I'm told #Hokies to the Military Bowl in Annapolis is still a possibility, even with a potential rematch with ECU on the table.— Mike Barber (@RTD_MikeBarber) December 4, 2014
That is Jim Weaver's dream.
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I would love this for purely selfish reasons as Annapolis is less than an hour drive and I would like to take another shot at ECU where we don't spot them 21 points in the game...
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The ECU game is always my least favorite game of the year. Seems like most on here say the GT game, but I actually enjoy that one. It's always a nail biter, but in a good way IMO. The ECU game is always some crappy, sloppy game where we're required to score to keep up. Granted we don't always play stellar when we have the lead, but it's still usually the biggest drag of the year. And it's also a no win situation. If you lose, you lost to what most consider an average team and when you win, people yawn. I'd rather have a complete cupcake or an Alabama/Ohio State every year instead of some mid-major school that seems to always give us fits.
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Exactly this. I hate playing GT as well always at least the 2d worst game of the year for me but at least that game is a conference game and matters. With ECU it's just as you say. They are dangerous enough to beat you but nobody ever thinks they should.
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Game clock management is the responsibility of the HC, not the OC. The OC is picking specific plays based on how the HC wants to manage the clock. In that situation, the HC is instructing the OC on where to call a run, pass, or go for it on 4th down. There were some execution problems as well (such as Carden taking a sack on 4th down rather than throwing the ball high into the air), which you could in part blame on the OC I suppose for not making sure Carden knew what he wanted. I pin that far more on the HC for the overall end game management though.
Game clock management is surprisingly poor at many programs. To me, this has actually been one of Tech's biggest areas of weakness for awhile. Tech has botched clock management several times just this season (e.g. ECU, GT and Duke). Against ECU we started taking timeouts too early (over 3 minutes left in the game), which ended up leaving too much time on the clock after we tied it up. Against GT, we took timeouts in a tie game when they GT was not in obvious scoring range which is a huge no no as it relieves pressure from the opposing offense. The only time you take TOs in that situation is when the offense is in "gimme" FG range and there is so little time left you won't get the ball back otherwise. Against Duke, a lot of people (rightfully) focused on the fake punt, but we also made the same exact timeout mistake as the GT game. Except this time it was even worse because we were actually up one point. When Duke missed the FG, there was still so much time left we couldn't run the clock out and unnecessarily gave them another possession (which fortunately didn't end up costing us the game).
Sorry, this turned into a longer post that I anticipated :)
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I selfishly root for the Poinsettia or Holiday Bowl (never going to happen). Hell, the Rose Bowl would be fine for me too. The day VT returns to glory and gets into the Rose Bowl as a playoff team will be sweet.
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On the years the Rose Bowl does not host a playoff game, they will still attempt to host a B1G/PAC-12 matchup as far as is possible. So the only real way we'd play in the Rose Bowl is to make the playoffs in a year they host it.
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Me too. It would be great if we ended up there. I was told by a friend (source) that the Belk bowl is trying to get ND and TENN. I am still dreaming though.
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Priority Wish List:
1. Belk/Music City vs. SEC team (not likely unless Citrus opens up to ACC)
2. Indy Bowl vs USC/aTm
3. Indy Bowl vs. UF (bad matchup for us, they are like an athletic BC)
4. Detroit Bowl vs. Illinois (worst possible B10 opponent, even NW would have been better)
5. Military Bowl vs. non-ECU Big East team
6. Military Bowl vs. ECU
7. St. Pete Bowl (I'm a Red Sox fan, so I hate the Trop with all my being)
If another bowl like the Cactus opened up, I'd slide it into #4.
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I'm really hoping for an Independence Bowl appearance this year...against whoever (can't believe I'm saying that). I was stationed in Shreveport/Bossier previously, so I could get guaranteed free tickets and have a place to stay. Only projection I see online, though, is some crap bowl in Detroit against Illinois, ...which I'm not thrilled about, honestly. ...but we do have a pretty stunning record against B1G teams..so...
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Bowls very seldom match up teams that already played during the season, unless they are elite teams. That is certainly not the case here. If we do go to the Military Bowl, it would be against Cincinnati. You've also got to consider the Bowl people are going to want fans that come and spend the night(s) and unload money on meals, shopping, etc. The large NoVa Hokie fan base would be in & out the same day. Little revenue brought in for the area. Ticket sales are already guaranteed for a certain number of tickets (15K or so) so that wouldn't offset the lost revenue for the merchandisers in the area.
