Assistant Coaches
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Can we please give it until at least Spring Ball before we start slashing and burning on the new staff?
If you look at the stats, our punter had one pooch punt go into the end zone for a touchback this year. Most of them were inside the 10 and six of them were inside the 5! Your theory of all of them being "boomed" into the endzone is like Bob Uecker once said.....just a bit outside.
My opinion is that we need to give this new staff some leeway. Even if they don't look as impressive on paper, everyone from UTC is coming from a "top 10 FCS program". I get that this is not transferable, but certainly should ease some fears.
Huesman will have the defense ready.
As for the offense, Durden was at JMU when they won their last NC.
Keep in mind that the last coach felt that he took us as far as he could. I have no idea how much of his staff felt the same way, but some fresh attitudes may not be a bad thing.
Huesman will have the defense ready.
As for the offense, Durden was at JMU when they won their last NC.
Keep in mind that the last coach felt that he took us as far as he could. I have no idea how much of his staff felt the same way, but some fresh attitudes may not be a bad thing.
On a positive note, I just saw on the Alabama website that Chattanooga's defense held the Tide to its third lowest point total of this season. Only LSU and Auburn gave up less points. Let's give the new staff a chance.
Any word on who will replace Kotz?Looks like the current UTC is staying
I guess it's only woods and legg staying from what I'm hearing, have you heard the same?
My understanding is that Woods and Legg are staying and there was no spot for Belin at UD or UR (no fault of his own), and everyone else including S&C coach Stewart, and the film guy, have gone to UD.
As to Belin, make him interim basketball coach. It would give him another year to find a job in football.
I asked about Durden on the jmu board and for the most part they really think highly of him. I didn't know he was there when they won their last NC and also when they had they were number 1 almost the whole year in 08. It sounds like Mickey Matthews handcuffed him and didn't let him open up the offense like he should. Their fans said that what he did at UTC is a better gauge of how he really is as an OC because he didn't have a head coach limiting his offense. My only issue is that it sounds like his offense is really slow paced and a takes forever for him to call a play, we need to go fast like we did with Streeter. So I take back what I said earlier, sounds like we're getting a good OC.
He meant at JMU. QB asks QB Coach for play, who asks Durden, who asks Mickey. Mickey removes toothpick and answers. It is passed back up the chain and QB heads to the line with 3 on the play clock...
That would be pretty cool if we give up 16 a game next year and average 38.
That was before I read some more about Durden and heard better stuff. I judge a little too quickly a lot so I'll give these new guys a shot should be interesting to see what happens. However I've said it before and I'll say it again, Huesman is no Rocco.
As someone said earlier, thank God.
Choppin, don't you realize that VT is just setting up the Puke fans so they will be overconfident when we go up there and whip their butts 
I don't think anyone will be beating their butts next year. Idk if y'all heard but they just brought in a transfer from Georgia Tech, their leading rusher from this past season who is a real bruiser. He ran all over VT this and I don't think the CAA defenses will provide much resistance. jmu will likely go u defeated in the league again next year, we could be looking at another NDSU and man would that suck.
Yes I did say that. I think a large part of the success they had at UTC was because of Huesman's son at QB. They weren't that great in the years he wasn't there, just saying.
You'll be regretting that one pretty soon. Idk why you wouldn't want another Rocco. He is an outstanding Head coach and we just lost something great that we had. You fail to see how this wil hurt us greatly.
VT, I appreciate you being a Spider fan, but you are consistently posting statements that your have to walk back the following day. You seem to me to be a very emotional and immature young man. Now you are on the JMU board bashing Huesman. He's a tremendous coach who completely turned around UTC with very little resources. He had a large roll in building the 08 championship team. Rocco is a good coach, but there is a strong argument to be made that Huesman has a much more impressive resume. Oh, and getting a FBS running back doesn't make you NDSU. Stop being so emotional and look at the facts.
