Broderick Snoddy, Tech’s potential game-changer
It’s unclear how much playing time he’ll see Monday, or this season, for that matter, but B-back Broderick Snoddy has made a distinct impression on his position coach.
“Anytime you can get a guy that can change the game in one snap, that’s huge,” quarterbacks and B-backs coach Brian Bohannon said. “Obviously, we’d like to get him in a position where he can help us.”
Snoddy is a redshirt freshman from Carrollton High and possibly the fastest player on the team. He won the state Class AAA 100- and 200-meter dashes as a junior. Snoddy’s track background is partly why Bohannon figured Snoddy would adapt well to B-back, where the back typically runs up the middle on a straight line. Snoddy had worked at A-back before moving to B-back just after the start of fall camp.
“When he gets into the open field, you can hear all the other guys,” Bohannon said. “They’re like, Oh, there he goes. He’s gone.”
What is holding Snoddy back from the field, besides David Sims and Zach Laskey, is familiarity with the position and quarterback Tevin Washington, with whom he has to develop a comfort level in handling the mesh. Bohannon is not concerned about Snoddy’s size, 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds.
“Broderick’s pretty strong, pretty tough, hard to tackle,” Bohannon said. “I’m not necessarily concerned with that as more I am the other aspects of that position, just learning those.”
Primarily, the challenge is learning to block. Snoddy didn’t have to do much of it at Carrollton.
“So we’re going to keep working him and keep grinding him, because definitely the kid can run, no doubt about that,” Bohannon said.
For your latest Virginia Tech reading
Andy Bitter’s blog for the Roanoke Times
Mark Giannotto’s Hokies Journal for the Washington Post
Norm Wood’s ACC All Access blog for the Daily Press (behind a pay wall)
Mike Barber’s blog for the Richmond Times-Dispatch
This is unrelated, but my friend and colleague Rachel Bachman co-wrote an insightful article on Nick Saban’s meticulous recruiting practices at Alabama for the Wall Street Journal.
In case you missed it…
B-backs remain a question mark
Jeff Schultz’s column on Tech’s defense
B-backs still unsettled for Georgia Tech
Recalling the 2000 Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech lightning game
Ready or not, Jabari Hunt-Days to start vs. Hokies
Quayshawn Nealy buying in to Tech defense
Jeremy Moore’s opportunity arrives
Days to play ’somewhere’ for Tech
Thanks for reading.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Supersize that order, mutt
August 29th, 2012
3:58 pm
make that “a year in which the dwags beat a pathetic Notre Dame team….”
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August 29th, 2012
6:05 pm
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GTfan2012
August 29th, 2012
10:14 pm
Marlon Brown is was a 5* recruit at WR for UGA (I use UGA since that is WnE’s team, he’ll understand the example). He has played for 3 years at UGA and has amassed less than 400 career receiving yards. Sounds like a failure at UGA right?!?! Actually I don’t think Marlon Brown is a failure at all. He still has one more year to prove himself. Charles Perkins has only played ONE year (he also RS one year), and he has THREE YEARS left to prove himself. Oh and just FYI, Charles Perkins had 95 rushing yards and 38 receiving yards in his first year at GT. Marlon Brown had 15 receiving yards. So our 3* “failure” of a RB had more RECEIVING yards than UGA’s 5* “failure” of a WR in his first year!
BOOM!! WnE!!! You were just taken to SCHOOL!
A. Bishop
August 29th, 2012
10:53 pm
Just ignore the UGA trolls that has never even set foot on the UGA campus. They disgust me and I am a UGA alumni.
Correct me if I am wrong but wouldn’t you want a fast running back to try to get the edge and not try to run through the congested middle? Just a little confused on that.
A. Bishop
August 29th, 2012
10:55 pm
GTfan2012, I am not sticking up for wne but Brown also had some medical issues if I am not mistaken.
macrotech
August 30th, 2012
12:14 am
4 National Championships seems like a nice thing to hang your hat on….beats a collection of wins that don’t add up to much….just saying. Leather helmet titles?! Did the pups not have a team back then?
1 4 GT
August 30th, 2012
1:29 am
FYI—if you’re interested & can listen.. CPJ will be on 680 AM with Buck (UGH) & Ballew @ 1:00 PM & CFB will be on @ 2:30 PM tomorrow 30/8/2012.
WnE
August 30th, 2012
2:42 am
re:
GTfan2012
August 29th, 2012
10:14 pm
Marlon Brown is was a 5* recruit at WR for UGA (I use UGA since that is WnE’s team, he’ll understand the example). He has played for 3 years at UGA and has amassed less than 400 career receiving yards. Sounds like a failure at UGA right?!?! Actually I don’t think Marlon Brown is a failure at all. He still has one more year to prove himself. Charles Perkins has only played ONE year (he also RS one year), and he has THREE YEARS left to prove himself. Oh and just FYI, Charles Perkins had 95 rushing yards and 38 receiving yards in his first year at GT. Marlon Brown had 15 receiving yards. So our 3* “failure” of a RB had more RECEIVING yards than UGA’s 5* “failure” of a WR in his first year!
