Hokies players and coaches met with the media this afternoon ahead of Saturday's Coastal Division bout with Miami.
Frank Beamer Opening Statement
Shane Beamer Opening Statement
Hokies Haven't Forgotten 2014 Beatdown from the Canes
Frank Beamer didn't dance around the 30-6 beating that Miami served the Hokies with on a chilly Thursday night in Lane Stadium last October.
"I talk about what's reality and the reality of it all is they came in here and kicked our tail," said Beamer. "Ran the ball. They beat us soundly. Badly. Soundly. All of the above."
Senior defensive tackle Luther Maddy was injured and didn't play in last year's matchup, but he hasn't forgotten the helpless feeling felt throughout the defense as Miami continuously gashed the Hokies up front.
"I was on the sidelines just watching like 'wow,'" said Maddy. "They were busting runs for 8 yards a pop. It was a terrible job with us on defense. They had over 300 yards I think rushing. So I think this year we'll have a chip on our shoulder. They embarrassed us last year."
Star sophomore quarterback Brad Kaaya was only forced to throw 16 times thanks to the dominant rushing attack, but Beamer knows the second-year signal caller will present the young Hokies secondary with significant challenges.
"He's for real," said Beamer. "He came a long way to throw the ball in Miami. But he can throw it. You can tell he's very much in charge."
Travon McMillian Listed as No. 1 Tailback
Shane Beamer formalized today what most of Hokie Nation already knew — Travon McMillian is the Hokies' new No. 1 tailback.
"He's gonna start this week," Beamer said of McMillian. "He did a great job on Friday night and got hot and gave us something there towards the end of the game. He'll start, but again so much of our offense is personnel driven."
Both J.C. Coleman and Trey Edmunds failed to receive a carry against the Wolfpack, something Beamer said was more of a byproduct of the Hokies' game plan than a condemnation of either tailback.
"A lot of the stuff that we were doing Friday night, we were in an empty backfield. We were calling plays from the line of scrimmage. May be a run, may be a pass," said Beamer. "If we're throwing the football, not that J.C. and Trey aren't great pass catchers, but as far as route running and catching, Travon and Sam are kind of our guys from that standpoint. So they were going to be in the game. I told Trey and J.C. last week that going into the game they were probably going to get the bulk of the work at least early because of what we were trying to do offensively."
So while McMillian will likely receive a majority of the carries moving forward, Beamer maintained that both Edmunds and Coleman will continue to play a role as the Hokies enter into the second half of the year.
"I think people are quick to forget the type of players and people that they are," said Beamer. "2013, we went down there and had a heck of a night against Miami down there two years ago and Trey Edmunds ran for four touchdowns in a season that we won 8 games. J.C. Coleman last year rushed for over 100 yards three out of the last four games and was the MVP of our bowl game. So they haven't forgotten how to run the football. They're big time running backs and we're fortunate to have those guys as players and to have those guys as people."
Isaiah Ford's Breakout Season Continues
Isaiah Ford became well-acquainted with the end zone on Friday night, turning in a 3 touchdown performance that upped his touchdown tally to six on the season. Offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler noted Ford's hard work in the weight room as a factor in the sophomore's breakout season.
"He's much better," said Loeffler of Ford. "Anytime you get experience one, you're gonna be a better football player. But I think he's done a great job in the weight room. I think he's bigger and stronger. I think another year of that, he's gonna be something else."
Loeffler was also impressed with the mental growth of Ford as his comfort level in the offense continues to rise.
"He did a great job," said Loeffler. "We were running a sprint out pass that we've run here for years. He did a great job finding the fat of the zone, stayed in phase with Motley and did exactly what he was coached to do. I would say last year he wasn't doing that. There was no way that he was doing that. Again, it goes back to the experience and all those practice reps that he's had over the year."
Michael Brewer Nearing Return
Michael Brewer will be evaluated by the Virginia Tech medical staff Monday afternoon and possibly again on Tuesday morning as he recovers from a broken collarbone. Brewer nearly made his return against N.C. State, but the doctors decided to hold the senior signal-caller out for another week.
