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Do NOT try your hand at stand up comedy while waiting for VT football to return. Trust me.

Edited to reflect your edit.

For the sake of comparison, here's Randall's stat line from 2004:

55.6% completion rate, 2264 yards, 21 TDs, 9 INTs
511 rushing yards, 3.8 YPC, 3 rushing TDs

Here's Evans' production thus far (with projected totals if he sustains this pace over the rest of the regular season in parentheses).

67.0% completion percentage (67.0%), 970 yards (2,910), 13 TDs (39), 1 INT (3)
209 rushing yards (627), 5.2 YPC (5.2), 1 rushing TD (3)

And 2003 was Bryan Stinespring's most productive offense by far.

There's some revisionist history going on in this post. Yes, the 2003 season started with promise and ended with disappointment. But that was a thing for this program at that time. In 2001, we started 6-0, then lost 3 of our last 5. In 2002, we dropped 4 of 5 to close the season after starting out winning 8 straight. So if you're going to use 2003 as an example, it's most correctly used as an example of a trend in our program during the immediate post-Vick era to suffer what at the time I referred to as our annual "November meltdown." Any trend from the early 2000s will have minimal bearing at best on play in 2016, especially since we have changed coaches since then.

As for talent, you seem awfully quick to embrace 2003's talent over this current squad. Yes, Kevin Jones was legendary and have no RB approximating his talent on this squad. We do, however, have the best WR we have ever had at VT in Isaiah Ford, so I'll counter a legend with a legend.

Randall in 2003 was not Randall from 2004, and he failed to gain any separation from a freshman Marcus Vick. Had Marcus not been suspended the next season, he would have been our starter in 2004. This far, Jerod Evans is operating at a much higher level than Randall did even in 2004. Comparing Randall's first four games in 2003 to Evans' first four games this season, preferring Randall over Evans seems like taking Trent Dilfer over Steve Young to me.

And while theres no doubt that our DBs were top notch in 2003, the defense as a whole suffered it's worst season under Bud that year. It was the reason we transitioned from a 4-4 to a 4-3, converting the rover from a linebacker to a second safety. We have subsequently transitioned from a 4-3 to a nickel, and I would vastly prefer Bud's modern scheme to its 4-4 counterpart.

Yes, LOLUVA is a bunch of dicks.

Versus the football team making the playoffs? No contest. Gotta set the bar high for both sides. Maybe making the dance vs winning the Coastal, but why dream small?

Yeah, I knew that format wasn't going well for them. I'm just an American who doesn't live in the Pacific time zone, and therefore pays zero attention to PAC-12 football.

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

I don't even care that it was incomplete. It's on film now, and the first time we showed a speed option reverse it was a reverse pass. That means the next time we run a reverse, the defense will have to respect the threat of a pass. That should open up a true reverse a little more, through freezing the linebacker.

Do you mean total plays defended by the defense, or how many snaps each player is in for?

And a chocolate cake shake.

Hmm, I wonder why they might have been talking smack at the 2006 Gator Bowl...