Curt Newsome ends up back at James Madison
The worst-kept secret in coaching changes was quietly announced last weekend: former Hokies offensive line coach Curt Newsome has returned to James Madison. His first official day back was last Friday.
He’ll be the Dukes’ assistant head coach and offensive line coach for Mickey Matthews. Newsome, who spent seven years at Virginia Tech, previously worked at James Madison from 1999-2005 and was a member of the staff that won the 2004 Division I-AA National Championship.
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He has 14 years of college coaching experience, having spent time before that as a high school coach at Phoebus, Ervinton, Kecoughton and Heritage.
Newsome was replaced at Virginia Tech by Jeff Grimes last month as part of an overhaul to the Hokies’ offensive staff.
February 18, 2013 - 5:46 PM
Well, good luck, I guess.
Sad that another program will suffer with continued poor coaching. After watching the VA Tech O-line struggle for the last 7 years…I cant really believe JMU is all that excited about getting Newsome back. Fortunately, they didn’t get much dirt on the Tech playbook. All three o-line calls Newsome was making, you know block forward, block right, block left. Congrats JMU!!! You got a keeper there. For everyone’s sake, make sure you keep him there this time!
I figure the man did his best on the job and should be thanked for his work and wished well in his future. He moves in a complicated world.
What A LOSER!!!!
Haha
Well, as a few of the previous poster wish him good luck, I do not wish him anything, but I also find him the main cause of VTs offensive problems the past few years. He may have done well in high school, where he should be again, and he is a prime example of the Peter Principal where you rise to your level of incompetence. Curt rose way above it !!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with Tony
Frank Beamer is the ‘dude’ that kept Curt Newsome around for seven years.
Was Newsome supposed to resign because fans were displeased with his performance ? Same goes for Stinespring, O’Cain and all of the other offensive gurus who never could get the team headed in the right direction. The offense has always been the responsibility of ole Fancy Gap and he deserves to be held accountable for the recent eight year ‘comedy of errors’.
Yes, significant changes in staff have now been made, but the transition took way to long for a guy who is obviously not the best decision maker in the arena of college football.
“What a loser!” Spoken by a true Offensive Line football coach! Oh sorry- I meant, spoken by a true coach, at any level. Oh? Sorry, I meant, professional football player. Darn, I meant an actual football player! Wait, you didn’t even play pee wee? So, you’re a fan. Got it.
I don’t comment too much here, but it just gets annoying as hell when people make negative comments on blogs to basically make themselves feel better. I DID play offensive line in HS so I think I know a little about it. I wasn’t good enough beyond that so I played club at VT. I know enough that the players AND coaches at VT are pretty good at what they do. Lots of things impact success or failure, but these guys all bust their asses. My prediction? JMU remains one of the top IAA teams with strong O line play. Let’s see what happens in the fall.
#3 Perch, I don’t think he did well at all. I think he was incompetent as a coach, and underperformed as the recruiting genius he was touted. No thanks coming from me, since his lack of ability is part – along with Stinespring’s incompetence & Beamer’s apathy – of the reason we produced so many lackluster offenses.
If the best of his abilities resulted in a grade of D or F, would you praise him? Because that’s what you’re proposing. The only reason Frank hired him was to keep him from being hired by UVa. Bad move on Frank’s part. We’d done much better if Frank hadn’t knee jerked, and instead let AlGroh, then London deal with him.
The responsibility and success (or failure) of a D1 coaching staff is that of the HEAD COACH, I don’t see the reasons for bashing his assistant coaches, HIS team, HIS coaches. Put the blame where it belongs people…..
This message board continues to have disrespectful people write their negative and distasteful comments and I’m sure are not indigitive of the Hokie nation as a whole. I wish the best for Newsome and believe he did the best he could for VT, which some of us believe were not good enough. That being said, be well Curt and be successful and best of everything to you and your family. Everyone moves on.
Harvey for the Carolina coast
Good Luck fellow E&H grad…Good recruiter and a fine man…Go Wasps
Best of luck to a good person.
The high school in Southwest Virginia was Ervinton, there is no g in the name.
Newsome is gone from Virginia Tech and that is some of the best news since he arrived there. He was, and is, at best a high school coach, as other Tony said. He was in over his head at Tech, he did not have the ability to coach at that level, and his time there proved that. Our o-lines got worst while he was there, to the point that the lines were often terrible.
As said by other here, it is a good thing that he is gone.
Perch, well said. I think our offensive woes were a combination of things and certainly not just the offensive line play although it MAY have been more of a contributor to our poor running performance this year. Still, having watched the games I saw running backs that were either not fast enough, big enough and certainly lacked the ability to break tackles. The offensive line can’t be held accountable for running backs that refuse to run north-south or even attempt it. The one thing I remember Billy Hite constantly preaching (in the media where his players could see it too), was running north-south. Seems like Shane Beamer could take a few notes in this area. We may be fans, but we know what we hear and we know what we see.
