There was no coach speak here. He's already starting the trash talk, and this time its against us fans. Are you ready to be personally challenged?
Is that a Challenge Narduzzi???Terror Dome are you ready to rock ?! #Hokies pic.twitter.com/dkjhGi2JmX— Exit Light Enter Podcast (@exitlight276) November 21, 2019
The gauntlet has been thrown down. Are you ready to accept the challenge?
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Ok, but you wrong doe.gif
is it a false start if they clearly line up in the neutral zone?
pfft. And earlier in the week someone was saying we "don't play in the game."
Damn, I love when coaches drop the coach speak. Makes the games more exciting having a bit of trash talk involved.
I sure hope he has one early in the game. And often.
And I hope he embraces the atmosphere by losing badly in the terrordome.
Me after 2 false starts in a row:
I hope they have one false start early on, and Narduzzi goes absolutely ham at the player on the sideline so badly that the whole team is timid and a beat late reacting to the snap and we have a dozen five yard sacks and a few blocked kicks/punts instead
My first thought was, have they been preaching this so much all week that the lineman will be slow off the ball.
Don't false start, don't false start, don't false start.... Our D line needs to tell them that over and over.
They probably did
At this point, I don't know whether uplegging your comment or leaving it at 25 is more honoring...
Just know that I agree with your statement.
You're out of the #25 Superstition Thread, leg away, it's safe.
They're one of the most penalized teams in the country. I like the odds.
*waynes world "game on!".gif*
Ok - who wants to get this in front of the students? I feel like this is another Call to Arms.
Yes, it's a challenge to the fans.
Yeah. Alum07, I think we need an edit on the heading. Throw that "CALL TO ARMS!!!" up front.
Paging Skutt....
Feel like Henry always knows how to spread the call to the right people.
I sent this to my little cousin who's a freshman and diehard Hokie since pretty much birth. She's already working on spreading it as much as possible with the students.
Done and done
God bless this man for constantly giving us reasons to hate him and his team! We can certainly agree with WVU that Pitt eats Shit.
The only good part of fedex stadium not having its shit together was both teams chanting "eat shit pitt." The rest of the experience sucked, Dan Snyder sucks.
Aww hell naw!!!
And I already got a bourbon prescription from Flippin.
What a tool
Now I've got to go to the game just to tell Narduzzi he was wrong when his team inevitably gets a false start
Ah shit there are stub hub tickets for Row A right behind old Duzzis bench so that I can make sure he hears me....
I hope they do that, and the crowd goes nuts.
Something tells me that this was ill-advised on his part. Fuck Pat Narduzzi.
I really hope one of the smart folks on our Marketing Team has clipped this already and has it ready to go up on the big board after their first false start on Saturday.
It's shocking how easy this idiot makes it to hate Pittsburgh when I truly have no reason to.
They need to play the clip right before Enter Sandman.
*Get ready for another earthquake game.
I want this^^^
After the first? How about after all false starts? Let's be conservative and say they will have 15-20 false starts.
Why stop at 20 when they could have 25?
Michael-Keaton-dismissive-wank.gif
Man, what a reference....this movie flies under the radar, kudos good sir.
One of my favorite all time gifs.
Is that from Night Shift?
I believe it's Multiplicity.
I want every false start in GIFtory!!!!
And it's going to be cold, rainy...weather games are the best games. God I'm pumped.
Hey Pat........ FUCK YOU!
All of us on Saturday. LET'S GO!!!
HOKIES!!!
Delicious.
The gift that keeps on giving....
Their the most penalized team in the league, I think.
Good luck, Nardouche.
125/130 in penalties per game.
is that penalty yards, or number of penalties or a fraction of a penalty? at this point i don't know which is the most ridiculous.
That is average number of penalties per game not yardage though I'm sure I could find that stat eventually.
I think the answer he's looking for is that it's Pitt's rank among the 130 FBS teams for penalties per game.
Pitt is averaging 125 penalties per game?? Yikes
s/
Most are probably for pass interference though, as Nards still has no idea what that actually is.
Real time video of Nardouchey on his way to digging his own grave for Saturday at Lane Stadium.
I didn't have a voice the day after the WF game but man it was worth it.
I envision the Pitt offensive lineman really waiting extra time to ensure the ball is snapped before they move.
If that is what Narduzzi is preaching this week at practice, expect us to look like Florida does here...
Nice job, O-line!
This used to be some sort of weird O line thing where they wouldn't move when the defense was offsides. I have no idea what the benefit of that was....like the play is still ongoing and your QB is going to take a lick
I loved the wrinkle that I want to say Fuente brought over in 2016 where if we get the defense offside, the OL reaches out and hits their shoulder pad. Boom, easy 5 yards without needing to snap the ball
Yeah that's a much smarter strategy.... off the top of my head I can think of plays where Florida, FSU, and Tennessee (above) did this dumb play. I don't think a single one resulted in a completion.
Nardouche: "We had no false starts at Pedo State and we won't have any in Blacksburg either"
HOKIENATION: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.gif."
