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It's a superficial analysis, but I 1) gained some insight about what the national media thinks of us, and 2) got a little more pumped for the season. Blackledge does make two solid points. He noted all the plays for negative yards (114) last year, and how BeamerBall has fallen off. I guess he can be insightful when he's not in a food coma. Schlabach droning on about Mike London's "foothold in Tidewater" is just lazy, and not very telling about the quality of the average player Virginia is pulling from there. What do you guys think?
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home field advantage?
home field advantage?
Blackledge did give some good insight. I think the point herbstreit brought up about who can beat us in lane consistently doesn't apply to this year. Half our games are away from lane and they aren't going to bbe necessarily easy. This team will be successful if they can get leadership and convert down the stretch of games. Both of which I think have been proven last year. As long as the o-line holds up, I feel like tech gets through the season with at worst 9 wins not counting the bowl game. Injuries on offense will be something to watch out for though.
Is it me
Is it me
Or are those stats WAY off at around 1:20? His season completion percentage was 59%, and he threw for WAY more than 8 touchdowns all season. I may be an idiot and reading their stat line wrong...can someone tell me if I am?
Those are for passing
Those are for passing attempts for more than 15+ yards
Why do they always have to
Why do they always have to make stat lines so complicated? It's ridiculous how they have it.
I actually liked it that once
I actually liked it that once in a while they dig up some random stats to prove the hype of pretty much any player they want. Not sure if there's a data mining algorithms there in ESPN or they just o that manually.
Seems fair
Seems fair
Minus Schlabach's obvious man-crush on Mike London's recruiting in Tidewater, I thought the segment's critical nature was accurate. Though I have to say I disagree on one thing- the offensive line. Though I think the line will improve as the season progresses, I don't ever remember a season saying the o-line was not a question mark since becoming a VT fan ('03/'04). I have to agree with Blackledge: the special teams have to return to being a game changer for VT in a positive way, not a liability or giving the other team momentum via roughing the kicker/poor coverage downfield. Though I think we should have another 10 win season, the group is right in that many question marks appear going into the season.
That being said, in my opinion, we have to beat FSU at home this year. Let's be honest, the Worldwide Leader will hype them up more than my beloved Knicks and Jets and with their schedule they could be entering Lane with only one loss or even undefeated (still don't see them beating Clemson). It would be another chance for Frank to right the ship so to speak with his record against the AP Top 10/5 and would lift a huge burden off the back of the program. I know I sound like Captain Obvious but I have to get it out there....