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So there has been a lot of talk lately about how much longer Greenberg has at Tech if things keep going the way that they are. First what 'way' do people mean? I don't think that it is fair for anyone to judge his whole career here on this season. Does anybody really remember how bad we were before he came? When was the last time we were recruiting AND signing the players we are now? I would say for anyone to question the fact that we need him here is crazy. We are young this season AND still competitive. Injuries have killed us the last 2 seasons. The selection for the NCAA tourney has been a joke and always will be. These are things out of his control. I haven't seen any major missteps by our coach during games either. If an
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God, no football really sucks.
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I've been pondering our offensive woes this season, and wanted to compare this season's scoring to past seasons under Seth Greenberg. While some of the numbers aren't drastically different, so far this season is the worst overall - I'm sure you're shocked.
In the below spreadsheet I listed the past 9 seasons and included team scoring, our 4 leading scorers each season, their contributions to scoring, and the percentages of their contributions against the team total. I also included the final four teams from the last 3 seasons as a comparison.
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This is certainly neither Frank Beamer nor Al Golden's first rodeo. Nothing should ever really come as a shock on National Signing Day. Let's be real, we're talking about 17 or 18 year olds making (what might be) their first major life decision. Sometimes, recruits change their minds. Sometimes - as in Jawand Blue's case - they decide to go to Miami instead of Virginia Tech. That's cool, and I wish him the best of luck.
Then Al Golden decided to open his mouth.
OH REALLY? That's cute. Let's talk about when this happened:
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National Signing Day certainly turned into a festival atmosphere for Hokie fans, with tons of positives coupled with some negatives to give both the most ardent homer and the most disaffected crumudgeon plenty to talk about.
The Hokies were able to secure two of their top three remaining targets in multi-talented athlete Joel Caleb and bruising defensive end prospect Ken Ekanem. Meanwhile, Koren Kirven disappointed Hokie fans by joining Nick Saban's NFL machine down in Tuscaloosa. Finally, the Hokie blogosphere and twitterverse went crazy as MARGINAL linebacker prospect Ja Wand Blue decommitted and headed down to the Harvard of the South in Coral Gables.
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Instead of focusing on what went wrong in the first half, the focus instead should be put on how the Hokies responded offensively in the second half. The team scored a mere 19 points after the first twenty minutes of the game, and opened the second half with a crisp, new offensive look. Marquis Rankin played point for a large portion of the second half, which let Erick Green shift over to the off-guard slot.
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Top of the weekend to you fellow Hokie fans. We are knee deep into recruiting season, and as always, it is time to get excited about the new faces of the Hokie program. Today, I have watched some video on two commitments for the Hokies next season, Trey Edmunds and Woody Baron.
Trey Edmunds
Edmunds is a 6'2 210 linebacker/running back from Dan River High School in Ringgold, Virginia. With a deep running back class already committed, the Hokies are projecting Edmunds to play linebacker, by most accounts at the backer position. Edmunds was a Parade All-American whose production from both sides of the ball was outstanding (similar to Darren Evans, who was a 3 star recruit but was also a Parade All American. Edmunds is ranked as a 4 star by Rivals.
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The first ten minutes of the game involved some of the worst offensive basketball played by the Hokies in recent memory. Reffing notwithstanding, the Hokies missed many opportunities to score and only managed one point through the first 8 minutes of the game, virtue of starting the game 0-16 on field goals. But the Hokies battled back to get the deficit down to 2 before getting down by 4 at the break.
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*Bear with me here; I'm not sure if this is just me trying to come to terms with Sunday's kick in the nuts.
As football fans we are subjected to the phrase "window of opportunity" perhaps more than we should be. It's one of the intangibles of the game; we know it is there, yet we don't know when it will - methaphorically - close. It just happens. As fans, there is little we can do to stop this metaphorical window shutting, with the exception of continuing to be fans.
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The life of a college senior is usually predicated on a time of ease as another chapter of schooling comes to a close. Thoughts of prom and other integral events flourish throughout the year until acceptance letters file in around spring. For some the choice is simple. Others may be pressured by legacy or cost, but the excitement assuredly blankets any stress once a commitment is made. If any other feelings of trepidation do arise the comfort of knowing the rest of one’s peer group are going through the same thing make them fleeting at best.
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The Hokies finally did it, on their fifth try they won an ACC game. To top it off, they beat a ranked Virginia. In a game where scoring was at a premium and defense was abundant, the Hokies did what it took to win, and fixed some of the mistakes that had been plaguing the team to start conference play. Even though the Hokies did get outrebounded 25-29, there was a tenacity on the boards that had not been present to this point in the season. If the team can keep that kind of intensity, then the Hokies will be okay going forward. The same goes for boxing out, as the players were actually clearing space out under the basket, and what a joy it was to watch.