You know, the more I think about it, reading quotes like this makes me think it would be a really good idea for VT to install a prominent False Start Counter in Lane. Have it keep track of 3 things
1 - All Time in Lane (if possible)
2 - Season-to-Date
3 - Total for the Game
And seriously, make it prominent, and make it something we promote. Why? Because it'll get in the heads of the opponent. The more annoying we make it, and the more we double down on its hype, the more time the opponent is going to spend dedicated to not making the numbers tick up, that they'll miss something in their prep, or they'll be a step slow at the line against our defense.
^^^^YES!
Whit - please look at this.
I've mentioned the same idea to a buddy back in 2016 when we played Liberty and they had like 8 false starts. I'm on board with this idea.
I remember this. The same player had three false starts in a row. Our defensive line kept getting them with the pre-snap shift.
Once the fans realized how many times they were false starting, Lane stayed pretty loud when they were on offense, just so we could try to get them to jump once more
If I'm remembering the same game, it was that poor kid's first ever D-1 football game, and he was lined up across from Dadi. Those weren't false starts -- they were bowel movements.
Wasn't Dadi because he was a senior the year before. I believe it was Ekanem though which was probably equally as scary.
Those weren't only false starts, they were false completes.
8 Weeks ago we couldn't get or keep fans in the stands. Now we want a false start counter. The times we live in. . .
Let's Go!
You could say that the fans themselves had a false start and jumped the gun.
Honestly, implementing something like this in a down year is what we should do. That way, its established by the time the stadium is rocking again, the broadcasters know to hype it up, and the place goes absolutely bonkers every time the number gets to increase.
Plus, no one in college football - especially the 'self-proclaimed' hostile environments - has something like this.
I''ll send an email to the athletic department - I love this idea.
Who are you sending it to? I'll send one as well.
Danny White and Brad Wurthman.
I feel I will get a response from them, they report to Whit.
VT Athletics Staff Directory
This is what I sent:
Update with Response:
Someone should mention possible sponsorships. "The Lane Stadium at Worsham Field False Start Count, Sponsored by Interstate Batteries. Don't let your car have a false start, get Interstate Batteries."
Might increase the chance of it happening. Also, if Lane causes 10 false starts, everyone with a ticket stub gets 10% off of their next purchase of an Interstate Battery.
I got a guy...
Haha "best local lawyer." That's funny stuff.
Underrated comment right here - leg upon leg for this
I like the idea, but maybe we should wait until we have a certain number of sold out games.
Yet another incentive to buy tickets/attend.
Yeah see, this is close to what I was asking for, but not quite it.
I'm asking for a dedicated counter, separate from anything to do with the scoreboard, at its own place in the stadium. Put 2 out there. One in the gap between the NEZ and the West Stands, and one in the gap between the East Stands and the SEZ. That way, its always staring the opposing team down from across the field while at the same time they'd have to pass underneath it to get back to the locker room before the game, at halftime, and after.
And it doesn't even have to be that fancy. Forgo the LED display for a cheap high schoolish digital counter. Keep it simple. And then sell a sponsorship for the counter itself to help pay for any installation costs.
Of course they were going to shoot the idea down for a prominent display on the scoreboard, because they have to maximize space on there for advertising purposes. But installing a dedicated thing? That's different. And that's what I'm going for.
Yep, I can get on board with that too - send an email over to the GM at IMG Leerfield. They are in charge of displays like that. In my follow up email, I mentioned the stand alone counter idea and did use the Interstate Battery example, which they actually thought would be awesome haha
Let's just see how many we get today from Pat Narduzzi.
HOKIES!!!
Don't they already do this for the game and season? Or am I losing my mind? I can't remember the name of it but its something to do with home field advantage and they put it on hokievision everytime we cause a false start in a game I believe.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing! This already does exist in Lane and has for at least 4-5 years now. Every time there is a false start, they show a graphic that shows the total for the Season and Game.
I have seen this a total of 0 times. It was either implemented after I graduated or I'm blind.
It should be always displayed away from the Hokie Vision board though. Give me the dramatic old school baseball board and a guy that walks out to hang a new number.
I've been a Tech student since 2016 and have seen it in every game since then, but yeah that would be so cool. Always love it when Lane turns up the heat after a string of false starts.
I graduated 15. I was at two games last year but that would not be a detail i remembered.
They have a graphic they put up on the scoreboard
I want a stationary dedicated counter that is always on and in a very prominent location that everyone, especially the visiting players, can see at every moment of the game. I want this thing always on, making the opposing team always have it on their minds.
Don't they already do something like this on the HokieVision board? I'm pretty sure I've never seen an all-time tally, but I feel pretty sure that I've seen game totals and possibly year-to-date totals on the big screen after false start penalties.
Could add some other defensive stats likes, sacks and INTs.
WHITNESS MEEEEEEEE!
Challenge, wait for it...
He's been making the same promise to his wife for years.
We need all make the truck back-up alarm sound every time they have a false start
organizing a whole stadium to make this noise at once would be incredible.
