Reading Beamer’s lips after Georgia Tech recovered an onside kick with less than two minutes to go said it all.

The Hokies hopes for a National Championship vanished at the hands of Paul Johnson spread-option offense. The empty trophy case will remain such for at least another year. In some regard it felt like the Hokies had snuck under the velvet rope to the National Championship party after the season opening loss to Alabama and squeezing by Nebraska, but had there been a win over Georgia Tech, as the last ranked opponent the Hokies would face all regular reason, all it would require is cruise control to sneak in to the Rose Bowl Championship game.

Pretty sure our engineers could do a better job of ripping this down
Though I can accept the loss to Georgia Tech, I think its worth pointing out three glaring “bullshit moments” from the game:
1. 4th and 2 Williams rushes for 1 yard? What? Even the announcers said that spot was far off, prompting the comment “The spot of the ball is reviewable” … but nothing happened except Tyrod running off the field for the GT offense to come back on. Sure we forgot all about it after Ryan Williams ran 60+ yards a few plays later after an interception, but that bad spot was only further magnified because what of what you will see below.
2. Inches to go + ????? = Profit. This one was so unexplainable I still don’t know if it even upset me because I don’t even know what rule applies. I understand that you should have the football facing straight up, but why then did the ball not start on its correct side?

Ta daaaaa
I haven’t seen a dead ball move like that since Tiger Woods hung a putt on the edge the 16th at Augusta National. It was a neat trick for the line judge David Blaine, who I heard later pulled out Josh Nesbitt’s eyeballs before clapping them back in place a different color.
3. Don’t you give Stinespring credit. To those of you watching the game on ESPN2 you saw not only saw three minutes of Bud Foster wake surfing but got led down some idiotic conversation regarding the definition of consistency, or some shit like that, and the announcers pointed out that the Hokies were about as consistent as you can hope for in college football and then showed 4 coaches… head coach, defensive coordinator, strength coach, and lastly offensive coordinator. Yes, you could say Stinespring has been amazingly consistent at keeping our offensive ranking in triple digits, and despite the variation this season, I’m not convinced he has done anything consistent but suck since becoming the OC. And no, he has NOT been in that position for 14 years… pricks.
In the end I guess we did see Tyrod react very well to being down as he efficiently moved the team down the field in the final drive of the game. It was great to feel confident in a quarterback, something I haven’t done since Bryan Randall’s last season. And I’m convinced that had we recovered the onside kick Tyrod would have scores again. And also Ryan Williams, even with the flu, still showed he is going to be a terrific asset for years to come.
That damn option offense just took too much time off the clock (three of the GT drives took 6:21, 6:34 and 7:34)… it may have been even more efficient to try an onside kick every time we had to kickoff. Plus that newer college rule that the clock doesn’t stop when a player goes out-of-bounds (except in the final two minutes of the half) didn’t do us any favors either. Nice try covering the spread Bud, not enough though to save the team from a loss, I will still post the video below as the game’s moment of Zen because you are grandfathered in as totally badass regardless of this game:
In the end if we are going to lose to anyone in ACC (division implications aside) I suppose it might as well be Georgia Tech, they are nice enough fans, they have the word “engineer” in their fight song and and generally speaking haven’t done anything to piss me off. In my ranking of ACC teams I would hate to lose to in football they are dead last:
1st: Florida State and Miami (tie)
3rd: UVA
4th: Maryland
5th: Clemson
6th: Boston College
7th: UNC
8th: Duke
9th: Wake Forrest
10th: NC State
11th: Georgia Tech
So savor the win Yellow Jackets - we owe you anyway for last year when you beat Miami to let us back in to the ACC Championship game - and at least now I can stop shitting kittens over staying perfect for the rest of the season.



always gets pumped when the Hokies come in to town. Whether it be last minute come from behind victories for VT, stolen jerseys, or simply engineering bragging rights, the jackets definitely have had it out for VT in recent years.
back in 2003. Strangely enough Miami offensive tackle Jason Fox apparently missed the final score as he said after the game “In all reality, I don’t think they’re a 
You may have heard the “swagger is back” for Miami football this season but let’s not let things go to the seventh floor just yet. Yes, Miami is undefeated (so is Clemson), they appeared to completely own Georgia Tech, and they have a new offensive coordinator (novel concept) who has clearly got the offense clicking… but is this finally the mature product of coach Randy Shannon (13-13 career as head coach) or something else.
1. Despite Virginia Tech’s appearance of stout defense this season, they have allowed 200+ yards twice already this season, something you can’t say about Foster’s handiwork for the past three years up to this season and Miami has been running the ball very effectively thus far in 2009. The most yardage is gained in first down plays - look for Tech to adjust this on Saturday or suffer again in the total rush yards allowed column.
“play very well for whatsoever reason” — he later had the whole team watch tape to try and identify the problem. WHAT STINESPRING!? You don’t even have a CLUE what is wrong with the offense? Thats your f’ing job! “Whatsoever reason” is not even close to acceptable. Expect him to learn NOTHING from last week as a result. Let’s hope the team has been passing notes to one another during movie time.
The Nebraska VT left me with same feeling as the Days Inn Christiansburg.
prepare for big games and call diverse plays. The opening drive (fueled mainly by a special teams return) may have been a promising start but everything thereafter was a three and out headshake. Horrible play call decisions and failed executions had a few Husker fans near me laughing out “we love this guy Stinespring, he really helps us win games.”
I couldn’t help but feel a little bit dirty after the game ended. Exhausted, pacing back and forth with hands shaking, I felt like I had done something wrong or perhaps I had forgotten that I left an old relative sitting in the rain at a bus stop. I doubt the feeling would be as pronounced if we won games in that fashion more often but really we aren’t a last drive comeback team (sure we all remember the Miracle in Morgantown but that was 10 years ago). Don’t get me wrong, I’ll happily take the “W” but I know we have a lot to fix between now and Saturday when #9 Miami rolls in to town with signs that their swagger has returned.







So this may conclude the most important question of the Michael Vick Watch: Vick will play in the NFL again? …and it looks certain he will, and he will do it as a Philadelphia Eagle. Have no fear that “the watch” will continue as we will have to keep a close eye on if Mr. Vick will ever takes the field or if he has a relapse in to a doggy murder spree with


