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I'm trying to see his stats from when he played for Hampton as a junior. Unfortunately, my Google skills are lacking tonight.
I saw him go down.
Did it happen to be the guy with the F-bomb in his quote? I notice he is gone, and I for one am relieved.
I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to swearing, but seeing it Every.Single.Time. he posted (and he posted frequently), was really harshing my TKP mellow.
It's like a great fucking weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
Dear God. He does not go down.
This just made me realize how lucky we were that Kibble played at Tech before social media
I might be tempted to agree, but from what I saw the majority of his big runs came off busted plays, with his agility holding the advantage over free-hitters that couldn't break down from top-speed to make the sure tackle.
The difference wasn't his arm or his RB's or his O-line. It was his ability to escape sacks.
Of course, it's a standard feature.
BTW, it's been determined that rose colored lenses are not necessary.
Available special as Lefties and Foster-Grimes.
Regulators!!!
Sorry couldn't help myself. Great reference there.
.... Next stop is the East Side Motel...
Agreed with every bit of this. One thing that seems to be lost on all of us nowadays is a bit of perspective... I'd say you're a top tier school if your bad year of the decade is a 7-6 record and you're churning out 10-11 wins on a regular basis. Heck, 7-4 4-3 is a pretty good record in itself. And to think where we'll be in a couple of years with Loeffler and his supporting cast, along with revived recruiting... ugh, chills. But until then, let's stop calling for the head of a college football legend and let's pick up our guys after tough losses and let's go Hokies!
its ridiculous this even had to be posted. excellent work.
I think you meant that it's a Franktastic post. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
People are greatly overreacting right now. It always happens after losses. This team should still end the year 9-4 (but maybe we'll get extremely lucky, beat FSU and go 10-4). Is 9 wins really enough to panic about? Is this team incredible? No. But we're only two years removed from going 8 straight seasons with 10 or more wins.
And life after Frank isn't so great either. We have no clue how good of a head coach Bud would be, but we do know that he's a great DC. If Frank goes then Bud would be next man up, but he's a wild card. Or maybe we go outside the program and get someone else, in that case Bud isn't gonna hang around anymore. Then we lose Frank and arguably the best assistant coach in the country.
I want tears.
I want a decade of dominance.
I want a victory.
Go Hokies!
agreed, change and rebuilding doesn't happen overnight.
patience, young grasshopper.
While I agree with the sentiment, I must point out that we joined the ACC in 2004 not 2003. Also, the number of bowl teams in Bear's day was significantly less than during CFB's streak. To me, Frank's streak is still nothing short of amazing and I am forever grateful that he's done what he has for us.
Virginia Tech tailgates at UVA are awesome, and typically offend the natives.
Four years back, a buddy of mine had his normal setup - loud music, beer pong table, plenty of booze, etc. His group was the first tailgate setup in the lot (which was a stone's throw from the stadium in a big-donor lot). The UVA fans next to us with, quite literally, wine & cheese at their tailgate were quite unhappy.
And then we destroyed them 42-13.
It was glorious.
I've never said that the new coaches should be on the hot seat and I'm referring to games we've lost from the previous year even during those 10 win seasons. We lost to teams we had no business losing to. That is unacceptable it hasn'tstayed just last year its happened for all of those years dating back above in this discussion. All I'm getting at is i Donny want to hear about Stiney or O'Cain stored us from winking when Frank is the head of this team he approves and disapproves if what goes on so he deserves some amount of blame with the rest of those previous coaches in those previous years. I enjoyed and still want to see him win one and no I'm not calling for his job I'm saying the fanbase needs to stop saying its not his fault. When to a certain degree it is. Its his job to prepare his team and make sure they're prepared to play as well as his assistants. Please stop blaming our recruiting on our losses surely we lost to Trans that we were better recruiting than I don't think we will out recruit a Bama or LSU, but we lost to Duke and BC and we have had a better class than those two tabs and plenty more from the previous years of teams that we lost to that shouldn't have beaten us. So to our standard were not recruiting like we want but its beurre than others. Be thankful for what we do have because others have beaten us with less.
"New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature."
-Thomas Jefferson
See??? Even ol' TJ thinks Time Cop is a bad coach!
You do realize that I'm not saying Beamer needs to go. I'm saying the blame needs to be on the head coach for that. For most of your argument i agree, but what i don't agree with is no one accepting that its Beamer's team not O'Cain not Stiney. So its his fault for not having them prepared to play in those games no matter how long or short the week was. And if I understand you correct are you telling me JMU recruits better than us? No sir, that's not true no matter how you slice it. Because we had the most talented offensive team out there that year and we still lost. I have never said i had a problem with the new staff, they're still in the process of moving forward with this team. My complaints are from or losses this year and from the previous seasons that was mentioned above for this discussion. And there is no way in the world that BC or Duke has better players than us i will not believe that. In my opinion that is a coaching problem, if a player doesn't fit in your system you find a place where they can or don't put them in the game.
Bottom line what I'm getting at is I understand stuff runs down hill. But of Beamer is the overseer than he deserves to accept responsibility for the coaches that are under him.
See - I guess this is where we differ. I think Frank Beamer HAS consistently gotten his team to perform. Hell, I'd go so far to say that he's gotten us to over-perform for decades. A down year last year, followed by a rebuilding year during which we are getting players necessary to fit the new schemes (which both were still bowl seasons, I might add) are really unavoidable every now and then in college football. The fact that Beamer strung all of those 10-win seasons together WITHOUT having 1 down year like this is stunning, frankly. Especially when you consider that we don't have the recruiting draw/prestige of some of these other, more established powers.
We had a down year last year. It happens. Lets give the fixes (which we ALL clammored for) some time to settle in before we try to burn the house down.
Dear MiniMidge,
Atta girl!
You keep cheering for your Hokies!
One day when you grow up, you will want to curse your dad for bringing you into this fandom, but you'll mostly love him even more for it. It'll make you closer.
When you're older, remember to thank him for making you a Hokie. And thank him for raising you right, too.
Much love,
SpiderHokie,
another girl brought unwillingly into this fandom as a small child and who will always call our boys "her Hokies"
This is a fantastic post, the best I have read in a while. Thank you.
Right On and without NCAA troubles!
voyeur