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I would hope not. When the situation is "win two games, and most likely play in the ACC Championship against FSU", it seems that guys would have their heads straight.
Also, I can't remember the last time we have lost a game on Senior Day. Lots of senior impact guys (Logan and half of our defense) wanting to walk out of Lane one last time with a win.
I cant tell whether Bud is trying to show off his agility or trying out for the cheer leading squad...
either way GREAT STUFF!
its hanging up in the merryman center! saw it the other day, chuckled and continued on with my day in Blacksburg.
Those plays have always been there (note my film reviews lamenting the lack of bootlegs against East Carolina and Marshall) but Loeffler has not trusted his tailbacks to make the plays. You can't run bootleg if the stretch play isn't viable, and this week proved that you can't run the stretch play unless the bootleg is viable.
I ran a wing-t offense in high school, and the bread and butter play was the buck sweep or "38 series." It featured four plays that all used identical back field action. The only thing that changed was the pulling linemen and who got the ball. The tailback ran a sweep. The fullback ran a trap. There was a built in reverse. The quarterback bootlegged away from the sweep.
In order for every play to be as dangerous as possible, you had to at least show all the other plays. The trap burned the linebacker for over pursuit on the sweep (and the trap was the most likely big play.) The reverse and the bootleg made sure that the back side defenders stayed at home, and the sweep (which was the meat and potatoes play) got your stead 4-5 yard gains. If the defense started cheating, you could burn them. That is good offense.
The Hokies have inside zones, outside zones, zones with a rocket motion that acts as a reverse, and bootlegs. Each compliments the other. Until Saturday night, we have not seen a game where all four were used in the same game. You ask why? Loeffler isn't an idiot. I have to say it is that he didn't trust his skill guys to execute. Saturday, he found his comfort level and the kids responded. And, Miami pretty much did everything wrong in their scheme to stop the Hokies, which was strange given that they had two weeks of film showing how to fluster Thomas.
I will be providing free admission to #8 VT wrestling vs #9 Edinboro. Get tanked then come yell obscenities while watching a top ten match up then go jump to enter sandman.
Edit: Its wrestling powerhouse Edinboro, who produced our assistant coach Tony Robbie. Don't know why I thought we were already in ACC duals already. Either way, it will be great match and hopefully the Hokies will pull off a win on the mat and on the gridiron.
sorry could not resist, even at work
I really can't see Duke beating Miami. Also, UNC has gotten it together and I don't see them letting their pesky little brother beat them again.
So long as we understand the magnitude of the situation.
I think Loeffler saw what previous teams did. Short crossing routes for big plays and straight up runs Wake ran crossing routes all day and picked up big plays, UNC ran crossing routes and so did GT. The biggest thing was our defense made them 1 dimensional, we stopped the run.
I also would like to believe that Gibson played where he should, he made a lot of good blocks. The whole OL stepped up after the last 2 weeks and played very well.
My hunch is the middle one...I know Loeffler is new, but programatically, Frank seems to run the kind of shop where you show it on the practice field every day the same before you get to do it on Saturday.
Nice, what part of town? Up until a couple months ago I was a few houses away from Mac's BBQ, so it was worth it to hop on the train and watch a game even if we weren't in it.
And that is a fair point as well (look at us being all civil!)
But I really don't think that's the case here. I've been wondering where the under-center looks have been all year, especially given how Loeffler has emphatically underlined the need for his offense to start from under center. And as french pointed out in the beginning of the article, we consistently saw the Duke and BC defenses running a seventh man into a play to blow it up repeatedly, with (me now, not french) the fake sweep looks being our repeated attempt to neutralize that. I did some screenshots on another board after BC showing how the D just simply did not move off their spots at all because of that action, not a single flinch towards the fake. So it was great to see some true bootleg looks early on to keep that safety at bay all night.
On the Bonner play, I thought contact started on the shoulder for Bonner and then slid to the back. It is the initial contact point that determines if there is a penalty.
That being said, if you are Bonner, you have to put up some resistance to Henderson. Just holding his position for a moment would have resulted in Coley cutting back, and then Tyler or Kyle Fuller coming across from the other side have a chance to make the play. It wasn't the only play where Bonner did not do a good job on his gap fit, and Foster noticed it. As the game wore on, we started to see Der'Woun Greene getting some snaps in place of Bonner.
The reality is, Bonner is still a corner playing free safety. It is a great fit when playing a spread team where offenses are going to try to get a receiver matched up with the free safety, but it doesn't work so well when you are playing a power running team and you are counting on that safety for run support near the line of scrimmage.
Looks like I'm not the only one in a Miami jersey who's pretending to be a football player today.
I watched TE14's TD on the shotgun sweep like 20 times.
Tracy Howard (Miami #3) wanted NO part of Edmunds on that one.
COTY
Best offensive line execution in 2 years.
Nor am I, but I hope all Hokies do well in the League.
I am tired of these bowls. They are expensive and the team seems to treat it as a vacation. If your not first(or second) your last
you've got an extra v at the end of the url from ctrl+v'ing, I assume
People seem to be of the opinion that this is reddit and that you have to either upvote or downvote things. No moving along with your day.
Free if you pick them up at Schiffert
If "if you're not first, you're last" is the mentality you have, then you should love bowl games. In a vacuum, the better bowl game a school goes to, the stronger pitch they can make to high-level recruits right now and in the future (which will increase the chances of getting that crystal ball).
I'll put it this way: Assuming we go the orange bowl this year, we can make this pitch to recruits: "Virginia Tech has been a member of the ACC for 10 years. In those 10 years, we've won our division seven times, we've won our conference five times, and we've been to six BCS bowl games." Outside of Alabama, I don't think any program in the country has that in their recruiting basket.