While Loeffler wouldn't get into many specifics concerning Brewer's health, he raved about how helpful he's been in getting Brenden Motley ready to play.
"He's been terrific since the time he was injured," said Loeffler. "I remember his dad saying to him whenever he broke his collarbone, 'you gotta get out there with your team.' That's the type of kid he is. That's the type of family he comes from. Virginia Tech is very important to him. He's done a great job in his role of helping the other quarterbacks come along. I think Brenden would say the same thing.
While Loeffler might not know what the future holds for Brewer, he was willing to dole out some career advice for his quarterback.
"He's a team guy and I hope someday when he's done with football, he becomes a coach because I think he'd be great," said Loeffler. "I don't know if he wants to go down that crazy path that we have, so we'll see. We'll see what he wants to do with his life after football."
Brenden Motley will likely be relegated back to the bench whenever Brewer is able to return, but Frank Beamer is pleased that the Hokies now have two legitimate options at quarterback.
"We've got two quarterbacks that can win a football game for us. That's the bottom line," said Beamer. "That's good for Virginia Tech."
Hokies Respond After Two Straight Losses
It was a somber couple of weeks in Blacksburg after back to back losses, and a third in a row against N.C. State on Friday could have pushed an already desperate fan base over the edge.
However, the Hokies answered the bell on Friday night.
"Backs were to the wall and our coaches and players I thought did a tremendous job," said Frank Beamer. "Sometimes coaches get lost in that, but I tell them 'that's when they coach their best.' That's when coaching makes a difference. Anyone can coach when things are silky smooth and going well. That's when you find out who the good coaches are when it's a little rough and people are doubting you and not many good things are being said about you...I thought I had a good coaching staff last week...It's something to build on. From a defensive standpoint, we've got some young guys, got those young freshman secondary guys, they got a little bit better last week. They fit a little better in the run support and that helped. Then I think offensively we got some weapons and it showed up last week. If we just take it and build on it, I think we've got the makings of a really good football team."
Additional Quotes
Shane Beamer
ON THE RUNNING BACK ROTATION:
"And then we had some tendencies. I get emails (that say), 'Only time that Travon's in the game, we run a jet sweep. And the only time Sam's in the game, we throw the football.' And that couldn't be accurate. Some people might think we're idiots, but we're not that dumb. We know that we have to break some tendencies. Sam carried the ball last year. Sam's carried the ball this year. Travon's carried the ball this year in the backfield. But wanted to certainly early in the game get those guys going and let Travon get some carries, let Sam get some carries...It's not a knock on J.C. and Trey. It was more our game plan and what Travon brought to the table Friday night."
ON J.C. COLEMAN AND TREY EDMUNDS CELEBRATING MCMILLIAN'S TD RUN:
"Trey was down there as well celebrating with Travon on that one. They're team guys. It's tough. People say it's not little league, everybody doesn't get to play, everybody doesn't get participation trophies and all of that, but you care about these guys. And Trey and J.C. are leaders of this football team and are great, great, great team guys. They're competitors. You want everybody to have that chance to play. But it says what kind of leaders they are and I told Trey and J.C. yesterday when I told them that Travon was going to start this week, that they're still leaders on this team. They still have a major role on this team. We saw last year how quickly running back injuries can pop up. We hopefully can keep these guys healthy throughout the season but you may not be able to. So they have to be ready to go. They're great leaders. I'm glad they're in that room. I was talking to Dave Gittings, our team chaplain, yesterday and he said 'It's tough because you care about those guys and you want them all to play, but you're fortunate that you have such a great room. And Sam and Trey and J.C. and Travon and Steven Peoples. Stacy Searles is always quick to remind me that Steven rushed for 500 yards one time in a high school football game. Stacy tells me that about twice a week. We've got quality guys in that room. They're team guys and that's what has you excited."
