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Fran's Game 8 Press Conference | Va Tech

The thing about missing Willis is that he’s really stepped up his blocking. He’s smacking guys. He picked up some blitzes last week that if he didn’t would’ve been real bad.

Hart is next up. Don’t even know what kind of runner he is. Hopefully fast to the hole, has a little wiggle and can block.

How do Ross and Justus step if if they don’t get any targets. I’t be better if Fran said he’s put Spoon and others (like dbacks who can’t tackle) on notice.

Yeah, I don't care about burning the redshirt, but I do care about picking up the blitzes.

Of course, last year VT overwhelmed us with the front 4. They may just do that again and flood the short passes with other 7. We will be dared to beat them deep in one on one coverage. Over and over and over again.
 
Ross did catch five passes versus Pitt. JRS appeared to initially line up in the wrong spot on three different plays.

I know he did I watched the game and 4 of the 5 were garbage time. Literally, 4 catches were in the two last 4Q drives.

if you’re asking a WR to step up then throw him a pass in the 1st Q. Maybe he’s talking about route running or knowing the plays etc idk but it’s bizarre to tell 2 WR to step up when they don’t get targets and the OLine can’t block.
 
Put Villari in as RB2. TBH most defenses could probably tell if it was a run or pass based on who was in the backfield anyway. Or at least know it was more likely a run with Willis
Atleast he’ll steam roll a couple people all you need is 4 yards to be considered a successful run. 4 yds a play and you win the game.
 
Atleast he’ll steam roll a couple people all you need is 4 yards to be considered a successful run. 4 yds a play and you win the game.
Exactly! 4 yards and a cloud of "dust". At least on a few plays, back to the Ben Scwhartzwalder days!
 
Coach Fran has a different tone to his press conference now after that drubbing...
playing for seniors...
we gotta work on some things...
we want to play in a bowl...

I want to be wrong...BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE the DART has a dull point.
 
Coach Fran has a different tone to his press conference now after that drubbing...
playing for seniors...
we gotta work on some things...
we want to play in a bowl...

I want to be wrong...BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE the DART has a dull point.
Not a good representation of what he said. He also said all goals are on the table Inc a conference championship game. Fran was very much focused on VT despite Emily and friends asking about Pitt. I thought it was just like any other Fran press conference to date
 
Coach Fran has a different tone to his press conference now after that drubbing...
playing for seniors...
we gotta work on some things...
we want to play in a bowl...

I want to be wrong...BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE the DART has a dull point.
He also said when a reporter questioned him with the presupposition that the ACCCG was off the table that it was in fact still on the table. Further, that only "weak minded" people say things like that.

He has far from given up.
 
Coach Fran has a different tone to his press conference now after that drubbing...
playing for seniors...
we gotta work on some things...
we want to play in a bowl...

I want to be wrong...BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE the DART has a dull point.

I know this job has beat down a lot of coaches recently, but I didn't get this from yesterday's press conference at all.
 
I don't get why he would be down. 5-2 with a manageable schedule at a school with a very low threshold for success.

I didn't think he was at all. I think he answered the questions perfectly. I didn't agree with the other poster, but I guess people just get used to it and assume it's happening.
 
This comment also tells me a lot.

Im not impressed with our coaches/team out of two consecutive bye weeks. To me that’s a telltale sign that something is wrong. Maybe DART is BS. Maybe in needs more time to be implemented. Maybe Fran and company will figure it out eventually. I know one thing, well coached teams don’t usually come out of the bye and look worse than they did going in.

Am I bailing on Fran year one? No but that is a concern.
 
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