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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by Blue Dawg View Post
    David Blackwell. Comes to us from 1-11 ODU. They were ranked 46th last year in Total Defense. The year before that, he was at ECU where he posted 101th Total Defense.
    Youeft out the part where ODU was 118th the year before he got there.

    Not a flashy hire, but not a bad one.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by veerbone View Post
    Youeft out the part where ODU was 118th the year before he got there.

    Not a flashy hire, but not a bad one.
    I'm not pessimistic but being a Tech fan has taught me to avoid optimism.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by Blue Dawg View Post
    I'm not pessimistic but being a Tech fan has taught me to avoid optimism.
    IMO, it is so much worse to just be “meh” about it all. But I’m there.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Holtz will be in control. It's always a crap shoot with him. He thinks he is great at EVERYTHING...especially special teams.

    Who will he hire to be his "boy" since Sloan is now his eyes in the sky?

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    You know I understood the general Tech angst under Bicknell, but the hate Holtz gets after a 10 win season kinda puzzles me. Without a poorly timed suspension it could've been 12. It's not flashy or exciting but 10 wins for Tech is pretty good historically. I can remember being excited to be in the Humanitarian Bowl, only to get killed by Clemson. If you told me then we'd have this many consecutive winning seasons and bowl wins, I would've called you a liar.

    But everybody has their opinion. I get it. I just don't understand it.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by veerbone View Post
    You know I understood the general Tech angst under Bicknell, but the hate Holtz gets after a 10 win season kinda puzzles me. Without a poorly timed suspension it could've been 12. It's not flashy or exciting but 10 wins for Tech is pretty good historically. I can remember being excited to be in the Humanitarian Bowl, only to get killed by Clemson. If you told me then we'd have this many consecutive winning seasons and bowl wins, I would've called you a liar.

    But everybody has their opinion. I get it. I just don't understand it.
    Everybody just wants to see Tech football grow into more than just another a middle of the pack G5 football program. Many of us have been around long enough to remember watching all three NFL Hall of Famers grace our field. We've known success intermittently through the decades, but we've never been able to take it to that next level (like Boise St). As for me, I let that dream go a long time ago. We'll never have the resources it would take to get to that next level. Holtz does a great job of maintaining a respectable level of play, even with the worst budget to work with in all of CUSA. We all want more, but we'll never get it. Truth be known, what our football program is accomplishing right now under the leadership of Skip Holtz is probably the best things will ever be for Tech football. You young guys will look back on these times as the good old days.

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    I'd love to see us be a top tier G5 and potential P5 addition, but until we find a way to generate revenue it'll be hard to accomplish.

    I guess what I'm saying is I'm not satisfied, but I'm proud of what we're doing.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    Holtz will be in control. It's always a crap shoot with him. He thinks he is great at EVERYTHING...especially special teams.

    Who will he hire to be his "boy" since Sloan is now his eyes in the sky?
    A crap shoot? I think you can bet heavily on Holtz and it’s easy money.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by veerbone View Post
    the hate Holtz gets after a 10 win season kinda puzzles me.
    "Hate" isn't the right word. We demand our athletic program give its best effort. Regardless of where you want to assign responsibility for the suspensions, the losses at Marshall & UAB did not reflect the football team's best effort.

    When my kid gets a B on a test, that's generally a good thing. But when I know she could've made an A, but didn't because of an incomplete effort, then that B isn't good enough. I might be let down that she didnt do her best, but that's far from 'hate'.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by veerbone View Post
    You know I understood the general Tech angst under Bicknell, but the hate Holtz gets after a 10 win season kinda puzzles me. Without a poorly timed suspension it could've been 12. It's not flashy or exciting but 10 wins for Tech is pretty good historically. I can remember being excited to be in the Humanitarian Bowl, only to get killed by Clemson. If you told me then we'd have this many consecutive winning seasons and bowl wins, I would've called you a liar.

    But everybody has their opinion. I get it. I just don't understand it.
    We should have done better. He is as responsible for losing the game against UAB as Smith was for being a dumb ass. Marshall was a decent team. Not great, but decent. We still should have won.

    He loses games he should win. He does it every year.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cool Hand Clyde View Post
    A crap shoot? I think you can bet heavily on Holtz and it’s easy money.
    Special teams have always been bad and will continue to be bad because he always tinkers with them. You are right though. He is good for 6-9 wins every year with a loss or three coming in games we should win.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    And let's not forget, he's still here.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by JuBru View Post
    And let's not forget, he's still here.
    Yes, we should give him a raise.

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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Did anyone on this board pick us to win 10 games before the season? We had a senior QB returning that none of us had much faith in and a new defensive coordinator who didn't inspire much confidence. We won 10 games, and all of a sudden, it's not good enough. I don't get it. Am I disappointed that we didn't win the conference? Yes. Am I angry at the suspensions? Yes. We had a chance for a truly historic season, and we blew it. But to say we should have done better is a stretch. The media picked us to finish third in the division. Not one of the 26 voters picked us to win. By all measures, given the preseason expectations, we overachieved in 2019.
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    Re: How long does it take to hire a defensive coordinator?

    Quote Originally Posted by theprofessor View Post
    We had a chance for a truly historic season, and we blew it. But to say we should have done better is a stretch.
    If it's a stretch then how did we blow it?

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