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I'm sure the Virginia Tech Foundation could buy a stadium. They own tons of commercial property.
BC defense is no joke. Harold Landry (DE #7) is a stud. Matt Milano (#28) is an incredibly mobile outside linebacker that moves around terrifically in space. And middle linebacker Connor Strachan leads the country in tackles for a loss in his first season replacing my personal nightmare Steven Daniels (who, if he played VT every week, would have been a first team All American.) They can ball, although the DTs are not as good without Conner Wujiack.
Did anyone else get the plesent surprise of getting to their seats and finding a giant cement beam right in front of their seats blocking majority of the field for the game?
Plenty of STDs in Athens.
except when we played Butch Jones' Cincy Bearcats at FedEx they were the "official" home team and they even had their annoying bearcat squeal played over the sound system on key third downs while they were on defense. And (I was pretty drunk so I might mis-remember) they never played Enter Sandman. So we might have had more fans but they made it as much of a home game for Cincy as they could
They should have just sneaked the ball off Teller.
Maybe he was hoping that Travon could make him some dragon glass for the Others/White Walkers.
They should have just sneaked the ball off Teller.
Hurd is a hell of a player- in a lot of ways he is wasted in that offense. If he was in Georiga or LSU's running system, he'd have numbers on par with Chubb and Fournette.
this is absolutely savage
i love it
Bingo. And the "neutral site" games we have played in FedEx have had a huge bias to VT. Just keep that in mind.
"Most physically talented" is probably closer to right.
A week late, but the issue here is the gloat factor. The rub it in, kick sand in the face, crowing like a rooster issue. It is no fun to jeer at a brick wall. I want some irritation, some shame, something...anything!!!! She takes all the fun out of having an lol-er around to kick.
Thanks for the review on that 3rd and 1 (Clip 16). I remember being excited we were under center and hoping the run would go to Teller's side, sure enough Teller got himself another pancake, if Nijman squared up on the Linebacker, Travon had a cutback lane to fall forward in and with some grass in front of him, even with Sam/Cam/Cunningham not making their blocks. It has been said many times many ways, but that was a D1 OL putting a D1 DL on their back on a short yardage run.
Good. Get it together NC. Geez.
The story of the game for me was field position (mostly because of the ridiculous fumbles). On drives where Tennessee started on their 33 or back they went: Punt, Punt, Punt, TD, Punt, Punt, Int, Punt. On drives where they started on their 42 yard line or closer they went: TD, FG, TD, Missed FG, TD, TD, TD. If we make people drive the field on us, I think our defense will be ok.
The turnovers killed me, but I'm tired of hearing people say we should expect to see growing pains. Like French said, only the first fumble can be attributed to the play that was called, the others we just need our players to be D-1 football players and hold on to the ball. I'm not putting that on coaches or the new scheme.
The areas that most concern me are special teams and penalties. Not only the mistakes on punts, but it looks like we are back to not going for the block, but also not blocking anyone for a return. What is the plan? And lack of focus penalties that seemed to dominate in the last few years of the Beamer reign look like they are as alive as ever.
Lastly, I am also 100% pro-Fuente, but his playing time decisions are confusing to me. I don't know how much better Chung looked during the week than Gallo, but he had an atrocious game. And with Petit, again like French pointed out, he just doesn't look ready to handle bigger rushers. I know Fuente has to set the tone and get people to buy in and respect his system, but some of his decisions in that regard looked more than a little questionable. We need our best people on the field.
Overall, I'm hopeful for our team, but I've also been saying that since Tyrod was here.
You point out the complexity of this situation. To some, it is a Political Correctness issue, for others, it is a state's rights issue, for some it is an economic issue, for others, it is a religious issue, for many, it is a civil rights issue, for all of us, it has become a political issue. But as VTMikeO points out, it isn't just a "bathroom issue", and it is unlikely to just all go away.
Soon. Soon (:
Sounds like TOP would greatly help for us there.
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And the running game was electric early, and still good throughout the game. They just couldn't generate vertical plays and couldn't break out big plays in the run game. The penalties would then derail drives.
BC will be a very tough match up. Their defense is much more disciplined than Tennessee. We will need to win more physical battles and get some stuff in the passing game to win. Offensively, BC runs stuff that VT struggled against. Towles isn't as mobile as Dobbs. Hilliman is no Hurd. But, BC's OL is much better than Tennessee's.
Exactly. How are you supposed to know if a penalty is correct or not (in your estimation) if they don't show the replay?
remember, the interior OL in question was Pettit-Chung-Conte/Pfaff when they started bringing the heat. Add that to McMillian being the tailback most of the time (who isn't a great blocker) and film of Liberty messing up pass pro and it isn't particularly shocking. Evans didn't see much pressure with Teller in the game.
Yeah the shots on Colossus were terrible. Another side effect of a NASCAR crew working a football game perhaps? I did notice though that when they showed VT fans in the second half it was a depressing sight. I was a little mad that they seemed to really want to show Cam Phillips on the sideline after the fumble and I thought he had it bad enough already.