im done............

Well, I don't think Tech has "thrown away" all those games. LSU and Bama were just better teams, so was USC in 04. All of those went on to win the MNC after beating Tech. The ECU game and last nights Boise game VT was the better team but crapped the game away IMO. While I'm seriously disappointed in the way we gave them 17 points, I'm also glad VT didn't fold and fought back. Heck, they scored 30 points in 3 qtrs. The D couldn't get a stop when needed and the next to last drive had horrible play calling.

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Well, I don't think Tech has "thrown away" all those games. LSU and Bama were just better teams, so was USC in 04. All of those went on to win the MNC after beating Tech. The ECU game and last nights Boise game VT was the better team but crapped the game away IMO. While I'm seriously disappointed in the way we gave them 17 points, I'm also glad VT didn't fold and fought back. Heck, they scored 30 points in 3 qtrs. The D couldn't get a stop when needed and the next to last drive had horrible play calling.

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i love frank beamer, ive met him, but he just isnt a championship caliber coach. hell did you hear the way he was talking before this game? they had already lost and he was ready to go home. making excuses for Tech and they hadnt lost yet. That couldnt have been good morale for them boys. the horrible play calling............... bud will never be a head coach, you dont go man coverage when a QB has the potential to pick apart your young DB's, they jsut cant put it all together in B-burg.

I watched the game last night and the officiating was good. Tech had the Mustangs defense on it heels sucking air but at the same time, they couldn't stop the offense when they had to.

somebody answer me something...

Bud fosters is getting slammed for going man coverage last night and trying to apply pressure on the QB. It didn't work.

A few years back, Bud Foster got hammered for trying to lay back and not apply pressure against Matt Ryan and Boston College. That didn't work.

so I guess he's d@mned if you do and d@mned if you don't. Sometimes things just don't work out. Obviously it is easy to criticize in hindsight. but what if Tech had layed back in zone? Wouldnt the Boise QB had just picked the zone apart and marched themd own the field? Tech's defense this year isn't quite as good as in years past.

But they showed a stat that Tech had ranked in the top 6 or 12 in Defense over the last 10 years or something.

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somebody answer me something...

Bud fosters is getting slammed for going man coverage last night and trying to apply pressure on the QB. It didn't work.

A few years back, Bud Foster got hammered for trying to lay back and not apply pressure against Matt Ryan and Boston College. That didn't work.

so I guess he's d@mned if you do and d@mned if you don't. Sometimes things just don't work out. Obviously it is easy to criticize in hindsight. but what if Tech had layed back in zone? Wouldnt the Boise QB had just picked the zone apart and marched themd own the field? Tech's defense this year isn't quite as good as in years past.

But they showed a stat that Tech had ranked in the top 6 or 12 in Defense over the last 10 years or something.

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because matt ryan and the dude from BS are two different QB's and the defense isnt as good as it was then as you had already stated. They dont have the DB's this year to play man to man but they did against BC. different teams, different QB's. If they would have gotten beaten in the zone then so be it. the thing is, and im sure people will disagree, but Tech had the better team yesterday and like ive been saying just couldnt put it together. they shouldnt have lost that game and if they would have been better motivated in the first of the game and played hard the whole game this would have been a blowout.

Got to remember also that 10 point came very quickly due to a fumble and a blocked punt. That put the D behind the 8 ball right off.

And I agree that Beamer is a quality guy but will never bring the MNC to Blacksburg. One main reason is the "Good Old Boys Club" that keeps dead weight recruiters like Hite and OCain who don't do diddly out on the recruiting trail thus overloading the ones that do recruit and keeping that incompetent OC Brainsprain who shouldn't be allowed to be OC for a JV team. Frank doesn't have the balz to make the changes yet keeps on harping about that idiotic "empty case".

I can't believe they actually have an empty case in the lockerroom for a future national title trophy. I always thought it was a joke until last night....and well, I guess it is.

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I can't believe they actually have an empty case in the lockerroom for a future national title trophy. I always thought it was a joke until last night....and well, I guess it is.

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When we played for state in 2004 we stopped at VT to practice, met Beamer, and saw the empty trophy case. It was odd, I had on a Maryland shirt, he talked about Maryland then talked about us running the score up on Giles. Somebody has a picture of us all with him somewhere, maybe aoa_stripes has it?

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Got to remember also that 10 point came very quickly due to a fumble and a blocked punt. That put the D behind the 8 ball right off.

And I agree that Beamer is a quality guy but will never bring the MNC to Blacksburg. One main reason is the "Good Old Boys Club" that keeps dead weight recruiters like Hite and OCain who don't do diddly out on the recruiting trail thus overloading the ones that do recruit and keeping that incompetent OC Brainsprain who shouldn't be allowed to be OC for a JV team. Frank doesn't have the balz to make the changes yet keeps on harping about that idiotic "empty case".

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this is it in a nutshell, said better than i probably ever could.

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When we played for state in 2004 we stopped at VT to practice, met Beamer, and saw the empty trophy case. It was odd, I had on a Maryland shirt, he talked about Maryland then talked about us running the score up on Giles. Somebody has a picture of us all with him somewhere, maybe aoa_stripes has it?

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That picture was on the forum here somewhere.