Scot Loeffler
ON MICHAEL BREWER:
"He was much better. We were able to get him out and get him more reps and have him practice a heck of a lot more than what he has been practicing. It came down to a basically a game-time decision and he just wasn't ready to go out and play yet."
ON THE FIVE BIG OPPORTUNITIES EVERY GAME:
"You never know when they're gonna show up. That's the cool thing about pro football, college football. Those opportunities can show up in the first five plays of the game or they can show up in the last five. You never know when they're going to happen. You need to prepare yourself in practice for those moments. And when those moments come about, you need to execute and take advantage of those situations. The parity in college football is across the board. You watch teams that are ranked in the top 5 that lose to people that they shouldn't lose to. Anyone can win. You gotta make those five plays. If you don't, you're not gonna win. If you do, you're gonna win. That's where football's at right now. It's exciting for fans. And as a coach, you're fighting those five or six plays a game."
Chuck Clark
ON A SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT IN THE LOCKER ROOM:
"I feel that nothing is ever fully accomplished until the season is over and you've actually won a championship or something like that. Nothing has been accomplished yet. We still have a long way to go and a long season ahead of us."
ON BEING LISTED AT ROVER ON THE GAME NOTES:
"With our scheme, just with different coverages, I can be playing free safety and I can also be playing rover all throughout the same game...It's probably like a 60-40 type thing. It's easy to flip back and forth throughout the game."
ON HELPING OUT ADONIS ALEXANDER:
"I know personally from my experiences, being a young guy and trying to do it in past seasons, it's a little bit harder. So I'm sure with him, it's a little bit harder. But me being an older guy, a defensive back I have to like bring him along personally for myself and kind of like be a player-coach to him."
Isaiah Ford
ON HOW ADDING WEIGHT HAS HELPED HIM:
"I think the biggest thing is blocking. Like we said, we made a priority in the spring and that's something I really wanted to improve on. I think it's helped tremendously. And as well running routes versus press coverage, being able to fight off press and being able to take some of those bumps and bruises."
ON GROWING MORE COMFORTABLE IN THE OFFENSE:
"It's just understanding the big picture of the play. Probably last year, I was just doing my own thing and trying to get open and get a touchdown whereas this year I just did my job and the ball came to me."
ON LOSING TO MIAMI IN LANE LAST SEASON:
"That was the first time I've ever gotten booed at a home game in my whole career."
ON REMEMBERING FEELING OF DEFEAT AGAINST MIAMI IN 2014:
"You still remember it in the back of your head. You don't forget it. But at the same time, it's not gonna impact this week. You just remember that feeling that you had after that game and prepare this week just as hard."
Luther Maddy
ON PLAYING IN HOME STATE OF FLORIDA FOR THE FINAL TIME:
"It's huge for me. It'll be my last game that a lot of my friends and family can watch in my college career. Hopefully I can go out there and play my best football because I'll have probably 30-plus tickets."
Frank Beamer
ON BRENDEN MOTLEY:
"I think he's done a tremendous job...Smart. Control. Very much in control. Control of the offense. I think the offensive guys feed off of that. His throwing is accurate and I think it's getting more accurate all the time. And he certainly gives you an element to run the football, pick up some valuable first downs. When you go back there and you're throwing and all your receivers are covered, the quarterback draw's not a bad option for us right now. I think he's done a fantastic job."
ON ISAIAH FORD:
"I think he has a better feel for the position. I think he's got a good feel for changing speeds in a route...He's a smart guy. He works hard...He graded out at like 90% in the run game which means he's out there trying to get blocks for the other guys. I like that. Our receivers are working hard at that."
Comments
That comment about Isaiah ford getting booed at home....ooph
I was at that game and while it was very disappointing, I hate to see fans booing their own team, they're 18-23 year olds playing a sport at the end of the day. They're still kids by our cultural standards.