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NCSU v. ECU would be an attractive Military Bowl. Good fanbases excited about their season. Easy driving distance but would need hotels. A rivalry that wasn't played this year.
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The eastern half of North Carolina would love that. Like you said, easy drive, attractive locale and a natural rivalry game that would sell lots of tickets.
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I'm hoping for Annapolis because we, as a fan base, have been asked to travel a lot, and Annapolis is so close to our major alumni center.
I would not ever at all want to play ECU in this bowl, however. But, if we did, then we would have played ECU more than our division opponents in the last few years.
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Yup, pretty much a consolation bowl for us. And to help the Military Bowl out. The connection between the Cadets and the Military Bowl should be enough for them to want us, and enough for Hokies to fill the stands. (A LOT more than the Terp fans did last year...)
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Not sure any SEC team would be a good matchup this year, maybe UT, would rather be favored against Illinois or maybe Cincinnati. 7-6 sounds much better than 6-7
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Right on HokieBlitz. Tennessee! That would setup a possible rivalry game beginning at the Speedway. Looking down the road the teams are close enough to fill the stands, at least at Tech. Would probably fill Neyland Stadium also.
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Personally I would like to see Arkansas. My roommate is from Arkansas and a big fan, they are an SEC squad, they have a top notch defense, and a monster offensive line. The battles up front would be fun to see!
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I want another shot at Maryland. Those guys kicking the Hokies in the nuts and then running away laughing has really bothered me since November last year.
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I want the Hokies to play in the Independence Bowl against the SEC. Yes, its bad if we lose but the reward for a win is worth the risk. Besides, I live only 70 miles from Shreveport. I'll be there.
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I feel a bowl against an SEC team is a win-win situation if we lose they were the SEC team and we're a bottom tier ACC team this year, but if we win than we beat an SEC team to close the year and we build momentum for this young but talented squad, to be healthy and even better next year.
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I will never see us losing to an SEC team, no matter if they are an upper tier SEC team and we are a bottom tier ACC team, as a wiining situation. "Oh we lost but it was to an SEC team, so it's all good!".... fuck that
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Wow. ECU just lost on about a 50-yard hail mary...after coming back from a 26-9 deficit late in the game. Not sure how, if any, that may affect our bowl situation, but holy cow, what an ending and what terrible clock management by ECU at the end.
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OMG I turned the channel. I thought ECU just had to run out the clock. I just watched the Hail Mary highlight but I don't understand how UCF got the ball back in the first place. Wow.
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I believe situations like that are why the Safety is called a Safety... run around, run away from the D.. run all the way back to your endzone if needed. just run. out. the. clock.
Obviously someone on ECU's staff failed at math when Carden was instructed to just kneel on 1st, 2nd and 3rd downs.
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YES....Even go so far as to instruct all of your players to tackle everyone on the defense to get the clock to zero. Once its there, it hardly matters if its a safety. If they take the penalty for holding on the offense, all you have to do on the next snap is kneel the ball, if they dont take the penalty the game is over.
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Home sweet home. I was there the last time the Hokies played in the Music City Bowl. Watching all those Bama fans dumbfounded was glorious. In the ice/sleet. Awesome!
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I am keeping my fingers crossed that we get Tennessee either in the Independence, Liberty, or (in a dream world) the Music City Bowl. I don't like the match ups with Florida or USC cocks as much as vs Tennessee (bad OL, thin DL.)
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Spent time w/ Military Bowl exec dir Steve Beck Thurs. #Hokies likely headed there, but Beck wasn't ready to publicly announce a matchup.— Hokies Journal (@HokiesJournal) December 5, 2014
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To be clear: Military Bowl Exec Dir Steve Beck was not ready to say #Hokies are headed there yet. Seems likely, though.— Hokies Journal (@HokiesJournal) December 5, 2014
Take as you will, I guess
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I was fine, to me. The pint of Evan Williams helped. But it was gorgeous before half. When the sun went down, it got a little chilly, but after the 5 years I spent in Blacksburg, it was a cake walk.