BOOM!! WnE!!! You were just taken to SCHOOL!
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The last 2 yrs. Brown has at least been in the rotation, whereas Perkins cannot even crack any significant PT at B-Back and the HC has moved guys from AB (Broddy Snoddy) & QB (D.Sims) in front of Perkins because Perkins cannot cut it.
He’s 3 years out of HS and he started early and had an “extra” spring practice and he still cannot break a weak depth chart at B-back.
Brown has sat behind 2 NFL guys (Green & Durham 1st & 4th round NFL draft picks) with the chance of more NFL draft picks if Tavarres King goes to the NFL.
Perkins is playing behind guys that have NO SHOT at the NFL and he’s still buried on the B-Back dept chart at #4 going into his 3rd yr. out of HS.
Regardless of how many yrs. Perkins has left if he can’t breakthrough after 3 yrs. out of HS then having the extra eligibility won’t mean anything because he isn’t likely to get better as a 5th yr .Sr.
This is a major flaw in the thinking of the GT fanbase (not WnE of course), just because you RS that doesn’t mean you’ll have more talented players, you’ll simply have OLDER, MEDIOCRE players on your roster, if they weren’t talented out of HS .
Wake Forest employs massive RS-ing and what has it done for them?
NOTHING!
I’d rather have more guys like Dwyer, Burnett, D. Morgan, et al that have talent, hoping that RS-ing will work some sort of miracle for GT FB is a fool’s errand.
Only QBs and linemen need to be RS’d, for obvious reasons, if the other positions are recruited properly then guys should be able to come out of HS and contribute in some way.
atl xmen
August 30th, 2012
8:49 am
tech going 11-1 would be an all out miracle…..tech will be underdogs in half ,if not more times than not. your team simply does not have the number of div 1aa talented players to keep up with the rest of the div 1a teams you guys play.
tech didnt do jack against uga last year..the only reason they had that many yards rushing is because they had the ball more often and longer than uga so they had more chances. you get caught up in the number of rushing yards a game tec has but the real number you need to pay attention to is the yards per carry which was pathetic against uga last year..im all for being a good fan but you have to be really drunk on your teams koolaid to think tech will or even could go 11-1 when you dont have the same type player gaily had here the last time tech went 11-1…
GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
9:03 am
WnE, thanks for again outing yourself as a UGA fan. Kris Durhan was cut, so he is no longer an NFL player. Sorry. Also, I remind you again that this so called failure of a RB (seriously, what kind of idiot thinks that someone can’t succeed after 1 year of playing?!?!?) still had more RECEIVING yards in his first year than UGA’s 5* WR had in his first year.
WnE, you are clearly a small-minded thinker that has no appreciation for vision, the bigger picture or strategic thinking. I have no idea what your chosen career is, but I can already see that you aren’t going far in that. You have shown no interest or appitude in people development, so clearly you would make a poor manager. But beyond that, you seem like someone who would be consumed with your own petty thoughts and concerns to the point that you would provide virtually no strategic value to any organization.
GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
9:10 am
Ok, I just realized that Kris Durham hasn’t been cut, YET. But it is likely coming tomorrow. Just like Charles Perkins break out. It is coming. I have a pretty good track record for predicting these things.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
10:56 am
@ atl xmen….. you are full of it. True, Tech didn’t really do that much against the mutts last year, other than yardage. But it was more because Tech didn’t have any defense than anything. The fact of the matter is, Grantham doesn’t have a clue how to stop the Tech offense
GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
11:02 am
And neither does Bud Foster, Super.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
11:08 am
@ GTfan2012……the only team who has effectively and consistently stopped it is Iowa
WnE
August 30th, 2012
11:37 am
re:
GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
9:10 am
Ok, I just realized that Kris Durham hasn’t been cut, YET. But it is likely coming tomorrow. Just like Charles Perkins break out. It is coming. I have a pretty good track record for predicting these things.
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It doesn’t matter IF/when Durham is cut, the bottom line is that he was a 4th round draft choice out of college and that makes him a somewhat decent player on the college level.
There’s no shame being on the depth chart behind a future 4th round NFL Draft Pick, but there is plenty of shame being buried on the depth chart behind a guy that that won’t sniff the NFL, especially when you are called the most important Recruit of CPJ’s short tenure and are projected to be BETTER THAN DWYER coming out of HS (projections were made by the CPJ BLTs not by Wrecks of course).
Marlon Brown was never thought to be “better than AJ Green” out of HS, but then again Green was 1st rounder while Dwyer was a 6th rounder and Allen was a 7th rounder, Sims is much LESS than those two, yet Perkins can’t get a sniff.
Your entire Marlon Brown comparison was very weak in an attempt to find a “gotcha Wrecks” moment.
It is clear that you have “Wrecks on the Brain”, meanwhile you have no impact on my thinking at all!
GT fan
August 30th, 2012
12:19 pm
atl xmen
August 30th, 2012
8:49 am
tech didnt do jack against uga last year..the only reason they had that many yards rushing is because they had the ball more often and longer than uga so they had more chances.
