#3 Virginia Tech=38, uva=zip!
Virginia Tech is currently 11-1 with something of a shot at 13-1, and quite possibly the second greatest single season in the entire history
of Hokie football. Yup, that’s right about where VT stands right about now.
Only Klempson and the given VT bowl opponent stand in our way.
According to my maths, that’s 120 minutes for a shot at the all-time #2 orange & maroon mark.
Not half bad for a team with 6 stud players out for the year, and likewise not half bad for a team with a rookie Qb and extremely underage defense with 2 new specialists that was supposed to be about a full year away from being 100% locked, cocked and ready to rock.
Instead, Virginia Tech is ranked third in the U.S.A. Today Coach’s poll with a sporting shot at finishing as the national runner-up should our beloved Hokies win out. That does not suck.
And oh by the way, neither did the 38-o shutout goose-egg that mighty V.P.I. just hung on the sorry little boo-hoos up at hooVa.
3rd quarter, 11:52 remaining:
Welcome to VT’s house of pancakes, population hoo. As Brooks unceremoniously dumps Conrath the monster sized uva left-hand Dt with a wonderful shoulder torque upstairs that Conrath had no answer for. Then at the end of the play, the always hustling Miller flattens #7 right over top of the L.T. pile-up downfield.
More on the pancake binge that was this football game in the Time To Throw below.
3rd quarter, 10:45 remaining:
Stiff-arm 1o1, then watch as #4 cries like a little baby to the Field-Judge post-play.
3rd quarter, 10:40 remaining:
Watch #66, the other Wilson as he delivers a gift-wrapped forearm shiver right to the back of #42 on the hooVa kickoff return. #42 fall down … go boom.
3rd quarter, 9:06 remaining:
Note the changes in helmet design: a bent rhombus in lieu of the circular earhole, the occipital ridge and shave going forward towards said earhole, the countersunk holes just outside the striping ridges, the lateral cutout to improve peripheral vision and help avoid crackback blocks, and the shaved jawline below the earhole. Helmet technology sure has come a long long way from the old Bike air-bladder lids back in the day. (helmet diagram)
3rd quarter, 6:32 remaining:
This one is straight outta the Atlanta boxing gyms, the kind where Evander Holyfield learned how to cheat and not get caught. Watch as Gayle shrewdly enough gives Perry Jones and his face mask the business right at the end of this carry which was basically a late hit outta bounds on #78 a good 7 yards from the edge of the field. Is this righteous? Nope. Will I defend this? Never. However, notice that Gayle got away with it and that it was Exum who got flagged for something he said; on a looooooong overdue off-setting personal foul call as Brad Allen and the rest of his officiating crew finally realized that they had let things get away from them in this one. (“Twweeeeeee!”)
3rd quarter, 4:54 remaining:
To be direct –I don’t know what happened on this one. As Exum suddenly came up lame after the tackle on #88 on the Te-screen over to the left-hand side of the VT defense; I do know however that it was a right leg injury of some sort and likewise of some degree.
3rd quarter, 1:52 remaining:
Watch big ole #70 for hooVa with the cheap-shot attempt on Gayle that misses and drills poor Rocco right in the small of the back. Rocco really should have jacked 70’s jaw up for this after the game under four-eyes; as there is just no place for this nonsense in what is already a terminal contact sport.
4th quarter, 11:28 remaining:
Note the necks on the uva defenders as this lightening strike gets there so fast that their eyes have not yet caught up to this pass from xL (extra Logan). Now note the signature of a strong arm itself, the nose down throw. Finally observe the absurd volume of revolutions that this dart from L.T. makes in the air on its way to Marcus Davis who enjoyed a career day vs. uva. You will not see a split-finger fastball with any more revolutions on it outta a Major League pitcher who throws total heat. That is also the signature of someone with size-18 hands as it takes ginormous mitts to make the football spin and therefore bore through the air like this. (EPIC throw — as passing Picasso)
4th quarter, 11:18 remaining:
That white part that you are seeing is the bottom of Mr. Parks right-cleat. To put it mildly, you are not supposed to be seeing that as that gives you some objective Euclidian measure of just how far poor Mr. Parks right-knee twisted upstairs and J.Tyler did him no favors by landing upon the Same. God Bless. (ouch)
4th quarter, 10:48 remaining:
What a catty play by the already very scratchy looking #72 of uva who completely cheap-shots the hell outta a unsuspecting and defenseless J.R. Collins of Virginia Tech after this hooVa fumble along the VT sidelines. Total weak sauce by #72 who truly should have been ejected for a hit so late that it occurred virtually 5 full seconds after the whistles had blown. (horseS 1o1)
4th quarter, 9:36 remaining:
The Longest Yard would be proud of this absolutely gutless cheap-shot by #96 of hooVa on Via. Again, this one should have been an automatic ejection as well. When you leave troublemakers out on the field you are inviting if not begging for more of the same.
“I hope they hit him and drag him over there and drop him at your feet.”
I have no idea what that means, though the audience member that the ESPN booth microphone picked up could not have put it any better if he had actually tried.
4th quarter, 7:33 remaining:
’nuff said.
