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Awesome article.
I was pulling for UVA as well. Not because I picked them to win in my family and friends pool but because I felt the same way as you and LT. I want the game to mean more. Not only to make a win sting that much more for the Hoo's, but because if 2007 ever taught me anything, its that BCS chaos can and WILL happen.
If UVA had lost last night, I was going to get started on my ACCCG video. I have been DVRing each game in full HD, had an awesome soundtrack picked out. I also wanted enough time to get it done by the 28th. No way I can work on it now and jinx us. The soundtrack isn't very fitting either since it was designed around us being the underdog. I get the feeling Clemson will fall to USC and the media hyping the game as if Clemson can pull off the 'upset.'
Either way, the next few weeks will be pretty awesome.
I've been watching the replay and on DW4's long run in the 2nd to the goal line and I can't see his knee touch anywhere but on the right side of touchdown. His head touches on the 1 yard line. Anyone else notice that?
Well writ, get it done
ha ha ha....I didn't realize that the Souf Carolina was playing Oregon today though ;)
I wasn't suprised that the DL had a down game. They were beat up after Gayle, Hopkins, and especially Collins played every snap against Georgia Tech. Those were tough snaps, with lots of doubles and cut blocks.
The lack of faith the Hokie coaching staff has in Zach McCray this season has been a killer, and even Bud Foster's guy Tyrell Wilson didn't get on the field except for one series this week. I can't recall Marshall getting on the field either.
A bunch of folks I have talked to said that the Hokies always wanted Acree as an OL, but he wanted to play DT. If he had gone to a team that runs a normal 4-3, he would still be at DT. He just isn't built to run the gap control slants that the Hokies use.
The Hokies defensive line since they changed to this defense IS NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE PLAYS unless an OL makes a bust. Their job is to funnel the running back to a partcular linebacker or the rover. The downside to the scheme is that NOBODY on the Hokies defensive front other than Jason Worilds has been any good rushing the passer since Darryl Tapp. Gayle has good upfield speed, but doesn't have a second move (a "leverage move.") Collins has to read run first, and isn't explosive, although he has much better leverage rush. If you could mutate the two together, you would have something. The Hokies have sacks because of the blitz packages, which gets completely nutted if a team can run the ball and use play action (freezes the backers.)
of the belt!!
Acree is a 4 star defensive end. We have no idea how he would have projected as an offensive line recruit.
I tried posting these from my phone outside of Lane, but a shoddy 3G signal prevented me from doing so. /insert vtjawo AT&T joke
UNC covering but Tech winning
#TeamNewHaven
Michigan
Houston - Look above to DavidWilsonsWhip's picture.
Virginia - They shorten the game running the ball but FSU's defense gets it done in the end.
USCe - They'll keep it close but Oregon will win.
LT3 has some of the same qualities (big, punishing runner) as Tebow....but seems to be much better in the passing game. A little film study of old gator games could be most profitable to Ocainspring....I still think the fake-QB-run-up-the-middle/jump-pass-to-the-TE-drifting-behind-the-linebackers would be great...especially in the ACCCG
I said on Twitter that it was a terrible play call that O'Cain didn't call on #3 with one yard to go. Whenever it's 3rd or 4th down outside the red zone with 1-2 yards to go Logan should get the ball. Inside the 20 he should carry every time with 1-2 yards to go. The backs have been too inconsistent picking up those short yards, and more importantly Logan has been ultra consistent. How many times has he not gotten a first down or touchdown in those situations? He's as effective as Tebow was at Florida.
UNC at VT -10.5 -- Picked too late for this game, and wouldn't have picked a game I was attending, anyway.
Harvard -10 at Yale -- Harvard
Nebraska at Michigan -3.5 -- Michigan
SMU at Houston -19.5 -- Houston
uva at FSU -17 -- uva vs. spread (FSU still wins)
SouthernCal at Oregon -15.5 -- USC vs. spread (Ore. still wins)
Yale
Nebraska
Houston
UVA covers, but FSU wins
USC covers, but looking like LSU/Oregon rematch now?
coples a nice enough ride to come to vt.
If anyone has an explanation as to why we took the ball five yards backwards to give it to Wilson twice instead of just letting our massive QB take the 1 yard plunge I'd love to hear it. That cost us 4 points right there, no reason for Tech to get fancy, just punch it in. When we have first and goal on the 1 I want to see QB sneaks until we score or turn it over on downs. No reason to do anything else with LT3's ability to pick up the short yardage.
That's what I heard too, but I had people over and they weren't paying too much attention to the game so it was hard for me to. So I dunno if he's full of shit...
