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Regardless of whether or not the LT hit was targeting, penalized plays should NEVER be replayed like that. They glorified the hit, which is exactly what any self-respecting broadcaster does not do.
Just to entertain the idea, who would you propose to head coach the Hokies?
I can't really say what I feel about this guy. I've typed it out three times already and it always sounds evil to me. It's obvious this guy shows a Jack Tatum approach to hits and it disgusts me. Either one of those shots could have easily ruined Logan or JC's career. The nicest way to say this is I hope he switches to receiver in the pros and someone throws him a pass across the middle against Seattle.
Hell, LT was briefly knocked unconscious, according to Andy Bitter's game recap. That's precisely why the targeting rule was invented. Some kids get knocked out on freak plays, LT got knocked out on a dirty one.
Based on what? That's the hypocritical argument to pro-change people like me when we say changing a head coach would make us better. There is no proof of the matter that we would not be here without Frank Beamer. Don't get me wrong, I'm ecstatic for what he's done over the years for us, I love him for it, but I'm looking to the future and not what he did in the past. But there is no evidence to say we would be a lackluster program without him
Here's another statement that makes me curious. I love Bud, but his guys were NOT the most prepared unit on that field yesterday. The first drive was nothing but penalties and blown plays. They came back and had some flashes, but then they got continually torched late and gave up. Our team, as a whole, was not in a good place to play that game. If the D was the best prepared, that's simply an indictment of our bowl preparation as a whole. Hard to tell when the offense looked pretty much like they have all season - occasionally good but mostly ineffective.
Well said! Probably the best perspective I've seen on this site.
Without Frank this program is East Carolina.
We will be very fortunate if the next head coach manages to keep us on the current path we are on, much less the "next level" most fans think we deserve.
Not at all, I think the recruiting was an improvement. But when the actual product was on the field, I saw the same Virginia Tech team that I have in previous years. As for schemes, sure it seemed at times that they improved, but I also saw a lot of questionable schemes. Once again I would watch us move the ball 20 yards doing one thing, and then it would switch to something else, causing a drive to stall.
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while other schools are improving, we're staying put.
Do you disagree with the national consensus that Tech's past two recruiting classes are drastic improvements over the previous years? Do you disagree that the offensive scheme was better this year than previous years?
Seems to me that the talent and the tactics ARE improving.
Everyone took the day off except Jim Mora and his players.
Winning that game meant something to him and his program. He even said as much in the pregame interview - they needed to win that game to validate the season.
F CBS for treating the game as something 2nd tier to their oh so proud "SEC game of the week". Yes it wasn't on the same level as Bama-Auburn, but it should have at least received the LSU-Arkansas respect.
Why waste seasons on a coach because he deserves it?
There are a lot of teams that won less games than Frank's Hokies this year, and a lot of those teams have more talent than the Hokies do. Frank deserves it because he's a good football coach and the program has positive momentum right now.
Also, I think you are underestimating the difficulty in finding a "national championship quality" coach. Do you have anyone in mind who would be able to take Tech to the promised land AND Tech could convince to coach here?
Well said 3rd And 31.. I agreed with everything you've said you explained it well. Abs yes they did have opportunities yesterday that slipped through our hands..
Sure, winning a national championship is hard, I'll give you that. But in 27 years if you want to be considered a national powerhouse, you have to do more than just APPEAR in one. We are not going to be considered one of those top tier teams if we appear once every 27 years. Frank has hit a plateau, and while other schools are improving, we're staying put. I haven't just been calling for this Frank change because of the 15 wins over two years. I've been on this ship since my brother was at Tech during the Glennon-era. I'm not just an emotional, fire everyone kind of guy. I've put a lot of thought in to this and I don't believe that changing a few coordinators and coaches is going to put us at the next level. I believe it starts with the head coach, and I don't believe Frank Beamer has that instinct to put us at the top. Yes, we do have all of those nice things like the graduation rates and such, and that's all hunky dory, but when I talk to people of other schools and discuss my fan-dome of Virginia Tech, I get assaulted with the National Championship question. Should I respond with graduation rates or clean programs? I'm done telling myself that our time as Hokies to finally have that elusive ship is coming, because I do not believe it will. I believe this EXCELLENT recruiting class is going to be wasted. No matter who the coaches are, Frank Beamer's teams have struggled to be consistent week after week. Good teams win those games that they don't play their best, because I get it, you can't be 100% week after week. Yet I always see us losing those games we are undisciplined or sloppy. I believe the story of this recruiting class will once again be the "well if we hadn't lost to (insert any team), we'd have been in the NC."
I'm really excited to see what the rushing attack will look like next year. I think one of the young guns will start at QB and Loeffler will want to protect them. With all the incoming talent at the RB position (and assuming the OL improves as much as I think it will), Loeffler should have all the weapons he needs to build a successful rushing attack.
I'll start to worry if after a few games the rushing attack isn't much better than it was this year.
If I could give you 50 legs...
Our boy Brain Marcolini reflected on Logan Thomas' career at VT in the second hour of Monday's JD Howell Show on ESPN Blacksburg. It was dead on. Really recommend for everyone to hear it. He did a great job in JD's absence.
Edit: thought I reposted with a link already. Here it is again
http://espnblacksburg.com/local-shows/the-jd-howell-show/podcasts.html
check out 30 min point
24 hours later and I still get teary-eyed thinking about that run and the hit that followed. I don't have enough good things to say about Logan. Class act, wonderful Hokie, amazing athlete, perfect ambassador for our university.
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/fplus2012
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43rd last year (+7.6%), 21st this year (21.8%). The 2013 numbers will go down once the bowl games are done but they won't go down that much. This team was better than last year's by a significant margin, and was actually better than the 2011 team.
Loeffler really likes Andrew Ford so I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he's not the starting quarterback this fall.
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You know, I felt the same way immediately after the play.
Then later, when the announcers were slobbering all over him and showing three of his highlight tackles, I noticed every single one was helmet to helmet.
How he didn't get tossed, much less penalized, for the hit on JC is just beyond me. He launched headfirst through JC's earhole.
He's a dirty player.
I honestly expect Ford to start at QB, and hoping for Wyatt Teller to win the job at RT so McLaughlin can stay at LT