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Tyrod Taylor will go down as one of the greatest and most electrifying quarterbacks ever to step foot on Virginia Tech’s campus.
Even from his debut against Louisiana State University in 2007, football fans knew he would be special. He scored the Hokies’ lone touchdown, while showing flashes of brilliance. However, nobody could have predicted just how extraordinary he would turn out to be.
Over the course of his illustrious career at Tech, he set school records for career total offense (9,213 yards), career passing yards (7,017 yards), career rushing yards by a quarterback (2,196), career wins by a starting quarterback (34), career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback (23), and touchdown passes in a season (24).
The Hampton product has certainly left his mark in the record books, but his statistics don’t paint the whole picture.
Taylor is a winner.
Since July 2007, he has won three ACC Championships, an Orange Bowl, a Chick-fil-A Bowl, an ACC Championship MVP Award, first-team All-ACC honors, an ACC Player of the Year Award and a Dudley Award, which is given to the best football player in Virginia.
Taylor’s accomplishments can be relived all day long, but what distinguishes him from other quarterbacks that have come through Blacksburg?
The guy is a born leader.
A version of this article appeared in the Apr 28 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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Too bad he had the worst offensive coordinator in tech's history and as a result was never able to take us to a National Championship like many including myself hoped with all the hype about Taylor back in 2007.
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i do believe last season was our National championship run. If you look at it this way, if we actually defended that last drive against Boise St., we could have been 1-0 with a good win under our belt. And with that win I believe we could have beatin JMU and been 2-0. and after that, well an 11 game win streak haha we would have been undefeated with wins against 4 top 25 teams (Boise St., Miami, FSU, and North Carolina St.), an ACC Championship
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nah man. can't blame stiney for not having a good OL to deal with. VT was so behind in OL recruiting that it caught up with them.
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Guess who that falls under, Stinespring. The offensive coordinator is responsible for everything below him including the Offensive Line which has been terrible for years. No improvement at all. No good recruits. Guess who does recruiting as well....Stinespring.
I guess all this would fall under Beamer too, but he finally made some changes. Let's see if they work out.
It's just a shame these changes weren't made 3 years ago when they should have been. Maybe Taylor's legacy would have included a National Championship game, who knows.
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I think Tyrod has a lot of potential. I figured he would at least get picked up, but I didn't think he would get drafted. This past season was overall disappointing in terms of play completion and not necessarily the plays being called. Play completion for Tyrod equaled run around for 10 seconds then lob an 80-yarder for a TD which is why some of his stats are good. His running game this year was weak and that can't be blamed solely on OL or stinespring.
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