OT: Virginia QB Michael Rocco transferring

Except they won in spite of O'Brien

Boo. If you're going to trash talk on behalf of Wisconsin, do it legitimately. They wouldn't have been bowl-eligible if O'Brien started all year at quarterback.

but yeah, it's all about Stave next year anyway.

- One (Moore) is reasonably justified.  Moore was WR coach in the past, didn't do a great job, got shuffled off to TE coach, didn't do a great job either.  Our TEs were sort of marginally decent players who could be better.  They don't block too well, for one, and the only real receiving threat is a threat because of his athleticism, not the coaching.

- One (Faragalli) is sort of an eyebrow raiser, since he coaches a pretty benign position (RBs.)  Whatever the problem this year, it probably wasn't them.  But he's not a big recruiter and only coaches like five players, so what he brought besides OC security blanket (he was London's OC in Richmond) was sort of questionable.

- Two piss me the F off (Reid and Hanson.)  In fact if you had asked me which position coach at UVA was doing the best job, I'd've said Hanson at DE, hands down. UVA's defense was good this year.  Not great, and it had a few off games.  But not just "good for a 4-win team," either.  Legitimately a quality defense.  The offense, and even more so, the special teams, was why we were 4-8.  Going into the season, nobody knew where we were ever going to get a pass rush because we had no real returning talent in that regard, and in the secondary we started three true sophomores (two in their first years of starting) and one true freshman.  And the pass defense was 24th in the country with 6.3 yards allowed per play.  That's awesome.  For as ridiculously raw as our secondary was, that's awesome.  And they fire the defensive coordinator??  That's fucked up.  London, or some meddlesome forces in the administration, fucked up big time.  Hanson had managed to take a guy who we recruited as a safety (a big one, but a safety) and mold him into a passable defensive end who could actually rush the passer.  Reid's defense has done nothing but improve since he got here.

Reid and Moore were decent recruiters as well, but Moore's not-so-good coaching outweighed his recruiting.  Reid did a fantastic job for us in New England.  I think Moore probably had to go, and Faragalli, OK, fine, whatever, but truthfully I would've fired the OL coach first.  So really the one guy who everyone thought would and probably should be fired is still around, and Faragalli instead was the running game fall guy.  The only move I wholeheartedly endorse is taking special teams away from Anthony Poindexter, because I have never seen worse special teams in all my life, anywhere, and I'm a Lions fan.

Shit, that turned into a manifesto.  Don't say I didn't warn you.