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Wasnt he the best GA Tech player in a VA Tech jersey the year before that?
Fuck Clemson
I really think VT is setting up to attack the option this time. The changes we made on defense were just for that very purpose and I feel like we have the speed to really make that method of defending the option work. Gotta pick the good guys
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Virginia Tech - Good guys win w/ incredible performance of David Wilson
Nebraska - Think the preview said it all
WVU - I just want to see no Big East team ranked in the top 25
Auburn - That spread is way too much
TCU - Again huge spread for a game TCU has been looking forward to all year
Stanford - Luck is just crazy good
I hate GT more than any other school in the ACC. I hate the way that they are also called Tech. I hate their stupid high school style offense. I hate their super generic mascot. I hate kids that read books at football games. I hate the way we can't seem to slap the shit of of them like we should. I hope the reports are right and that we were preparing for them during Duke week. I want LT3 and David Wilson to straight truck people. I love this article.
Based on some of his comments in interviews, I'm pretty sure either LT3 or someone really really close to him does. (Ahem, Danny Coale is always open)
Especially the girl who tried out, because that's just awesome.
Don't say that.... El Paso is warm, and while the game is on New Year's Eve, so you'd be here in early January, I really don't want to see us end up in the Sun Bowl. Please dear god, no.
so long as the right pick is #1
Hokies... or else.
Penn State... avenge JoPa!
'Neers... only cause I picked against them last week and was right
Puppies... in an uggaly game.
TCU... Boise's joining the Big Least? Really?
Stanford... god only knows why
BOTW: something out of the Sam Adams Winter Collection. Got it for less than a dollar a bottle... wewt
Showing up in big games and never letting up. No matter if we're up by 1 or up by 20, there should be no let up by the offense. The team should never be satisfied with "just a win" unless its in the National Championship game. We need that killer instinct back that came with the fundamental ideals of Beamerball. Where the team would bring it no matter who was on the field and when. Too often in recent memory has this team let up early, and as a result we've had some close calls and just some outright disgusting performances. We need to prove it on the field that we are not only better than the opposition, but rather A LOT better.
Awesome. Love the anger.
GiT- i despise them, but as others have said, GiT is our kryptonite. I hope i'm wrong, becauseI want to hit GiT in the mouth and leave them to suffer just as much as the next Hokie.
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UGA - Auburn really isn't very good.
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The googly-eyed trees
Agreed. Being somewhat superstitious, we will wear the same uni we wore last year when we beat GT. Next week be prepared for the god awful Carrot Stick Uni. (orange everything!)
Not here to rag on you guys, just hoping for a great game where everybody comes out of the game healthy. No need to start talking about chop blocks to me; GA Tech has only been called for 2 or 3 all season, so don't get paranoid. I know the Hokies have already had more than their share of them, and the Jackets are just getting back some key players themselves and they'll be awfully rusty.
The weather, so far, looks like it will be nice, maybe a bit breezy, so that shouldn't be much of a factor, and not too cold at kickoff.
I'm not sure how closely you've been following the Jackets, so I thought I'd provide a bit of scouting report; more about the defense as everyone is well aware of the Yellow Jacket offense. This is the second year the defense has been in Al Groh's 3-4 defense, and he's starting to open up the playbook recently with a lot of blitzing. GA Tech's Corners and Safeties are probably their strongest assets on the defense, however, they have recently been fairly effective stopping the run as well.
It appears the strategy has been somewhat of a bend but don't break rule; give up short yards on snaps and force long drives between the twenties, looking for field goals and turnovers. The defense has been improving as the year has gone on, and the statistics are somewhat deceiving in that a lot of the points against have come when the first team was off the field early in the year when the team had huge leads.
Regarding the two loses, to Virginia and Miami, the thoughts are that the team was physically and mentally exhausted. They were playing both games on the road, without any breaks straight from summer two-a-days, and we're in the middle of mid term exams. Clemson was at home after the exams...we'll see if that theory holds water Thursday night.
Yes, we have the better record since joining the ACC and alot of what you say is true. HOWEVER, the part about them "just being Georgia Tech." Wow. They have WON a national championship, not just played for one with a once in a lifetime QB. Virginia Tech is what they are, a team who can win 10 games is a ho-hum league and go to the BCS games and maybe squeck one out every few years(1995 to be exact. Beating Cincy in the Orange Bowl isnt nearly as impressive as beating Tenn in the Peach Bowl so Ill say Texas was the last big bowl team we beat.) Tech will, and has for the most part in the last two decades, always been as Beamer puts it "so close" and "almost there". You can only be so close so long before you need to realize a 10-win team is what Tech will be every year. There will always be one team on the schedule who beats us or a Duke who we allow to play us to a pathetic 14-10 win. But again, thats what we are, a team who plays down to competetion and once every season erupts (see the Miami game this year) and people ask have they finally decided to play real football. No, they just like to tease the fans to keep us coming back and in the delussion that they really are "so close" and "almost there" when in reality they have arrived. As an extremely consisitent 10 win team who just isnt on the same level of the national teams and fans who think we are need to begin to realize that we are not. That being said, I will be in ATL thurs night and hope VT smacks the bejesus out of the Ramblin Wreck!
I am not with you and Beamer on this one. If we have the chance to go in there and blow them out of the water, we should take it. If we get a lead, then go into a prevent offense and defense, we will lose. If we make them look bad by being the much better team, then so be it.
You say "We don't need to go in there to make CPJ and the Jackets look bad (though this is a desirable effect)" and I say WE DO!
LET'S GO....HOKIES!!
What did Bud's five fingers say to CPJ? SLAP!
Take away the keys.
The guys understand what is at stake, and so do the coaches. Plus, 24-2 in the month of November since we joined the ACC.
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Not only is this one of the best posts i've ever read, that GIF is incredible. If this doesn't pump the team (I hope they read it), let alone the fans, they are not worthy of being Hokies. Let's hit GT where it hurts, and shove them back down when they ask for help up.
We don't need to trade a win tomorrow for a loss later. We don't need to go in there to make CPJ and the Jackets look bad (though this is a desirable effect). This game needs to be about Virginia Tech. This game needs to be about us. WE need to find our identity. WE need to play a complete football game in all 3 phases. WE need to put together a complete effort, from 60 minutes left until there's no time left. Tomorrow, our season comes down to this game and this game only, so every guy out there should be focusing on this game alone. We should be playing for our team, not because we hate them. Every guy on the team has a big opportunity tomorrow, but especially Logan Thomas. If he's going to be the tough-as-nails, never flustered leader we expect him to be, then this game will be the next step. He started a legacy with the comeback against Miami, but his story is just beginning. Tomorrow is a huge day, and we should focus on winning because we know we can, not because we hate GT (though this is still the case).
I want to forget that DeAngelo Hall was even part of this program. I still have nightmares about that chickenshit turning away from tackling Health Miller during the burtal 03 loss.
I want the entire Hokie defense to play like Brandon Flowers tomorrow night. Guts, toughness, fighting for every inch. Not being a front running pansy bigmouth jackass like DHall.
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