How many games do we have to lose before we learn to take the points? It's not like our offense is good and we move the ball at will and can "just get 1 yard" when we want. In fact, we all know that is quite the opposite of our "offense". Quotation marks are appropriate in the same regard we put "coach" next to our offensive coordinator, offensive line coach, and quarterbacks coach.
And if we continue to insist on going for it on 4th down, let's learn from our past failures on what play to call. We are really starting to wonder if these guys could coach a highschool team. Who in their right mind lines up a 260 pound TE (moonlighting as our QB) in the shotgun 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on 4th and goal from the 1 yard line? That is just so mindblowing for so many reasons. How about a QB sneak from under center? Or Tyrod with a designed run/pass option?
The lack of logic and continuity never ceases to amaze us. The repetitive mistakes and not learning from the past borders on lunacy.
We are very proud of the team and Bud for winning the Coastal division. And maybe we can win the ACC championship again, but for all of those accomplishments, it does not make our offense good or any better than it was last year, according to the statistics.
We really thought Frank was a reasonable person, but the continued excuse making for the offensive coaches and pointing to the "wins are what matter" line, we really wonder if he seriously believes that. Because no matter how you slice it, our offensive coaching staff needs a major overhaul because we have just seen another year of ineptitude. At this point, Frank's "wins are what matter" answer/excuse is not an acceptable reason for NOT making changes. The fans deserve better and they should let their voice be heard.
Is Frank really waiting for the bottom to fall out and lose a bunch of games before he makes a change? No one ever said you had to get worse in order to get better or that we can't expect a decent offense to compliment our fantastic defense.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
If A Tree Falls in the Woods and Nobody is Around...
to write about it, does it still mean your offense is ranked 109th? Well, you get what we're saying. So, now Frank has resorted to making not only his players, but coaches unavailable to the media! Wow. It must be getting hot in the Merryman Center.
We're not really going to harp on the Duke game. It was awful and just made the "change train" gain more steam. No team is going to win many games with 5 turnovers (although BC beat us with 5 or 6 giveaways).
Anyway, this is really becoming a circus. Not only are fans continuing to throw high-n-tight fastballs on Hokie Hotline, our favorite sports bloggers and writers continue to hammer away with questions about the offense each week, and of course our new favorite player Purnell Sturdivant weighing in on the offense, but now Frank has put the muzzle on his players and coaches.
We don't know how to translate what this all means. Maybe Frank is just tired of it all himself? Maybe he thinks that winning the ACC championship will silence the critics? Bottom line is, the gig is up and everyone who wears Orange or Maroon knows it. At this point, we don't see how this can continue into the offseason as it would not be good for the health of the program if Frank let this linger into the spring and next season.
We're not really going to harp on the Duke game. It was awful and just made the "change train" gain more steam. No team is going to win many games with 5 turnovers (although BC beat us with 5 or 6 giveaways).
Anyway, this is really becoming a circus. Not only are fans continuing to throw high-n-tight fastballs on Hokie Hotline, our favorite sports bloggers and writers continue to hammer away with questions about the offense each week, and of course our new favorite player Purnell Sturdivant weighing in on the offense, but now Frank has put the muzzle on his players and coaches.
We don't know how to translate what this all means. Maybe Frank is just tired of it all himself? Maybe he thinks that winning the ACC championship will silence the critics? Bottom line is, the gig is up and everyone who wears Orange or Maroon knows it. At this point, we don't see how this can continue into the offseason as it would not be good for the health of the program if Frank let this linger into the spring and next season.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Bait and Switch
We all got our hopes up last week after a breakout performance against the Terps. But, a closer look would have told us not to get so excited. Afterall, the Maryland defense ranked 70th at the time and 11th in the ACC. Everyone had been pointing to the Terp defensive line as its weakness. That certainly proved to be the case. Kudos for exposing the other team's weakness, something that is not always attacked on a regular basis as it should be by any decent coordinator.
However, if that hadn't dawned on us, what should have is that after 9 games into a season, with a coordinator who hadn't shown us anything for the better part of the past 3-7 years (however you would like to view the situation), that something was fishy about our offense being hastily labelled as dominant after the Maryland game.
Never to let us down, Frank and his offensive coaching flunkies only needed 7 days for reality to set back in. And it set in real quick and real hard.
What's most troubling as we continue to stumble through season after season of the same old song, is that Frank/Stinespring don't seem to learn from past mistakes. You can look back to the '99 and '04 Sugar Bowls, any number of regular season games, etc. and you can find that not only have we failed on 4th down attempts in lieu of taking the points, we continue to run the same inept and unsuccessful play that has withstood the test of time!
It's truly becoming disheartening and we wonder if anything will change. With Bud's departure on the horizon (good luck and only the best for Bud!!), we wonder if this will add even more incentive for Frank to make a change or make him dig his heels in even harder. If the latter, then get ready for some rough years ahead for VT football.
The "what ifs" are already creeping in and it's too bad that Frank hasn't aligned his vision to win national championships with a solid plan instead of depending on Bud and HOPING that Bryan Stinespring could be something that he isn't. It could be a shame considering how far VT football has come and what we have built, but will we rise past this plateau? We have the talent and fans to do such great things at Virginia Tech football. How will Frank answer the challenge?
However, if that hadn't dawned on us, what should have is that after 9 games into a season, with a coordinator who hadn't shown us anything for the better part of the past 3-7 years (however you would like to view the situation), that something was fishy about our offense being hastily labelled as dominant after the Maryland game.
Never to let us down, Frank and his offensive coaching flunkies only needed 7 days for reality to set back in. And it set in real quick and real hard.
What's most troubling as we continue to stumble through season after season of the same old song, is that Frank/Stinespring don't seem to learn from past mistakes. You can look back to the '99 and '04 Sugar Bowls, any number of regular season games, etc. and you can find that not only have we failed on 4th down attempts in lieu of taking the points, we continue to run the same inept and unsuccessful play that has withstood the test of time!
It's truly becoming disheartening and we wonder if anything will change. With Bud's departure on the horizon (good luck and only the best for Bud!!), we wonder if this will add even more incentive for Frank to make a change or make him dig his heels in even harder. If the latter, then get ready for some rough years ahead for VT football.
The "what ifs" are already creeping in and it's too bad that Frank hasn't aligned his vision to win national championships with a solid plan instead of depending on Bud and HOPING that Bryan Stinespring could be something that he isn't. It could be a shame considering how far VT football has come and what we have built, but will we rise past this plateau? We have the talent and fans to do such great things at Virginia Tech football. How will Frank answer the challenge?
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