Virginia Tech=17, france=14
“Ti, i, i, ime is on my side, yes it is!”
-Rolling Stones-
“did not want expend the last two TO and concede 3 pts. Even with poss 30/25 secs left”
-Mike London txt-
ROTFLMFAO!
Move over Frank Beamer, South Bend and the college football Hall of Fame will ahve to wait. As uva Coach Mike London is the greatest Virginia Tech football coach of all freakin’ time!!!
“Hooooooo are you? Hoo, hoo? Hoo hoo?”
You can not tell me that London was actually coaching for uva.
You just kan’t!
Don’t snow me in July.
“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”
-The outlaw Josey Wales-
Virginia Tech was carried to victory on the back of one #3, Logan Thomas who accounted for 73% of all burnt orange & Chicago maroon total offensive yards on the day. And here some of the techsideline.com message board posters keep hollering for the Frank-n-Stiney offense to deep-six #3 and FREE #6!!!
Nay Winnie-Winnie on that folks.
Skyfall with B-branch and oo3!!!
Martin Scales did not get the message to q, u, i, t. Jack Tyler (9 stops) and Detrick Bonner (10 tac’s) decided not to “mail it in”. Bruce Taylor did the best he could on a foot that looked like it had a screw loose, quite literally.
And try as those guys bloody well might, this game really turned on a what I can only describe as a “belligerent” series of plays that culminated in a colossal 16 play 3rd quarter drive that began at the 7:41 remaining mark and consumed 6:16 of the game clock. As LT3 and the Virginia Tech offense anted up and chopped uva down to size via a most hurtful 7 point major that knocked no less than three full wahoos outta the football game as the Virginia Tech offense copped an attitude that was caviler indeed.
That right there was your swing-state in the 2012 Commonwealth Cup pigskin election folks. That and a favorable wind funded 30 mph gusty blow-hard advantage that sucked the lifeblood right outta Rocco and company as uva speciously elected to test said Winds of War with three consecutive throws right into the teeth of Mother Nature. Mom Nature can be a real bitch when she wants to and passing under those circumstances was a wardrobe malfunction between the ears of a head coach hoo was decked out in more than just London Fog on Saturday afternoon.
As I have no freakin’ idea what Coach London was thinking at the end of this football game folks?!? If I were Mike I’d go buy a stopwatch, and then I’d straight up resign. Though I sure hope he won’t … as we would have been in overtime at best, and could damn well have possibly been beaten 17-14 the other way if London’s ego had not overloaded his ass when he went 100% Id, Ego, Super-Ego and called for a fake F.G.A. as his street-cred was clearly on the line vs. old man Frank who had faked London out on a very dicey looking fake-punt call earlier in the afternoon –after a penalty call of all things. Oui, oui, hooever Mike must hate is a getting a little too Freudian to be sure; although he surely must love Virginia Tech.
Loading ...As Mike London’s ego was writing checks that his mind could not cash and Frank was there to steal the cerebral show via a balanced approach to a stinker of a blinking contest indeed.
In all honestly, this may have been a game that neither side deserved to win and perhaps it should have ended about 20 years ago and ended mercifully enough in a sister-kissing tie. That said, Mike London gift-wrapped Frank’s season with only 29 shopping days remaining until Christmas by practicing perfect premarital abstinence on entry-level clock management 1o1. Yo’ Mike, where the hell is my mistletoe? Time to pucker up!
“LETS GO!
“HOKIES!“
bourbonstreet**
On our fake punt after the penalty, I think the penalty was on purpose to lull UVa to sleep so to speak. I remeber that happened to us a few years ago, I think against FSU, but I can’t remember. It was 4th and short, we came out in punt safe, the other team had a delay penalty moving the ball 5 yards back, we lined up in a more traditional punt formation, they faked it, we didn’t see it and they extended their drive.
As bad as London blew clock management at the end, Frank was nearly as bad with Logan taking a couple snaps with about 16 seconds left on the play clock in the final minute when we were clearly playing for a chippie field goal. Only London’s incomprehensible gaffe prevented this from hurting the Hokies.
agree, I don’t know why they weren’t letting the play clock go till about 4 sec left then snap the ball. That made no sense to me. Thankfully London helped us out and didn’t call any TO’s.
I was screaming the same thing during the game. I couldn’t figure out why we were leaving so much time on the clock. Its as if neither coach wanted to win.
