2 posts tagged “clemson”

We won!!!! 24-7!  Unranked vt blew up #10 clemson!

Talk about a simple game plan.

• Stop their running backs and force their shaky qb (will proctor) to throw - check
• Run the ball with Brandon Ore - check
• Don't fuck up - half check

Before this game, clemson rb's averaged 185 yds per game and their offense led the nation in scoring at 42 ppg.  We held them to 80 yards rushing and 7 points.   Brandon Ore had 37 carries for 203 yards and almost broke a tech record for most carries in a game.  Our o-line and d-line played fantastic games!  In fact, the only thing that went wrong was sean glennon doing his michael vick impression and fumbling the ball in the 3rd quarter.

I bitch and moan about the playcalling of our offensive coordinator all the time, but last night was definitely one of his better nights.  He did a great job setting up all the big plays.  The sequence that stands out in my mind was 2 handoffs to ore to the right side, one quick out to clowney on the right, and finally the playaction pass to wheeler that went deep down the right sideline.  You could see clemson safety on that side position himself closer and closer to the line each play and then see him totally bite on the playfake.  The only reason the pass didn't go for a td was that wheeler is a big, slow tight end.  Basically the whole

night, everything that stinespring called worked perfectly.

Anyway, I posted a flickr set that has more pics!  I'm not sure how to get access to all the flickr pics in that set as adding photos to vox doesn't seem to grab all of them for me to choose from, nor does it give me multiple page options on the flickr tab.

(for those of you unfamiliar with college football, we're called the virginia tech hokies.  So after the 3rd quarter, the tuba's all line up and play the hokie pokie while people do the dance)

Going to the game tomorrow night!  woot!  It'll be cold and possibly rainy [edit:  it snowed on last night's practice], but it's a night home game on espn.  And the stadium is going to be crazy rocking.  One of my old buddies from college is flying in from california to go to the game as well and we'll be driving down thursday morning.  Hah, when we picked this game as the one to go, we were expecting both teams to come in relatively unscathed with great records.  Well, one team did that, but it wasn't tech :( 

Right now, it's pretty safe to say that clemson is the cream of the crop in the ACC.  They're #1 or #2 in every offensive/defensive category in the conference.  They have the most experienced (3 sr), talented, and nfl ready (avg 6'5" 320lbs) offensive line that tech will see all year.  I've been reading comparisons of their two running backs, cj spiller and james davis, to reggie bush and lendale white.  And actually, for the most part, everything I've read or seen about clemson bodes ill for tech.  On the plus side, they've been bitten by a couple big injuries.  Lost 2 of their starting lb's for the year.  Their #1 wr was out for a couple weeks with an ankle injury and did not play in the big GT game saturday, so I'm hopign that he won't be ready for tomorrow.  But both their offensive and defensive lines are fully healthy... and that's where tech is the weakest.  It's going to be a long night if our lines continue to get pushed around.

However, there's a couple intangibles that look to be in tech's favor.  First thing I have hope for is that clemson perenially finds ways to lose games that they should win, specifically on the road.  They're also 1-5 on thursday nights (espn games).  And finally, tech hasn't been an underdog at home very often - the last time that happened, miami came in 2003 and got blown out 31-7.

So, with all that, I can't pick against clemson.  The talent on paper looks ridiculous and tech's got so many problems (not enough room in this post to document, maybe another post).  Anyway, if the cameras are on me, I should be easy to pick out.  I'll still be wearing the dumb sling.