I'm trying my best to keep my class and not make an account on their message board to reply to the message, "that was the worst VT team we've ever played and I'm embarrassed"...
-chokes something and watches re-run on ESPNU-
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no. i used another e-mail. I tried to hide me being from VT. But I don't think they're letting anyone new on the site tonight. Just gonna have to wait for tomorrow!
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I'm trolling too!
I'm calling for the firing of PJ! He's too one-dimensional, and the boring option attack couldn't take advantage of a Hokie secondary full of true freshmen! PJ's time is over, and they need a spread coach to take them to the next level.
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I'm a junior in college but unfortunately VT didn't have my major :( Like I said, I grew up in Lane and it was always my dream to go there. I regret not choosing something else to major in every single day of my life! Haha. But I'm in Bristol and I come up to Blacksburg all the time to make up for it!
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Trolling the Stinktalk to get CJ fired might be my greatest contribution to Hokies football yet; If successful, think of all the potential knee injuries I could be saving us!
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Georgia Tech's offensive strategy relies so heavily on the option, they can't throw the ball. They're awful in pass protection. I swear, everytime Lee dropped back we had 2-3 guys on his butt. They cut/chop/whatever block and it just doesn't work outside of the option.
They're too blind to see that though. CPJ has to totally commit to the option or keep getting this half and half thing that bit him tonight.
/my observations - French and Mason might could prove me wrong.
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They absolutely do not have any other choice with their personnel. That being said, that offense will be far better against other defenses the rest of the year. This will easily be their worst offensive output for yards and points.
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That 2009 loss still hurts as much as that 2007 BC game. Hokies don't forget, and we sure learned our lesson from that spread-option! Now, we just need to get Clemson again...
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That board is hilarious. They are 4-1 and want their coach fired. Sounds familiar, say what? Anyway, I don't feel so badly now seeing that there are other engineers who can't spell, unless they really meant, "trader".
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Yep, they certainly DO NOT own the state of North Carolina; it's close, but Tech has the edge in NC. I just looked up each team's records against ACC North Carolina teams since 2004:
I think I could read their board all morning. Truly enjoyable, especially after some of the ridiculous comments they posted in the days leading up to the game. Sweet sweet victory.
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Just got home. So very sad to see a 96% pro Tech crowd AND FULL STUDENT SECTIONS and Johnson DID NOT have this team ready! CRY certainly did. And I totally agree the o-line sucked along with Lee...big time.
Thats not what it looked - or sounded - like on television. I'd say the stadium was 80-85% full, which is shameful considering the anniversary celebration and the fact that it was a Thursday Night game against a bigtime opponent. And the only crowd chanting I heard all game was the audible "Let's Go" "Ho-kies" from the VT contingent in the Fourth Quarter...and you could hear it OVER a cutaway to the trio in the booth. Roaring Round of Applause to the Hokies who made it to the game. Well done.
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I loved this. I saw the look at the whole stadium early on and it wasn't full. I didn't get the joke. I also loved hearing LET'S GO HOKIES in the 4th. It was the loudest anyone in the stadium had been all day. Truly impressive, fans of ours, well done and turkey leg to all of you.
Did anyone else see that ESPN has us up 6-0 before the opening kickoff?
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I got home this morning from Atlanta and haven't gotten to watch the game yet. Section 129 was LOUD in the Fourth. The Let's Go Hokies chants were LOUD and the team was waving from the sideline cause they knew we were there. If anyone saw a guy in row 3 in a #4 Jersey, screaming Let's Go to start the chants, that dude was me. My wife actually said that the Cheerleaders were taking their cues to start from me at the end. There's nothing sweeter than yelling it out and getting that sweet unison reply in a opponents field. God that was a great game. Definitely the best away game I've attended. GO HOKIES
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They usually only go to one neutral site game, one away game and the UVA game if it's at UVA, IIRC. The away game is usually the closest school possible
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I think depending on the distance for the neutral site game, then there won't be an away travel, unless it's something day trippable like UNC or Wake Forest. So I think this year it's probably Bama and UVA, since the closest day-trippable schools are all at Lane this year.
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No, Greenville is slightly outside the range of travel I think, being close to 5 hours? Especially since ECU tend to be nooners, so that would mean leaving unreasonably early.
The only time I recall traveling to an ECU game was the ECU game held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Was hot as all everything that day.
