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Haters gonna hate.
two 6 - 6 teams, Florida and tOSU. They will split $1.6 million more than the Las Vegas bowl Boise St. is in. The BcS is a flawed system designed to make sure the Stonecutter's keep their money. Focusing hate on VT for this means you are doing exactly what the Stonecutters want you do to. Thank you Stuart Mandel and Dennis Dodds for helping keep Murica stoopid. GFY, like a lot.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-wetzel_football_hosta...
Here is a well articulated article describing all those flaws.
They made adjustments and took advantage of VT's weaknesses. Offense did not adjust to the high pressure D. Thought the play calling could have been a little different. THe Clemson D was going high risk, all in every play. We should have been able to burn them but the play-calling seemed to play right into what they were doing.
Thanks for the explaination
2-4....yeesh!
Well, I wondered what was up when I saw the mothership crawl that said Chick-fil-A bowl: Virginia vs. Auburn. I thought it must be a typo, somebody left the "Tech" off of the crawl. Then a bit later I glanced at the TV (I was vacuuming so I couldn't hear the sound), and I saw the big "M" and "VT" on the screen. I thought "What kind of rinky-dink bowl are they sending us to??". When it sank in that we're on our way to BCSville, I was initially stunned that we were picked. We apparently hit the football lottery.
Personally, I don't think we should be going to a BCS bowl. Don't misunderstand me, I am elated to be going to the Big Easy, but I think there were more deserving teams out there (KSU, Boise maybe, UGA, who can't because of the no-more-than-2-from a conference rule). But, after some reflection, in some respects our selection doesn't surprise me. The Sugar Bowl selection was a product of our fan base, not the team. Herbstreit was ranting about our selection, last night ("Is this what it comes down to?!! How good a fan base you have? How well you travel?") but this is exactly what bowls do. They gravitate towards teams that put butts in seats. Its what bowls have ALWAYS done. So Herby needs to get over it. Our fans won this bowl for the team.
This year's BCS is exactly why there should be a playoff of some sort, whether it's plus-one, eight teams, sixteen teams, or some other scenario. You have two teams from the same division of the same conference playing a rematch game, you have one conference guaranteed a spot when they can't decide between three mediocre teams, one team denied because of one loss on an incredibly tough, emotionally devastating day (even though they beat better teams than one of the NCG contestants), and you have the same old same old from the bowls outside of NCG selection. The system is not set up to reward teams on the basis of on-the-field merit outside of 1 vs. 2.
wakemeup707- that truly echoes the sentiments of Hokie Nation. Well said and played sir, well played.
Don't get me wrong - I'm *super stoked* about our matchup - but I don't think playing WVU would have been as bad as everyone's making it sound
I was driving back home from the store when I heard it on XM radio. I had to pull over and look it up on my phone. I thought for sure I heard them wrong.
Virginia Tech
1500 Sugar Bowl Drive
New Orleans, LA 70112
Clemson University
14360 NW 77th Ct.
Miami Lakes, FL 33016
Dear Clemson,
Thank you for winning. Don't get me wrong, I hate losing, but because of you, we got to a better bowl game than had we won. So again, thank you, and please go slaughter some Big Least team for the ACC.
Sincerely,
Virginia Tech
I am still very surprised. Though I know we leapfrogged some teams here are some important points to remember for the selection:
Four teams in front of us claim to have a legitimate gripe and two behind us, as follows: Kansas State, Boise State, Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina and Michigan State. Three teams were eliminated tonight when the National Championship Game was announced (Georgia, Arkansas, and USCe) because of the two team from conference rule and the fact that the BCS wouldn't bend for the 1 v 2 being outside the formula. Secondly, Boise State was eliminated when TCU clinched the Mountain West Title (it is described as a handshake agreement- if I remember correctly- that for a non AQ to go, they need to win their conference. Boise failed to do so. BLOCKED AND CUT). Now, Kansas State and Michigan State are the two most viable gripes. However aside from money the choice can be logically explained. K-State, though most people won't accept this, is very similar to Tech in that they didn't play many ranked teams this season (four). They were .500 (blown out by Oklahoma and lost to Oklahoma State in a one possession game. They beat Baylor by one and Texas by four- slight margin of victory. VT played FIVE games against ranked teams in the AP/Coaches: Wake Forest (won by 21), Georgia Tech (won by 11), UVA (won by 38- ranked 25 in AP) and lost those two games to Clemson by a combined forty eight (man that stings). Common opponent was Miami, we won by three and they four- cancels out, both are a one possession final. Combined with the money issue Tech actually isn't an awful decision by the Sugar Bowl committee. Enter Michigan State....well, plainly they would've and should've replaced Michigan from a football standpoint: head to head victory and won that division to lose a rematch of a win from earlier in the season. BUT Michigan State = little brother who doesn't bring half the fans or tradition that Michigan does along with television ratings. That was really a no-brainer in money, but a terrible football decision.
Overall I am still ecstatic and cannot wait for a game I've wanted to see for a long time. The ACC was granted a chance to show itself with two teams and BOTH need to win convincingly to set up for another great start to 2012. LETS GO HOKIES!
And go to a superior BCS bowl?? Christmas came early...
We seriously need to hand Michigan their ass in this game.
I wonder how much hotels will be for this spectacular event.
After my inner fan felt horrible after the basketball game, suddenly everything is right again. So happy! I'm going to New Orleans!
Bring it on Joe
way past deadline, tho 1-1.
It may have looked a bit like man, but the Hokies were in robber Cover 3 zone coverages on a bunch of the short little pop passes in the flat and the double move deep touchdown in the 3rd quarter. The Hokies run lots of man, and then will disguise a zone coverage by showing man and then turning it into a zone where guys jump routes (called a "robber coverage".) It works best when the other team gets predictable with going to the same route versus man and when the Hokies can get pressure.
When Hosley got hurt, the Hokies played their corners as deep thirdsa more than man to try to protect them, but Bonner and Hill were not athletic enough to come up and make tackles on Hopkins and Watkins. Great beat decent. It happens. There is a reason why those guys were not starters.
from WHATTHEFUCKJUSTHAPPENED to HOLYFUCKEENGSHIT!!!
Now hopefully the offense will play with a chip on it's shoulder (from the demoralizing and pathetic product they put on the field in Charlotte) and go blow out a B1G Ten(?) team. This is probably the turning point where VT is getting some clout on a national level to have gotten such a nod -and the fact that a helluva lot of pieces fell in to place...
Go Hokies!
HAAHAHAHAHAHA.
The outrage across the CFB world is palpable.
It's awesome that we got a BCS bid, but I'm going to get pissed every time I hear something like we don't deserve it. It's gotta be a good win for us to get some credit.
Oh well.
Saw speculation for this on ESPN's BCS live chat also... They say it's "not confirmed" but it's been "reported from all sources." So, basically they mean that all that's left is for it to be announced.
The world of college football is kinda fed up with us... That kinda goes without saying.
Is there a reason we dont play much zone coverage?
