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Thanks, but I don't think there is anything here that a college staff would not pick up very quickly. This is the base look. Foster always makes adjustments, and the balance of the look allows him to bring pressure from places where the defense can't expect it. The scheme will be good against Alabama.

The big question mark is, and always be, can the Hokies front seven physically hold up to the Alabama front. This front is one of the bigger ones VT has had, so I feel pretty confident. Collins and Nicolas will be battling with Kounandijo. That will be a big matchup.

How about little lunch pails for the D, and turkey legs or small old-school gobblers for the O & special teams?

Just suggested this on the helmet post....I like the idea of using award stickers for performance, (example I used on the other post was OSU). The use of this has a little history at Tech....they were used in the Dooley era (back when old guys like me were in school). The chosen shape then was stars. Submitted for your approval...Cyrus Lawrence

almost just threw myself out of this window beside me at Torgerson library upon seeing these again.

Alabama runs to their strength more than 2/3rds of the time. Unless there is motion, the backer will be to the strength along with the rover, so the backer becomes critical at the point of attack, while the whip has to come in from backside pursit and take the cutback lane away from the running back.

That's what I was going for! Nice job! The tone-on-tone hokie bird on the opposing side perhaps? As an alternative, what about awarding very small turkey legs as awards on the other side (kind of like the buckeye stickers at Meyerville U)?

If anything comes into questions it's the fact that the back has Antone's number on it, kind of identifying him. Other than that it sounds like the rest of it is good to go.

And I still like "Playtime is over kids."

Over half of our D made top-4 at their position, essentially at least 2nd team. I'll take it, considering last year.

Bama will keep working and adjusting to find the weaknesses. Once they do they will exploit them. The key to success is to not let them find weaknesses. Keep them hidden with movement and change ups. Don't show any tendencies. If they have to keep guessing they will struggle. It's like a poker game, not a chess match.

Same head coach, same philosophy: target weaknesses. Edwards is playing in his first real game in over a year against Bama. Against a team that has very few liabilities (especially in run stopping), the only weaknesses you can target are Edwards (I doubt anyone considers Tyler a weakness whatsoever) and the BC on the edge. If Exum is back, they'll test his knee. If he isn't, they'll test the Fr/So who replaces him (and weighs less than 190, more likely than not).

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