Collegiate Times

The Hokies are good in the ACC, but they are not up to the caliber of playing and defeating top opponents from other leading conferences. The Hokie offense was *not* consistent at all tonight, Tyrod Taylor is a good runner, but he is only a so-so quarterback. Tech once again shows that its place in national rankings is questionable. We could not put the game away. This has been a problem for Tech in *many* interconference games against equally matched opponents. Tech goes 9-3 this year.

Let's see where to start. Once again, our wonderful offense kept us from winning this game. How long will it be until Bud realizes that Beamer isn't going to replace his buddy Steinspring and develop an offense than can finish in the top 100 in the country. We have 3 solid rbs, receivers that can't break coverage and a qb that can't throw the ball down field and yet we didn't run a single screen pass to the backs. Am I missing something? It's time for a change in the Hokie Nation.

As a bama fan..the V Tech defensive line had me worried and they lived up to the billing. Fortunately, our defense was able to keep your offense off the field in the first half and eventually we wore you down. Your quick defensive ends and linebackers gave us fits at the beginning of the game. I was there and I have to compliment the tech fans as well...very classy and exteremely loud! Once you guys find an offensive solution (passing game) you will be a force to be dealt with. I don't think there is a team in the ACC of your caliber. Good Luck Hokies...what a game...take care and good luck!

First, lets be honest. Without a couple of mental errors, breakdowns, and other gifts from Alabama, we lose this game by about 27 points. Yes, we took advantage of many of those gifts and that's a good thing. The fact remains that we simply do not match up well with the upper tier teams in the SEC, Big 12, etc. Bama's linebackers went over 250 pounds and closed with the speed of a cornerback in the ACC. Their d-linemen routinely take up two blockers and free the backers and strong safety to pursue the ball. I dont know where Florida, LSU, Alabama, USC, Texas, etc keep finding these guys, but if we dont find a few and convince them to come to Tech and play ball, we will be a big fish in a small ACC pond for years to come. Playing hard and playing with pride is great. But it wont beat top 10 football teams.

Disappointed with our quarterback: not a good runner and a poor passer. I hoped that we would use the off-season to find a first class quarterback but here we go again with a subpar quarterback for the whole season.

At least we don't have glennon

Thank you Stiny for running 3 run plays back to back to back and then 3 pass plays back to back to back as the first 2 OFF series. Great diversity. A 12 year old could call plays better than this.

Tyrod's overrated Chancellor's overrated Stinespring doesn't deserve comment. Beamer's getting sloppy. and Bud is God Bout sums up our program.

Our defense is amazing and consistently so. Bud Foster does deserve better, he deserves an offense and coordinator that matches up to what he offers. If Bud ever does leave VT then the program is going to go downhill fast. Our defense keeps us in the game, or offense however could not score against the worst teams in college football with any consistency.

bud foster will tell you that 34 points against a tech d is unsatisfactory no matter what the time of possession is! tech put up 24 points and honestly i never thought tech would lose a game where it scored that many...techs offense is the same stagnant squad, but tech's defense gave up too many points!

http://firebryanstinespring.blogspot.com/ Everyone get the shirts and protest!

The defense played great but wore down at the end. The offense continues to bring this team down. Tech will never crack the upper tier until the offensive coordinator and philosophy changes. Some of the play calling made no sense and they need to let Tyrod use his running skills to keep the defense honest. Too many plays run from the shotgun and slow developing plays run against a fast defense. And do you think we could mix in a fullback run somewhere in the offense.

Lucky you don't have both FSU and Miami on your overrated schedule.

We know our offense is never explosive. We know our defense is always reliable. What bothered me was the poor special teams play. The only positive was the TD return. The negative was that we coughed up two possessions by not protecting the football on kick returns. Dropped fair catch? Come on!

It seems to me that "Beamerball" has become depend on the defense to hold off the opposing teams offense, and set up our own offense with at worst field goal range field position. The Special teams to score every time, and to hope to God that the offense doesnt trip on its own shoe laces too often and crap its pants. I truly believe that we have talent at individual offensive positions, but the way we use them is befuddling. I see other teams that have turnover on their offensive line, and are still able to block opposing D-linemen, but year in and year out we are unable to provide an O-line that can consistantly block the whole game, not just 56 minutes of it. Or, in this case 21 minutes. The defense gave up alot of yards, but heading into the 4th quarter, they had onyl given up 300. they got tired, and Johnson bit on a good play, and they scored a bunch of points, but honestly, the offense needs to be able to establish ball controll against GOOD teams, not jus the Marshals of the world.

Why not do the unthinkable and give Frank Beamer an ultimatum? e.g. BCS championship bowl appearance or OUT? The ACC champion plateau has been reached, but it seems ALL that we are capable of meeting. The offense continues to whither under his reign. Beamerball is a joke now, opposing teams just set up in a protect the punter formation and the fireworks of Beamerball go away. A football game is won on BOTH sides of the ball, not just defense.

I agree that we seem to waste star nfl players on offense with the exception of mike vick! I just dont understand tyrod saying he wont take off much bc he wants to avoid injury!! could you hear the randalls and vicks of the world say that crap! hopefully tt learned after his first stinker on national tv that he might want to run the ball to help others around him out, esp the oline which is atrocious year in and out...

Sigh... it saddens me how little some of our "fans" seem to know about football. It's not as easy as "fire this guy" or "give this guy an ultimatum". UVA fired their OC and look what that got them... a home loss to William and Mary. The grass isn't always greener. Does the offense need to improve? Without a doubt. The defense has work to do too (although not nearly as much as the offense). But if you watched the game we actually ran the ball better against Alabama than most people thought we would. The passing game is what has to improve. But the attacks on individual players and coaches does nothing to help anything.

Actually UVA is a perfect example of what decent VT fans are trying to avoid. Al Groh has been a grossly incompetent coach for years, and the school's refusal to replace him has turned a once moderately respectable program into basically the worst, crappiest, nerdiest program of all time. Stupid fans who wear ties and drink Zima at games don't help either. You also seem to make another point without even realizing it- when Ryan Williams gets 7.5 yards per touch and 2 TDs, you'd think a decent coordinator could design an offense around that kind of production. Stinespring clearly can't. He sucks and he needs to go.

Returning to unexpected authority, I think I see how this is so. ,

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