It is disappointing, but what do you expect people to do? That was a sub-pathetic showing on the field that night. The defense was gashed, and the offense racked up 350 yards sideways on lateral runs and screens. I think the booing was more a voicing of displeasure towards the coaches for not putting the players in a position to succeed. I don't like to single out players at all for bad performances, but when its a bad team loss, I point the blame solely on the coaches for not having them prepared or putting them in a position to succeed.
Always directed at the coaches!
Because the players can certainly tell the difference...
What do I expect them to do? I can think of about a thousand things they could do or not do that would be better than booing...
They weren't booing. Former punter Vinnie Burns just happened to be in attendance and the crowd was actually saying, "Boo-urns!"
I thought Greg Boone was back.
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK"
this should never ever happen. You can boo the refs. You can boo the opponents when they do something crappy (dead ball fouls, starting fights, call a timeout to ice the kicker on a kickoff late in the game with an insurmountable lead, etc). Never ever boo your own team. Depressed silence in Lane is more than enough to let them know they let you down.
I'd never boo my own team.
I made the trip to Wake last year.
I booed the Hokies. They deserved it, all of them.
Edit: I also booed Cody Journell throughout the 2013 season, especially the Duke game. Additionally, I booed him each time i'd see his white trash ass downtown, which was very frequently after getting kicked off the team, again. He is probably the worst representative for VT athletics I have ever met.
Vick, Marcus
I can remember when Tyrod was boo'd at Tech and Sean Glennon was cheered. Anybody else at that Duke game?
booing your own team says more about you than it does their performance
And booing someone when you see them in public outside of their athletic environment says even more about you...
Sounds like you never met America's finest example of white privilege, CJ#89.
I was with you all the way to this comment. I mean, What?
Besides the non-sequitor of bringing the "wp" bogieman into a sports blog, how does that even apply to CJ?
He was the king of unwarranted second chances in his time at VT.
I think in total, he had two stints from failed drug tests and a longer suspension for b&e, larceny involving a weapon.
How many student athletes still get a pass after that? Without getting to far in the weeds, how do you think it would have all went down Dorenzo Hudson and his non-white friends participated in armed robbery of Journell? I understand its unsettling to play the 'wp' card... but CJ is/was a prime example.
I remember him blabbing after he was finally kicked off the team for good, about how it was a sting to get him in trouble for smoking weed, and that his family had done so much for the school, and that he could still attend the VT pro days and would be in the NFL.
Let's not go into race-based hypotheticals. That's a powder keg that is not appropriate here.
Don't most fans boo their own team, their rival(s) and the refs exclusively? Is that not what happens at the majority of sporting events? What planet of morality do you live on?
I boo at crap performances, as an expressive and impatient fan. I'd guess that makes me pretty common.
"Don't most fans boo their own team, their rival(s) and the refs exclusively?"
No. Fans most often boo refs when they believe that they have made a bad call(s). They will sometimes boo their rivals during introductions and for unsportsmanlike play. Fans boo their own team when said fans lack class and self-awareness. The players on the field are not going to say, "Oh the fans are booing. They are obviously booing the coaching decisions, not us players." Booing your own team is clown shoes.
"What planet of morality do you live on?"
Earth
"I'd guess that makes me pretty common."
You said it, I didn't.
No, most fans do not boo their team, especially college team. It's not productive, and could probably be argued as being counterproductive. Not to mention, it's pretty rude considering what those players put into the sport.
I think it's poor sport to boo anyone.
I'm certainly human and have done it, usually to refs that repeatedly make poor calls.
But then I feel bad about it and apologize if the opportunity arises.
Booing your own team? Especially amateurs, we should be ashamed.
Embarrassing. I'm embarrassed about it and I wasn't even there.
In 2014, Miami Beat us_____
a. Soundly
b. Badly
c. Soundly
d. All of the above.
This is like one of those ESM quizzes. You know it's a, but you do the math again and get c. Then they throw in option d just to screw with you...
Is it just me, or are a. and c. identical?
That's just what Dr. Hendricks wants you to believe
FYI my Halloween costume one year I went as Hendricks. Wore my name tag and all. Only the engineers at parties got it.
