Q&A with Chili formerly of Block-C
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I didn't get a chance to watch the game live this week, so I am probably prejudiced by some of the frustrating reports about the erratic performance of the Hokies this week. After a quick review of the first quarter, I walked away with the following impressions: 1) The defensive line and middle backers are a strength of this team. 2) Logan Thomas has some weaknesses, but the coaching staff is giving him much more responsibility than they gave Tyrod Taylor or Bryan Randall as a first year starter. 3) The offensive line has played better than you think they have, but they still play too high to drive people off the ball.
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Editor's Note: This is TKP's official stance on how to conduct yourself Saturday. --Joe
The Tigers will prepare with pumped-in crowd noise at practice, as they do for most big road games, and rely on the poise of a veteran, experienced offensive line. Winning this week is a difficult task, but an entirely necessary one to reach the goals this team has set for itself.
"We expect to win," senior right tackle Landon Walker said. "We don't expect the fans, the crowd noise to affect the way we do things. We expect to be prepared and we're going to handle it. A mature team, a championship team can do that. A championship team can take good things they do at home, win at Virginia Tech, and win wherever they play. You've got to do that. Because if you can't win on the road, at Virginia Tech, in my mind, you don't deserve to be there."
As if you guys didn't need any more reason to be up for Saturday's game.
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I was driving down 95 through VA and stopped to get gas somewhere near Fredericksburg. I ran inside to grab some essentials for the rest of the trip ahead: red bull, beef jerky, gatorade, gum (all four road trip food groups.)
I saw a rack full of random gas station quality sports schwag so I went to check it out. I'm a sucker for spending $5.95 on a piece of VT paraphenelia I will never use again.
Most of the stuff on the rack was VT and UVa stuff. Here's what it looked like when I walked up...
I fixed it...
You're welcome world.
-Hokie Stone
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This is a great sneak peak at what goes down during meetings and on the practice field. The Frankinator is just so... calm and focused. You can see it trickle on down to the staff and players, well except for this hilarious outburst from Cornell Brown.
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After a long drive back to the DC suburbs and a full day of discussing health information technology at the AHRQ Conference, my brain has had some difficulty digesting the game from Saturday. During the game, I found my focus wandering, as I had difficulty watching the offensive line as closely as I do when I watch the game on film. Hence, I am going to do a "post game thoughts" post, and I will follow it up when I have a chance to watch the video of the game.
I did not see that one coming. Nope, not even an inkling. And I challenge anyone who reads this to look me square in the eye and tell me that they thought the ACC was going to be the conference that started the super-conference dominos falling.
I, like most Hokies following the realignment discussions and rumors, was worried that Virginia Tech would get left behind in some bastardized version of the ACC and Big East. That once the Pac 12 went to 16, the SEC would feel compelled to do so, as well. If the SEC was going to go to 16, there's no way they get there without poaching a few ACC schools, and there's no way I want to be apart of an ACC sans Clemson and Florida State.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference Office announced Monday the game times for the football contests of Saturday, Oct. 1, including Tech's home game against Clemson. The Hokies and Tigers will tee it up at 6 p.m. in a game that will be televised nationally by ESPN2.
There will be Sandman.