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Spent time w/ Military Bowl exec dir Steve Beck Thurs. #Hokies likely headed there, but Beck wasn't ready to publicly announce a matchup.— Hokies Journal (@HokiesJournal) December 5, 2014
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.@HoHumHokie Nothing's a done deal til Sunday. But I think #Hokies-Cincinnati is most likely matchup for VT at this point.— Hokies Journal (@HokiesJournal) December 5, 2014
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Drink? In one of the replies, Giannotto said he thought Cincinnati was the likely opponent. That's what I was trying to link, but maybe I didn't get it right
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I actually like that stadium. Yeah its old, but there is something about going in there and seeing all the naval battles. Pretty impressive. Maybe its cause I used to go to games with my friend whose father has tickets as a naval academy graduate.
I can certainly think of worse places to watch a football game.
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I respect Cinci's program but that would be a pretty meh opponent, if for no other reason that we've played them several times the last decade or so. If we're playing a team from the American, I'd rather take on UCF or Memphis just because it'd be someone new.
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They get a gift suite at all of those bowls which basically means that they get a certain number of points to pick items from the room and make their own gift bag. Or it could be picking one item from several different areas/tables.
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Depends. Some of them might have things where the players can choose if they want an Xbox, an iPad, or a PS4. Others will have digital cameras, Blu-Ray players, Apple TV, and things of that nature. It allows for a more custom experience which I think more players would prefer. And it allows them to get nicer gifts that they might need or want or could use.
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Love how the Military Bowl has by far the best gifts of any of these and that's where many project the Hokies to play. Seriously: an Xbox One, UA backpack, speakers, and a hat. Great gifts for pretty average teams, whoever they end up being. That's like Christmas after Christmas, plus getting to play/practice without having to worry about grades for a few weeks. And on top of that, it's only what, a 3 hour drive from the 'Burg? Not bad at all. Plus, like many of you said, Annapolis is a really nice area. I'm sure Hokie fans would show up in bunches for that one
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If Weaver were still here, he'd voluntarily decline the bowl to give our donors a break from having to attend one every year as a thank you to us all....
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I think there are 76 slots and 82 teams that can go. UAB wont be going so that means 5 other teams will join UVA at home for the holidays. CBS said MTSU and Ohio wont go either. That means we need to beat out 3 others......
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I'd find it pretty ridiculous for them to to slight a VT program: with the winningest active head coach (and a nice bowl streak that coincides with him), that hasn't been ridden with scandal, and beat playoff-bound Ohio State.
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I'm told, as expected, the Military Bowl will feature a Virginia Tech-Cincinnati matchup. #Hokies headed to Annapolis. #BabcockBowl— Hokies Journal (@HokiesJournal) December 7, 2014
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If an ACC team is really getting left out it should have been us. I'm happy Frank gets his 22nd bowl but we were the worst ACC bowl-eligible team. Whoever is getting left out has a right to be pissed.
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It's a pretty nice stadium. Not too big, but not unbelievable small or anything either. It's Navy so it's pretty nice. Wouldn't recommend sitting in the end zone though, pretty bad view. Nice open feel to it, somewhat new feel as well. If anything, it almost feels like a smaller version of the Shoe almost
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That is Jim Weaver's dream.
Not ECU. I'm not afraid to play them again, but we play them EVERY year. Please somebody else, I'd like to play a team we've never played before.
Though I would totally be OK with this:
I would love this for purely selfish reasons as Annapolis is less than an hour drive and I would like to take another shot at ECU where we don't spot them 21 points in the game...
Rumor has that it'll be a nooner, I hear
Fuck you Stringer
annapolis (not so much ECU) is definitely my wet dream.
~1 hour from my home-for-the-holidays? yes please.
Military Bowl against ECU on the condition that it officially ends the series.
Make it happen Whit!
I hope I live long enough that ECU will be off our schedule. :-)
Me too.
That would mean:
The ECU game is always my least favorite game of the year. Seems like most on here say the GT game, but I actually enjoy that one. It's always a nail biter, but in a good way IMO. The ECU game is always some crappy, sloppy game where we're required to score to keep up. Granted we don't always play stellar when we have the lead, but it's still usually the biggest drag of the year. And it's also a no win situation. If you lose, you lost to what most consider an average team and when you win, people yawn. I'd rather have a complete cupcake or an Alabama/Ohio State every year instead of some mid-major school that seems to always give us fits.
Exactly this. I hate playing GT as well always at least the 2d worst game of the year for me but at least that game is a conference game and matters. With ECU it's just as you say. They are dangerous enough to beat you but nobody ever thinks they should.
SOLUTION: We poach ECU's O Coordinator and set them back several years.