There were plenty of reasons to be disappointed with this season, but running backs, QB, receivers AND offensive line all share equally in the blame along with their coaches. Pretty sure they all recognize that as well.
As for Newsome I don’t agree with the vitriolic comments after a coach has left. Wish him well in the future and hope whatever it is he couldn’t do the new guy can.
and this is why im glad im not a tech fan. blame it all on curt newsome, good idea. you people (not everyone) that come on here with zero clue and i mean zero. you are fans and “you know what you hear and you know what you see” and those points clearly mark why you are fans, not football educated coaches. we should open discussion to how bad some of you suck at your jobs, oh wait. nobody knows or cares who you are!! stop hating, it makes your school look bad.
Why are so many on here so mean spirited? Newsome, Sherman and O’Cain were part of the best 7 years of hokie football ever. They had one bad year and they paid for it. They took all the blame for last year so why all the hate after they have left? I for one will be sitting back and watching what happens over the next 7 years and saying “I told you so” when they are not as productive.
I understand his firing is the reason Williams has decommitted from VT and opened up his recruiting. Also leaving Hampton for Phoebus?
Good Lord! I certainly hope any new “prospects” don’t read all the negativity most of you “Hokie Nation” blowhards post on here.Why would a young man even want to consider playing at this Un-university having to contend with this holier than thou crap from you? I applaud all of you that wish any coach luck in their new positions wherever thay go. Get real and direct your negative posts to the one, and only one person who has control of it all…namely HC Fancy Gap Beamer, a god in your own pathetic minds only. As the old saying goes, the buck stops there, and ONLY there.
It’s all good!
Sounds like Williams says he’s committed but opening his recruitment, which seems like the very definition of contradictory. Let’s just say his recruitment is far from done.
Tee, did you watch the same games that i did ??????????????
Well said, REDWOLF…..
Jbird – You know what I saw while Newsome was at VT? The O-line sucked and that’s all I need to see so you can come down from your pedestal now
Ancient pussycat- If Newsome had been at UVA all this time your team would be even worse than they’ve been if that’s even possible and you’d be saying the same things VT fans are
A problem of Frank Beamers is living and dying in the state of Virginia with his recruiting. There are other states with talent out there but even if Beamer had made up his mind that he absolutely had to own the state then he should’ve gotten himself a qualified coach that could recruit on his accomplishments and resume instead of relationships alone
Oh forgot to mention that he’s got one of those coaches now in Grimes
Couldn’t have been too bad. Back to Back seasons that Hokie rbs set freshmen rushing records. JMU won its national championship thanks to strong line play (especially in the championship game). JMU is lucky to have Newsome back!
Yeah Doug but it was around the ends mostly. and poor in the redzone. We’ve had decent OTs that could seal the edge and Coale and Boykin were blocking machines. 2/5ths of the O-line has been acceptable and that’s not enough
Best wishes to Coach Newsome as well as Coaches Sherman and O’Caine. Fine people who represented Tech well.
Dear Jerry, so anyone who says something that the Chokie Nation disagrees with, thay are a wahoo? Sorry dude, My teams are not even in the loser Almost Competent Competition conference, and it certainly wouldn’t be VT, loser!
Then why do you care? VT doesn’t even have a rival outside the ACC. Get a life
Oh Jerry, there are no rivals within the ACC, no team is good enough with exception to Clemson and possibly FSU and Miami. Neither Virginia teams can barely comptete within their divisions, much less the conference. The point I was getting across is stop lamblasting the assistants and have the HC, the Mighty Quinn Beamer, be held accountable for his actions, or rather non-actions for the demise of a decent team to a lower tier one. I have a life, but apparently you don’t if all you have to do is come on this blog and bad mouth a coach who did only what he was ordered to do. As I said before, the buck stops at Beamer, or are you as senile he is not to understand that? I have roots in the area there and I do care, but not for all the “expert” posts such as yours. I doubt you ever played the game of football, just another armchair qb. Have a nice day.
1)VT has won the ACC in most years they’ve been in it or at least half of them. I’m not really sure of the numbers and I don’t want to look them up
2)This is a VT blog and you are apparently not a VT fan or a fan of a rival so I’m questioning why you’re here. If you worked under Beamer then I know for a fact he gave you more than enough chances to prove yourself. If you were a walk-on tryout and didn’t make the team then you sucked because it’s well known that VT gives walk-ons a fair shake. If you were denied admission into the school it’s because you didn’t deserve it. You’re the one looking like a fool here