These Coaches have some explaining to do

First off, I have to say since I've been watching VT football (fall of 1995), I've never screamed at the TV in frustration. What I was watching in the first 3 quarters was absolutely pathetic on offense. And for Fuente at half-time to say everything is fine is just ridiculous.

The decision-making is very poor. Knowing we are on the road, down 7-3 and we have an easy field goal to make, I would rather be down by 1 point then taking the risk. and then going for it twice for 2-points left us 5 total points on the bench and guess what, we lost by 6 points, had we scored those 5 points, the game is different, the sequence is different. GT has to play different.

The switching of running backs when we have momentum is killing us. Early in the game Bush and MacMillian had something going, all of a sudden they bring in Holston and things slow down. Speaking of which, almost all of our plays were slow developing, there is no rhythm to the play selection from one to the next. We sometimes run outside and just gain 1-2 yards, the blocking is poor and Josh seems lost at times. I never understood even in the beamer days why we don't go hat on hat and get a push to gain yards. All this running and pulling takes times and if one guy doesn't do his job, we get knocked down in the backfield. I did like the contribution of both Travon and Jalen but I think they need to be in on the whole drive unless they are really burned, every time new backs come in they are cold, give each one their own series.

On some of the play calling, GT was giving us a cushion in the slot, but Josh always looked to his right to throw in the flat, seems like that was predetermined, you throw to the cushioned receiver onto the left side and get at least 5 easy yards. The you have 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1 and you risk throwing it deep...in fact I was more surprised on the 3rd down play. GT was tired of defending the run and we were having a good push at the time, this is just one example of many where the play-calling was questionable.

I'm not giving the defense any lee-way either. We give up 2 big (almost 3) plays to an option offense when we have some of the best secondary players, its unacceptable. I do give our defense credit for shutting down GT as much as possible in the first half, I think after our offense was getting off the field with very little possession, i think eventually our defense will give up some points. Overall, i put this on the offense, we can't be having these slow starts and this is not new to this season, going back to last season, we've had to make up ground in the 3rd and 4th quarter - well that kind of Sh*t doesn't work against GT, you have to put them behind with the opportunities you have.

After seeing this same crap again, I'm not a big fan of Cornelson. Yes we scored a lot of points in some games but we're not looking good as an offense. Its his job to prepare the team and I see that he is doing a poor job. And lets not sugarcoat it, we didn't bring in Justin Fuente to just make it to bowl games, we brought him here to have a solid offense that will carry us to the playoffs or Maybe NY6. Things don't look too different from the beamer years...oohhh win 10 games,,,have some pride...I mean whatever....I want us to win the ACC championship. If this repeats next year, I would rather Fuente leave for the so-called big job that everyone is naming him. I'd rather put my faith in Bud Foster as a head coach if it ever happens. And while i want to keep Bud here, he deserves to be a head coach, I guess it'll be somewhere else. And all this really tells me is that the big jobs are really based on recruiting, something we haven't solidified either.

We just threw away our best chance of getting into the Chick-fil-A bowl or Citrus bowl. Now its back to the Belk bowl or maybe Music City. At this rate we don't deserve a NY-6 bowl, I guess we all will be happy with wins.