Mixed Emotions

I spent several hours late Friday night and Sunday thinking about the story I wanted to write after Virginia Tech's loss to Miami. Some angle that I could take to contextualize the loss as part of a larger theme.

I couldn't think of one. I had no definitive judgements or hot takes. I wasn't sure whether to be outraged, heartbroken, or hopeful.

I was emotionally ambiguous.

Ambiguous because there were so many good and bad things that happened. Tech's players played their hearts out on the road against a top-10 team. Miami made just about every play that they needed to make to win, and even then some.

The Hokies probably got screwed by the refs. At the same time, Brent Pry made a series of questionable coaching and clock-management decisions that cost his team critical points. The four-point setback moves his record in one-score games to 1-10, approaching historic levels of futility (as we'll soon see).