That was a fun one folks.

Our Hokies came to hit and keep on hitting all night long. Most hitting I’ve seen out of VT since the Boston College championship game at the end of last year. Very physical high-velocity game that was played with the “fast-forward” button depressed for the entire 60 miutes of play.

9 days off is no bad thing right about now as I’d bet the over on VT whirlpool use in the next couple of days by the 2009 VT football team. That was indeed a Rock-em Sock-em night of football and ECU is no bad team. VT was just better. Feels good to get to say that yet again.

So lets take a look-see at a few fun plays; a couple of very very rough ones, and one in particular that really bothered me. (more on that below)

1st Quarter 14:59 remaining:
Talk about setting the tone; damn! D.Wilson unloads on the ECU wedge-buster on the opening Kickoff; big time; on what turned out to be a very violent don’t back down nite of rough tough football outta our beloved Hokies. (big PIC link)

1st Quarter 12:57 remaining:
Both Training Rooms must surly be filled to capacity. This was Ali vs. Fraizer I folks as both teams knocked the hell outta each other all night long. This time it is our very own Cody who gets absolutely punked by #17 on the play. Worst lead block I’ve seen a Hokie take in a long long time. I am impressed that Cody managed to get up after this one. (big PIC link)

1st Quarter 10:41-10:36 remaining:
Tweedy, then Cam, then Kam. ALL of them stole ECU Pirates on this triple header of brutal

crackback blocks on the Punt return by Hosley. Our beloved Hokies came to hit and keep on hitting on this night folks. Be sure you find this video if you wanna know precisely why football is called football, and football ain’t called band. WOW! (BONUS points if you saw the 4th steal by Cam who hustles upfield and steals another ECU Pirate at the end of the return. WAR C-Mart!!!) God Bless #23 (Dekota Marshall) of ECU.

1st Quarter 7:31 remaining:
Note the massive left-shoulder harness on Kam who has a heretofore unpublished bum shoulder. (big PIC link)

1st Quarter 5:19 remaining:
Lookie here! What’s that called again? An actually hole for R.Will to run through? I’ll tell yah what; if Nosal is not careful, he just might have a Pro ceiling in front of him before he leaves VT. Nice blocking by Wang and Via and DeChris as well. (big PIC link)

1st Quarter 0:59 remaining:
Was T-mobile throwing to “Boooooone” at the goaline or Coale who is breaking open on the skinny Post to the back of the Endzone? (big PIC link)

2nd Quarter 11:15 remaining:
Epic strip and recovery by Cody. Cody’s is the pound-for-pound king at VT. Kinda like “Pac-Man” or Floyd Mayweather Jr. if you will. Though the Kass roll-up hi-lo was gruesome! God Bless on that.  (big squeamish PIC link)

2nd Quarter 6:57 remaining:
Big Wang with the savage and intentional cut-block of Wilson of ECU. Skippy should absolutely send this one in. You do not intentionally roll-up somebodies bad leg on the edge by accident folks. Gutless play; and what was the Field-Judge looking at? Could have easily be an Unsportsmanlike like 15 yard flag in my book and it put Wilson out of the game. Tisk-tisk.

Also note T-mobile’s downward nose of the football (farthermost away from his throwing hand) almost pointing upwards — just like last year. TT may never have a textbook perfect wind-up … though he is throwing more nose-down darts this year on short to intermediate patterns and his long-ball is soft and very catchable. He is the personification of substance over style.

2nd Quarter 2:01 remaining:
Check out the O&M clad guy right behind Skippy and the ECU main on-field coaching brain trust. Somewhere Sun Tzu and Niccolo Machiavelli are smiling. I do not recall seeing this one ever before in all my decades of football. (big PIC link)

2nd Quarter 1:38 remaining:
Note the uncalled Illegal Snap by the ECU Center. First up the laces should be spotted as he prefers; be that right or left. So spinning the ball is not supposed to happen. However, neither is moving the football a handful of inches forward pre-snap. That’s a major no-no. That said; I saw uncalled stuff all night long. Rulebook Czar’s will boo-boo that. To me however this officiating crew was consistent; they let them play the whole entire night and got several close or even dicey possession calls correct. Nice work Zebras!

2nd Quarter 0:14 remaining:
On two good knees does Virg’ get there in time for this Pick-6? He was within inches of this INT as is. I’m inclined to say a healthy Virg’ takes this one to the house thereby breaking ECU’s back and putting us up 20-zip in the process.  (big PIC link)

On the very next play Cody got two hands on the potential Endzone INT yet did not manage to bring it in. ECU was very luck to end the 1st-half folks.

Longfield Management (Lo.FM):®

Virginia Tech:
+ + + + + + + + +(ECU penalty) +
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -(VT penalty)  -  -  -  -  -  -  -
neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral,

East Carolina:
+ + + + +
-  -  -  -(fumble)  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -(INT) -  -  -
neutral, neutral, neutral,

It really is amazing just how often teams press or simply mess the bed in Lo.FM’s folks. In Lane, on the road or on your TV at home — when you see a long down and distance situation pay careful attention as the odds for a big-play mistake to occur go way way up here. Even tallying a neutral play and living to fight another day is no bad thing. Not at all; and this is where composure and poise come into play.

T-Mobile is showing me more and more pf each of those Pivot (or Qb) cerebral terms each week. He has only be picked off on 1.754% of his throws this year. Now recall his interception percentage of 4.046% from last year. Which was not all that awful to begin with; though 1.754% is basically phenomenal. There are tons of N.F.L. hall of famers enshrined in Canton who can not touch that.

Overall we/VT had 30 different Lo.FM’s which is not all that good. However, we did successfully navigate 10 of them on the Pirates homefield down in Greenville. That is pretty dang good. ECU had 27 Lo.FM’s of their own yet turned the ball over twice on such and could only generate 5 positive plays off of such … which amounts to a rather lowly 18% success rate overall. Whereas VT’s success rate was a fairly nifty 33%. This is rather unexpected when one is left to ponder that they do not come much more experienced nor much more poised than a 6th year Qb like ECU currently enjoys. The key is that T-mobile does not make many mistakes; he is becoming a very fine Game-Manager and Pamplin Hall really should award him 3 credit hours for such meritorious efforts in Management.

A 10 win VT 2009 football season would be... Underachieving. We had our A.C.C. and MNC shot and blew it. About all this team has to offer. Par for the course. Overacheiving. VT is really not quite a 10 win team. At least not this year. View Results  Loading ...

1st-half Tech-bits:

• TT strung together 2-3 pretty decent drives with about 5-6 quality throws. Then mix in almost 8 yards per carry for R.Will in the opening 30 minutes of play and you suddenly have Frank’s Utopian conservative yet balanced offense.
• Kam had several nice licks; though he whiffed on no less than 3 arm tackles to start the game. A very very unusual mix of play or as we like to say in Boxing a very uneven night. One should note which side he hits on and which side he misses on as the bum shoulder could do a lot of explaining here is my personal hunch.
• Good shotgun snaps and pass-blocking by Via … was exactly what I wanted him to be straight up “invisible” all night long. (i.e. not making the bonehead play as a rookie starter)
• I liked the quick hitting throws that Stiney called vs. the soft and sagging ECU man-to-man or zone coverages. Most of these also kept the football in-bounds when caught which really helped our Time of Possession battle that we have been getting killed at recently.
• Hoppy had one pass broken up of all-things and he and Battle are starting to show a pulse at Defensive Tackle (Dt).
• My poor boy Jake did not even play a single second. Gotta feel for him right about now.

“LETS GO!”

“HOKIES!”

b’street

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