Virginia Tech=38, Miami=35
As you can clearly see on the right; things got pretty heated towards the end of this one as Miami and Virginia Tech lit each other up for the
full 60 minutes of extremely intense scrumming on Saturday afternoon on a downright gorgeous early-Autumn New River Valley day.
In the end it was the Miami Heat, errrrrrr, ahhhhh, I mean the Miami Hurricanes who could not stand the Coastal heat and had to get outta the A.c.c kitchen and the race to Charlotte for a bid in the 2011 A.c.c. Championship game altogether.
Do be clear, this was an enormous win for Virginia Tech folks; and when the 2013 football season is all said and done; don’t die of shock if we all look back on October 8th as the crowing achievement of Logan Thomas’ Virginia Tech career. 92% passing for 310 yards and 3 TD’s passing and 2 TD’s rushing with basically zero bad throws works out to a Qb rating=124.6. That’s an N.F.L. Qb rating mind you as that is the precise set of digits that N.F.L. leading Qb Arron Rodgers enjoys coming into Sunday’s play for Green Bay. In the less stringent NC2A Qb rating system that works out to about half-a-billion for #3.
That said, there were some epic things on film, there were some good things on film and per always, there were several things left wanting on film.
As I have no idea which VT squad this one truly is?
Is this the VT+3 victory football team that just triumphed over Miami?
Is this the VT-20 football team that got worked by Clemson?
I’m not sure my ownself; though you can vote below and call the ball for yourself.
Either way the answers are coming; as we all hope that we will now enjoy three weeks of eminently winnable football.
“Time is the greatest critic of all, and time will tell.”
-George Burns-
1st quarter, 14:11 remaining:
Boy does #51 B.Taylor cover a lot of lateral ground in a hurry on this one folks. Notice that I have not had a whole lot to say about our starting Mike (MLb) this season folks. Why is that? Because if anything B.Taylor’s numbers are level compared to last year, which puts him in line for another all-A.c.c. nomination in my book. That may or may not be code for advancement or improvement. Still yet, first place with 40 total tackles, and first place again with 12 Qb hurries does not suck. Neither does 2.5 Sacks or 4.5 TFL (tackles for a loss). Note that on this particular play that a lighter and even more mobile B.Taylor runs Harris down from beyond the far side hashmark; which means he ran approximately 41.56 yards on this play; give or take, in just a matter of seconds; and he never once got up to full speed! Make no mistake; B.Taylor may not have as much flash (solo stops=14) to his 2011 game as he did last year; though he is having even more effect (with a whopping 26 assists). Observe as well that Winslow did a wonderful job of using the sideline boundary to help maintain his outside-in leverage on this play as well. That’s not something a Winslow v.2010 could have done.
1st quarter, 12:42 remaining:
You wanna know what a real passing attack looks like? Take a look at #2 in this pic for Miami. Now take a look at C.Hill for Virginia Tech. Well, that is if you can see him, as #2 sets a nifty and rather subtle pick on C.Hill which pops #8 free for an easy pitch-n-catch. All this was, was two post-patterns on the backside or shortside of the field, only difference was that #8 broke to the post at five (yards) and #2 broke to the post at six. Try as we might; football still ain’t rocket-surgery men. It is a very basic team sport that is most efficaciously conducted in the most basic terms.
