#37 R.P.I. Virginia Tech @ #1o9 R.P.I. virginia:

LOTTSA chatter back-n-forth between these two rivalry camps this week men. Too much if you ask my old-school blood. I’m much more in league with things like: shut-up or put-up, “barking dog don’t bite’, talk is cheap and whiskey costs money, don’t sing it, bring it!

Although uva and Vah.Tech have been bringing it verbally all week long; they do have an actually football game to play this Saturday afternoon over in hooville; and there is no way around that once kickoff on ESPNU arrives. Said football game is a salvific lifeline for the boo-hoos as they would surely love nothing more than to knock big bad Virginia Tech flat on their 12 point favorite wallet, at home, while simultaneously mowing the O&M 9 year lawn.

V.P.I. on the other hand enters this one on a tremendous season of feeding wood right into a saw. As our beloved Hokies have had one seesaw season thus far. Some very high highs and some very low lows; nothing has been easy, with precious little in between; and nothing should be taken for granted. Not even vs. lowly hooVa. Our margin of error on offense and the presence of Kyle Fuller’s absence over on defense says so.

As honest Abraham Lincoln himself once opined: “Events are always in the saddle.”

So saddle up, because honestly speaking? Even though this appears to be a game between a quarter-horse and a Clydesdale, this one has the look and feel of an eventful gridiron class indeed. Two teams set to smack one another around when they trot out there at half past 3. And if you don’t believe me, just read the Pay-side message board, and the “recant” that I may owe our very own Will Stewart –unless I don’t…

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uva Defense: (starters back=7)

hoos that could start at VT: maybe 1? As Eli Harold the De would make some noise, nice vertical player. Or maybe 2, and that would only be if the Cb Nicholson kid was healthy.

uva Offense: (returning starters=9)

hoos that could start at VT=5 . Te, Ot, G/C, Tb, Wr,

uva Special Teams: (1 returns)
96^th in Punt Return defense, 85^th in KO return defense. Very vanilla looking punt game; due to a lack of play-makers; not misQ prone; rather, shorted-out as voltage goes. uva has gone through 2 place-Kickers this season; one of which happens to be their punter as well. Frye has had a bad hip for the last 7 games and that’s never a good sign; even though they both hover right around a respectable 3 outta 4 and have made 6 of their last 8. uva has had 1 punt blocked and snuffed out 2 of their own; and swatted a place-kick as well; so watch that when Tech must punt or P.A.T. or FGA.  (Special Teams letter-grade: C–, just nothing good enough here to warrant the overall grade being any higher)

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Commonwealth X–factor(s):

Today’s word of the day is…smack
(noun)

1. disrespectful comments made toward or about someone
2. woofin’, talking (bleep)! bumping your gums
3. Virginia Tech @ uva 2013!

Look, allow me to spell something out from down below; which will save me a article later.

Why are we suddenly pissy vs. our #1 Rival?
What changed?
Or should I say “where”; as that is more adroit.
(because this was not O&M; this was not from within)

It took a dumbass -as if there is any other kind- a dumbass uva coach, their O-Coordinator; bumping his gums; and suddenly we/VT have found our pulse and now we are pissy to face our most immediate foe?

Huh???
Am I the only one who can I.D. that?

That’s called an: extrinsic foci of control in textbook terms.
And it ONLY services my main point for the last 2 days on here all the more.

Don’t run your damn mouth pre-game; nor in-game.
Leave the other sides motive to the other side.
If they are not ready to rock-n-roll you need not KISS up.

Get yourself intrinsically ready.
And if you say a-n-y-thing; you drown them in syrup. You kill ’em with kindness and suffocate them in sugar. Lombardi himself taught this.

NEVER EVER NEVER, do what this dumbass hoo coach just did.
His dumbass team might have had a fleeting chance; with some VT turnover help –which could happen; just ask LT3’s right-arm.

Now they have none.
As they woke a tired VT up; for the first time since before the first BYE.
That’s not to VT’s credit; that is uva’s; fault

Illation, conclusion(s) and OPT digits:
uva has been out-scored in the 1Q and in the 4Q at virtually a 2:1 clip all season long. If Virginia Tech does not open up strong and likewise close; that should be your in-game barometer right there folks. As something is not going well for us -prolly Turnover Margin, our bugbear all year long- if we are not bum-rushing uva from the word go and then kicking uva once we get them down and once they begin to soften up. Which I did see on film, as this not just not a championship round caliber football team.

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“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”
-1985, Parade Magazine-

Or should I say just start posting nonsense regarding how uva will upset mighty Vah.Tech this Saturday afternoon up in hooville on a certain website. Start telling me how it costs too much money to get rid of London and his wannabe gangstar football staff. Start telling me about this card and that card and how you can not un-play the same, while saving le` face. Yah-yah, oui-oui, whateve’………….I’ll be lawfully filing that one under don’t try to snow me in July.

The fact of the matter is, that such all conspires to make for what some call good theater and what I call fiction. On the other hand; Virginia Tech might just find themselves in some measure of difficulty; if hooVa every hired a qualified Minority candidate; who could –of all things- actually coach. So for now I must humbly and contritely applaud Littlepage’s retention of his home boy. As Coach London was surely the best Virginia Tech football coach on the field at the 0:04 minute mark just last year.

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That’s part of what is going on here; the other part being that Watford still plays Qb for the boo-hoos the last time I checked. Greyson Lambert may look like he just stepped off the cover of Cosmo’ or Vogue magazine. And yah; he may be the future Pivot or heir apparent as Qb1 for uva; and yet he who has 2 Quarterbacks really only has none. As platooning two guys this late in the season is a surefire sign that the remainder of 2013 is being played in a London Fog taken to the extreme. Clearly this is an early Springball audition for 2014 and that tells me that both Qb’s know that their job(s) are on the line. That tells me that at least one –and possibly both- of these competing Qb’s will press, force the issue and attempt to make plays to stake their claim to the starting Qb spot next season. That should play right into the hands of what I will admit is a ailing Bud Bock hind-4.

Or in other words and to make a short story long…………I just don’t see enough of the following; from the hoos, to allow even I, to dabble in an Commonwealth Cup upsetting pick this year. Namely I do not see enough Quarterbacking nor do I see enough toughness from the hoo stop-unit to overcome the superior school with the superior football squad and the superior football Staff in this one. As the Hokies will slowly yet surely pound one out on the cavalier attitude otherwise  known as uva.

As arrogance will only take you so far…

Virginia Tech=24, Mitches=9

“LETS GO!“

“HOKIES!”

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