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Maggard from ULL? and Jones from SMU? There's a lot of Jones' out there

Sounds like Smatesk botched this all around

I wish. Can't find that stuff anywhere

Depending on how much money I want to spend: Old Grand Dad Bonded or Balcones Single Malt

So you're saying we should blame @TheReal_jayD for the radio silence?

Out of all the coordinators he's the one I'd be most okay with. He can damn sure call an offense, and he has experience recruiting at the G5 level, granted it's a private school, but I'd imagine he'd take a lot of the stuff he learned from Dykes and apply it here.

I thought Graham would be a good fit simply for his QB coaching ability. Although at this point I'm thinking more about him coasting in the second half so many times after being up 3 scores. He could be great, but I'd like to see him get some HC experience first.

I agree. I'm sure not having an AD is making it more difficult. Only reason I could imagine it taking so long is some interesting names entered late and they're vetting everyone. Either way every day they wait to announce is another day we lose in recruiting

Maybe Bennett will rally the troops, but I'm not hopeful. Still the same staff that got blown out by UNLV, SMU, and Memphis. Boise is an even better program than any of those.

I live within walking distance of the stadium and could care less. Just another blowout OOC loss

It's definitely Carthel. 100% guaranteed.

I think some journalists that are actually paying a little more attention are starting to understand that not only did we not win, but we were absolutely smoked in every single one

In the past Seth signed the majority of his class in the early period if I remember correctly

Goodbye early signing period if this is true. Better hire a guy that can recruit his ass off between now and February

GMG twitter also tweeted out #fUeNTe WE NEED ANSWERS

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the input. You seem to be in the minority about Fuente from what I've seen of other VT fans. A lot of people are saying he left the cupboard bare and really floundered the last couple of years. Outside of the difficulty of following someone like Beamer and expectations, what went wrong? Personnel? Game Planning? Bad Coaching hires?

Why do I feel like the people clamoring for Carthel also wanted to keep Chico after McCarney was fired?

I think the assumption is that Fuente is pretty much locked in and the guys he's picking are gonna be exciting names. @TheReal_jayD might need to clarify since he's the one that mentioned it

Yes and Qualon Farrar and Keith Smith. His point was that we haven't consistently recruited these places and several coaches from that area told him as much

And Jeff Traylor was just a RB coach at Arkansas I'm becoming more and more intrigued with Jones. Especially after Gabe Brooks' comments on our lack of effort south of I-20. It's completely inexcusable with the amount of talent that schools like Desoto/SOC/Cedar Hill/Duncanville produce on a yearly basis.

That's what KD did

Seth's old boss at Indiana.

Gillespie and Emmett Jones are the two I'd really want if we went the McGuire/Traylor approach. But I agree. I think they're gonna swing for the fences on this.

I feel like Skip Holtz is just barely better than Seth. Sure he won 7-8 games a year, and won his bowl games more often than not. But he never won the conference championship despite going to three of them. Feels like we need to aspire for more. Maybe it was his lack of resources at LaTech. He had a lot of guys go to the NFL so the development and recruiting piece seems good. Just worry we'd be in a similar position in 5 years if we hired him.

A little proud sure, but they knew the outcome of this year. Maybe a conference championship appearance wasn't in the books, but a blowout loss in the postseason was all but guaranteed based on Littrell's record. Should've been done last year, but glad they had the stones to do it regardless.