C. Whipped like a rented mule.
There are two types of people in this world. Number ones, and number twos. Frank Beamer is a number one. His son Shane is, and probably always will be a number two. He doesn't have the courage of his convictions and is too worried about hurting feelings.
This is not a rant. I'm sure that Shane is a capable dude, and will always make for a pretty good assistant coach.
I have to disagree I think Shane will make a great HC at a lower level and in the not too distant future.
I think his comment was directed at the fact that Shane very much wants to give participation trophies.
Sometimes you have to be straight up with the kid.
That is a pretty interesting assumption considering no one has absolutely any idea what goes on at practice or in the film reviews or on the sidelines.
That's why it's an assumption.
That's why I called it an assumption
Just read Some of his comments during interviews. He wants to be loved by all.
HC needs to make the hard decisions, and sometimes the least favorable ones. If you have a RB that is killing it as a freshman, play him. Don't feel like a senior is owed something if he is getting beat out on the field.
I love how you just give him this persona
I think a fair amount of assumptions can be made by comments/quotes he has in articles, activities, and actions. Could I be wrong, yeah, but as of right now I don't see anything supporting otherwise.
I can see it now. Andy Bitter will be writing about how William and Mary likes to use six QBs every game, and about their innovative 14 linebacker rotation.
Not a rant? Right...
I wouldn't want my #2 acting like a #1 until the #2 becomes #1. Remember that JC was ready to play last year when many players would have just given up after losing the starting job.
I'm happy that they realized that McMillian deserves the bulk of the carries. I'm not happy with how much Shane Beamer can't seem to make tough decisions. From what I gathered it was more of a Frank decision to use Sam and McMillian. I loved the breakup of downs last week with Sam being significantly better at pass protection. This week it seems like he felt bad that JC and Trey didn't get much of anything last week and wants to put them back in. If they are as great of team players as the coaches have said they are, they will understand. If anything, last week should say to keep those guys out again because McMillian is simply our dude.
J.C. Coleman has something to be very proud of in last season.
It is hard to be on the sideline, trying to be ready to go and actually be ready to go when called on, especially at this level.
He did it and stood out while doing it.
Something tells me I will remember that for a long time.
At least one of those guys should get a few touches, because I hope Tech is running the ball more than 20 times.
Why is when JCC & Edmunds get the bulk of he carries, it's not making the tough decisions but when it's McMillian & Rogers, it is?
Obviously JCC and Edmunds have seniority over McMillian, thus making it an easier decision to tell McMillian why he's not playing for said reason instead of having to tell JCC and Edmunds that they are getting benched in favor of a freshman and fullback due to their performance.
I love Sam Rogers. LOVE HIM.
But I can't wait until we see the Peoples champion at FB.
#CountryFast
I thought Friday was the end of our ridiculous RB rotation, but those quotes from Shane aren't giving me much confidence...
I kind of wish Trey Edmunds played linebacker
3 Edmunds on D at once? That would be pretty freaking awesome!
THANK YOU.
I said this last year. He's never looked natural at running back. Of course at the time, he was being praised by many as being an all ACC type back.
He was an all-American in NCAA as a LB for me. This is clear evidence to what should have happened. /s
Shane on Trey and JCC:
"I think people are quick to forget the type of players and people that they are,"
No one is forgetting. We just all remember how RB rotation should be. 1 back gets bulk of carries. Other backs get less carries. Feature backs make feature plays. If that feature back isn't working then, and only then, do you replace him with the second option.
That's why it's called 1rst string, 2nd string, 3rd string and not just String.
Except many teams - especially those like the current VT squad without a true feature back - have split carries among 2 and 3 backs (and even 4 if you include the QB).
See VT conference champions 2004 & 2010...
not comparable IMO. those backs weren't switched every single play. they were given series and even whole drives and then they switched, unless they needed a breather or injured.