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Going into the game as big underdogs, Virginia Tech looked to get its first win in the ACC this season (0-3 going into the game). UNC started off the game well, with a 15-9 lead after the first few minutes of the game. Then the Hokies turned it on from 3-point range, hitting eight 3’s in the first half. Dorenzo Hudson was 4-4 from 3-point range in the first half as the Hokies had a five-point lead at the half, 39-34. The lead was a bit misleading, as the Hokies were shooting well from beyond the arc and UNC was not playing up to par. Even when the shots were falling in the first twenty minutes, the Virginia Tech offense is stagnant.
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I am writing in hopes of increasing your wrestling knowledge, so that you no longer have an excuse not to go watch our nationally ranked team wrestle. I will do my best to explain as many of the rules and as much of the scoring as possible. Like any other sport wrestling is very complex and just watching the sport is the best way to pick up on all of this. My goal is to give you a base of which to go off of so that when you do watch the team, you have some sense as to what is going on.
NCAA Match Format
1st Period: 3 minutes
2nd Period: 2 minutes
3rd Period: 2 minutes
Neutral
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Most of you on here are too young to remember the mid-90's Hokie football and individuals from those teams. This story is about little baby Ava, daughter of AnnMarie and George Delricco. George was an All Big East linebacker with Tech in 1995. He and Druckenmiller were thick as thieves around Blacksburg, and even Ocean City. (There were several nights that we closed down bars in OC together.) His wife and daughter were in OC just before Christmas when they were rear-ended by a guy high on PCP. Doing 100 on Coastal Highway is no easy feat, and the vehicles look like paper balls. Little baby Ava has been in the PICU at Hopkins since, over a month now. From first hand experience, I can tell you it's not a fun place to be.
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UVA RECORD: 8-3 (5-2 ACC) (W 14-13 against (25) Florida State)
VT RECORD: 10-1 (6-1 ACC) (W 24-21 against North Carolina)
SCORE: (6) VT 38 – (24) UVA 0
GAME SUMMARY: On their first drive of the game, the Hokies went 70 yards, capped by a 14 yard Logan Thomas touchdown run. The Wahoos responded with a 75 yard drive, but Mike London’s fourth down gamble was stopped a yard short at the VT 7 by Jack Tyler, and the rout was on. 31 more points were scored in the game, and UVA scored none of them. For the duration of the game, the Cavaliers would enter the Hokie red zone only twice more; before halftime Mike Rocco was strip-sacked by Kyle Fuller, and near the end of the third quarter UVA K Robert Randolph missed wide right from the 21. In short, this game was the epitome of LOLUVA.
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Florida State's defense is pretty good. Against our less than average offense, that defense stifled us all night. We were are to come back and almost tie the game at the end. Every time we threatened, Florida State had an answer. Our inability to box out and rebound definitely hurt us in this game. We need to put ourselves in a better position to win these games; in short, we are not helping ourselves.
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I started out writing this piece as a pure parody, I wanted to make fun of Schlabach et al for their way-too-early-SEC-MNC predictions, but as I made it, I realized most of what I was typing, I actually meant, and believed. So, here it is, my very own Way-Too-Early 2012 rankings, complete with snark and slight homerism.
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Football season is over, yes that is depressing, but I woke up to very good news this morning. The Hokies have a wrestler ranked #1 in the country at his weight class for the first time since 2002. Devin Carter is the top wrestler in the country at 133 pounds, I'm probably more impressed with this than most of you because I have watched him wrestle from the time he was a freshman in high school.
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The Virginia Tech Hokies took on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on January 7th after almost a week off, last playing December 31st against Oklahoma State. Wake Forest's previous game was a loss to Wofford the previous Monday. Virginia Tech showed an incredible amount of rust from the tip off, which resulted in a quick 20-8 lead for the Deacons. One of the most surprising factors of this quick lead was how Wake out-rebounded the Hokies. Virginia Tech must not have looked at the scouting report, as they let themselves get embarrassed on the boards all night. In the early going, Wake Forest could do no wrong, and built a large lead from the get go.
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FIrst let me say in my defense, I am one pissed off Hokie fan and will be for quite some time. My wounds have not healed, not just from the heartbreaker the other night, but from the National title game in 2000, to the freaking Sugar Bowl, the bama and lsu game etc...
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