How about winner gets the ECU coordinator?
Is that the same coordinator who botched the end of game strategy against UCF, thus losing the game?
Hmm... you might have a good idea there. It would be an upgrade at least.
Game clock management is the responsibility of the HC, not the OC. The OC is picking specific plays based on how the HC wants to manage the clock. In that situation, the HC is instructing the OC on where to call a run, pass, or go for it on 4th down. There were some execution problems as well (such as Carden taking a sack on 4th down rather than throwing the ball high into the air), which you could in part blame on the OC I suppose for not making sure Carden knew what he wanted. I pin that far more on the HC for the overall end game management though.
Game clock management is surprisingly poor at many programs. To me, this has actually been one of Tech's biggest areas of weakness for awhile. Tech has botched clock management several times just this season (e.g. ECU, GT and Duke). Against ECU we started taking timeouts too early (over 3 minutes left in the game), which ended up leaving too much time on the clock after we tied it up. Against GT, we took timeouts in a tie game when they GT was not in obvious scoring range which is a huge no no as it relieves pressure from the opposing offense. The only time you take TOs in that situation is when the offense is in "gimme" FG range and there is so little time left you won't get the ball back otherwise. Against Duke, a lot of people (rightfully) focused on the fake punt, but we also made the same exact timeout mistake as the GT game. Except this time it was even worse because we were actually up one point. When Duke missed the FG, there was still so much time left we couldn't run the clock out and unnecessarily gave them another possession (which fortunately didn't end up costing us the game).
Sorry, this turned into a longer post that I anticipated :)
Which one of us is going to leave the ACC? We have developed a great ACC rivalry with the Pirates.
Uhh.....When did ECU join the ACC?
I think it was sarcasm b/c we play them more than half of the ACC.
What is this "sarcasm" you speak of?
Sarcasm is what UVA fans use when discussing their football program!
I am very selfishly hoping we end up in the Belk Bowl. I would seriously consider driving out for it if we do.
I am hoping for the Fight Hunger bowl in San Francisco for this reason.
The Hokies vs Ga Bulldogs in the Charlotte Bowl would do major, major wonders in brightening this season up.
I would go to that.
that would be good as long as we don't pull a glennon on them
I am selfishly hoping for the New Mexico Bowl. Or the Sun Bowl again. #TeamBurrito
I selfishly root for the Poinsettia or Holiday Bowl (never going to happen). Hell, the Rose Bowl would be fine for me too. The day VT returns to glory and gets into the Rose Bowl as a playoff team will be sweet.
Isn't the Rose Bowl a B1G-PAC12 exclusive?
Or have things changed due to the playoffs?
On the years the Rose Bowl does not host a playoff game, they will still attempt to host a B1G/PAC-12 matchup as far as is possible. So the only real way we'd play in the Rose Bowl is to make the playoffs in a year they host it.
Got ya, that makes sense
Me too. It would be great if we ended up there. I was told by a friend (source) that the Belk bowl is trying to get ND and TENN. I am still dreaming though.
I guess they're going hard for the 'toothless Irishman' demographic.
(duck)
Edit: I can't reply correctly
Priority Wish List:
1. Belk/Music City vs. SEC team (not likely unless Citrus opens up to ACC)
2. Indy Bowl vs USC/aTm
3. Indy Bowl vs. UF (bad matchup for us, they are like an athletic BC)
4. Detroit Bowl vs. Illinois (worst possible B10 opponent, even NW would have been better)
5. Military Bowl vs. non-ECU Big East team
6. Military Bowl vs. ECU
7. St. Pete Bowl (I'm a Red Sox fan, so I hate the Trop with all my being)
If another bowl like the Cactus opened up, I'd slide it into #4.
I'm kinda hoping for Detroit just so I can see my two alma maters play each other. Selfish, I know.
I didn't even realize Illinois was bowl eligible. Move from Chicago and I forget all about them.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the thrashing the put on UVA in the Carquest Bowl one year.
Who?
From what I understand of the really confusing "Tiers" of bowls, the Citrus has opened up to the ACC unless Bama loses and also falls out of top 4.
I'm really hoping for an Independence Bowl appearance this year...against whoever (can't believe I'm saying that). I was stationed in Shreveport/Bossier previously, so I could get guaranteed free tickets and have a place to stay. Only projection I see online, though, is some crap bowl in Detroit against Illinois, ...which I'm not thrilled about, honestly. ...but we do have a pretty stunning record against B1G teams..so...