The question is not whether to split the carries (no one is arguing that one back should get every carry.). How many carries each back should get over the course of the game is a good question, but not the primary question. The two big questions are the issues Shane tried -- and failed -- to address in his comments. If you run a back once or twice and then pull him out, he never gets in a rhythm. Here is what McMillian had to say about that:
And here's what Trey Edmunds had to say:
Maybe they're both wrong and it doesn't really matter, but I see the results Shane gets from the guys he has to work with, and I think at least part of the problem is that he doesn't manage them well.
The other question is the one about tendencies. Shane says,
Maybe you find that reassuring. But I count myself among those who saw the Pitt defense in perfect position to play McMillian every time he ran the jet sweep. It looked to me like they had that play pretty well figured out: as soon as they say Travon in that formation they knew exactly what was coming. Shane can tell us he's not dumb, but I'd rather he showed us.
I can still never understand this sentiment. You mean that if a player ran across the formation, the defense might actually key in on what he's doing and account for it by trying to pick him up? Or are you saying that every time we ran the jet sweep, they always bought it and stopped it? No team is going to say "oh hey, look, that guys moving. I wonder what he's doing. Oh well, it's probably nothing." So whether a LB or a DE gets wide and cuts off his pursuit to the edge, they will do that whether it's a fake or not and they adjust on the fly. Sure, putting McMillian out wide will likely give the defense the idea that we're not running him on a route but more likely going to motion him across, perhaps for a sweep. But there are times when that isn't a bad thing. If a defense thinks he's getting the ball and he doesn't because of a fake or because he does something different and runs a route or even a bubble screen outside, then what they believe is a tendency has been used against them. Yes, teams key into behaviors, formations, and personnel, but it can be used against them. And a play being blown up does not necessarily mean a bad play call at all times when it could very well also be poor execution.
I never played running back but I played in the trenches both sides of the ball. You can't be perfect one play out of one play . Football is a game of attrition. I can't imagine being asked to go into the game for one play and be expected to yield results when so much is out of my control. That is bullshit. Football is the ultimate team sport. Lefty needs to pick a back and ride him until he needs a breather. This rotation is for cowards. My belief.
"Some people might think we're idiots, but we're not that dumb."
Until proven otherwise...
My 11 year old son has started predicting when VT will run the jet sweeps. He is only wrong 20% of the time.
wow, that mean's 80% of the time he's right 100% of the time!
seriously though, your son, every senile grandmother at Shady Acres and the dead rat I saw yesterday can see these phucking jet sweeps a mile away.
Let me guess how that goes...player starts motioning across the formation. Must be a jet sweep! Now to Karen with the weather.
If you can see the line up, pause the game and guess the play every single time, you are more likely lucky than good. The point of a good OC, which schematically speaking Loeffler is a good OC whether the execution is there or not is another issue, is to be able to run different plays with the same personnel and same formation. We do that. This is the same as the people when Stiney was in charge who would sit there and say "hey, I bet we're going to run up the middle." Sure, they may be right more often than not because our team was nowhere near as proficient at passing and WR routes as we are now, but it certainly wasn't the same play that everyone seemed to believe it was. That same jet sweep is what was so effective at breaking open a lane for McMillian's long TD. Plays must be looked at in the scope of the entire drive/game and not just in a vacuum of an individual call.
Is it just me, or...
Nope.
I was mostly kidding. i agree with what you're saying but when you run formations that allow for multiple plays then the defense will key in to limit the number of plays you actually get from that formation. and jet sweeps are the easiest thing to eliminate I suppose, so I see it more as the sacrificial lamb play that we must run to afford an opportunity at other plays.
I'm always amazed at how good people are at doing this after the play, but are far less accurate right before the play when asked.
oh man Shane's quotes...yeesh
you can tell he really feels badly about not getting carries to all his backs. I think he feels like he's snubbing them. Shane is too nice to be the RB coach. Really nice stand-up guy...not cut-throat enough to manage football players IMO
First time I have seen it expressed that way and I wholeheartedly agree
Maybe he'd be interested in taking a certain coaching job at a school he used to coach at...