1st quarter, 12:09 remaining:
Here is the injury to #99 James Gayle play whereby the backside Te (#46) simply ankle dives at Gayle like a bitch. This is a catty block no matter how you slice it folks. Is it legal? Technically speaking yes a cut-block is legal inside the Ot-box. However, this is not a cut. Note that #46 actually lunges at Gayle’s outside (left) ankle while #46 is nearly on the ground which proves premeditated cheap-shot intent to me. If that was not enough; note that the punk otherwise known as #46 actually slashes out in what amounts to an arm-whip (not a leg-whip; which is perfectly illegal) in order to fell a defenseless James Gayle. This play is one I’d overnight same day Space Shuttle (if they were still flying) to the A.c.c. rules committee office in a big ole hurry. If a leg-whip is a 15 yard penalty can I at least get a 10 spot-for an arm-whip? As this one was a tripping violation for sure. (big PIC link) 
1st quarter, 10:29 remaining:
Note the left-side Te making some kinda call after a last second swap in personnel on the Miami F.G.A. team took place. Just had to be
some dirty work afoot on this one folks; and it would not be the worst move to coach your P.A.T. block-team to simply call Timeout whenever they see something suspicious looking such as this pre-snap. Thankfully, Miami was less than golden on this fake-F.G.A. and do you think Coach Golden wishes he had this one back? (big PIC link)
1st quarter, 10:10 remaining:
That’s #43 poor G.Dub’s left foot getting caught up down in the Worsham Field turf and doing what I can only describe as a cross between a hyperextension and an inward bend the ‘rong way. Inward foot/ankle injuries such as this occur 10% of the time and this one is just flat out gross. Watch this one only if you have a rental agreement with your lunch. God Bless G.Dub.
1st quarter, 7:42 remaining:
Yup, this is just an ugly and very dangerous looking play; as poor Brooksie gets his right-ankle accidentally rolled-up by my boy D.Wilson at the end of this right-side zone-stretch call outside the C-gap. If you are keeping score at home, this is Wilson’s second accidental roll-up of a VT offensive lineman this season. Can’t say I can ever recall that one; as football itself is just a very strange and outright oblong game.
1st quarter, 5:03 remaining:
L.T.’s first incompletion of the day. 
Note the Down marking black-n-white wristband on the Umprie’s left-wrist.
2nd quarter, 14:58 remaining:
Note L.T.’s weight-distribution on this otherwise epic looking throw to D.Coale on the Flag route downfield. I swear, if L.T. had leaned back another 5 degrees he would have fallen over backwards. Most curious that whenever L.T. wants to take something off of a throw; he often looks like Karl Malone at the FT-stripe. (big PIC link)
2nd quarter, 13:34 remaining:
Took almost 18 minutes of play; though Coach Golden of Miami finally figured out that a football is brown, the sky is blue and this just in: … rain is rumored to be wet. How dumb do you have to be to wait to go to your power-rushing game with a T.Rex sized oLine vs. a beat-up sophomoric, inexperienced and vs. a VT dLine that was outweighed by 80 lbs. on the nose per man?!? Have you ever seen Coach Golden and the “Stork” from Animal House in the same room at the same time? Me neither. “Miami: where coaching goes to die.“
2nd quarter, 3:55 remaining:
This one is all about time of possession; no, not the hidden in-game Beamerball metric version of T.O.P. This one is all about when did #1 (Allen Hurns) make the stellar reception of the Harris moon-shot 41 yard lob pass? If you think Hurns had it immediately, from the face-view camera, than you have to rule this one a catch. If you think the ball moved after impact, or that Hurns may have juggled it ever so slightly; you have to say his left foot was out of bounds as the trailing sideline cam’ clearly shows. When I slowed this one down and went frame by frame I was not 100% sure that Hurns did not have possession; well, at least not until I saw the endzone field-level goal-post cam’. If that is not a biscuit (football) about to slip through the basket (hands) I don’t know what is. You want irrefutable proof, here it is————>
2nd quarter, 1:59 remaining:
This is L.T. the freaky specimen doing something that only freaky specimens can do; i.e. a throw back pass across his body to his left; rolling left to right or the ‘rong way off his hind leg. Note that the official scorekeepers log reads as a 14 yard completion; and L.T. was almost exactly 12 yards behind the line-of-scrimmage when he finally flung this one downfield. Using the Pythagorean Theorem, this one works out to be one of most ill looking 34 yard sideways wraparound throws downfield you will ever ever see. The number of NC2A Qb’s who can nail this throw can be counted on one hand +/- one thumb.