Please don’t change! It’s a combination of Jack Kereouac, James Joyce, Vin Scully, and Moe of the Three Stooges. To paraphrase Kereouac, a little madness is needed from time to time. Have to say that the clock management at the end of the game was a puzzle. I don’t think it would have mattered that much, but it looked like London gave up, and was hoping for a block. It’s a win and it’s always good to beat France!
” Look at the size of that hot chocolate with the orange sippy straw!”
Iced & Iced AGain. We’re going to overtime, baby!
To be fair b-st…LT was having a horrible passing game. The only running was from LT basically. Who is to say that Leal could not have unlocked the passing game? I am not one to say that Leal would come in and light it up but the passing game struggled because of LT to an extent. Wind yes. Knowles could have kept running on his one deep route. So yes. LT was “responsible for yard but we HAD to run him because his passing was off.
And if the coaches ever realize that we should not all the way toward the sideline before turning upfield, maybe the running game could average 3.9 yards per rush rather than 2.0…sarcasm
Just as a note: I’m not blaming LT3 for his first three passes (woefully dirt-bound and not even close). He came out with a glove on this throwing hand, and fouled up every pass he threw with it. Probably had never used one before, and it showed.
After the first series, he removed the glove and practiced a bit on the sideline…he wasn’t exactly Joe Montana for the rest of the game, but his accuracy was at least decent and just barely over 50% if we don’t count those first three awful-balls.
I cannot understand for the life of me what is up with the zone stretch play or whatever it is that we run constantly. What happened to running straight ahead?? Especially with Scales?? Anyone, Bueller? I mean we constantly run that crap play and it barely gives us three yards. It’s the OC’s new fav play and it sucks like the bubble screen and some other favs.
Ah well, glad we won. Couldn’t believe London and his clock management. The Hoo’s have to be going ballistic about that. How does holding 2 TO’s with a little over a minute left and VT within the 20, letting the clock run down and then calling two TO’s before the FG not concede the 3 points?? It was like it was a 47 yarder in a blustering wind. It was a straight ahead chip shot for Cody Journell. Take the TO’s and try to move the ball to tie it up or win, however he obviously had no faith in his offense to do that against the Hokie D or else maybe he would have. Perhaps that was his rationale.
“I trust more in Cody Journell to miss a chip shot straight ahead FG, more than I trust our ST and offense to move the ball into FG range or score a TD.” Thats basically what he said. Thanks for the vote of confidence there coach.
I would like to hear FB’s response to what he thought of that.
Considering UVA’s 1 first down and 13 yards in the 2nd half, I think that’s exactly what he was thinking. “I’ve got a better chance of icing a kicker who missed his last one than I do of actually driving for a tie against this defense”.
Now the fake field goal? That was TRULY the brain fart. The not using the Timeouts? Yeah, can be questioned for sure, but see above. London just didn’t want to admit that that was his thinking, even though by the odds he probably made the right call there.
From what they are telling me 89, the wind killed both Qb’s.
Also…
1. you pull LT3 and you basically sack him for 2012, if not beyond.
2. see #1.
3. with the wind *that* bad; you had to stick to the better running Qb (which is not Leal).
4. if you have come that far with any Qb, slumped or not; you might as well dance with who ‘brung yah.
b’street
Coach Frank Beamer must look really smug (and relieved) today.
” What you want. Baby I got it. What you need You need. Baby I’ve got it. R-E-S-P-E….Oh yeah….there’s a game going on”
“Will someone please tell me which sideline I’m standing on”
Maybe they will confuse me with Oprah.
3 Dimensional Chess Baby!
“I just so embarrassed myself , even the Hokie Fans are trying to help me?” Everyone around me was in disbelief at London’s Gaffe!
Oh sh–! I f—– up again!
C’mon Ron (Cherry)!! That’s poppycock.
I never thought Al Groh could be replaced but the hoos have done their very best….Many thanks from the Hokie Nation!!!
In this case, b-street language is perfect! Catches the game’s weird essence and odd coaching at its’ core.
I have to be in the mood for B-Sreet language. Fortunately I am in the mood today. Like the George Segal line (I think to B. Striesand), ” my wife and I have an agreement: we don’t cheat on each other when we are in town together. Currently she is out of town.”
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you are with.