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Fair enough. The kicking game only won on the aggregate number of people pepper sprayed.
This is how I feel...
I just keep thinking back to my expectations at the beginning of the year. I expected a lot of offensive struggles, tough wins, and some tough losses. I was lulled into a sense that this team was doing great, when in reality, they were just exceeding my expectations. Today, they finally met my expectations sadly. I think LT is the only choice as well, but there was something freaky about this game. Tipped balls, bobbled passes, refs that seemed one-sided...I don't know--this is tough, but this is not a championship caliber team and I never expected them to be in contention for the ACCCG. I also didn't expect their first ACC loss to be against Duke...
I....I cannot condone this. Logan, your defense did what takes. Your special teams did a decent job (save Journell's fuckery). YOU lost this game. You single-handedly lost this game. You haven't had a cleaner pocket in your time at tech. You haven't had an easier chance to not fuck it up. And still, you did. You did fuck it up.
And another thing, why the fuck did we wear the carrot stick unis? They were cursed from the get-go. The last time we wore those curses, we lost to the fighting Cav-men. NEVER AGAIN. Never again. Kill those unis with fire and blood.
Fuck. And fuck.
Goodnight Blacksburg. Goodnight and never forget this feeling. Never.
1) What the hell did Frank eat for breakfast? 4th and 11? Fuck it let's go. Frank didn't play field position.
2) Logan said after the bye his arm felt live again. I never said it, but I didn't like the sound of it. Live = overthrow every receiver like the beginning of the season.
3) Lefty's game plan frankly sucked, and he didn't adjust during the game. I thought the power run game with Tray looked good at the beginning of the game. We should of pounded 14 up the middle until it stopped working.
4) Ke. Fuller had 3! And a loss... Gonna call a spade a spade. Offense wet the bed. Coaches and players.
But enough of the doom and gloom. Your neighborhood airplane bottle of bourbon is here to raise your sprits. Drink up my friends. You can feel the pain of the lose when you wake up tomorrow.
As bad as the offense played, Duke played better than we did today. When we were on offense, at least. So, credit to them. I'm tired of hearing that after a loss, too, because I feel like we threw this one away (literally and figuratively), but Duke of old would have still lost. This one didn't.
My biggest beefs with this are twofold:
1) We've only prepared Logan. No one else can step in because (I'm guessing) no one else gets the reps needed in practice to run the offense.
2) Because we put so much on Logan, he becomes the only option. Logan not throwing well? Well, then I guess we'll have to run him. It doesn't look like we plan for anything except Logan.
Football is a game played on Saturday. When Saturday rolls around, anything can happen and teams have to take care of business or else they lose. I was kind of surprised at the amount of 4th downs Beamer went after (some I liked, but some I didn't). I don't think I would pin this solely on LT--I think the wind/tipped passes contributed to 3/4 INT's. This was a team loss, and a bad one at that. It was a huge reality check and I'll be a monkey's uncle if we come out this poorly next week. On the other hand, I don't know why we still have Journell as our kicker. I would have thought some serious effort would have gone in to recruiting and/or training Ludwig, or someone, to start place kicking. Special teams let us down, Offense let us down. It just sucks.
I can't argue. I think there is a bottle of SoCo around here with my name on it...
That is what UVa says to recruit players dawg.....I had to reply to this so I could work in the word dawg to one of the threads today (sorry, not sorry)
Maybe we can use this to say "LOOK HOW BADLY WE NEED YOU!"
Ahh yes.
The "Hoo" strategy.
Well played, my friend.
Snark aside, I think it might actually work with the new set of coaches. If it's ever going to work, it'll be now.
A good dose of humility, in the proper amount and at the proper time, can be good. I'm definitely with you there. How they come out against BC will tell us a lot about this team, more than we thought we had learned already.
Second this notion.
Being a fan for well over twenty years has led me to know that shit happens. I've seen too many games lost in the last two minutes, ricky hall dropping a pass in the endzone versus temple, and other stupid plays to know, nothing is a sure thing with the hokies. Some of the newer fans and students don't remember that and have crazy expectations.
Just hope thus game humbled the team, so they can focus ahead. A hurt md team put it up on Clemson, bc plays hard, Miami will be tough, UVA will be out for blood. It doesn't get easy, and any game could be a lose.
Not by the real definition of Clemsoning. It's not losing one game that you shouldn't, it's letting it spiral out of control. Today wasn't pulling a Clemson.
Poor Bud, just give the team to him. You ever see him on the sideline? Fired up as all hell? We need him to light a fire in our offenses ass!
Was thinking that during the game. I saw the camera crew pan over some of them I.believe. Hopefully the rest of their visit was good. Maybe we can use this to say "LOOK HOW BADLY WE NEED YOU!"
Umm... 60 minutes too late?
Yeah. Any chance for a pity commit?
hey at least the defensive players saw what they could be a part of
Everyone knows Frank will be diplomatic with the media. That's all irrelevant. It's what he says to the team and the coaches that matters.
Checkout the post I just made. Irks me too.
fans dont play the game. furthermore, anyone who had seen duke play this year knew they were dangerous
True enough, but I think that the pain would be less if everyone wasn't already hoping for an ACC Championship or more. I refrained from saying it in another thread last week or so, but we do this every year. We see some success, get all excited and start planning our trips to the big bowls, and something screws up. I don't mean that to be pessimistic or defeatist about the team, but when stuff like this happens, it validates (in my own mind) the practice of setting very realistic expectations. I knew Duke would give us their best (which still wasn't very good) for what they had on the line. Just disheartening.
Oh well, film review at some point to see what happened and then hopefully this is motivation enough to play like never before against BC. I expect another slog, though.
I totally forgot that we went hurry up with nothing but Trey Edmunds on that one drive and got first down after first down after first down. It seemed to work the whole time we did it. Why we stopped it and never went back, I'm not sure I'll ever know.