Also not a good game
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1. Always travel to @UVA
2. Usually travel to big OOC games at neutral sites (e.g. Bama '09/'13, Boise '10)
3. Never travel more than twice during the regular season (Thanks Weaver...)
4. Travel to a nearby away game in NC if it would not violate rule 3 (notable exception: @Clemson '12 but it was the ONLY regular season game the MVs traveled for)
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i remember weaver saying something on ttl a couple of years ago about wanting to start a smaller travel version of the mv's that they could afford to send to more road games. i know a lot of schools do that. i remember at wake in 06 sitting in the row right above the mvs. it was awesome. they should come to more away games than they do.
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It's not Weaver that says the MVs can't travel to away games, it's a band policy. Either the whole band goes or nobody goes. So the budget only allows for everyone travelling to 2 games a year. Typically it's UVA or UNC since they alternate years and then 1 more. Occasionally it's Wake since that's an easy trip. While it seems stupid that we don't send a band to all games, consider this. Michigan sent a band to the Sugar Bowl. That was not their full band. They all have to audition to be able to go on the trip whereas we have an audition process to make the group and that's it. They left over 150 people. Some bands have twice as many people in them so every person has a substitute, but only half get to go anywhere. Our band follows a philosophy that no one person deserves something over another so it's all or nothing. Maybe one day we can pull some extra money to be able to go to 3 or 4 games a year.
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i didnt know that was the philosophy that the band has, that's interesting. it makes sense, send them all to less games so everyone can have the experience because they've all earned their place. it's just great to have the band there at road games belting out songs that we hear at lane. so how do they determine who plays at the basketball games? thats not the whole 330 members. i always assumed they were marching virginians, or is that a whole separate audition process?
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The basketball pep band is a completely different audition process. Most are MVs but not everyone. The difference is that MVs counts as a class in the fall for 1 credit. So you get a grade and everything based upon attendance and stuff. It counts for one of those fine arts areas or something. Pep band on the other hand is entirely volunteer.
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We went to the BAMA game, and we will also go to the UVA game this year. If we're in the ACCCG and a Bowl Game, we'll go to those as well. That's typically all they'll budget for us to travel to. That said, last night was a Thursday night game on the road, and given our band's typical travel schedule, we likely would have missed Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday classes for it. I would have totally been down, but whoever is in charge of these things obviously isn't. We don't go to all the neutral site games either. For instance, we did not go to Fed-Ex last year. We did go to Clemson however, which was farther than Greenville. I think generally, given the budget, they try to send the band to rivalry/marquee matchup games. Due to this, it is unlikely that you'll see us traveling to ECU in coming years (though not impossible, depending on who else our away schedule includes). Hope this helps.
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That's correct. I think they only go to Neutral Site games if VT is considered the "Home" team, which they were at Bama, FedEx 3 years ago, and a few other games, while last year's FedEx game Cincy was the "Home" team. And for away games I think either they have to be invited, or it's also an agreement on what Athletics thinks I believe.
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Wow. I just spent time reading through the entire thread. Some level headed comments there, but most of their arguements centered around two school of thoughts: Paul Johnson failed to adjust to Bud Foster's scheme and Paul Johnson is too stubborn to change his philosophy. I think some of their posters are right in not entirely blaming Vad Lee, because as French mentioned in his film review, the more Lee took a pounding, the more Lee became timid.
But I have to agree with one thing - Bud Foster has owed CPJ since he made that trip to Iowa to learn how the Hawkeyes were able to beat Georgia Tech.
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Paul and Bud always duel in these games. They're the best at making adjustments to the others' strategy and they're both very very intelligent with their systems. These guys don't just put adjustments in at halftime, it's a series-by-series or even play-by-play adjustment. By time one adjusts to the other, the first adds something else for the second to get around.
I attributed Iowa's victory over GT to their defensive line, being much bigger and much stronger than GT. People talk about having a lot of time to prepare for GT's system being key to success because it isn't a system they're used to defending. But if you can 1) Keep your gaps, 2) Defeat cut blocks, and 3) Push their o-line around, you'll be successful against this offense. Iowa definitely had time, and they could definitely push GT around. Discipline is key, so Iowa could beat them and USCw could not, even with the extra time.
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Discipline is key, so Iowa could beat them and USCw could not, even with the extra time.
Putting "discipline" in the same sentence as USC-W who just fired their head coach does not belong in the same sentence. Furthermore, I watched the Sun Bowl between the Bees and the Fighting Condoms, and I could tell that the Condoms were not into the game as much as the Bees.
Yet, Foster made the trip to Iowa, against doctor's orders after having his back surgery done, to learn how they were able to beat Georgia Tech. Since then, Foster evolved his approach in beating the Bees.