I'm hoping for Independence Bowl vs SEC. I realllllly don't want to have to play ECU yet again.
Just say no to ECU fans.
Bowls very seldom match up teams that already played during the season, unless they are elite teams. That is certainly not the case here. If we do go to the Military Bowl, it would be against Cincinnati. You've also got to consider the Bowl people are going to want fans that come and spend the night(s) and unload money on meals, shopping, etc. The large NoVa Hokie fan base would be in & out the same day. Little revenue brought in for the area. Ticket sales are already guaranteed for a certain number of tickets (15K or so) so that wouldn't offset the lost revenue for the merchandisers in the area.
NCSU v. ECU would be an attractive Military Bowl. Good fanbases excited about their season. Easy driving distance but would need hotels. A rivalry that wasn't played this year.
The eastern half of North Carolina would love that. Like you said, easy drive, attractive locale and a natural rivalry game that would sell lots of tickets.
I'm hoping for Annapolis because we, as a fan base, have been asked to travel a lot, and Annapolis is so close to our major alumni center.
I would not ever at all want to play ECU in this bowl, however. But, if we did, then we would have played ECU more than our division opponents in the last few years.
How does your trailer hold up on these road trips?
Well enough.
Yup, pretty much a consolation bowl for us. And to help the Military Bowl out. The connection between the Cadets and the Military Bowl should be enough for them to want us, and enough for Hokies to fill the stands. (A LOT more than the Terp fans did last year...)
Independence Bowl Vs an SEC team ( Florida or Texas A&M or Tennessee or Arkansas) would be good practice preparing for the Battle of Bristol in 2016.
Not sure any SEC team would be a good matchup this year, maybe UT, would rather be favored against Illinois or maybe Cincinnati. 7-6 sounds much better than 6-7
Right on HokieBlitz. Tennessee! That would setup a possible rivalry game beginning at the Speedway. Looking down the road the teams are close enough to fill the stands, at least at Tech. Would probably fill Neyland Stadium also.
As long as we don't play Iowa, I'm fine with about anybody. Iowa would cause severe mental anguish at home.
Personally I would like to see Arkansas. My roommate is from Arkansas and a big fan, they are an SEC squad, they have a top notch defense, and a monster offensive line. The battles up front would be fun to see!
Based on the Miami game, I think Arkansas' offensive line would just have their way with us on the LOS. Those guys are freaking huge.
I want another shot at Maryland. Those guys kicking the Hokies in the nuts and then running away laughing has really bothered me since November last year.
I guess the making the playoff is out of the question at this point???
Let me help you with that little issue you have.
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greatest Nicktoon of all-time. just my personal opinion.
It all depends on the tiebreaker between TCU & Baylor.
I know this post is a joke but i just need any excuse to post this video
I like pizza
I think you might actually have Aspergers with this post.
you should get one....
wooohhh. that map is awesome.
it's a little off center.....but..yea..lol
I want the Hokies to play in the Independence Bowl against the SEC. Yes, its bad if we lose but the reward for a win is worth the risk. Besides, I live only 70 miles from Shreveport. I'll be there.
I feel a bowl against an SEC team is a win-win situation if we lose they were the SEC team and we're a bottom tier ACC team this year, but if we win than we beat an SEC team to close the year and we build momentum for this young but talented squad, to be healthy and even better next year.
How is 6-7 a win-win?
It keeps the bowl streak alive, which is paramount, evidently.
I will never see us losing to an SEC team, no matter if they are an upper tier SEC team and we are a bottom tier ACC team, as a wiining situation. "Oh we lost but it was to an SEC team, so it's all good!".... fuck that
Wherever against anybody from the SEC. Anywhere but not against ECU.
Wow. ECU just lost on about a 50-yard hail mary...after coming back from a 26-9 deficit late in the game. Not sure how, if any, that may affect our bowl situation, but holy cow, what an ending and what terrible clock management by ECU at the end.
I watched it happen live and all I could think was "Did that just happen?!"
If that had happened to us there at the end against UVa, I would have probably dropped dead on the spot.
You and the rest of Hokie nation
OMG I turned the channel. I thought ECU just had to run out the clock. I just watched the Hail Mary highlight but I don't understand how UCF got the ball back in the first place. Wow.
