Have we ever made it this many times in one season?
Either way OH MY GOD WHO WAS THIS BECAUSE I FEEL SO BAD FOR YOU.
So i avoid hearing about the game all day.... Turned off alerts on my sports apps. Texted 11 people telling them not to text me anything so i can watch the dvr-ed game when i finally get off work. Dodge updates on the radio. Literally tell fellow fans to shut their mouths (with quick follow up apologies). Imagine my dissapointment when my grandma tells me the results of the game...NOW, IMAGINE MY DISSAPOINTMENT AND HORROR AS I SLOWLY DISCOVER VIRGINIA TECH DID NOT IN FACT WIN 30 TO 20 OVER MIAMI!!!!!
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Same thing happened to me during basketball season last year. I couldn't watch the UVA @ VT game when it aired. Before I could watch the replay my grandmother, who watches most VT football and basketball games, called me. The first thing I said was "Please don't talk about the Tech game, I haven't seen it yet.". The next words out of her mouth were "Oh, it was disappointing.".
Love you grandma.
With threads titled "Vent Thread," I bet they don't have far to look.
It would be cool if we'd stop making it.
It looks like the TKP community is providing the content....
The content is always provided by the fans of the team in question. This just means TKP is their go to blog, so yay! us?
Personally, I found the way they began and ended this comment to be more enjoyable than anything about that actual game:
It would be cool if we'd stop making it.
It would be cool if VT stopped having a REASON to make it.
Gives new meaning to why we no longer chant Stick it in!
Fuckin Got'em.
Wait... Shit... :(
I noticed that. An while I get that TWIS is definitely not a quality source of football analysis, I think this is indicative of the trap we've fallen into.
I pointed out on another thread, we have twelve touchdown drives so far this season that covered 75+ yards. We have the ability to produce long, sustained drives. The problem is, we can't do it with any consistency.
Casual football fans and talking heads don't know what to do with inconsistency. Then narrative is that a team is either good or bad. So a team like us, whose primary problem is consistency, gets the rep that we are inept on offense. And the narrative sticks, because that's how we look on about half our drives. The other half, when we have our success, gets written off as a fluke, because, as the common logic goes, if we were good, we'd be able to do that all the time.
Mediocrity is it's own special kind of hell, because people just don't know what to make of you.
I think the narrative about VT right now is that we are inept offensively because we have been...you know...inept offensively for a good bit now.
You said it yourself, a team is either "good or bad". I hate to break it to you, but currently the side of that question that the VT program falls on leaves no room for ambiguity. When your offense has been bad for year, when your defense is the worst its been in a decade, when you struggle to beat P5 teams at home for a couple of years now, I am not so sure there is a struggle for narrative there any more.
That's the thing, though. The comment was VT can't sustain long drives. That's demonstrably false. We're averaging 1.7 long touchdown drives per game. The problem is not that we cannot sustain a drive. The problem is we're either getting an 8 play, 75 yard touchdown drive, or we're punting after a 5 play, 19 yard drive.
I think it would actually be easier to accept if we were just bad. But it's way more infuriating than that. Because just when you're ready to throw your hands up and exclaim that suck, we go 80 yards like we're playing against a junior varsity team.
If we were just bad, at least we would know what we are. But instead we see flashes of greatness that we can't sustain drive to drive. It's the false promise that slowly kills you inside. Like I said, mediocrity is it's own special hell.
I still understand their comment. They are a comedic site that is not going to spend the time to dive into the metrics when the end result is that the Hokies are not a relevant team that basically wins as much as we lose these days.
That's the actual problem
Yup, exactly. That's the idea I was trying to preface my original comment with.
Mediocrity is it's own special kind of hell, because people just don't know what to make of you.
If you're trying to analyze mediocrity to determine if it's "good" or "bad", I think you already have your answer.
Maybe it just depends on your standard. If your standard is championships, you're not going to make it.
There's two different kinds of mediocre. There's uniform mediocrity, where you maintain a steady baseline of meh, such as Iowa. They're just kind of there, respectable, good football fundamentals, boring as watching paint dry. Every now and then they have a really good season like they might be having this year, but nobody really cares because you know they'll regress next year because they can't sustain excellence, though they're always pretty good.
Then there's feast or famine mediocrity, which is us exactly. A .500 football team whose wins look dominant and whose losses look like a doormat. You're either firing on all cylinders or coasting on fumes. You know it's not a talent problem, because they have enough talent to beat anyone, as proven by actually beating anyone. And yet the same team will make an AAC also ran look like an NFL franchise.
Which kind is this?
Famine of biblical proportions.
Agreed.
As an Iowa fan as well, that first paragraph was hard to read as there is a lot of truth in there. Iowa goes on these runs when they have a great O-line and good QB play. When the line is clicking, they can put just about anyone back there at RB and win a lot of games. Iowa definitely falls back down after those guys graduate and it seems to take a year or two to build it back up. I just enjoy the ride while it's happening. Iowa definitely does not get the top talent, but Kirk has them playing fundamental football to help beat more talented teams. Kind of how we used to do things in Blacksburg but with a little extra swagger.
Whenever I meet an Iowa fan (and I meet bunches, living in western Illinois) I always have a lot of respect for them because you know they love their team for the right reason. And they're also never an embarrassment, either in terms of record or scandal. They are what they are, and their fans love them for it.