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Jethro Tull

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Regression during his tenure is the puzzle to me


I remember that first season here. I wasn't particularly impressed with his coaching abilities at all and was particularly confounded by slow starts and when the team finally got going it was already down in the score. As we did in the bowl game (CJF only bowl win at VT) and at ND, we came back to win. My thinking at the time was that, wow, maybe we had really found a coach who could do the right things at the right time to win football games (particularly close ones).

Since then the regression has started and suddenly we can't win the close ones. Not only are we not coming back from behind to win games, we aren't even protecting leads we have in those close games either (bowl game with Kentucky rings a bill here). And, inexplicably, there is the occasional really embarrassing blowout (Duke 45-10 at Lane), And Blacksburg is no longer a feared place to play.

But the biggest negative for me, and the most unforgivable one, was the dalliance with Baylor which was a clear indication he did not want to stay in Blacksburg and coach our beloved Hokies. Sadly, Baylor didn't hire him, apparently got the right guy with their search, and we are left with a coach that no major program is going to want to touch.

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Posted: 10/21/2021 at 08:05AM



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Current Thread:
  Regression during his tenure is the puzzle to me -- Jethro Tull 10/21/2021 08:05AM
  Proves it isn't a good fit -- Jethro Tull 10/21/2021 10:04AM
  EVERY coach is about the money. Get real ** -- fordham 10/21/2021 10:20AM
  Not true -- Jethro Tull 10/21/2021 11:16AM
  YOU"RE the one that needs to get real dude ** -- OldRetiredHokie 10/21/2021 10:22AM
  Dude I am real. Go fire somebody ** -- fordham 10/21/2021 10:29AM
  Give me a name ** -- OldRetiredHokie 10/21/2021 12:35PM
  ;) ** -- OrangeHokieFan 10/21/2021 1:57PM
  Transfer portal ** -- 83Hokie 10/21/2021 08:25AM
  And poor recruiting. -- HokieJay 10/21/2021 2:06PM
  Not talking players, talking coaching decisions -- Jethro Tull 10/21/2021 08:47AM
  Temple 98 was bad but ODU 2018 was worse for me -- HokiePokie95 10/20/2021 11:03PM
  We went to the natty the year after Temple loss and -- HokiePokie95 10/21/2021 10:23AM
  Worse than the Wake Forest 0-0 in 2014? ** -- MCL3 Hokie 10/21/2021 09:12AM
  Yes losing to ODU was worse. ** -- GreenvilleVT 10/21/2021 09:16AM
  Agree ** -- OldRetiredHokie 10/21/2021 09:23AM
  I was just about to post the same thing. -- Jeffroww 10/21/2021 07:35AM
  Absolutely ** -- OldRetiredHokie 10/21/2021 12:11AM

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