Did the awesome DBU and Sacksburg t-shirts put a jinx on the team. Our secondary players are dropping like flies and our stud D-ends have zero sacks. Somebody please come up with a new TKP t-shirt design that counteracts this bad mojo and gets us back in the W column.
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According to mentions on my Twitter: yes!
Maybe a shirt that says, "Frank Beamer for President." If the shirts are a jinx then that should have him stepping down by tomorrow.
I'll buy ten.
I wish we could have gifs on t-shirts.
Maybe something like:
I'M SO FIRED UP TO WIN
I don't put this loss on the defense. They inky scored 17 points.
...We just lost to a team that scored 17 points.
Maybe we should release a shirt that says, "This shirt is reserved for a national championship trophy", then never make it. The reverse karma would negate itself on opposite day, right?
I like where your head is at. I was thinking "I bought this shirt in case there isn't bowl game merchandise"
A jinx is a kind of animal like a lynx, right? It'll get after ya is what I've heard, but I believe it doesn't exist. It's just something we imagine as a reason(s) for a loss, a lot like OSU fans in 2014. So if jinxes are real, I will have to attend the next game in my birthday suit as nothing I wear has worked.
I'm not superstitious but I am alittlestitious.
Leg for a Michael Scott quote.
Mission Accomplished!
I can think of no other rational explanation.
Poor coaching? Nope. Lack of talent? Not likely? Simply not a tough, smack you in the mouth football program? Doubtful.
T-shirts...(looks around nervously; slowly nods head).
That TKP merchandise, it'll get after ya.
(But is the real answer Shane? Anyone?)
I think I would divide it equally between Shane and Stacy Searles. Our O-Line problems clearly haven't been solved.
Edit: And I was also witness to Searles less than stellar O-Lines here in Austin using 4 and 5 star talent.
Shane looks more and more like Jeff Bowden every week.
Except a position coach doesn't have nearly as much control over a game as a coordinator. I have no idea if Shane is any good as a coach but I don't think he should get as much blame as is being thrown around. I'm not even defending him, I just don't think that the rb coach position has the difference making ability some think it does. Anybody who has played feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
He's an easy target. The running game has been non existent. It's easy to pick on the RB coach as the culprit. I personally have disagreed with his rotation. But, this team has more problems than just the running game (or lack thereof). I hate to say it, but I think it's time to cut the head off the snake
Isn't he associate head coach or something like that? What control does that give him, or is it just a title? I really do not know, other than he was the one talking to the camera during the bowl game last year.
Just means he steps in if Frank's not able to coach, no additional power than that. Billy Hite had the same title and coached one game when Beamer was out years ago.
Awesome! Thank you for the explanation!
Or, dare I say, Mike Groh
But he's going the boxing glove on a stick!!!
Single image: Maroon dumpster, orange fire.
I'd buy it.
Just might work
I think we already own that. Just not the shirt.
New T-shirt proposal.
Front: (picture of meat tenderizer hammer)
Back: (picture of Brenden Motley getting sacked)
The shirt is actually reversible.
I wonder if the meat tenderizer symbolizes who got Motley beat the f*** up most? Looked like McLaughlin earned it this week.
Related: we did not #beatbama
Oh shit, I just thought of something. Has anybody checked on that horse on the treadmill?
Nah... he's durable
Yeah I'm ok, thanks for asking. . The Wisconsin loss helped, and Florida pummeling Ole Miss is helping. Still a little sad though.
yeah, its been a rough day in the eshibe household, coupled with the fact that i missed a home football game of a local team for the first time since....jesus iunno how long to study for dynamics gives me a sads
Notre Dame lost, too. That one sent me to bed sad last night. Silver lining, Clemson is still undefeated, which is good enough. If they manage to win out or have one loss by the end of the year and an ACC championship, they'll be a solid playoff contender. I'd rather see ND in it, but if not I could stand to have a playoff this year where the ACC has a rep.
We need a new shirt with a pic of a Lego VT football player with an orange helmet with a tube labeled Kragle shoved up the bum and on the back it should say "Stuck Hokie".
Everything is awesome!
Nothing good has happened to the program since Andy Bitter became a beat writer for VT. He's a black cat.
Lol. Wasn't he the beat writer for Auburn when they won with Cam Newton?
It's not any TKP wardrobe, it's Frank's.
He wore the white windbreaker against OSU last year and Purdue this year, and we won. He was wearing it at the beginning of ECU, when we went up 14-0, but then covered it up with the maroon rain gear, and we lost. Today, he was in all maroon raingear.
Either that, or it's our helmets. 2-0 with the white tops, 0-3 with anything else.
I think I'm on to something here.
Against NC State, Frank starts off with the maroon rain gear, we go down 10-0. He takes the maroon off, and wears the white, we win 28-13.
We just put up 100 yards of offense and rushed the f***ing ball 30 times for of total of 9 yards.
Buy yeah, cloth with lettering on it, thats the real issue here.
Losing our starting QB and our last-in-a-family all american DB within an almost all new position group. But yep, short sleeve t-shirts are to blame.
Dude. Chill out. This isn't a serious thread. There's nothing wrong with wanting to lighten the mood a little around here.
Some people on this site seriously lack a sense of humor
So what I take away from your comment is that the new counter jinx shirt needs to be a long sleeve tee. I like it.
It's a jump to conclusions mat!
How bout a T-shirt with the slogan
'These losses, they'll get after ya' or 'these injuries, they'll get after ya'.
No, the real problem is that we're not doing enough running back jet sweeps from the shotgun formation.
If it does not work the first 12 times try it again?
Gotta do it enough until the defense gets to the point they wholeheartedly commit, then run the counter. /s
It's the long con. Next game they will be ready for the jet sweep and we will hit 'em with the bubble screen!
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I thought this thread was going to be about how I started reading and a little bit later joined TKP in 2012.
Leave.
I've only got one good karma bullet left to fire, and it's going in the clip on Friday.
Buffalo Chicken Dip. We haven't made a batch for a game party since OSU last year. Gotta a few neighborhood Pack fans coming over Friday, and we're going to make like 5 lbs.
Of course I'm going to have to renege on my nude game watching with neighbors coming over. It would raise a few eyebrows, I guess.
Leonard, Leonard, Leonard.
Not entirely sure how we got from Buffalo Chicken Dip to nekkid game watching.
I didn't know you could do one without the other.
You haven't lived until you've dripped buffalo chicken dip onto your naked manly parts.
Why does this have up-votes?
What is wrong with you people!?
I somehow feel that this is an appropriate response:
Windows 7
Seriously...there's nothing better than getting hot sauce up your urethra. You guys should try it. For this game in particular, I would recommend a Carolina Reaper based sauce.
Depending on Friday, I say we make something like this.
Back to the title of this thread, the Key Play isn't to blame for anything. However, I think our defensive line needs to go on the Searles diet. They look like Hobbits riding on quarterbacks' backs. Willing minds but a little light behind.