You should have heard cassell last night every time #4 got the ball
Cassell is significantly smaller and more compact with a lot higher student to Alumni ratio. Far easier to organize the fans doing anything there than 66,000 people spread out that much from all over, many just there for the day, to yell in beep in cadence.
OOTL - what happened?
Just put a video of a truck backing up with the beep sound on the video board...we'll take it from there.
You nailed it.
Now guys, he says they wont have any "at 3:30" . All the false starts will occur after kickoff, he knows this
To quote Steve Martin - "Never at dusk"..but that leaves the "...the early evening, midevening...early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon...."
To be fair to Salty Pat, at Pitt they call them Ffalse starts, so he's really not lying...
In my experience, things as salty as Pat, they melt in the rain....
Pat is sort of like a salt lick.
He takes a licking. Then he takes another one.
Holy hell I hate the sound of Narduzzi's voice...
Not only does this rile the fans in attendance up for the snap, it riles them up for ERRRTHANG. Classic idiot move by Nardouche. I have a heart for a man who is passionate, but when it's Pat, fuck that. He is just awful- his teams are like Frank's because the defense is insane while the offensive scheme is lacking, but there is no Tyrod, Vick, Randall, Patterson, or Hooker, to back it up which means: they do some good things but always end up middling.
I believe we will kick the shit out of Pitt this year because Fuente and Co have saved something special for these last few games. I'm looking for some major wrinkles come saturday.
Didn't Pelini do this when Nebraska came to town in 2009? I seem to remember a touchdown called back by holding, followed by three false starts and a punt.
I don't mind PItt as a school or a football program, but Narduzzi is such an odious individual that I think I would rather beat them than anyone else.. By the way, I'm driving all night Friday from Texas to add my voice to the chorus.
This game was well worth driving all night from Texas. 3 False Starts, I think.
Hopefully east Texas
Texarkana.
...what fuckin part of Texas you driving from?
Please bring some recruits with you #TXtoVT
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Saving ESM vid for next after we we crush pit.
I feel another BilldozerVT vid a'brewin.
I'm fired up. I love to hate Narduzzi - cocky ass. Rock the house until they get the first one and it will domino.
I'll start warming up my voice now.
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This just reminded me how fire these helmets were.
Edit: I just realized we wore these vs Furman how did I not notice that.
Flat out my favorite helmets. They need to come back.
Holy fuck, can someone help me rebuild the walls the my office?
Me at work...
Onto Pitt, it's time to BREAK Nar-douchie's impenetrability to false starts:
As an aside
That is one ugly ass truck. What the hell were they thinking with that design?
"You built a time machine? Out of a DeLorean?"
it looks like they took inspiration from Star Fox
Elon has a really annoying sister that is always encouraging him to spend time with his nephew. In order to get her off his back he allowed his nephew to draw the truck.
/s maybe
It's polarizing that's for sure. It's either going to be a hit, or an absolute flop. I do like the 500 mile range, and the space inside the truck. The price point is awesome too.
Don't get me wrong... I don't necessarily hate it, but its definitely an acquired taste.
At the price point they're charging, if the numbers are real, I'm definitely going to give it a look when its time for the next vehicle. Plenty of room to Hokie it out.
I like it.
How the heck are you supposed to get anything in and out of the bed?
Looks like some urban dweller that only uses their truck for driving to the grocery.
But...the metal ball didn't actually make it through!
" I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Narduzzi
Anyone know the new announcer guy?
Someone needs to get in his ear, and for every false start, he needs a very aggressive "False Start, Panthers!", akin to our former guy with the "First down, Hokies!"
P-itt
I-ngests
T-ech
T-urds
Gotcha!!!
Eat shit Pitt! There's 1!
Annnnd another one!!!!
That's two mother fucker!!!!! Shouldn't have been talking shit 🤷🏻♂️
Safe to say the team saw the video. You see Dax holding up 2 fingers after that second one
No, he was clearly saying that this was going to be the second shutout in a row when he did that. /s
Yes and it was awesome
So the conclusion and final count here are:
2 false start penalties
And a major victory in TOP
Looks good
And in completely unrelated news, we won the game!!
Unrelated?!?!
Sike you alright
Well, he wasn't wrong. He said they will not have a false start. Singular. They had 2, hahahahaha
More false starts than points and fans at the loluva spring zima tasting event.
More false starts than points.
I don't have Twitter, but it was glorious in 2016 when someone shared the Pass the Salt Video with that douchebag. Is anyone going to update that insufferable whiner on the number of false starts today?
More false starts than
fans at UVA's spring gamePOINTS THEY SCORED IN THE FUCKING GAME.FUCK YOU PITT PAT.
We need that gif of salt bae Fuente smacking the pat meat lol. Pat is the Pitts...
Oh god, I'm so sorry! This doesn't normally happen..
-Pat
MUST. HAVE. GYRO.
Of all the things a coach can say won't happen, it would seem a false start is the least predictable and controllable. I could buy, "We won't have a fumble", maybe...
Maybe "We won't have a touchdown."?
I saw on twitter that Fuente addressed the false start thing in the first '5 seconds' of his postgame presser - anyone have a clip?
They had more false starts than points! 😂