I wasn't knocking Huesman I was knocking Durden. Huesman is a good coach but he is not as good as Rocco. He never did anything in the postseason at UTC. Until he surpasses what Rocco did at UR I will not think we upgraded. I hope I am wrong and that my opinion of him changes next year.
Danny Rocco was a very fine coach. The depth of our program should be commended, and he gets credit for that. I can and will rattle off 5 of my favorite Spider games of all time that happened in the past two years, and thank him for those.
But this idolatry as the best coach in UR history, and Huesman/Clawson/London not even being able sniff his jock is ludicrous and ignores the facts.
Rocco's teams were 5-3 in the playoffs.
But this idolatry as the best coach in UR history, and Huesman/Clawson/London not even being able sniff his jock is ludicrous and ignores the facts.
Rocco's teams were 5-3 in the playoffs.
- 2 of those 5 wins were first round home games against MEAC teams. Remember, according to you, VT, MEAC "isn't real FCS football, and they're coached by idiots." Those first round "play-in" games didn't even exist during the prior regimes, so let's discard them so we're comparing apples to apples. I'm going to assume that if Clawson's and London's Spider teams got to play a home MEAC play-in game, they would have won too.
- His teams went 2-1 in the round of 16, including a blowout loss at a Coastal Carolina team that had no business blowing us out. Both London and Clawson went 2-0 in the round of 16. Huesman was DC for 3 of those 4 wins.
- His teams were 1-1 in the quarterfinals. London and Clawson were also 1-1 in the quarterfinals. I may need to check my history, but I don't think either of their teams lost 38-0.
- He was 0-1 in the semifinals, losing to the dynasty defending national champion, just like Clawson. At least Clawson's team was in the game in the second half. Obviously, London was 1-0 in semifinals, and 1-0 in the finals.
- So, in summary, from the round of 16 on - Rocco 3-3, Clawson 3-2, London 5-1. Huesman as DC 7-2.
I would only add that Rocco's 3 playoff teams were all slaughtered in their final game.
2016 VT_Spider vs 2009 Luvsbugs
I tried to make that point.
Yes, Rocco did manage to lose his final games more spectacularly than any coach in Richmond history.
I will agree about the blowout playoff losses. Something doesn't seem right that we got blown out so badly in all three of those losses, especially the Coastal game, there's no way Coastal was that good. In those losses we looked unprepared and like we hadn't played football before. Almost looked like we already decided that our season was over before the game. I guess that reflects on the head coach and in that case that would be Rocco. That is the one thing that I will knock him on.
So that's the one thing you knock him on? Seems like a pretty big thing for your so-called greatest coach ever.
Hopefully when the Rocco statue is unveiled next fall, we can all put this behind us.
I'd like to add that until RH matches or exceeds DR coaching record at Richmond all comments on who the better coaches is should be on hold
I'm 100% rooting form RH but he hasn't won a game yet and Danny did a really good job.
The pressure really is on RH because the talent is there and isn't close to being depleted by any standard and I think we will field a better team next year so from my perspective and from what I'm reading from all of you guys is that if we can't do as well as we did this year at least record wise you like me will be majorly disappointed
Go spiders!
I'm 100% rooting form RH but he hasn't won a game yet and Danny did a really good job.
The pressure really is on RH because the talent is there and isn't close to being depleted by any standard and I think we will field a better team next year so from my perspective and from what I'm reading from all of you guys is that if we can't do as well as we did this year at least record wise you like me will be majorly disappointed
Go spiders!
Marcus Marshall ran for more than 100 yards only twice this year in 11 games (DNP v UNC). That was against VT and UVA (wow, congrats). Besides those 2 games, he ran for less than 40 yards a game on average with 2 total TDs (4 total on the year). So yeah, count me as terrified of this guy.
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I love Huesman, I pretty much loathe Rocco at this point (To the blowout this year, it's easy to say that it was created by Rocco's failure to lead the team while all of the UD negotiation was going on). Nevertheless, I often wonder why none of these guys are being handed the keys to a FBC team. If they really were that good, they would get a shot, and do well in a power conference.
Will his statue be holding the game ball he gave himself?
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