sure are high for a first year power 5 coach in Hokieland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan4VT 4,554 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 My expectation next year is 7-5. That seems about right for the talent we currently have. Don't listen to the idiot fans. In regards to Evans, we will see how good he is very quickly, he'll have to beat Lawson. And please for the love of god don't let Motley anywhere near a football. Chappy and WaveFan09 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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