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- Because we aren’t the Magnificent Seven. We’re the Mediocre Eleven.
(check out the 5:30 mark)
- We’re 2-4 with one win over a 1-4 FCS team and the other over Connecticut, who hasn’t had a winning season in six years. We’re a young team that has been burdened with numerous injuries to the two most important units of the team: the offensive line and the defensive backfield. That’s why we can’t get a running game going, (which allows teams to shut us down by playing the deep pass: you aren’t going to score much if you just dink and dunk), and why teams keep during us deep against limited, confused personnel in the defensive backfield. Bet the hosue that the Hokies will go deep early and often after what they saw on film vs. Louisville and Notre Dame.
- Va. Tech slipped in recent years but not like we did. They’ve had 23 winning records and have bene to 23 bowl games in a row. The cupboard was not bare when Justin Fuente took over. Also, Virginia is a much better football talent producing state than New York. Fuente is in a much better situation to begin winning immediately than Babers. Fans dream of immediate results with a coaching change. Tech was in a positon to give them that. We weren’t.
- SU fans have fantasized about what would happen if you combined an aggressive Dino Babers offensive scheme with an aggressive Scott Shafer defensive scheme. Instead we get the Tampa 2, which is a “keep them in front of you” concept – and we can’t even do that. Fuente, who brought in a dynamic offense from Memphis, (where he beat baber’s Bowling Green team last year), had the great presence of mind to retain Bud Foster, Tech’s legendary defensive coordinator. So they have the best of both. We don’t.
- North Carolina had a great regular season last year, going 11-1 and scoring 41 points game. Then they gave Clemson, (37-45) and Baylor 38-49 all they could handle in the post season. I was thinking “That’s the team we’ll have in 2-3 years with Babers”. Tech just took them part, 34-3. And this is the first year of Babers.
- The Hokies have been taking a lot of people apart recently. They’ve won their last three games by a total of 137-20, (an average of 46-7). We’re next.
- Jerod Evans is still another multi-threat quarterback. He’s 76 for 120 for 1,045 yards with- get this- 15TDs and 1 interception. He’s run for 258 ayrds and 2 scores, including a 55 yard TD run.
- Tavon McMillan is averaging 4.4 yards per carry and had a 69 yard TD. Isaiah Ford and Cam Phillips are averaging over 15 yards a catch. Phillips has a 55 yard TD and Ford caught a 47 yard bomb but didn’t get into the end zone. So Tech can test us deep.
- They have, according to coach Reno Ferri, “the best defense we’ve seen this season”. In fact it’s the 3rd best defense in the country as measured by yards surrendered per game (238). And they are #2 against the thing we do best: passing the ball, giving up only 132 yards per game. They have the 17th ranked rushing defense (105). Not that we could run against them anyway. They have 43 tackles for loss and 11 sacks, so expect Eric Dungey to be on the run. Check and mate.
(check out the 5:30 mark)
- We’re 2-4 with one win over a 1-4 FCS team and the other over Connecticut, who hasn’t had a winning season in six years. We’re a young team that has been burdened with numerous injuries to the two most important units of the team: the offensive line and the defensive backfield. That’s why we can’t get a running game going, (which allows teams to shut us down by playing the deep pass: you aren’t going to score much if you just dink and dunk), and why teams keep during us deep against limited, confused personnel in the defensive backfield. Bet the hosue that the Hokies will go deep early and often after what they saw on film vs. Louisville and Notre Dame.
- Va. Tech slipped in recent years but not like we did. They’ve had 23 winning records and have bene to 23 bowl games in a row. The cupboard was not bare when Justin Fuente took over. Also, Virginia is a much better football talent producing state than New York. Fuente is in a much better situation to begin winning immediately than Babers. Fans dream of immediate results with a coaching change. Tech was in a positon to give them that. We weren’t.
- SU fans have fantasized about what would happen if you combined an aggressive Dino Babers offensive scheme with an aggressive Scott Shafer defensive scheme. Instead we get the Tampa 2, which is a “keep them in front of you” concept – and we can’t even do that. Fuente, who brought in a dynamic offense from Memphis, (where he beat baber’s Bowling Green team last year), had the great presence of mind to retain Bud Foster, Tech’s legendary defensive coordinator. So they have the best of both. We don’t.
- North Carolina had a great regular season last year, going 11-1 and scoring 41 points game. Then they gave Clemson, (37-45) and Baylor 38-49 all they could handle in the post season. I was thinking “That’s the team we’ll have in 2-3 years with Babers”. Tech just took them part, 34-3. And this is the first year of Babers.
- The Hokies have been taking a lot of people apart recently. They’ve won their last three games by a total of 137-20, (an average of 46-7). We’re next.
- Jerod Evans is still another multi-threat quarterback. He’s 76 for 120 for 1,045 yards with- get this- 15TDs and 1 interception. He’s run for 258 ayrds and 2 scores, including a 55 yard TD run.
- Tavon McMillan is averaging 4.4 yards per carry and had a 69 yard TD. Isaiah Ford and Cam Phillips are averaging over 15 yards a catch. Phillips has a 55 yard TD and Ford caught a 47 yard bomb but didn’t get into the end zone. So Tech can test us deep.
- They have, according to coach Reno Ferri, “the best defense we’ve seen this season”. In fact it’s the 3rd best defense in the country as measured by yards surrendered per game (238). And they are #2 against the thing we do best: passing the ball, giving up only 132 yards per game. They have the 17th ranked rushing defense (105). Not that we could run against them anyway. They have 43 tackles for loss and 11 sacks, so expect Eric Dungey to be on the run. Check and mate.