4th quarter, 2:07 remaining:
Not what you wanna see late in a game, or at any other time for that matter; and double not what you wanna see for a kid with a already blown left-A.C.L. Saint Gregory bless and intercede on poor #22. (YIKES!)
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Time To Throw (T3):©
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drops=zero!
uva:
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Wanna give a quick shoutout to Rocco of uva who played with a whole lotta pressure right in his face and took more than his fair share of heat and all the while hung in there as best he could. Dood may not be great; though just like Full Metal Jacket, “…he’s got guts and guts is enough.” The curious part to me was that Rocco never really took a mega big detonation type hit all day. He moved just a step or two and occasionally three, be that left or right, forwards or backwards in the pocket, and just like the well-schooled option Qb’s of years gone by, he knew how to lean back and take a hit. This is one well studied Qb indeed folks. I’m no uva fan, though it sure looked to me like uva has found their boy for the next two years.
L.T. on the other hand threw some bonna fided darts. I wrote one of ‘em up above, though there were several other 25 point (outer bull’s-eye ring) and one or two 50 point (inner bully’s-eye ring) throws from xL (extra Logan) in this one. Not to mention that his deep ball has improved considerably from the ones that Will and Chris and I sat there and watched L.T. spray long, or over the ‘rong shoulder or just flat out miss completely way back in August. Hands down folks, this is the most in-season passing improvement I’ve seen outta a VT Quarterback during a given year ever. Period. Game over. End of story.
In fact it is fair to say that L.T. is playing the best football of any Pivot in the entire A.c.c. right about now. I do look for that to continue this weekend, though it will be interesting to see how L.T. responds to a full month off between now and the O.B. (Orange Bowl). Note as well that L.T. managed to protect himself just a bit in terms of heading downfield in this one as the TTT Qb hits rushing metric points out above. Yes, trying to tackle L.T. is indeed “Messing with Sasquatch” as he only runs one way … downhill. That’s all well and good, however, it is also fair to point out that he has endured a record setting amount of contact sans nearly and all attempts to head outta bounds or duck and get underneath an opposing hit this season. L.T. can flat out Mack Truck any hind-7 defenders in the A.c.c., anytime, anywhere that he wants. Previously, L.T. had actively sought out contact, while running like a Te. This game showed me that L.T. the field general has finally learned to keep a few O&M rocks in his pocket and slip a few hits as opposed to catching nearly every single hit that there is to take. As no Qb can survive that level of contact indefinitely.
“There is nothin’ like the sight of an amputated spirit, there is no prosthetic for that.”
-Al Pacino addressing the Baird School-
The VT oLine just enjoyed its most abusive day since visiting and physically demolishing Maryland 3 years ago. 36 total combined knockdown blocks may not be an official record, though it sure has the look and feel of an unofficial gold-medal to me. Blake DeChristopher and his 16-ton(s) beard unloaded on uva for a backbreaking 15 solo knockdown blocks all by his ownself. I hope you appreciate just how absurd the numbers 36 and 15 truly are folks. That gives new meaning to beating someone worse than the scoreboard showed as VT kicked uva right in the gut and kept right on savat kicking uva less two kneel-down clock killers right at the end. That’s gut-kicking a completely outta control uva who publicly acted out like a buncha spoiled brat private school mothers-milk guzzling little punks … foreshadowing intended. I called them the house of Lannisters pre-game, more like un-weaned house of Arryn if you ask me.
“Anger never wins.” -sugar- Ray Leonard
To go up to uva, when uva thought they were finally gonna win, with so many Hokie injuries in tow and physically beat the living hell outta uva in their very own brie infested backyard on national TV, and all the while never once take the verbal bait is one of the more remarkable performances in Frank Beamer’s quarter century hall of fame in-waiting career. And that said, you really have to wonder out-loud just how much of a mark that kinda a beat-down will leave on uva? As after taking a size-38 ass-kicking like that, I have to favor whomever uva will eventually play in their bowl game this post-season. As it’s gonna take a good long while for uva to get over that one.
A.c.c. Championship primer:
Up next we have the much awaited re-match with the Clemson Tigers, a team who just two months ago came into Lane and had their way with mighty VT by the tune of a 3-23 ugly kinda evening on national TV, Right now the Klempson defense is about as good as it was then, it is however the Klempson offense that has taken its foot off the throttle. The Tigers passing attack is down by 45 yards per game, and the Tigers ground troops are off by 55 yards per contest in their last three weeks. All-A.c.c. first-string Qb Tajh Boyd is mired in a 3:7 ratio and 56% passing streak after coming off of a career low day last week @ South Carolina. Whereas the second-string all-A.c.c. Qb, one Logan Thomas, has a ratio reads 23:2 as L.T. has produced 23 TD’s combined (or 138 points) at the expense of only a mere 2 INT’s during VT’s 7 game winning streak. L.T. is also only 36 completions away from breaking Don Strocks all-time VT mark if you need him.
Clearly these are two ships passing in the night –and it is accordingly very difficult to favor any team not named Virginia Tech in this one. My only, single, solitary concern, is … how many bullets did VT just empty into virginia and therefore how many bullets are left in the O&M clip?
“LETS GO!”
“HOKIES!”
b’street
Testing, testing…..
Test passed.
Yep, it worked.
Bump.
Bump yourself.
Level 3.
Level 4.
Level 5.