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Nice try atl xmen ……. Time of posssesion last season in the GT-UGA game:
UGA: 29:21
GT: 30:39
WOW! GT had the ball a whole 1 minute 18 seconds “more often and longer” than UGA
Drive summuries:
UGA: 10 drives
GT: 11 drives
WOW! GT had 1 more drive than UGA did.
1:18, b/c GT runs the ball so much, equates to about 3 snaps.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
1:01 pm
@ GT fan……great stats, but we all know that FACTS mean nothing to the trolls.
GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
1:11 pm
WnE, thanks for continuing to out yourself as a UGA fan. The more you talk the more people realize that you are a UGA troll. My work here is done for the day.
GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
1:29 pm
Well, my work here is done with WnE anyway. atlxmen, I’ll just cite one more stat that blows what he said out of the water. GT averaged 4.6 ypc in the UGA game last year, which I’ll admit was below the season average and a good job by a solid UGA defense. It was also the EXACT same number that UGA averaged against GT. So far from not doing “jack” as you say, it was the exact same number that UGA itself averaged rushing the ball. Just for reference, Florida averaged -0.9 ypc against UGA, 2.0 ypc for Auburn, and -0.9 for Tennessee. Yes, I realize GT is a primarily a rushing team, BUT the numbers I cited above for the SEC teams are “not doing jack” rushing the ball. Whereas 4.6 ypc that’s an ok number.
GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
1:32 pm
I will caveat that to say that 4.6 ypc was obviously not good enough, because we lost the game soundly. And all credit goes to a solid UGA defense. But we did have some success moving the ball.
A. Bishop
August 30th, 2012
2:12 pm
Please don’t say “wne” is a UGA fan, we don’t want him lol
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
2:20 pm
Well, he’s certainly not a Tech fan, Bishop
A. Bishop
August 30th, 2012
2:22 pm
Let’s just call him a Southern Cal fan lol
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
2:40 pm
Nah, let’s just call him an obnoxious jerk. lol
A. Bishop
August 30th, 2012
3:16 pm
That works for me. Good luck on Monday Tech.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
3:30 pm
I hope that is GA Tech you are wishing good luck to. There ARE two Tech’s playing, you know. LOL
PittJacket
August 30th, 2012
3:36 pm
Your friend Rachel needs a little more perspective. Bama didn’t even win the SEC last year and isn’t expected to this year.
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GTfan2012
August 30th, 2012
3:50 pm
Sorry Bishop, you can disown him if you want, but I have plenty of proof that he’s a UGA fan. Like the time he assured the readers of these comments that Orson Charles’ 40 time from his pro day was just an anomoly and that he would certainly run faster. Then there was the time that he claimed that UGA recruited Stephen Hill even before they recruited Marlon Brown just to make it seem like UGA hadn’t totally whiffed on Marlon Brown as compared to high round NFL pick Stephen Hill. That was a total lie, as UGA recruited 5* Marlon Brown from his late in his Sophomore year in HS on. I could go on, but I’ll stop there… he’s yours no matter how much you don’t want him.
A. Bishop
August 30th, 2012
4:17 pm
@Super, of course it’s for GT, I will route for GT as long as they aren’t playing UGA.
@GTfan2012, those don’t necessarily mean he is a UGA fan, maybe he is just trying to get under your skin. He spends more time on here than he does UGA blogs so I doubt he is a dawg fan. Either way he is annoying so just ignore him.
A. Bishop
August 30th, 2012
4:18 pm
root* brain fart
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
4:38 pm
Bishop…..I sure am glad you corrected your spelling / typing there. I was going to have to come down hard on you for that. LOL
Pitbull
August 30th, 2012
4:41 pm
A note to all of you Yellow Jackets out there:
I am now president of the Athens chapter of the Paul Johnson Fan Club.
You would not believe how the club is growing. We had to move the meetings from the IHOP to the Western Sizzlin because of the crowds.
We love Paul Johson in Athens. Don’t you guys ever fire him.
Ignor the fact that he cannot recruit at the 1A level. I mean face it, ever since Chan Gaileys players left, the only decent guys you have had are the ones that transferred in because they wanted to be closer to home – or were run off by their origional schools.
Yep, Paul Johnson will soon have Tech as the strongest 1AA team in America. You might even venture to schedule Georgia Southern without the fear of being beat.
We sort of look at Paul Johnson as the coaching equivalent of Reggie Ball at Tech. And you know how much we revere Reggie.
Reggie!!! Reggie!! Reggie!!
So you guys take good care of Paul Johnson because we want him in Atlanta for a loooong time.
Sincerely, your fellow Paul Johnson fans in Athens.
GT
August 30th, 2012
4:50 pm
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BS Patrol
August 30th, 2012
4:51 pm
SS,There is only one TECH playing Mon. Their opponent is a Tech wannabee, VPI.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 30th, 2012
5:43 pm
LOL @ BS Patrol
right on
August 30th, 2012
6:53 pm
saban and alabama can go to #!@#