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To beat PJ's offense, a team needs time to prepare, discipline, size and strength on the D-line, and am I forgetting anything? Oh yeah! Bud Foster in large doses. Agreed? Thank you :-)
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Vad Lee is great when he's putting up 70 against FCS schools, but when he plays arguably the best defense in the country right now you want to bench him??? GT fans are delusional
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I love this
LoL. U r GT. duh
Here's my favorite from their Stinktalk site:
Lol at us... making their QB look like Johnny Manziel's daddy.
Not understand your own offense? You can do that. You go to Georgia Tech. Football literacy is at an all time low in this country.
Our D whupped their O. Nuff said.
That site has been trolling all week. I'm going to enjoy watching them whine about everything they talked shit about up till tonight.
It's even funnier, because like the retards on here, they're calling for their own Leal.
I'm trying my best to keep my class and not make an account on their message board to reply to the message, "that was the worst VT team we've ever played and I'm embarrassed"...
-chokes something and watches re-run on ESPNU-
waiting for my confirmation e-mail so i can troll all day tomorrow!!!
Please respond to that for me! And make it good! :)
You didn't use your VT.edu email address did you? Lol
no. i used another e-mail. I tried to hide me being from VT. But I don't think they're letting anyone new on the site tonight. Just gonna have to wait for tomorrow!
A few years ago i tried to get on their site and couldn't.. so hope you can
I'm trolling too!
I'm calling for the firing of PJ! He's too one-dimensional, and the boring option attack couldn't take advantage of a Hokie secondary full of true freshmen! PJ's time is over, and they need a spread coach to take them to the next level.
Ahhhhh, I'm so glad my daddy raised me in a football stadium so I can thoroughly enjoy laughing and talking on here :)
You are a rare gem of a young lady...kudos to dear 'ol dad! And btw...have a turkey leg on me.
Amen to that! Nothing better than a girl that knows about football....unless she also went to VT.
I'm a junior in college but unfortunately VT didn't have my major :( Like I said, I grew up in Lane and it was always my dream to go there. I regret not choosing something else to major in every single day of my life! Haha. But I'm in Bristol and I come up to Blacksburg all the time to make up for it!
It's the thought that counts! *retracts statement above due to looking dumb now*
The amendment should have been "...ESPECIALLY IF SHE'S A HOKIE!!!!"
Since you don't have to be an alum to be one. ;-)
Yea....let's go with that.
Stealth trolling...BRILLIANT!
Trolling the Stinktalk to get CJ fired might be my greatest contribution to Hokies football yet; If successful, think of all the potential knee injuries I could be saving us!
Georgia Tech's offensive strategy relies so heavily on the option, they can't throw the ball. They're awful in pass protection. I swear, everytime Lee dropped back we had 2-3 guys on his butt. They cut/chop/whatever block and it just doesn't work outside of the option.
They're too blind to see that though. CPJ has to totally commit to the option or keep getting this half and half thing that bit him tonight.
/my observations - French and Mason might could prove me wrong.
They absolutely do not have any other choice with their personnel. That being said, that offense will be far better against other defenses the rest of the year. This will easily be their worst offensive output for yards and points.
As CPJ said to Bud: They got out schemed. Suck it Mr Chop Block
That 2009 loss still hurts as much as that 2007 BC game. Hokies don't forget, and we sure learned our lesson from that spread-option! Now, we just need to get Clemson again...
They're calling for CPJ to be fired and wow.
http://www.stingtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74294
10.4 Million dollar buy out.
I never could find the board. I thought the name was STINK talk.
Vote up. You've added a couple of minutes to my life.
Also, apparently Facyson is a "trader."
http://www.stingtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74276
This makes me smile.
AHAHAHAHAHA...HAHA...HAHAHA...HA.
I'm guessing because he is from Georgia and decided to go to the best school in the nation for DBs? Go cry into your blankies, Jacket fans.
Did they formerly extend him a scholarship offer?
That board is hilarious. They are 4-1 and want their coach fired. Sounds familiar, say what? Anyway, I don't feel so badly now seeing that there are other engineers who can't spell, unless they really meant, "trader".
Maybe Facyson is a fur trader on the side...that would make sense right?
I was thinking stocks, but fur is okay I guess.
I believe it is "butt hurt futures" whatever that is...
