5 posts tagged “virginia tech”

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. 

Quick thoughts while I'm taking a short break from being at work :(  Found a link to watch the espn 360 presentation.  While I'm a fan of being able to see tech play on the internet, I'm not a fan of the restrictive setup they've got with the verizon requirement (not that they enforced it once you broke out the actual stream link from their packaging).

• Looks like Glennon has a pretty good grasp of the offense, answered most of my questions.  I'm still a bit skeptical of his arm strength and his ability to look-off the defensive backs and disguise where he's throwing the ball. 
  
• Wow our offensive line has a shitton of work to do.  Gogo freshman decision making!  Saw Render looking so lost and leaving Brown alone to block 2 guys more times than I wanted to count.  And of course there were some injuries that'll really hurt the already thin depth (mcgrath and frye). 
  
• It's the return of the fullback!  I saw at least 3 passes to the fb which is 3 more than that position got all of last year.  Guess they really don't have faith in the TE yet.  Not that I blame them as Boone whiffed on his first catch and bobbled his second.
• Wide receivers all look great.  Harper looks like a beast.  Royal just got hurt.  Clowney still has stone hands sometimes.
• Ore and Bell looked ok, but their final numbers won't impress anyone.  Didn't really need to use them.  Also, all the OL issues didn't help.
  

Msgboard note:  Someone posted that there was sign on gameday that read: "Brady Quinn's sister likes the D" (his sister is married to Aj Hawk, rookie LB with Green Bay) hahahaha gotta love Notre Dame bashing.  (sorry robert).   Hate all the media slobbering over ND.  Makes me want to punch someone.

• Kam Chancellor looks fantastic for a freshman.  Had an interception overturned on replay that was a crazy good 1-hand grab. 
  
• Adibi otoh looks like he's going to be running laps and doing a ton of pushups at 6am at practice due to 2 almost back-to-back personal fouls.  The defense as a whole definitely looks good though.
• Special teams looked pretty good til the end when they put in the kickoff kicker to try a fieldgoal. 
  
• Hm, Victor Harris looks like he's playing tecmo bowl trying to run circles around people while returning kicks.  Note:  You're not barry sanders, it doesn't work, and you look like a retard.
  
• Got their first blocked kick of the year!  Go beamerball!  

Ok that's all for now.  Back to work.

I was looking over things and realized I haven't had a real post in a while, just qotd.  I'm not sure why, although I'm going to blame it on lethargy and writer's block.  I've got a couple half finished qotd that I never got around to finding pics for or finishing up stories.  There's a lot of stuff swirling around in my head, but I don't think any of it is quite ready to be committed to a post.  So what does finally get me off my ass to post?

What else, but Virginia Tech football!  The college football season starts this thursday and tech's game is on saturday 1:30pm against mighty Div1-AA power Northeastern (cookie if you even know where the school is).  hahaha.  So yeah, it's like a preseason game as tech gets ready for UNC.  I don't think it'll be on tv.  I'm not even sure there's a line set for the game, but I'd probably take the over at 40...

Someone at the party asked me how the team looks this year so my quick recap:  defense will be strong like always, offense will struggle.  We're extremely short on depth at offensive line, running back, corner back, and linebacker.  We'll be starting 6 true freshman on the team.  Our qb has taken snaps in all of like 5 games previously.  And yet, we'll still beat UVA ;)

I won't promise that I'll be posting less tech stuff on this blog than I have previously on lj, but I'll try to keep it toned down since there's no lj-cut. 

Go Hokies!

Ran across this pic on my work computer that someone sent me (who, I have no idea).  Taken after we beat miami in 2003 (then #2 in the nation) by a score of 10-7.  Such an awesome game, although the season was only 'ok' as we underachieved.  This was taken from the west side of the stadium where the luxury boxes and press boxes are.  I believe at the time of this picture, the stadium was at max capacity of 65,000 people.  They're in the midst of finishing up the west side expansion and the pics I've seen of that look pretty good.

I still really wish I could take everyone I know to a tech game just so they could experience that atmosphere.  It's so crazy intense for home games.  Even my mom gets caught up in it now that my dad and his buddies split season tickets.  And she can only tell what's going on because the teams wear different colors :)

I want to hit a game or two this year, although the schedule is soo incredibly weak.  Although that'd make it easier to get tickets.  I guess we'll see.  It's almost football season!

Oh, found another pic, this time a panoramic someone made of the stadium from the 2002 LSU game.