2nd quarter, 0:04 remaining:
Yah-yah; L.T. went through his first three primary reads like a 2013 senior Pivot playing stud before checking down and dumping one off to my home-boy David Wilson over in the left-flat who smartly stuck this one in, just inside the West side forward pylon’s leading edge for 6. Yah-Yah, yawn, and that’s nothing. Watch what James Brooks did to the Miami left-De. OH MY GOD! That’s “oh-mmmmm-Gee” did he knock the piss outta #56 for Miami! Then Brooksie just left #56 laying there like a sack of potatoes. No, more like a dead sack of potatoes. Too damn funny if you ask me and you can bet your bottom dollar that the VT film-room broke up into hysterics on this one.
First Half duration:
BTW: zero sacks, zero, Qb pressures, zero Qb hurries allowed by Virginia Tech vs. Miami in the first-half of play! Never seen that before in the history of the Time To Throw© metric folks.
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Here is what I wrote on the Pay-MB earlier on Sunday:
“This is one downright filthy bunch (the Miami football team).
I’d call ’em “dirty”; though that is an insult to dirt itself.
(It has) been since 2003 (vs. Miami no less) since I’ve seen this many plays where their guys were simply trying to very deliberately and intentionally hurt somebody.
Accordingly, I’m gettin’ right after Miami in print. Be clear I have already, and will continue to get after VT, if I ever see this lowlife nonsense outta any Hokie. Football is a cruel enough mistress and a terminal and or paralyzing sport as is; 16 indirect deaths from football were recorded in 2006; with 1 direct death. (last year I could find the statistics for)[1]
This type of headhunting has no place at all –and it was just sickening to witness all of this in breaking tape.
Maybe these ‘Canes should put a bounty out on the Rulebook or on Sportsmanship itself.
Tune back in next week; when we play Wake Forest and Coach Jim Grobe who enjoys a good deal of class. Something Miami knows zero about!
Longfield Management (Lo.FM):©
Virginia Tech:
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Miami:
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VT won the Lo.FM battle by 3 and the scoreboard war by 3 as well; I’d have to call that the most accurate Lo.FM ever. In a game with 73 combined points, and 1,000 yards of total offense (with 3` to spare) you just do not expect many negative Lo.FM plays; and not many is exactly how many you got. VT did just a tad better on the Lo.FM overall; though I can give you this Eye in the Sky part II spoiler right now; VT was way ahead, right up until they weren’t as the Lo.FM was tilted in VT’s favor in no small way though the first 40 odd minutes of play; and then all hell broke loose. As Miami nailed VT right between the eyes for no less than a whopping 21 points in basically 8 frenetic minutes of fourth quarter play.
Bud Lite is very thin as depth goes upfront right about now, and Bud Lite is likewise very inexperienced down in the trenches on top of that. Don’t think that our remaining opponents did not see this on Saturday as things got so pitiful upfront that Bud had to repatriate former defensive-lineman gone Guard, one #59 Courtney Prince. Keeping Bud Lite off the playing field and therefore as far far away as we can from the colloquialism of “wearing-down” could very well be offensive play-calling priority number one from here on out.
Speaking of the Virginia Tech offense, that was easily Qb Coach Mike O’Cain’s best play-calling day since 2004 down at Clemson. Note the 63% rushing calls to 37% passing calls on day where L.T. incompleted 8% of his pass attempts. Yah; I know, “incompleted” is not a real word and 92% passing in the VT offense is not a real game either. 92% is however one for the O&M ages and also one for the O&M record books indeed. That was one small step forward on one Qb keeper off of a Read Option up the left-side A-gap for the game winning score and one giant leap forward and upward and onward as VT is alive and well in the 2011 Coastal Davison race after all.
Or so we all hope –even as a suddenly challengingly contest vs. upstart 4-1 Wake Forest down in Winston-Salem looms next, as the Dec’s will likely be catching Virginia Tech in something of a letdown trap-game and these Dec’s may wanna preach on and get a word in edge wise.
“LET’S GO!”
“HOKIES!”
b’street
[1] Wikipedia, Health issues in American football, 20th September 2011 A.D., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_issues_in_American_football#Injuries (October 2011 A.D.)