David Wilson (4) fights to stay in bounds as Ross Cockrell (6) attempts to force him out.
After about as disappointing of a victory as a team can possibly have, Virginia Tech’s Thursday night matchup with Georgia Tech next week looks all the more difficult.
Of course, it didn’t help that the Yellow Jackets knocked off the No. 5 and previously unbeaten Clemson Tigers on Saturday night.
But if there’s one good thing Hokie fans can take away from Saturday afternoon’s 14-10 win over Duke, it’s something David Wilson said after the game.
“We got the win here at Duke, and we came out and didn’t play our best football,” Wilson said. “We know what we have to fix. If we would’ve came out here and blown them out, then we have a bye week, I have the fear that some of my teammates would’ve relaxed.
“Now that we’ve come close against a team that we thought was going to have lower competition, so to speak, going into a bye week and then Georgia Tech, we know we have to play hard this week.”
And while many pessimistic Tech supporters will downplay the significance of those comments, and rant all over Twitter about who needs to be fired and what the team needs to do differently to play better, I think it’s important to analyze this situation a little further.
Yes, Tech did not look great on Saturday. They didn’t put up a single point in the last 40 minutes of a game against one of the worst defenses in the conference, despite putting up 433 yards of offense.
They lucked out because Duke kicker Will Snyderwine missed three field goals. And they picked up way too many penalties on the way to one of their more sloppy victories in recent memory.
A version of this article appeared in the Nov 1 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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Nah, they will come out looking the same and will loose this game to GT. I've seen this trend enough. Typical VT.
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way to be a committed fan of virginia tech. let me guess, you only go to games for the social aspects and the partying that typically surrounds it, but could care less about football?
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Nope, been am a student and Hokie fan for years. The trend is just too similar. I'd bet $100 on it. We are in no way prepared for GT on the road given the way they played at Duke and against Boston College. Our defense is injured up and the option offense has always been Bud Fosters kryptonite. I've seen us come out of a bye week only to loose before too.
Just saying. I hope I'm wrong but I got Stanford right and Clemson right (although I thought we'd score more points against Clemson).
I hope I'm wrong though.
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Maybe we will tight this game to GT?
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Correction: Given the way we played at Duke and how GT handled Clemson.
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"We practice the same way every week, win or lose," Frank told a reporter in an interview earlier this season.
The game prep never changes in Blacksburg. We prepared for Duke the same way we prepared for Miami. Not in the technical aspects, of course. We game plan on both sides of the ball based on what scheme the opponent is going to be using against. But in regards how the offense and defense practices, how reps get assigned, how much time goes to film study, it all stays the same week to week. In other words, we treat every opponent the same on paper.
That is why we will lose, isn't insanity doing the same thing over and over expecting different results? With the exception of Appalachian State, we came out flat or were flat at some point in all of our games. We can't afford to come out flat against GT,UNC, or UVA.
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