Thursday, April 30, 2009

What was THAT?

Wow. Don't look now, but we are excited. We really hope this is just the tip-of-the-iceberg. Ryan Williams...believe the hype. Marcus Davis should factor in this fall as well. Dyrell Roberts is making strides and we already have Sausage Fingers making grabs as a proven player. Tight Ends galore and Tyrod looks comfortable as the leader of the offense. OL will be key...DUH, but TBD. Woah, it's tough for us to believe, but this IS promising. All joking aside, this offense has potential. A LOT.

Congratulations to all the VT fans for a stellar 40k+ turnout at the Spring Game. Well done. Big recruiting weekend and things came together well. Now, we wait....for 4 months until to we see how this all translates to the field. We think that we can beat Alabama and so should you. Alabama is casting an inexperienced QB into the pond of pirahnas that is Bud's crew. Along with a litany of other reasons, we are feeling good.

However (you knew there would be), the offense must live up to the hype for not one game or two games (let alone a couple of spring practices), rather it needs to show that it can sustain success over the course of an entire season. We're not sure the Sandman could dream up an excuse for Stiney at this point. We will gladly put a Nike in our mouth if Stinespring can produce an offense that contributes to VT football winning a national championship.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Football is Back!!

We're just excited that Spring Practice is in full swing and the guys are back on the field. Early returns from the first scrimmage are surprisingly positive. Ryan Williams first scrimmage was a HUGE success...as good as scrimmages can go, but nonetheless we're excited. This would be a big time shot-in-the-arm and the "homerun" threat we haven't seen at running back since KJ was around.

Ah yes, the "hitch" in Tyrod's throwing motion is gone. Funny, Tyrod actually went home after the bowl game and basically fixed the problem himself in a little over one week. What a leader this guy is and good thing because it probably would've taken O'Cain 2 more years to "fix" it.

And of course, the offensive line. Ok, for the record this is the third year in a row that we've heard the offensive line is "gelling". We know how much "gelling" they did the past 2 years. It sounds like these fellas went home and watched tape of themselves as well (like Tyrod) and are also self-teaching themselves good fundamental techniques and footwork. We know how effective this type of developmental "coaching" has been from Newsome and Stinespring.

The hype for 2009 continues to build. Stinespring better deliver this year because the player "experience" and "talent" excuses have officially left the building.

Friday, April 3, 2009

False Advertising??




Look what we found in our season ticket renewal packet...[Click on image to zoom]

Who is writing this stuff? Whoever it is, it's pretty clear that they haven't watched us play before. Get ready for "explosiveness" like last year? What? That would be a real treat to look forward to in 2009! Absolutely comical. Apparently the VT marketing department decided to punt when it was time to proofread this text.