VPI Post Game Open Thread

I now know what the F%&* is wrong with Frank Beamer’s neck (in case you were wondering): he has about 500,000 four leaf clovers surgically crammed in there because he is the luckiest man alive. It takes a special teams miracle AND our QB getting injured in order for them to win that ball game.

Granted we made a crap ton of false starts. Oh. ACC officiating sucks!!!! Even the announcers said something about the missed hold calls. I counted 7 myself.

I feel like Tevin running the offense will give us a lot of never-before-seen balance. He clearly isn’t the bruising runner Nesbitt is, but he also throws much better, which is essentially going to force balance.

I will say though, I was very impressed with how well the offense was running tonight. I think the week off must’ve given them time to get all the fundamentals right again (see: post-Miami 2009) and they looked really solid as a whole. I think we’re gonna make Miami miserable.

Good job ACC refs. Miss on countless holds, and change the make up of a game on a highly questionable hold. You guys are awesome

First off, kudos to Groh and the D – did everything they could, but with Nesbitt out had to stay on the field too long.

The call on the play Nesbitt threw the interception and was injured is a festering sore for me. You have the lead in the most hostile environment in the ACC, 6 yards from a 14 point lead, with a 10 point lead almost guaranteed. You’ve been successful running the ball all night. Your defense has been playing great. You’ve kept the crowd out of the game. Then you turn around the game and your season on one call.

CPJ is awesome but you have to admit that just about every game there are a couple of calls where you say WTF. Fortunately last year most of those calls went Tech’s way but whether it’s karma coming back into balance or poorer execution it’s biting the Jackets in the rear this year. CPJ’s gotta know what his team can and can’t do and for whatever reasons this team can’t throw and catch as effectively as last year so why throw at a critical juncture?

Our players are finally starting to ‘get’ the 3-4. Our freshman and sophomore DEs looked pretty good, and we were able to harass the QB just about all night. It took holding ALL game to prevent us from reaching Tyrod. There were exactly ZERO calls by the refs. Even the announcers commented on how they were holding our D Line. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SICK of ACC officiating.

We still let a big play through here and there, but that was mostly due to Tyrod making something out of nothing – he’s def. one of the best athletes in the entire conference.

I think Tevin will get better with time – we saw him grow a little as the game progressed last night. He’s seemingly a better passer than Nesbitt. Wish we’d play with the kind of frenetic pace that Oregon plays with. Opponents wouldn’t know whether to shit or go blind.

Turkey neck Beamer probably needs to recharge the shamrock-mass inserted in his neck for their next game.