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If we are playing Michigan in the Sugar bowl it will be a blast
WOOP WOOP HEADED TO THE SUGAR
I CAN GO PHOTOGRAPH IT IF TRUE YUSSSSS
That was the most frustrated I've been watching us play in a while. When our o-line is man handled like that it's just painful to watch. Edge of my couch the whole night, in the worst way though. Losing a close one is at least respectable, our line should be ashamed...seriously. If we have any potential OL recruits we should use that game to show them how much they're needed.
I also didn't like DW comments after the game. I know he's frustrated but he's gotta bottle that up. He missed some catches and reads too, even though he couldn't get a block to save his life.
I am not going to call any defensive players out for their effort last night. What looks like lack of hustle is often the result of mental fatigue, especially playing against an offense that requires you to play assignment football rather than one that allows you to be naturally aggressive. I am sure there was some frustration too. That brain freeze ties up your feet, and can make you look bad when tackling. I think the Hokies handled adversity poorly, but the biggest issue really was Clemson had better athletes who played well. The Hokies corners looked like average guys playing great players. The Hokies front seven looked like overachieving 3 stars who were gassed. There just wasn't a guy on the field who I thought looked like they would make a play on defense to turn the game around. That is a tough pill to swallow, when last year they ALWAYS seemed to make a play on defense to change the game.
I was up at 2am writing this piece last nigh, and I didn't touch on one thing. I have NEVER seen a Hokie defensive front four rotate less than this season. This is a depth issue that we knew would be a problem before the season, but with the offense looking at some growing pains next year, the Hokies will need to rely on a suddenly deep defensive front to keep them in games. They should have the guns to rotate 8 guys, and hopefully a dominant edge rusher and a star two gap tackle can finally emmerge. Did you watch Brandon Thompson last night. THAT has been the missing piece in the Hokies defense since JC Price wore Maroon and Orange.
Gayle-AHop-DHop-Collins
McCray-Maddy-Harley-Marshall
Alternate series and let them get up field.
Offensively, they have the tools to be good. They need to figure out how to use them correctly.
When he's only getting to run the ball 11 times in our biggest game of the year. There is a problem. He had 0 holes last night, and its only going to be worse next year. I think he jets outta here now.
Time for some Hokies DISrespect! Not a single SEC program that I'm aware of has a focused program built around sportsmanship. I'm sure that's because it was discovered a long time ago that sportsmanship is a concept developed to making LOSING teams feel better about themselves! Oh yeah, we need more depth too, etc...
This was indeed a very bitter pill to swallow. And I feel like Dabo looked right at the Stanford game last year, because the game fell apart last year the same way it did last night. Our Offensive line has got to get more aggressive and Im hoping Benedict comes in and all of the younger OL's come in with a chip on there shoulder for next year. I sure do hope Bud Foster prepares his players all the way into the too deep roster. I know that we lost a lot of great players during the season, but we got to develop depth better. When I look at SEC and Alabama and LSU its not that they're so much better than every team in the country or than us for that matter, its because they develop depth. When one player goes down for there teams another player can step in and play without missing a beat. I feel like the coaches didnt really prepare us for last night. After watching seing Clemson's offense in the first half I just knew that Bud Foster would make changes to his defense, but it just didnt work out. I want us to finish the season strong against who ever we play. I hope this leaves a bad taste in Beamer's mouth and Bud Foster's mouth. We need to come out hungry, Im tired of this nice guy mentality its great to have respectful players that shows sportsmanship, but we got to turn a leaf. Something just isn't working. I know Beamer is a different coach behind doors when he is with his team, but lets finish strong in the Peach bowl and finish recruiting strong I hope that our recruits wont turn away from us after this loss. But we are Hokie win or lose.
I will say this I sure do hope that our DB's such as Bonner and Kyshoen Jarrett use this game as experience and get better next year. I was disgusted watching this game knowing our DB's were giving Sammy Watkins and other wideouts on Clemson's team 10 yards of cushion in coverage before the snap. I've coached and looked at Defensive Backs before and I understand that was probably the coaches orders, but either the players didnt trust in there technique or for whatever reason they didnt think they could match up with those other guys across from them, but this is just one weakness out of many and its a team game this isn't what cost us the game, there was more things that added up. I would really like to see how we finish recruiting and see if our team has grown from this year.