ECU couldn't run out the clock with UCF having one timeout. UCF got the ball with 10 seconds left and ran 2 plays
I believe situations like that are why the Safety is called a Safety... run around, run away from the D.. run all the way back to your endzone if needed. just run. out. the. clock.
Obviously someone on ECU's staff failed at math when Carden was instructed to just kneel on 1st, 2nd and 3rd downs.
YES....Even go so far as to instruct all of your players to tackle everyone on the defense to get the clock to zero. Once its there, it hardly matters if its a safety. If they take the penalty for holding on the offense, all you have to do on the next snap is kneel the ball, if they dont take the penalty the game is over.
Sounds like some bad offensive strategy there.
Music City Bowl please, because Nashvegas.
Home sweet home. I was there the last time the Hokies played in the Music City Bowl. Watching all those Bama fans dumbfounded was glorious. In the ice/sleet. Awesome!
To be fair, many bama fans always look dumbfounded. It was just intensified that day
And your signature, it seems...familiar
The country in me really wants this to happen. I have been wanting to check out DT Nashville since forever
you will not be disappointed at all. One of the coolest cities in the U.S. along with Austin.
Bring on the Cactus bowl!!!
That would really help ease the pain of being all the way in Phoenix this whole season....
Who might we meet in an oh-so-likely cactus bowl matchup?
Independence vs. the Cocks of the Game or Floppy variety. Or the gators.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that we get Tennessee either in the Independence, Liberty, or (in a dream world) the Music City Bowl. I don't like the match ups with Florida or USC cocks as much as vs Tennessee (bad OL, thin DL.)
Any chance we go to the highly prestigious justinbieber.com bowl? Anyone have any #sources on this?
Take as you will, I guess
I'd love to do some sailing around there too, if only Annapolis was warm this time of year... (sigh)
Hey, last year is was an awesome day, sunny and between 55-60 degrees!
Now, a few years ago there was 6 inches of snow on the ground. But probably still warmer than the UVA game this year.
Are you sure?
My wife is a Marshall grad and we went. It was freezing... I remember it being warmer during the day - but it was really cold that night.
Of course, the game will be played at noon if we are picked....
The kickoff is scheduled for 1:00pm, but that still fits in our noon-1:30 window.
I was fine, to me. The pint of Evan Williams helped. But it was gorgeous before half. When the sun went down, it got a little chilly, but after the 5 years I spent in Blacksburg, it was a cake walk.
hearing is military vs cincy, but until pen to paper ...
Id rather at least play Houston for a change of pace
Don't feel like mobile embedding another tweet, but I've seen that too. Looks like the Babcock bowl instead of the Weaver dream bowl
https://twitter.com/HokiesJournal/status/540904274403033088
Drink? In one of the replies, Giannotto said he thought Cincinnati was the likely opponent. That's what I was trying to link, but maybe I didn't get it right
I think he was just embedding it for you
I missed the second embed while responding to the first, which I had embedded earlier. Just clarifying. Btw egbert, thanks for the assist
Sure, Thanks for finding it. I had missed that one.
It just occured to me that this craptastic bowl is now played at Navy's field. Not in one of the three NFL of former NFL stadiums that are near by.
Wut. Da. Fleck.
Stupid ass bowl. Big East team on Navy's field.
I actually like that stadium. Yeah its old, but there is something about going in there and seeing all the naval battles. Pretty impressive. Maybe its cause I used to go to games with my friend whose father has tickets as a naval academy graduate.
I can certainly think of worse places to watch a football game.
I shouldn't complain about it, I'm not going to go anyway. You NOVA types should have some fun.
At least it might look full, unlike the nfl stadiums. And agreed, it's not a bad stadium and Annapolis is pretty cool. That said: Go Army, Beat Navy
Go Navy, Beat Army
Go Hokies, forget everyone else.
Oh except for the fact that I root for whoever UVA is playing, which is...OH YEAH, NO ONE.
HOOAH!
....FIFY ;)
I respect Cinci's program but that would be a pretty meh opponent, if for no other reason that we've played them several times the last decade or so. If we're playing a team from the American, I'd rather take on UCF or Memphis just because it'd be someone new.
Military Bowl gifts don't seem so bad.
I feel sorry for the participants of the Boca Raton Bowl, which is apparently a thing that exists.
But I feel even sorrier for the participants of the New Orleans and Music City bowls. It'll be hard to sell that Fossil watch on craigslist.
Also, quit being so cheap, Rose Bowl, you're a cash cow. Quit being such a clothes horse.
