Illinois Hokie's Recent Comments
Aww hell naw. Am I the only one around here whose mamaw served up a moon pie with a cold bottle of Yoohoo?
That's unacceptable! You should help those unfortunate UVA grads.
CPJ looks like Chunk from the Goonies grew up and face planted off a motorcycle.
I'm with you. There was nothing wrong with Grimes leaving, and he did some good in his year here. It just didn't help the rebuilding effort when he left after a year. It's a professional issue, not a personal one.
Same deal when Kevin Rogers left. No one could rationally begrudge the decision, but the hurt feelings from the coaching "family" begat the decision to value loyalty over resume and promote Stinespring to OC. I am glad history did not repeat itself and they went out and found a solid, vetted line coach that meshed well with Lefty's vision for the O.
Sit Farris, slide Wang, bring in Teller.
With a spot of luck, Kline comes back okayish to rest Malleck.
FWIW, I don't think Brewer is so much hurt as just beat the hell up. Just needs to be left standing after the pass and hopefully he will mend.
Very concerned for this game. Maddy is banged up. Marshall might also still be hurt. If they can't anchor the line I could see GT killing us slowly with dives for 4-5 yards a carry all day. Our corners now have to take away the edge, and that makes me worried about Faycson's ability to cut and take the right angle. I think the double eagle is well suited to stop the flexbone, but I'm worried about injuries taking their toll in this game of assignment football.
The key, as always, is to make them play from behind. We need to get up early. Two sustained scoring drives early would be amazeballs, but I'll take two quick scores in a pinch. Getting up by double digits would be huge, and GT has the defense to allow that.
Having said all that, to hell with Paul Johnson. Let's bitchslap their one trick pony team one more time.
I am SO tired of hearing we "overlooked" ECU. With our history of close games I don't buy that for a second. What we saw against ECU is the unfortunate byproduct of Foster's adjustment to be able to defend a spread option offense. Defending Clemson begat this loss, if you will.
My question is, would it be impossible to fluctuate between the "new" double eagle and Bud's old base nickel from game to game? Seems like we now have proof positive that the double eagle won't hold against vertical passing attacks unless we can rattle the QB. For every Clemson we defend, there's an FSU waiting behind them. We need to be able to flip that switch on defense, considering we face both typed of a offense in our own conference.
This isn't a rhetorical question. Would it be too much to ask to switch between the two base Ds from game to game? Too much for the various positions to keep straight on D? And was the clusterfuck if substitution penalties on the last drive because we were attempting to make such a shift and all the personnel were caught with their pants down? Have wondered that since witnessing that spectacular meltdown.
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11 years 9 months
# | QB Logan Byrd Moves Quickly, Becomes Second Member of Tech's 2016 Recruiting Class I don't know if I've heard a QB recruit say so many right things in one interview before. Mr. Byrd certainly seems to have be Hokie mindset down pat.
I like that they play football on Saturdays.
I dislike that they don't play football on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, most Thursdays, and Fridays.
I just want all Hokie football, all the time.
Well, TBH, it's become an SEC fan base. Unrealistic expectations, demands for perfection, absolute anguish to ridiculous levels after any loss. Not saying it's good, it just is what it is.
Wait a second... Byrd is 6'3". How freaking tall is Scot Loeffler?
DAAAAAAAAAAAAA BEARS!
I'm a Stacy Searels believer, and think he might be even better for this role than Grimes was. My concern is, over his career he's been a bit of a journeyman coach, and I fear him hitting the eject button early like his predecessor if a school with more gravitas comes calling. I think he's good, I think he's the right fit, and I think Whit needs to be aggressive in retaining him.
Bravo. A damn near perfect summation.
We got outplayed by a team that's better than people think they are, and that had planned exactly how they were going to attack us. They found a weak link (Faycson's injury) and exploited it enough before Bud could adjust that we were buried out of the gate. It was a perfect storm.
The one thing I'm excited about is that we did claw our way back out of the hole over the course of three quarters on a day where it wasn't all clicking. We had fight, and fight goes a long way.
Study tape, practice better technique and move on.
I was those peeps over at the FBS blog, and I always said Newsome had some success at JMU prior to coming to VT, but his blocking schemes at JMU never translated to VT's scheme and he never successfully adapted. He was brought in to be a recruiter, but was never able to attract his type of player on the line. He was left on staff entirely too long, and when he finally left he hadn't just left the cupboards bare, he'd taken the damn cupboards with him.
That's not to say he's a coaching reject. He had success up to his JMU days, he's finding success in his niche now that he's moved on. But in Blacksburg he was an albatross around the program's neck.
The legacy of Newsome is that there is no more difficult unit to repair than the o line, because it's so damn hard to plug frosh and sophomores into those roles. It's one of the few dwindling positions in college football where SC is still critical, and it's the one part of the team where communication, trust and cooperation are most important. We're literally starting from scratch, and it will take another year or two at least before we produce a competent line. In the meantime, Searels, like Grimes before him, is doing everything he can to stopgap, but until he gets his guys in the system we have to temper expectations.
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11 years 10 months
# | Bitter blog - Five thoughts the day after the Hokies' loss to East Carolina Good take, Andy.
One note. Brewer threw it 56 times, not 58. Per hokiesports.com.
My hope is that this is the game that galvanizes this young team. Like someone else said, thank God this bed-shitting happened out of conference. We have some tough football ahead (Boston College, anyone?) and this young team needed something to piss them off and light a fire under their asses. Now it's time to tear shit up in the Techmo Bowl.
As far as dealing with this loss on a personal level, I'm a Hokie. I've seen my share of head-shaking heartbreaks over the years. This one sucks, but I've seen a lot of those heartbreaks where we never even got it together enough to mount a 21 point comeback to lose it in the last minute. And I'll take the way we lost this one over if we'd just laid down and rolled over any day. Keep fighting no matter how hopeless it looks or how shell shocked you are. There's fight in this team. And that bodes well.
Go Hokies.
Complacency begat recruiting failures, which eventually caught up with us. Needed changes were 4 years later in coming. Now we are playing catchup.
Anyone else struggling to separate sarcasm from legitimate meltdown here?
If we had Michael Vick, Lee Suggs, Antonio Freeman, Eddie Royal and Jeff King on O and Bruce Smith, Corey Moore, Vince Hall, Xavier Adibi, Brandon Flowers and Deangelo Hall on D we would have won. Maybe. Or something.
And dudettes.
Just throwing this out there. On Brewer's "off" day he was 30-56 with about seven receiver drops. No worries at QB.
Agree on Bud today. It is technically possible NOT to blitz...
The offense answered from down three scores on a day where the defense was eating our lunch. I'll always take that.
Holmes and JCC about had me ready to say Beamer the Younger was a bad hire. But Trey progressed all throughout last year, and Juice and Shai are playing fundamentally sound football. I think Shane had hit his stride. Let's give Searels a chance to hit his.
Key chain is a bit of a no brainer, right? And while I appreciate the functional alcoholism (alcoholic functionality?) of a bottle opener keychain, I can buy one of these at any gas station. TKP deserves something more distinctive. How about a keychain in the shape of TKP's logo? So it would look like a giant key. Also would make a great handle to shake on 3rd down.