Re: DJ Coles. He had unquestionably his best game of his career. Most of his catches were in tight coverage, and the one 'drop' that might be attributed to him was because Thomas threw the ball behind Coles and the defender was able to get an arm in between the ball and Coles' body. Having Coles, Davis, and Roberts coming back next year is only going to accelerate Thomas' continuing maturation at quarterback.
ESPN + $NCAA$ x SEC = BCS
This is the formula used by ESPN to convince the NCAA to go along with the BCS.
Excellent write up again french. I was 1 of those who wrote about effort. I just felt as though the defense gave up on alot of plays in the 2nd half. After we got down 28-10 it was seemed as if we were getting less effort out of our defense. I know they were tired but I saw guys giving up out there before the whistle and not pursuing from the backside, they just stopped running and watched other guys try to make plays. I was really irritated by this. They should be in gary shape and most players was being rotated so I see no excuse for this. The 1 obvious thing I noticed that cost us this game and will continue to is we just got dominated in the trenches. I agree I have said all year I do not undersatand why we do not recruit better lineman. Not 2 star tightends and turn them into a tackle, that is not a lineman in my book. Blood pressure still high.
You're not going to get that horse collar call in college football. Mostly because it's an NFL rule (the Roy Williams rule).
Make that an inconsistent punting game. Journell has been rock solid in October and November and just hit a career long against Clemson.
That hit Hosley took to the head looked like it hurt bad and I really hope he doesn't have too serious of a concussion from it. Losing him opened up Clemson's passing game since Bonner just couldn't keep up, but I'd rather see Hosley sit and the team lose then risk permanent damage to the young man.
All in all last night sucked, but we just gotta pick ourselves, brush that dirt off our shoulders, and look forward to the next game/season.
Watching the game last night you could see his draft stock dropping as he can't run though traffic. However, combined with this post-game comments criticizing the game calling, I'm even more uncertain. If he stays another year he could definitely work on his goals, and work on ball security.
The game was horribly officiated, and each one of those penalties could have been key. The GT game turned on one penalty. Helmet to helmet on Jayron was huge. Offensive PI, blocked punt, horse collaring, etc were all strangely not called. But that didn't cause us to lose the game. O'Cainspring wasn't ready from the first play of the game. Poor play calling, combined with inexperienced defense doomed us.
I swear Dabo watched the Stanford game tape from the Orange Bowl in January. Last night's game was almost identical in more ways than one: close played first half, 13-12 at the half, then Stanford running away with it in the 3rd quarter. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Our offensive line was quite offensive....again. Where can were get Bruce Smith clones to help?
I am not a football expert but I remember thinking to myself during the game especially during the second half that may be a spread formation would be a better way to slow down clemsons defense. What are your thoughts on this idea?
While there were bad calls, they weren't the reason VT lost. VT was not the better team out there last night.
Was it me or was there several obivious calls against clemson that were not called in the first half that could have swung the momentum in our favor. Off the top of my head the bull shit offensive PI on Marcus Davis when that should have been a no call, the uncalled horse collar on Logan Thomas, and the multiple helmet to helmet contacts on DW. This doesnt change how well we played in the game but if a couple of those calls had been made who knows if the Hokies would have scored some more points and changed the momentum of the game. Think of the GA Tech came and the punch thrown on LT3. Anyway may be we have an outside chance at an atlarge BCS bid.
I dont even know what to do. Wow. Heartbroken. I really wanted that BCS instead of Chick-fil-blah bowl. Piss Porr Effort. Pissed results.
I don't even know what to say. Clemson came to play and we didn't.
Piss poor effort in championship game tonight.. I am ashamed. It looks like we just gave up at 28 to 10.
I was hoping GA would win just to see them try and spin a national championship between two 1 loss teams that were both not their conference champions. Alas I do not think this will happen
"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." Awesome. Now please kill Michigan.