Did our last offensive play confuse the fuck out of anyone else? I mean, why did we not tell LT "Take the ball and RUN THE FUCK AWAY"? I mean, wouldn't it have been better to run it all the way into their end zone and give them the safety rather than give them one more offensive play? If UNC hadn't been retarded their last play it could have ended so badly for us. Or was there something I didn't see?
I enjoy the games with good ol' Ron Cherry
French, being at the game the thing i noticed most was the lack of penetration by the d line throughout the game. Do you really think UNC's o-line is that good? Was it scheme? Or was it effort? There just wasn't that push up the middle that I have been used to seeing all year that forces the QB or running back into Collins and Gale.
On a second note does anyone know how many fumbles DW4 has this year both in total and lost? We tried to look it up the other night and had trouble finding that stat. I seriously think the fumbles could keep him in school another year. NFL teams won't put up with fumbling.
Anyways, enjoyed the read. I think in general it was a decent game by the Hokies for 3 and a half quarters. The game could have easily been 31-7 not 24-21.
I always forget about Benedict. He was a tackle at Georgia but Beer Control said he is getting snaps at guard.
Benedict, Shuman, Acree, Gibson, and Painter are all 4 stars. I bet at the most only 2 start.
Preliminary 2012 OL discussion....how does the kid transferring from GA fit in?
It appeared to me that the heels checked out mentally in the third quarter, but checked back in after we checked out in the fourth. At 24-7, under normal circumstances, perhaps that wouldn't be a problem, however you open the door a crack on a team as talented as UNC and you can have a big problem. Games like that are why I do not mind seeing any team continue to be aggressive and push the ball down field, scoring as much as possible. I doubt if Frank thinks this way, but I'm of the opinion, it's our job to go out and score as much as possible, and it's your job to stop me. If you don't do your job, don't complain about me doing mine. This game reminded me of the Miami game to an extent, in that I think after opening up a sizable lead, we went into a shell and nearly blew it. There's a lesson there, I think.
Refs have been uniformly abysmal in the ACC this year. I've seen at least two or three blown calls in every game I've watched this year. And let's not even talk about the FSU/Miami game last week....when they start reviewing the reviews, it ain't good folks!
I was thinking the same thing about the fumbles as long as it doesn't cost us a game. Feeling that the ball security and the need to improve his vision might keep him.
BTW I always feel like those rubber elbow pads are horrible for ball security especially with a back that already has ball security issues.
As far as LT, I didn't expect he would be good enough to carry a team on his back but since he ran into the endzone for the final score against Miami I've felt like he's taken ownership of the team.
Well, you guys know I'm kind-of an anomaly, at least around here. I don't hate- can't hate. I'll root for my Hoos over VT any day, but I honestly and truly want both programs to achieve stellar heights.
It's conflicting. Those of you who remember me from the beginning of the season remember I rooted for VT to go all the way to the NCG. Beamer ain't gettin' any younger, and I think our program's on the upswing enough that we'll start contesting VT honestly, like the way it used to be. I want to shut those SEC jackoffs up, and hard. I wanted to show the world what "ACC cupcakes" can really do.
I still do; but now, you know, the Hoos are right in the way of the Hokies to get there. And I sure don't want us to lose. I think the Hokies'll be the hardest game we've had, bar none. I don't think the actual Hokie team (and certainly not the coaches) will fall into the pride-before-the-fall trap that doomed Miami, Georgia Tech, and FSU. Compared to the beginning of the season, Virginia Tech has solid- damn solid- play. Few, if any, exploits to get at. We lost our best past rusher last night, and we can hold tight- but we almost gave up the game last night on a blown cover in the secondary, and only by the grace of God did Chase Minnifield make that tackle at the one-yard line. Virginia Tech won't let you recover from that; you give them that opening, and it's over.
But, I dunno. It's college football, guys. Hate? I don't hate anyone from Virginia Tech. I don't think I'm better than them. I told you, I'll be the first one to defend Virginia Tech from all those SEC assholes. Most Virginia fans I know would cherish a win versus Virginia Tech mostly from this sort of attitude- I know I get tired of tirelessly defending Tech and convince my friends up here in Hooville about why it's a great thing for two Virginia teams to dominate college sports, only to see things like this pop up telling me I hate Tech, I think I'm better than them, about how much it'll mean for you guys to grind us into the dust, etc. Maybe it's worse because, you know, I met Frank Beamer; the man's a helluva guy. And if anyone here remembers the circumstances that led me to meet him, then you'll know why it's so tough to hear things like that, because he did more to exemplify that the Commonwealth is big enough for two great teams- and that we're all Virginians, first and foremost- than anyone else, ever.
But, y'know, just my whiny two cents. Carry on with the hate.