Of our last five HCs, the most successful had been HC at Navy and a coordinator at Penn State. The next was a HC at Wake and the New York Jets, with coordinator experience under Belichick and Parcells (UNC, too, I think). After that was someone with HC experience at BYU, where he was also a coordinator. Then there was the guy who had been a D-IAA (FCS) HC, with coordinator experience at UVa. Now there’s this guy, who had never been a head man, and only a few years as a coordinator at Clemson.
History seems to tell us, go get a guy who’s been a D-1 (FBS) head coach with coordinator experience at a P5 or highly thought-of indy or NFL squad.
I saw Austin Nichols with Jeff Jones the Younger in Boylan the night before the former was booted off the hoops squad. Moral of the story: Nothing good happens at Boylan Heights.
2001 — Spinner and Schaub split starts (think it was 7 to 4 — Schaub to Spinner)
2002 — Schaub started the Colo St game (3rd hottest game I’ve ever been to — USC in 2008 and at So Miss in 2009 only hotter ones), and Hagans finished it. Hagans got the start vs. FSU and Schaub cleaned it up and started the rest of the year.
2003 — Schaub got hurt in the Duke game. AMart started at South Carolina (Troy Williamson 99 yards on the play Willie Davis’ career ended — bad day in Cola). Hagans got the nod vs. directional Michigan, then back to Schaub when he returned from injury.
Forgot about the Vic Hall experiment, I remember we used him for some wildcat sets in 2008 against VT and it helped us build an early lead. Bud caught on pretty quickly though and we were shut down the rest of the game.
Honestly I wonder what happens if we started Vic out as a QB from the start. Yeah he was tiny and probably would’ve had trouble seeing over DLines, but he was dynamic and one of the most productive HS Quarterbacks in Virginia state history. Would’ve been a nice change from Verica and Lalich who were inaccurate statues in the pocket or Sewell who was fine but unspectacular (save for the Miami game in 2007 when he looked like a future pro).
During that time I always said the Hoos QB was playing DB. Hall was a few yrs behind me at a rival HS so I saw a lot of film on him and saw him live. Dude was an athlete and absolutely could have started at QB for the Hoos and given them a spark. Even the Hoocat stuff they ran was halfassed and never committed too. Felt like a missed opportunity
They had the Gregg Brandon spread offense for the W&M game. And scrapped it with the L. Came out against Southern Miss with playaction and Sewell hit Tim Smith for a long TD on the first play. Believe we blew a 21-point lead that day in Hattiesburg.
Yup yup it’s all coming back to me now. I really tried to block the Sewell years from my memory. Him Lalich and and Verica were brutally frustrating to watch.
For some reason I thought Muskett was a grad transfer and had graduated early from Monmouth. Don’t know why I thought that. But he mentioned on Coach’s Corner tonight that he had a bunch of his credits taken from him for his major strongly implying he doesn’t have a degree. So he has a Covid year of eligibility left, right? Which I assume he would take. If so, maybe all the folks touting that Colandrea may transfer might actually (hopefully not) be onto something if he is going to sit for another year next fall.
Folks here talking that schools won’t “back up the truck” for AC, meaning he hasn’t done enough to earn the eye-popping NIL payday as part of a transfer deal. But that doesn’t matter, because a B1G or SEC or even top-half ACC program can just offer him whatever their “program standard” package is for a scholarship QB and are we really willing to bet that alone won’t be attractive compared to what he gets now?
Flip side if AC can’t beat out a D1A transfer om a 1-11 team for a job how good is he? And what are the chances he earns a job elsewhere at a P5 nonetheless.
