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# | Bitter blog - Super Mailbag, Part III: Playoff tweaks, money matters and impact freshmen Andy, thanks for calling out how ridiculous it is to criticize Mike Gentry over injuries. If our guys were constantly getting gassed in the fourth quarter, that's one thing. But Gentry has zero to do with a blown ACL or a fractured clavicle.
Ninja Man and the Coe-Conspirator
Moorehead >> Sherman in coaching blocking. Hopefully Zohn maintains that, but given the scheme ODU runs, that might be the one area where there is cause for concern.
Agreed, but JCC was still wary of contact early on as well. Late this season was the first time in his career I've seen him run with a chip on his shoulder. If that carries over, he could have a breakout season next year.
That was the era of the "November meltdown." It seemed like every year VT would start out on a tear, go 7-0 or 8-0, get everyone's hopes up, and then completely shit the bed down the stretch.
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# | Virginia Tech Drumline Performs "Stick It In" at halftime of VT-GT Basketball Game You really failed to live up to your screen name on this one.
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# | Virginia Tech Football: Hokies Open as 19-point Home Underdog Against Ohio State Moment of clarity...
The College Football Playoffs Championship Trophy is... a pussy touchdown.
The pressure on Marcus coming in was monumental. Before he took a snap in a live game, there were sports journalists saying he was going to win VT a national title. The expectations were astronomical.
This is not to excuse Marcus' behavior. Just saying some people rise to the occasion, and some don't.
I'm inclined to agree, except that statistically speaking, our passing game has not improved under Loeffler. And I don't just mean in terms of yardage. That doesn't mean you aren't right, it just means there aren't numbers to back it up.
If I put a gun to your head and made you choose, which would hurt worse? Not having Facyson or not having Maddy?
That is about an hour away from me. Crazy.
Whatever happened to Kris Harley?
Funny that the concern here was DT being unproven and now it's the anchor.
The jump from 2013 to 2014 popped, because there wasn't much reason to expect it. (One reason why daveinop's original post surprised me so much.)
We went from opposing defenses having to key in on both the QB and the tailback in the run game to opposing defenses knowing that Brewer wasn't much of a run threat. Every other time that's happened since the Michael Vick era, non-QB running has suffered. In this instance, it flourished.
Better tailbacks, Loeffler's system, Searels' blocking scheme, the arrival of legit OL recruits, something had to contribute to that. Or more likely, a combination of factors. But regardless of the specifics, it's something that didn't happen under Billy Hite as running backs coach and Rickey Bustle and Bryan Stinespring as OCs.
I don't think any kind of casualty can be determined, or at least not by an amateur statistician like me. But something is contributing to the fact that our running backs had significantly greater success in 2014 than the previous year. I'm sure part of that is a talent infusion, but I have no doubt the arrival of Stacy Searels and the installation of his blocking scheme play a role. French would know the specifics way better, but by my layman's perspective, Searels' love of big, mean linemen would have to be a boon to the running game.
Statistically the best offense we have fielded, but in large measure because it had to be. An antiquated defensive scheme has a lot of failings that year and we found ourselves in a lot of shootouts when Frank & Co. might have otherwise chosen to play ball control and shorten games. Still a ridiculously talented offense, though. Take the 2003 offense and the 2006 defense and you have a team that would make a run.
Side note: turns our it's possible to laugh and cringe at the same time.
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# | Virginia Tech Football: Hokies Open as 19-point Home Underdog Against Ohio State I'm a glass half full kind of guy.
Point taken. I didn't really intend for that to sound misleading, but it does come across as overstatement.
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# | Virginia Tech Football: Hokies Open as 19-point Home Underdog Against Ohio State Tied for fourth favorite to win it, too.
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# | Virginia Tech Drumline Performs "Stick It In" at halftime of VT-GT Basketball Game Sounds to me like you're just coming up on the short end of a generational shift. I get this sometimes myself. I was raised to abhor profanity. I got over it, but I developed the ability, perhaps due to my upbringing, to be a profanity mullet. I curse like a sailor, but only in settings where it isn't inappropriate. When I hear people use profanity in public settings, I cringe a bit. Seems crass to me, and I'm sure these people probably have some problems advancing themselves socially and professionally if they can't determine when not to curse. But then I remember, it's just words. It's exactly as offensive as we as a culture communally agree to find it.
Words are words. Sex is sex. Some cultures and communities get hung up on it, some don't. And within the same community, the reaction to it changes by generation. American culture in general is growing more sexually permissive, thanks in part to the end of the AIDS scare and the rise of porn chic. And that leaves a lot of older Americans shaking their heads.
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# | 2016 DT Joe Goff Looks in the Mirror with Hokies' Vinny Mihota, "Astounded" by Visit to Tech Love love LOVE the current wave of recruits picking up TKP as the pulse of the fanbase. Could not be a better standard bearer for Hokie Nation than this community.
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# | Virginia Tech Drumline Performs "Stick It In" at halftime of VT-GT Basketball Game Okay, good deal. Just wanted to make sure you didn't think we were saying that since we disagree, you shouldn't state your opinion. Opposing viewpoints are welcome here at a greater rate by far than any other college sports related forum I've ever seen.
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# | 2016 DT Joe Goff Looks in the Mirror with Hokies' Vinny Mihota, "Astounded" by Visit to Tech I'm glad someone else picked up on this. A rising senior recruiting target is the mirror image of a redshirt freshman in our program. That is a very good thing.
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# | Virginia Tech Drumline Performs "Stick It In" at halftime of VT-GT Basketball Game Some of us disagree with your opinion, not your prerogative to have it.
Steger and Weaver were right for their times. (Though I believe Weaver hung on too long.) And Sands and Whit are perfect for this moment. Our best days are ahead, athletically and academically.