We're talking Georgia Tech; Facyson's obviously an options trader.
http://www.stingtalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1354215&postcount=22
@His last statement HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA........no
Yep, they certainly DO NOT own the state of North Carolina; it's close, but Tech has the edge in NC. I just looked up each team's records against ACC North Carolina teams since 2004:
UNC: VT (7-2) GT (8-2)
NC State: VT (3-1) GT (3-2)
Duke: VT (9-0) GT (10-0)
Wake: VT (4-0) GT (3-1)
VT Record: 23-3 (88%)
GT Record: 24-5 (83%)
If you throw in ECU, App St, Elon and WCU:
VT Record: 30-4 (88%)
GT Record: 25-5 (83%)
is that what other teams' forums are like? Good god that was awful.
I think I could read their board all morning. Truly enjoyable, especially after some of the ridiculous comments they posted in the days leading up to the game. Sweet sweet victory.
Hmmm...
Thats not what it looked - or sounded - like on television. I'd say the stadium was 80-85% full, which is shameful considering the anniversary celebration and the fact that it was a Thursday Night game against a bigtime opponent. And the only crowd chanting I heard all game was the audible "Let's Go" "Ho-kies" from the VT contingent in the Fourth Quarter...and you could hear it OVER a cutaway to the trio in the booth. Roaring Round of Applause to the Hokies who made it to the game. Well done.
I loved this. I saw the look at the whole stadium early on and it wasn't full. I didn't get the joke. I also loved hearing LET'S GO HOKIES in the 4th. It was the loudest anyone in the stadium had been all day. Truly impressive, fans of ours, well done and turkey leg to all of you.
Did anyone else see that ESPN has us up 6-0 before the opening kickoff?
I did, I guess they knew that we were about to score and to just tack on the points then, :D.
I noted that on the game thread. It was almost like they thought we needed help or like he said, they knew we were gonna score
I got home this morning from Atlanta and haven't gotten to watch the game yet. Section 129 was LOUD in the Fourth. The Let's Go Hokies chants were LOUD and the team was waving from the sideline cause they knew we were there. If anyone saw a guy in row 3 in a #4 Jersey, screaming Let's Go to start the chants, that dude was me. My wife actually said that the Cheerleaders were taking their cues to start from me at the end. There's nothing sweeter than yelling it out and getting that sweet unison reply in a opponents field. God that was a great game. Definitely the best away game I've attended. GO HOKIES
BTW, is there a reason why our band wasn't there? I thought they would be in Sec 131. The game obviously wasn't sold out.
They usually only go to one neutral site game, one away game and the UVA game if it's at UVA, IIRC. The away game is usually the closest school possible
I think depending on the distance for the neutral site game, then there won't be an away travel, unless it's something day trippable like UNC or Wake Forest. So I think this year it's probably Bama and UVA, since the closest day-trippable schools are all at Lane this year.
They didn't go to ECU?
No, Greenville is slightly outside the range of travel I think, being close to 5 hours? Especially since ECU tend to be nooners, so that would mean leaving unreasonably early.
The only time I recall traveling to an ECU game was the ECU game held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Was hot as all everything that day.
Also not a good game
I believe you are correct. Turkey leg for you my good man
My 6 years of experience in the MVs:
1. Always travel to @UVA
2. Usually travel to big OOC games at neutral sites (e.g. Bama '09/'13, Boise '10)
3. Never travel more than twice during the regular season (Thanks Weaver...)
4. Travel to a nearby away game in NC if it would not violate rule 3 (notable exception: @Clemson '12 but it was the ONLY regular season game the MVs traveled for)
i remember weaver saying something on ttl a couple of years ago about wanting to start a smaller travel version of the mv's that they could afford to send to more road games. i know a lot of schools do that. i remember at wake in 06 sitting in the row right above the mvs. it was awesome. they should come to more away games than they do.
It's not Weaver that says the MVs can't travel to away games, it's a band policy. Either the whole band goes or nobody goes. So the budget only allows for everyone travelling to 2 games a year. Typically it's UVA or UNC since they alternate years and then 1 more. Occasionally it's Wake since that's an easy trip. While it seems stupid that we don't send a band to all games, consider this. Michigan sent a band to the Sugar Bowl. That was not their full band. They all have to audition to be able to go on the trip whereas we have an audition process to make the group and that's it. They left over 150 people. Some bands have twice as many people in them so every person has a substitute, but only half get to go anywhere. Our band follows a philosophy that no one person deserves something over another so it's all or nothing. Maybe one day we can pull some extra money to be able to go to 3 or 4 games a year.
i didnt know that was the philosophy that the band has, that's interesting. it makes sense, send them all to less games so everyone can have the experience because they've all earned their place. it's just great to have the band there at road games belting out songs that we hear at lane. so how do they determine who plays at the basketball games? thats not the whole 330 members. i always assumed they were marching virginians, or is that a whole separate audition process?