They get a gift suite at all of those bowls which basically means that they get a certain number of points to pick items from the room and make their own gift bag. Or it could be picking one item from several different areas/tables.
Ohhhhh ok, my mistake.
Still makes them look cheap in the comparison table.
Depends. Some of them might have things where the players can choose if they want an Xbox, an iPad, or a PS4. Others will have digital cameras, Blu-Ray players, Apple TV, and things of that nature. It allows for a more custom experience which I think more players would prefer. And it allows them to get nicer gifts that they might need or want or could use.
I think one of the options in 2011 for the Sugar Bowl the players had a recliner option as a gift suite choice.
You are correct. They got something like 10 or 11 points and there liner was all but 1 point.
A boat is a boat, but the mystery box could be anything...it could even be a boat!
It wasn't a boat, Peter.
I think that's where the Costanza's moved to for retirement.
haha into del boca vista no doubt
Psssssh we all know the sun bowl has the best gifts. Hair dryers for everybody!!!
"I could use a few of these." -- Andrew Motuapuaka
Love how the Military Bowl has by far the best gifts of any of these and that's where many project the Hokies to play. Seriously: an Xbox One, UA backpack, speakers, and a hat. Great gifts for pretty average teams, whoever they end up being. That's like Christmas after Christmas, plus getting to play/practice without having to worry about grades for a few weeks. And on top of that, it's only what, a 3 hour drive from the 'Burg? Not bad at all. Plus, like many of you said, Annapolis is a really nice area. I'm sure Hokie fans would show up in bunches for that one
It's gotta be more than 3 hours. That only gets you to Culpeper.
Google maps says 4.5-5 hours, depending on route.
Unless you're going 100 or so mph.
The Beltway from 66 to 50 could take you 3 hours on certain days and times...
Officially ACC announces bowls at 1730, but will there be anyway to find out sooner or under new system is everything run solely through ACC.
After reading tweets by Hokie Beat writers I'm worried VT missing a bowl game.
Never going to happen.
The final playoff ranking muddled the picture by giving the B1G an extra slot. It appears either VT UNC Pitt or Miami gets left out.
I thought they muddied it by giving the Orange Bowl slot to Mississippi State. If a Big Ten team had gotten that spot, ACC would get Citrus.
All they needed to do was flip Miss and Mich States.
Starting to get nervous.
What conferences will not fill all of their slots?
Jerry Palm projecting us to play South Carolina in Shreveport.
Let's give that guy a hand
If Weaver were still here, he'd voluntarily decline the bowl to give our donors a break from having to attend one every year as a thank you to us all....
I think there are 76 slots and 82 teams that can go. UAB wont be going so that means 5 other teams will join UVA at home for the holidays. CBS said MTSU and Ohio wont go either. That means we need to beat out 3 others......
VT will go to a bowl.
VT fans are a lock for $.
Bitter to the rescue.
I'd find it pretty ridiculous for them to to slight a VT program: with the winningest active head coach (and a nice bowl streak that coincides with him), that hasn't been ridden with scandal, and beat playoff-bound Ohio State.
plus it isnt even about any of that. its about selling tickets. and we can sure do that
It is done - VT vs Cincinnati in Military Bowl per David teel.
Bowl Chairmen know that VT will bring it in terms of fans. That means better ratings and more money.
If an ACC team is really getting left out it should have been us. I'm happy Frank gets his 22nd bowl but we were the worst ACC bowl-eligible team. Whoever is getting left out has a right to be pissed.
To that team:
Would love to see it be Miami
ACC selection show just confirmed that no eligible ACC team will be left out. 11 plus ND, 12.
psyched to see one more game in person. anyone thats been up to that stadium have any points on it?
It's a pretty nice stadium. Not too big, but not unbelievable small or anything either. It's Navy so it's pretty nice. Wouldn't recommend sitting in the end zone though, pretty bad view. Nice open feel to it, somewhat new feel as well. If anything, it almost feels like a smaller version of the Shoe almost
cool thanks. any insight into tailgating and such?
Ha nah not really, it's been about 8 or 9 years since I've last been and I'm only a student now so I wasn't much of a tailgater at the age of 12 lol
I would love to hear some tips for this stadium. I think I finally get to go to a bowl game!
I hate to complain but I lived in PA for 11 years and we never played in a bowl nearby. Now I live in Alabama and where do we play.......sigh......