Shane was confident Rogers would be able to play this week. He said he looked out his window Monday morning at 7 a.m. and saw Rogers running sprints on an empty practice field
Classic Rogers.
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And then the field turned out like this after Sam was done, to Shane's surprise, he saw a ball of chain. That's how Sam strengthened his ankle to never have it injured again.
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After UNC muffed the punt late, Virginia Tech was bound and determined to run the ball. The Hokies put in a sixth lineman, inserting Shuman at left tackle and shifting Jonathan McLaughlin to the other side essentially as a tight end. They ran the ball straight ahead six straight times before Trey Edmunds got into the end zone on a 1-yard touchdown run.
Same formation, same play, and just kept running it over and over again, Shane said.
I think there are certain times where you feel like you just need to do that, Grimes said. Yeah, we felt like that was a time when we certainly needed to and end the game, running the football and scoring a touchdown. And fortunately we were able to do it.
Question for French (and anyone else): How many plays are in a typical BCS-level college playbook? It's is unusual for a team to run the same play six times in a row?
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The playbooks are very large. Just look at LT's wristband on saturday. It has 4 pages of plays on it in small print. Some of that is the same play from different formations.
Lining up and running the same play 6 times is us saying it worked and we will impose our will on you because we are more physical.
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I love everything I'm seeing here, from Rogers' dedication, Grimes and Moorehead really analyzing their guys, to Jarrett's self-evaluation, and everything else. Hard work will pay off, we've just got to keep it up.
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very unusual to run the same exact run play six times in a row, I mean I know okie state has like 7 or 8 plays they run over and over again yadda yadda yadda, but still same formation same play is like showing your hand and just saying fudge it i do what i want
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Exum was going pretty hard this morning by himself on the practice field. He is definitely testing that knee to the fullest to make sure he is a 100% go.
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I imagine "Fuller-est" is like "turning it up to 11" on an amp. Except for "Fuller-est," the setting would be a number so high that it only exists in Sam Rogers' imagination.
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That's why we used to be so successful running the ball, north and south baby. That's all Billy Hite preached. Get your pads headed down field not east west. Too many slow developing east west plays lets pound the rock!
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Classic Rogers.
I'd hate to see that practice field once Sam Rogers gets done with it.
Yeah, it does NOT look good. Sam Rogers is a field care takers worst enemy.
And then the field turned out like this after Sam was done, to Shane's surprise, he saw a ball of chain. That's how Sam strengthened his ankle to never have it injured again.
A source leaked the new "Sam Rogers Bobble Heads" they will be handing out at the game saturday: Image below
Question for French (and anyone else): How many plays are in a typical BCS-level college playbook? It's is unusual for a team to run the same play six times in a row?
They were running the same play again and again more to prove a point then lack of options.
The playbooks are very large. Just look at LT's wristband on saturday. It has 4 pages of plays on it in small print. Some of that is the same play from different formations.
Lining up and running the same play 6 times is us saying it worked and we will impose our will on you because we are more physical.
Agreed
flashback to that drive against kansas when it seemed like ore ran it like 13 times.
Oh you mean right before we completely abandoned the run and the Kansas won? Yea, I'm not still bitter about that or anything.
I love everything I'm seeing here, from Rogers' dedication, Grimes and Moorehead really analyzing their guys, to Jarrett's self-evaluation, and everything else. Hard work will pay off, we've just got to keep it up.
very unusual to run the same exact run play six times in a row, I mean I know okie state has like 7 or 8 plays they run over and over again yadda yadda yadda, but still same formation same play is like showing your hand and just saying fudge it i do what i want
Spurrier is known for doing this. Run a play til someone stops it.
Exum was going pretty hard this morning by himself on the practice field. He is definitely testing that knee to the fullest to make sure he is a 100% go.
love the insider scoop, yet another reason TKP is the go-to Hokies site...thanks.
Did you mean "testing his knee to the Fuller-est?"
I imagine "Fuller-est" is like "turning it up to 11" on an amp. Except for "Fuller-est," the setting would be a number so high that it only exists in Sam Rogers' imagination.
what no leg??
I thought it was funny...(but i guess I'm weird)
here's a leg for spinal tap reference
That's why we used to be so successful running the ball, north and south baby. That's all Billy Hite preached. Get your pads headed down field not east west. Too many slow developing east west plays lets pound the rock!
David Wilson says otherwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7KBfSWmQ8M
Update on Exum from our favorite source:
Definitely no need to jump on the field, until absolutely ready.