Or maybe he knows that the NC St scheme isn't going to be the answer against some other opponents?
I don't understand why you're so adamantly against narrowing down the RB rotation. I get that we don't have any super talents at the position, but do you really expect any of the backs to improve at all with limited snaps? There are FCS teams that have better running games than us. Guess what, they don't interchange 4 different running backs every play. They pick a guy and stick with him and more often than not he improves throughout the season. If you want to see Coleman get a bulk of the carries that's fine. I don't have a problem with that. Just hand the rock to the same guy consistently so he can build on each successive performance as the year goes on and maybe, just maybe, we'll have a strong enough running game to scare a couple teams
Don't waste your energy asking that question.
I'm pretty sure it's Shane squandering his recruiting time defending himself to rubes like us. /s?
I don't think it's as much being against narrowing down the rotation as it is not buying into the problems being solved. I see a bunch of people rejoicing as if something monumental changed. I see a bulk of McMillian's yards coming on one play that I have no doubt he could have made with or without the extra snaps. I do however think he has the greatest upside. I still don't think he's complete enough to call a feature back either. I'm not mad if he continues to get the bulk of the carries, he has appeared to earn it. Hopefully by the end of the year he can be really great all around. I don't think he was ready to be thrown in as a feature back at the beginning of this season. So while many are saying finally Shane played Mcmillian more. Maybe we ought to be saying finally McMillian has progressed to a point that he can start taking the bulk of the carries.
I am also one that thinks rhythm is overrated. Throw stats at me all you want, but I think what you will find is teams have better stats playing predominately one back because that one back is really good. 3 really good backs could be even more productive on fresh legs, but who has that many?
SOOO much this.. it's like we're throwing 3rbs at a wall and hoping 1 sticks without actually giving 1 rb the chance to shine. In the 1st 3 games I did not see any RB get a play that I thought hmm that was specifically designed for him.
This past week it very much seems like Travon and Sam were given plays or packages to excel, they did pretty well and we won. This week it could be JC and Trey and if they do well great.
McMillan needs 20 touches. He has done enough on limited carries to show that he deserves to be the feature back, and he can be a gamebreaker at any moment. J.C. is likely the odd-man out because the coaches view Trey as a situational "power back" even though he gets dropped like a sack of feathers.
On the D side - I was quick to crush Motuapuaka in the past, but that dude is really stepping up, playing physical, and making a difference. Adonis and Mook are also going to be stars, and D-Block is not missing Stroman.
Shane Beamer is a coddler. Plain and simple.
He makes shoes?
He makes codpieces
I think that's a cobbler
Did somebody say cobbler?
Yes, please. Make mine peach, with a scoop of vanilla.
From the Homeplace
He specified that it's a Shane cobbler. You'll eat what you are served!
If you can even order it. Every time I ask the server what flavor cobbler they have, it changes...
I actually think dad went and told Shane, you are playing McMillian and that's final. I do find it odd that everybody in the Hokie Nation knew which back to feature except the RB coach. That is unacceptable.
In all fairness, his Dad may have been the only one comfortable telling him this, or at least the only one that he had to listen to. Would you tell the son of your boss that he wasn't doing his job correctly, especially when said son was brought on board so the two could work together before the Dad retired? If you did tell the son and he didn't listen, what then? As much as we like to think that the coaching staff is totally professional, some inkling of that nepotism has to be at play, even if only subconsciously. I think that maybe Frank tried to let Shane figure it out on his own, but eventually Frank saw the clock ticking and told Shane what was up.
A lot of talk about Ford today and rightfully so, but I think Cam was just as good. Any time Motley found himself scrambling out of the pocket Cam worked his way open, several times for a first down. This duo really is something else
#camsaiah
He hasn't been finding the end zone as much, but he has picked up some crucial 3rd downs and made some really nice plays the last few weeks. If Stroman or a 3rd WR steps up, watch out.
Yep. It's like Ford is our de facto home run threat and Phillips is our possession guy. I'm cool with that.