The basketball pep band is a completely different audition process. Most are MVs but not everyone. The difference is that MVs counts as a class in the fall for 1 credit. So you get a grade and everything based upon attendance and stuff. It counts for one of those fine arts areas or something. Pep band on the other hand is entirely volunteer.
We went to the BAMA game, and we will also go to the UVA game this year. If we're in the ACCCG and a Bowl Game, we'll go to those as well. That's typically all they'll budget for us to travel to. That said, last night was a Thursday night game on the road, and given our band's typical travel schedule, we likely would have missed Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday classes for it. I would have totally been down, but whoever is in charge of these things obviously isn't. We don't go to all the neutral site games either. For instance, we did not go to Fed-Ex last year. We did go to Clemson however, which was farther than Greenville. I think generally, given the budget, they try to send the band to rivalry/marquee matchup games. Due to this, it is unlikely that you'll see us traveling to ECU in coming years (though not impossible, depending on who else our away schedule includes). Hope this helps.
That's correct. I think they only go to Neutral Site games if VT is considered the "Home" team, which they were at Bama, FedEx 3 years ago, and a few other games, while last year's FedEx game Cincy was the "Home" team. And for away games I think either they have to be invited, or it's also an agreement on what Athletics thinks I believe.
Here's my favorite so far, re: Faycon
I don't know what he traded, but that man does not feel like he got a fair deal.
http://www.stingtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74276
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize miner already posted this
Mmmmm, GT... your tears taste so good
that was the best episode of south park ever
Crack Baby Athletic Association.
I could name like 15-20 that I'd give that accolade, but Scott Tenorman was definitely up there.
Your tears of unfathomable sadness. Yummy. Yummy, you guys.
Man they are calling for everyone's head on that board
Yeah, it's awful there. Everyone's so negative and bitter to each other, players, and coaches.
I love you guys and TKP.
i just love the fact that this site is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than any other site....ever
Wow. I just spent time reading through the entire thread. Some level headed comments there, but most of their arguements centered around two school of thoughts: Paul Johnson failed to adjust to Bud Foster's scheme and Paul Johnson is too stubborn to change his philosophy. I think some of their posters are right in not entirely blaming Vad Lee, because as French mentioned in his film review, the more Lee took a pounding, the more Lee became timid.
But I have to agree with one thing - Bud Foster has owed CPJ since he made that trip to Iowa to learn how the Hawkeyes were able to beat Georgia Tech.
Paul and Bud always duel in these games. They're the best at making adjustments to the others' strategy and they're both very very intelligent with their systems. These guys don't just put adjustments in at halftime, it's a series-by-series or even play-by-play adjustment. By time one adjusts to the other, the first adds something else for the second to get around.
I attributed Iowa's victory over GT to their defensive line, being much bigger and much stronger than GT. People talk about having a lot of time to prepare for GT's system being key to success because it isn't a system they're used to defending. But if you can 1) Keep your gaps, 2) Defeat cut blocks, and 3) Push their o-line around, you'll be successful against this offense. Iowa definitely had time, and they could definitely push GT around. Discipline is key, so Iowa could beat them and USCw could not, even with the extra time.
Putting "discipline" in the same sentence as USC-W who just fired their head coach does not belong in the same sentence. Furthermore, I watched the Sun Bowl between the Bees and the Fighting Condoms, and I could tell that the Condoms were not into the game as much as the Bees.
Yet, Foster made the trip to Iowa, against doctor's orders after having his back surgery done, to learn how they were able to beat Georgia Tech. Since then, Foster evolved his approach in beating the Bees.
I think we agree, so I'm not sure I understand the response. Or are we agreeing?
To beat PJ's offense, a team needs time to prepare, discipline, size and strength on the D-line, and am I forgetting anything? Oh yeah! Bud Foster in large doses. Agreed? Thank you :-)
Always the voice of moderation, Chachi. Thank you
Moderation and turkey legs for everyone (except trolls), that's my motto.
My wife (an Iowa grad) supremely enjoyed that bowl game.
Vad Lee is great when he's putting up 70 against FCS schools, but when he plays arguably the best defense in the country right now you want to bench him??? GT fans are delusional
Not the number 1 3rd down defense that belongs to another school....
If only GT had Mark Leal they could replace Lee with him....oh wait wrong school