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"At one point there used to be a hard-nosed football team in Blacksburg. This football team would wear all maroon. They didn't give any fucks. They were angry. They played in a Terror Dome. They earned respect. They attacked, and attacked, and attacked until they lived in their opponent's backfield. They brought their lunchpail to work, but ate the other team's sandwiches. They had athletic players, put them in a position to succeed, and they did."

I thought that is exactly what the defensive front seven did throughout the game. It looked like the Hokie defense in 95-99, with guys coming from everywhere, the QB beat to a bloody pulp, and the running backs tackled for losses over and over again. Unfortunately, it also was a textbook masterpiece in why Foster abandoned that scheme: the less talented secondary couldn't cover wide receivers man to man all game long without getting torched. Kyle Fuller, great run support/tackler, so so in coverage. Kyshoen Jarrett, great in run support all game long, but terrible in man coverage (and he blew the coverage on the Abernathy IV TD. Dietrick Bonner plays corner to not get beaten, and gave up underneath skinny post and in routes like pitch and catch throws. Michael Cole in space makes Nick Sorenson look like Ed Reed. And Antone Exum was horrendous all day because he has no instincts on when he needs to get out of his backpedal and turn and run, or change directions. Instead of bitching about the officiating, we should thank the Lord above that Exum did not get 10+ pass interference calls. Either the way the DB's are taught (turn your back, play the body, play the percentages) has become outdated or the talent level has dropped off significantly because of the poor recruiting hauls from 2008-2010.

But, the Hokies used to be bullies on offense too. Then a bunch of Madden playing, whining, never played a down of football in their worthless lives pussies started booing from the cheap seats and getting on message boards talking about how "predictable" and "boring" the offense was, and Frank Beamer, in the ultimate no-no for a coach started listening to these morons. (You know, the same ones who wanted Beamer fired today because "he forgot to play Enter Sandman.") In their effort to "modernize," they have lost their identity and became soft. Today, they played a smaller front, and needed every bit of misdirection and deception to move the football. There was no physical dominance asserted, and that made me sick.

There is no excuse for these repeated poor starts. Every game since Georgia Tech has featured a putrid first quarter. I am not sure what is causing it, but if you were in the stands dring warm ups, you may share in considering a theory. Butch Jones had a sharp, organized, purposeful, and energetic pregame warmup. Their stretches, chants, drills, everything was sharp and done with enthusiasm. Every helmet was on, every player was engaged.

Then, if you looked across the field, the dichotomy was palpable. The QBs and WR's all had their helmets off. Every position drill activity looked like guys going through the motions. The stretching had guys looking around the stadium and not focused on getting lose. The coaches were disengaged, only stepping in with their group. When everyone was huddled, it was one guy talking and no energy from anyone else.

Perhaps I am making a mountain out of a molehill, but I believe that winning is habit forming. You play like you practice, and that looked like an unfocused, unmotivated group. Now, to their credit, the defensive front seven came out wildmen, but nothing else looked sharp or crisp early in the game. It has to have an effect. At some point, there has to be some accountability for coming out that disjointed. If it is the players, there are talented bodies who are not playing who at least may give you that effort. If it is the staff, end the cronyism and get someone in who demands attention to detail.

I fell in love with this program in the early 90's because they were the players who nobody else wanted, who came to Virginia Tech, absolutely killed it in the weight room, and then bloodied the noses of their opponents. As the quality of the athletes they get have improved, it seems like the staff has forgotten that identity. It is certainly missing from the offense, and the defense can only truly bring it back if they can mix the same attitude with a better quality of athlete to match up with this silly spread nonsense.

And, Dan Snyder can stick his head between his legs and fuck his own face. Thank you for the forum.

"For the first time in a long time, I don't believe we're going to win ten games"

Thank you Captain Obvious.

Sorry... couldn't resist.

It's just getting tiring. More of the same. The best thing that will happen this year will be the end of the 10-win-per-season streak. No matter how bad things look, Frank always throws that streak into the conversation as the reason to never make any changes.

When Frank got Shane involved and shook up recruiting responsibilities and staffing, I really hoped that was a sign of some sort of sense of urgency on his part to close out his career with some real memorable moments.

There's nothing worse than watching the game on ESPN and hear the announcers babble: "Yesterday I was talking to Virginia Tech Offensive Coordinator Bryan Stinespring and he was saying..."

As if he's talking to some mastermind and offensive genius.

maybe you should root for bama

Im lookong into my crystal ball and trying to be oppotmistic and not overreact, but the body of work speaks for itself. I see 3 probable losses... FSU, Clemson, unc/miami/duke? Fsu and clemson will play track meet football and hang 40+ and due to the dominance of the past 6 years everyone else will be looking to pounce on a down vt

is what happens when you have a couple not so great recruiting classes in back to back years.

West by God is the talk of the CFB world with Geno Smith putting up Madden stats, while our supposed Heisman-level QB throws into double coverage, 10 ft too high every time he drops back.

...all faith in humanity. My wife now hates me and my kid is afraid of me. But don't panic everybody! We'll get the usual drivel from Frank, post-game and probably hear about that "consistency" horseshnit...

But 10 wins (Model of consistency? Anyone?) is in serious doubt at this point unless the table gets ran -proven further mediocrity in the ACC.

It sucks but that was a perfect throw... yeah fuller was late but it was on the money

This does not look good! I honestly do not believe it can be fixed. Long year for the hokies and the fans!

If only the offense and defense could put a complete game together they might beat a big east team

Wow what a way to lose...

SAD!!!!!!