tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193007137551439191.post8756875765012602855..comments2023-12-27T18:04:21.987-05:00Comments on From Old Virginia: the replacements: Jim GrobeBrendanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10506945153264825303noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193007137551439191.post-28468394755755933352009-11-19T22:48:03.782-05:002009-11-19T22:48:03.782-05:00My recollection of 2002 was that Schaub won the jo...My recollection of 2002 was that Schaub won the job....until the 4th qtr of ColoSt (1st game), when he went with Hagans, who then started the next game, with Schaub eventually winning the job FT for the next year and a half (I think there was an injury-induced Anthony Martinez sighting too, but I won't count that).<br /><br />To me, giving a new starter 3 quarters (or 2 quarters in the case of McCabe) isn't giving the starter a real shot - it's a sign that the HC can't decide. We also saw this again this year, with 3 different QBS in the first game.<br /><br />I'd also argue that while losing Lalich wasn't Groh's fault, a technically good coach will always have a good 'Plan B,' especially if you have 85 scholies to offer. This year's results show that we clearly don't have a Plan B, and it would be worse if Sewell hadn't been re-admitted.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10111261251379767528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193007137551439191.post-54523652224626293592009-11-19T09:28:25.227-05:002009-11-19T09:28:25.227-05:00I don't really agree about the quarterbacks. ...I don't really agree about the quarterbacks. He did go back and forth between Schaub and Spinner, but neither was all that good in 2001. Once Hagans was given the job and then fumbled it away in 2002, Schaub had two solid years. Then Hagans came in and had two solid, uninterrupted years of his own where there was no vacillating.<br /><br />In 2006, once McCabe and Olsen proved themselves ineffective, Sewell took over and had another two uninterrupted years, and would have had a third if he hadn't been ineligible. At that point Groh pretty definitively handed over the job to Lalich until the rug was pulled out from underneath Groh and Lalich was booted.<br /><br />There's really only been one season under Groh in which the quarterbacks swapped in and out all year for reasons that didn't have anything to do with injury or ineligibility: 2001. Other than that, you can point to a specific guy each year: Schaub '02-'03, Hagans '04-'05, Sewell '06-'07. Lalich would have been the guy last year, but it's not Groh's fault he wasn't around. Groh wanted to keep him. This year, he settled on Sewell, except for when Sewell's been hurt.Brendanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10506945153264825303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7193007137551439191.post-3598448162117215262009-11-18T23:02:40.814-05:002009-11-18T23:02:40.814-05:00I think in the Groh pre-post mortems, most of the ...I think in the Groh pre-post mortems, most of the press is missing the obvious reasons for Groh's downfall: he's not a very good coach to begin with!<br /><br />AG continually makes bad coaching decisions on the critical issues.<br /><br />Case in point, consider how he's always had a hard time locking in on one quarterback. The last 3 years are obvious (from Olsen to McCabe to Sewell to Verica to Lalich to Hall, with several repeats in there), but the same indecision has been present since vacillating among Spinner, Schaub, and Hagans in his early years. (Thank goodness Bill Musgrave was around to speak up for Schaub.)<br /><br />We've seen similar personnel indecision at running back over the years.<br /><br />One other pure coaching areas that we've seen Groh continually have a problem with: clock management.<br /><br />None of these are fatal flaws, but collectively, these decisions explain why his career HC record across now 15 years os 6 games under .500.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10111261251379767528noreply@blogger.com