The Key Play's Welcome to SACKSburg Tee Shirt For Sale Now

Upgrade your maroon and orange wardrobe collection and celebrate the Hokies' excellence for putting opposing quarterbacks on the turf.

Virginia Tech defenses have a knack for sacking quarterbacks, more so than their counterparts at every other major college football program.

The Key Play's Joel Smith examined the Hokies sack proficiency over the last ten seasons, and the analysis leaves little room for any other college football program to argue it's better at sacking quarterbacks than Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech Sack Statistics

Virginia Tech Sack Statistics

Virginia Tech Sack Statistics

More from Joel, in the past decade (2005-2014), Virginia Tech is:

  • No. 1 in total sacks with 367 (as well as sacks per game).
  • No. 1 in sacks per pass attempt; on nearly 10% of pass attempts by opposing teams in the past decade, the QB was sacked.
  • No. 1 in sacks per completion; for every 10 completions by opposing teams, they are sacked nearly twice.
  • No. 1 in sack yards per pass yard; for every 10 yards opponents gain passing, they lose over a yard due to sacks.
  • No. 3 in sack yards per season; opponents lose 252 yards per season to sacks. That easily exceeds an entire game's passing yards allowed.

Virginia Tech's lowest single-season sack total of the past 10 years (28) is higher than the average sack total of 79 of the 119 teams that have played during that span. 10 schools haven't had a single season higher than the Hokies' worst.

Among the top 10 programs in total sacks over the past decade, only Bud Foster has been defensive coordinator during the entire span. The other 9 defensive coordinators have a combined sum of 16 years of experience as defensive coordinator of their current schools, with an average tenure of less than 2 years. None have been defensive coordinator at their current school more than 4 years. Only Bud can say he built his ranking.

Virginia Tech's aggressive, yet disciplined, defensive scheme and athletic versatile defenders combine to crush quarterbacks.

With all of that said, The Key Play proudly presents our Welcome to SACKSburg t-shirt which is available for pre-order now. The idea was inspired by Hokie13's suggestion. The final product was polished to the clean look of our other designs.

Welcome to SACKSburg t-shirt

They're available for order from now until Wednesday at 4:00 PM EDT. Click here to order now, as they won't be available come Thursday. At the close of business Wednesday I'll let the printer know how many are needed. It'll take about 7-10 days to print, and they should leave our warehouse on July 26.

I've mentioned this before, but TKP's merchandise sales ensure operations run smoothly and provide the resources to expand and enhance TKP's content. If you buy a shirt, not only do you get a cool shirt, but you'll get more content.

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