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1:45-2:00....perfect hahaha i could watch that a million times. How bad do yall think itll be this year?
Pretty slow day offensively until Trey Edmunds burst up the middle for about 14 yards on a powerful run. Holmes follows up with similar run.— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) April 8, 2013
Well that's all fine and dandy, but then we'd suck.
Seeing this made me tear up, very classy act by Nebraska. Its good to see some good college sports news after the past couple weeks of negativity.
I'm currently sitting in class. Can't wait to get out of here and hopefully catch the tail end of the scrimmage.
The clip at around 1:15 makes me smile and laugh every time.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing.
I am so happy you Photoshopping artwork is becoming a thing here. Great stuff.
Assumed as much, but maybe he lived here when he created the account and has since moved.
I'm about 99.9% sure that his username, InEnemyTerritory, is a play on him being a Hokie living in Charlottesville.
Are you, too, a Hokie in Hoo'ville? Or were just in the area for work?
(NOTE: I live in C'ville.)
Jeeze, thanks for making me feel bad...
looks like a replay of b1g championship game
His dad has some kidney disease and gets weekly treatments at UVA. He transferred for legitimate reasons.
But he sucks.
If the TEs are used correctly they will open up the field and make the safeties honor the routes up the middle which will free up the outside for some one on one coverage. That will also mean that the RBs will be one on one with a LB which against most teams will favor the RBs that we have!
He is a long strider and with limited playing experience looks good! He could be up to that 190 mark before he even enrolls at VT. 15lbs for a growing young man isn't a stretch.
i'll be there. my phone is currently broken so i probably won't be able to live tweet, but i'll definitely post my notes (and hopefully pictures) afterwards
He's calling himself Centaur on his Instagram.
Oh, btw....a couple of ancillary thoughts....
cavman rode through at the start of the game, but dissappointingly, did not fall off his horse.
I ran into a guy in Starbucks yesterday here, and as I do quite often when I see someone in VT gear (he had a Tech shirt on) I said "nice shirt!" He mentioned that he was headed to Blacksburg to visit his daughter (vet sci major, I think he said). The most interesting thing he said was that his brother is the aforementioned cavman. So cavman's niece is a Hokie. Bet their family gatherings are fun.
That was awesome
ha can he really call that few people a crowd
good lord, Richmond does not need any more UVA hand me downs. thanks, but no thanks.
Oh this made my day so much better!
Ok, some semi-official info. I was there (I have a job that put me there, close to the action. It's an ugly job, but hey, somebody's gotta do it.)
Attendance: roughly, between 7K & 8K...I'd lean toward the lower end of that range. In true wahoo fashion, about 20% of the crowd left at halftime.
The writers were VERY kind to the wahoo offense. The O-line played incredibly bad. Most of the press I've seen talked about the "dominating" performance of the defensive front 7. They don't spread the fertilizer that thick in the fields, folks. It was such a bad performance that, at one point, the O-line coach was riding the first team, prompting him at one point to tell them "some of you guys are going to find yourself on second team". Not that the second team was fairing much better, but hey a guy's gotta motivate the troops, right?
The skill players don't seem to play particularly fast. WRs didn't seem to run crisp routes. None of the backs looked impressive, but I hesitate to criticize too much, since the line play was so incredibly pathetic. There were a lot of incomplete passes. For a team that supposedly wants to emphasize the run, there were a lot of pass attempts. No wahoo QB was particularly effective, which sets up a nice three-way competition in the fall. Last year London only had two QB's to choose from. Let the hilarity ensue.
The defensive line seems a bit undersized. This likely fits into Tenuta's scheme, since they'd like to have a fast, mobile, attacking defense, with a lot of stress on blitz packages. If you remember Tenuta's tenure at GT, think similar schemes, only with the stench of wahoo this time. The top DE, Eli Harold has not consistently been able to get the best of Morgan Moses in camp this year according to the local press, partly because of lack of size, despite being quicker. If memory serves me correctly, James Gayle had a nice afternoon both of the last two games against the hoos, so draw your own defensive comparisons. The defense posted three safeties in the game, two when the first team offense was going against the first team defense. One of these was when Watford (starting QB) was touched in the end zone.
A word about "special" teams (in quotes, because if you saw it Saturday, you'd wonder why they were called special). The fact that the hoos hired a new special teams coach this year has been a point of emphasis in the news around cville, and if Saturday's performance is any indication, any time the punt team steps on the field this year, it indeed promises to be special....usually for the opposing team. I don't recall seeing any punt that spiraled off the kicker's foot. There were no booming kicks. The punt returners weren't allowed to actually return kicks, so we don't know too much about that, but on the plus side for the wahoos, there weren't any kicks bouncing off facemasks (see the UVA-Wake game from last year, as a hilarious reference). There were no kick-offs, so we have no info on what they will look like. There was a blocked extra point attempt (it looked like it hit the back of one of the linemen). The highlight play of the day, which drew the largest applause of the day from the crowd was (I'm not making this up) a 13-yard punt, which occurred after the snap went over the punters head, rolling to the goal line before the punter picked it up, and was able to get what was arguably the best kick of the day off.
A few notes on coaching, and the hoos in general:
- The ACC was experimenting with an eight man crew, and it drove the coaches nutty. They were riding the refs...in what is effectively a scrimmage. That's gotta be embarrassing.
- The wahoo tv show "The Building of a Program" was shown on the scoreboard prior to the spring game. This constitutes the highest ratings the show has ever had.
- Most semi-intelligent football programs have their spring game as the last practice of the fifteen NCAA-allowed spring session. The wahoos still have three remaining practices. I'm assuming that someone somewhere has some semi-logical reasoning for this.
- The orange team (second team O, first team D) beat the blue squad (first team O, second team D) 18-15. The first team was able to make the game appear closer than it was by scoring a late touchdown with less than a minute remaining, partly because one of the refs felt sorry for them and called a dubious pass interference penalty in the end zone on a fourth down play.
The idea of these spring games is to solve some football related questions (who can play, solve position battles, etc.), to generate some buzz/give the fans a little bone to chew on until fall, and put a positive spin on the upcoming season. UVA (I know it's hard to believe folks) failed on all counts.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, Mike London was a cop.
#LOLUVA once again.
He reminds me of the "Grimm Reaper"
