Recent Comments
The good:
- First time I watched a game live since 2021 at GT. ''Twas a good time
- More confident I've been in the defense since 2019
The bad:
- I don't get why we can't have competent offense in Blacksburg
- Offense inside the 40 has to improve.
- This is the first neutral site game I've been to (I've been a fan since since 2008) where I felt like we were clearly outnumbered in the stands.
The other:
- Without know how good SC is, it's tough to gauge how bad this loss is.
- On Drones... I think that in any given year, there are only 15-20 college QBs who can truly elevate a team. After that, it's all about scheme fit, surrounding talent, health, etc. Drones is not in that top 15-20.
- I think we got out talented today. You saw it on those missed tackles in the backfield. Players got there. Just didn't make the tackle.
Bowen doesn't get the credit he deserves as OC. He schemed plays that got us yards despite a very weak O-Line.
Our O-Line didn't let the D in like a revolving door like last year.
Legend
Going in, a number of the analyses basically said, USC-e has the two best players and that will be the difference. I thought that was a gross oversimplification but in the end, that was probably accurate.
Keep our shit together and this team can probably win 8 or 9 games. Next week is a huge test.
Yep. This feels inevitable at this point. I have no confidence in Pry whatsoever to build this team back into a winner. He's just a stone cold loser as far as coaching goes at this point, there's no getting past that. The same old ugly problems continue to rear their head.
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10 months 3 weeks
# | Virginia Tech vs #13 South Carolina Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread Marve would have done nothing different until halftime.....and then most likely would have continued to do nothing different in the second half. It only took one game to see how much better Siefkes is.
Can we make Pry and Montgomery run the stadium stairs for their end of half management?
When you know what you have isn't working the dumbest thing to do is continue it just because of the possibility that trying something else might not work, either.
So another roll of the dice. Not that I am disagreeing with you, but a new coach is never a sure thing.
In the first game no team is ever as good as they look, and no team is ever as bad as they look. We made SC look like a questionable top-25 team, and were maybe closer to a top-25 team than most expect.
Not ready to climb up on the ledge yet. It's one game, and so far the DC looks to be legit. We'll see how it goes once we get into ACC play.
No they don't.
They're the ones who recruited and train the ones who do. Their talent evaluation is lacking and their player development is horrible and has been for years. Even if the current coordinators are good, it might be too late to save Pry.
If Whit does get his way and the checkbooks do open, we need a complete blank slate, clean house of everyone and bring in a whole new regime that can utilize the assets given to them.
You win
Honestly it's a top 15 team that a not great team held in check for longer than I thought. Next two games I think will tell us a lot more about who this team is.
The coaches didn't miss the tackles; the coaches didn't throw the ball to the other team; the coaches didn't over/under throw wide open receivers; the coaches didn't drop passes...
What pisses me off is how close we are to being good. But it's like Fuente in year 6. At some point when you find a way to lose EVERY SINGLE TIME in a close game it's time to move on and find someone more competent. Literally catch the ball, don't throw a stupid pick, tackle the return man when you have him wrapped up and we easily win this game. We were clearly the better team. Instead stupid mistakes make us look bad and we end the game without a single touchdown. Terrible work from the staff, they have to be fired as soon as possible
Drones is too inaccurate in both his passes and decision making to be an effective quarterback at this level.
We don't know that we have a competent OC
Don't we have that Okie St QB that transfered in?
But yeah, our QBs suck, and you cannot win without someone competent throwing the ball
It was a punt return TD but you were on the right track.
I don't think anyone is surprised we lost that. Our defense played a hell of a game. Our offense was pretty disappointing, but that's not new. We had the element of surprise. Now the rest of our teams will have film on us. Let's see how they do.
Offense might look better when Drones isnt running for his life. every play, but that really means we will look good against bad teams and that's about it.
We would've won by two scores if we caught the ball and Drones didn't throw the ball straight to their DB when he had all the time in the world and a lane to run.
We were clearly the better team in this game. Incredible stupid mistakes and mismanagement on offense is why we lost. Pry is done. South Carolina is not a good team, if we can't beat them Louisville Miami and GT are going to tear us to shreds
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10 months 3 weeks
# | Virginia Tech vs #13 South Carolina Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread Well when you are down 5 and decide to burn the clock instead of score then you really help your TOP
Your comment just makes it sound like a new coach is a sure thing to utilize the assets given to them, it's not.
I think that if we don't put up a good season, we will be looking for a new Head Coach next year. I also believe that we'll have to be very lucky for it to make a difference.