OhioU Eye in the Sky………The Hokiebird gets trippy???

See a few big-hits, classy ballers, and T-Mobile’s wrist. All right here….

1st Quarter: 14:53 and 14:47 remaining: OhioU opened up with two very nice steals (sneaky knock-down hits, may or may not be really big in there impact). Watch #26 (who is not even listed on the traveling OhioU roster), steal one of our guys right at the left-hand bottom of the screen on the opening Kick-Off, might have been a uncalled late hit, because it took place a good deal away from the pile. Then on the first play from scrimmage, #52 right-OT Shelby steals B.Flowers. Again could have been late, but it did tell me OhioU was ready to scrap for a win.

1st Quarter 11:00 remaining, see Harper with the classy help-up of the downed OhioU DB. You’d be surprised how often that will pay dividends later in a game on a close call when a Ref sees you do that; as opposed to hearing your big mouth.

1st Quarter 2:08 remaining: watch #59 Barry Booker’s knee actually infect, but the brace does it’s job and saves his season on an accidental roll-up on the edge of the pile to end the play. I wonder if that brace had to be changed out? I’ve seen the one’s that dang near snap, but the baller is still able to walk it off. Amazing equipment advances in the last 20 years folks.

2nd Quarter 12:30 remaining: check-out my boy T-Mobile’s cock-eyed stance, under center (and later, though to a lesser extent, in the Gun). His left leg is a bit behind his correctly positioned right, as somewhere Bernie Kosar is smiling. But I’ve also partially noticed, that he tends to throw to his right like this. I type partially as I need a few more games to be sure, but this could be the kinda film-study poker-faced tell that 20-20 defensive eyes dream about.

2nd Quarter 9:26 remaining, #5 TB K.McRae of OhioU, committing a uniform-code violation, via remaining in the game with a clearly torn jersey. Not called all that often, but it can be called whenever a Zebra pleases.

2nd Quarter 5:49 remaining: many are touting Kenny Lewis Jr. for his rushing day vs. the Bobcats. I’m jocking him for his pass-block on this play. Not a killer block physically speaking, but far far better than what I’ve seen out of B.Ore so far this year.

3rd Quarter 5:44 remaining: see #8 FS T.Koening break his nose when his helmet get loose and slams down on his beak when he does a face plant right into the Worsham turf.

3rd Quarter 3:38 remaining: watch the Hokiebird talk smack and possibly pull a french trainer le` trippy routine to the ESPN on-field timekeeper (who signals the Referee when ESPN is back from a break and ready for play). When the Bristol time-keeper interrupts the Hokiebird’s 6 plate bench-press routine in the endzone. (6 plates=a kool 315 lbs. if you’re keeping score at home, well it would, if the weights were real)

4th Quarter, 8:56, and 8:49 remaining: all on the goal-line. Watch #56 of OhioU sell-totally-out to try to stop the TD on the first play. Then watch how we always telegraph where we will run on the second play. Can you name a time we have not followed the third Rb in motion, right into the hole??? I can’t. But a play-fake here would lead to a TE releasing from the LOS being wider than wide open. Old-schoolers will recall that this is a Dooley play, grandfathered in by Billy Hite, who has been Rb Coach for VT since VT was V.P.I., or thereabouts. ; ) This is also the play on which T-Mobile dings up his non-throwing-hand left-wrist. Check it out.

4th Quarter 6:06 remaining: helluva an effort by #99 Carlton Powell, who played a helluva a game. Most don’t see it, but he repeatedly bulled his way through single teams, or doubles; to disrupt the flow of the OhioU backfield time and time again. This time C.Powell actually gets his upper-body turned, and was pancaked for his troubles. But nonetheless, it illustrates what a difference maker C.Powell is when he plays mad. This guy can bring it, and not a whole lot of D-1 G’s or C’s can stop it.

Please feel perfectly free to add to my list, tell me what you saw that was interesting on a particular play? I’ve got 12 other plays I left out, maybe we saw the same thing? b-st.

More like this Hardcorehokie. Though T-Mobile’s set-up was not all that typically Shotgun deep. Maybe that’s what they meant???

b-st.