Wow. Was that ugly or what? The defense played out of this world and stifled Duke all night long, holding the Blue Devils to three points and only 136 yards of offense. Tech won 14-3 to improve to 7-4 overall and 4-3 in the ACC.
Tech’s offense actually moved the ball well at times, but five turnovers in the first half killed any offensive rhythm Tech was attempting to establish. Tech racked up a respectable 334 yards with a pretty balanced attack – 187 passing, 223 rushing. Darren Evan got his second 100+ yard game of his career with 111 yards on 24 carries.
Tyrod Taylor started the game, but the offense’s inability to score (and not turn it over) led to Tyrod getting replaced by Sean Glennon, who entered the game to cheers and applause. The fans were desperate for some offense.
The Hokies finally got on the board in the final minute of the first half as Glennon connected over the middle with true freshman Jarrett Boykin for a 19-yard touchdown. It was the first touchdown reception by a Hokie wide receiver this season.Boykin statistically had the best game of any Hokie WR this season with 4 catches, 67 yards and a touchdown.
I’ll write more tomorrow after I’ve thawed out and the cold medicine wears off. This may have been ugly, but they played their guts out tonight. Til tomorrow, a win is a win and we are one win away from a shot at the ACC Title game.
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If this isn’t Stinespring’s job then what is? Is anyone with me on this? And I’ve been saying it all along, we have got to play Glennon. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a quarterback turn the ball over 4 times in a quarter and a half!
That win was pretty disgusting… I don’t know about everyone else, but it made me puke in my mouth a couple times. Does it seem to anyone else like the O line doesn’t want to block when Tyrod is in? I noticed Boone and Glennon seem to get better coverage (though Tyrod did TERRIBLE last night and deserved to get pulled from the game).
chicagomaroon… preach on… but if making the offense worse year after year doesn’t get rid of him, who knows what will? Once again Bud Foster and the defense save the team’s collective behind…
I think when Tyrod is in, the other 10 guys seem to think he is going to make a play and get lazy. When Glennon is in, they try to function somewhat like a normal offense. I think it was validated during the Miami game when there were 2 great catches on Glennon throws and Tyrod’s nice deep pass was plain dropped.
But yeah, Tyrod was bad. Real bad. Thank God Macho scored. Him and Boone should just line up in the backfield and the center can snap it to either one and see what happens. Could it be worse at this point?
This was an ugly win indeed. Offense was anemic as usual. The interesting thing to me though is this week leading up to UVa. Beamer has pretty much locked out the media coverage leading up to the game. I feel this is an attempt to deflect criticism of his offense, particularly Stinespring. I know it’s his team, but his attitude has a George Bush “I’m the Decider” feel to it, and we know how that attitude worked out for him.
P.S. I am not a Bush hater, I just find the similarity worth noting.
I’ve always stuck up for Stinespring, but the most damaging thing I see for his job security is not the play of our guys.
Its the play of the guys in the NFL. If you told an average college coach he could have a 1st round pick OT, Eddie Royal, Josh Morgan, Justin Harper, Brandon Ore (not in the NFL, but could have been) and a duel threat quarterback (go ahead and throw in a returning ACC title game MVP quarterback as a backup) You think they would put up 28 per game?
Our offense is starting to look like UVA’s entire team the last 20 years. Lots of NFL talent with ZERO results. I’m just hoping Colin Cowheard doesn’t realize this.
Leonard, I was under the inclination that our president was “The Deciderer.” If I’m wrong, my bad. However, I get your point, the two are eerily similar. The sad thing is I feel like it would be better to lose either against UVA or BC in the ACC Championship game to oust Stiney. I really feel like Beamer CAN deflect the criticism if he has say, ANOTHER ACC title…say an UNDESERVED ACC TITLE!!!! I dunno, but I find the trade off of not winning something we don’t deserve to fire our head patient of an offensive coordinator a fair proposition. I mean, if we finish below 110 in offense (and all indications are that we will), I can’t see Beamer still being able to use the “vocal minority” excuse. I was furious when he said that. The reason that I want Stinespring out is because I CARE SO MUCH for the program, not the opposite, and I realize we’d be better off without him. I mean, if Beamer really needs proof that the anti-Stinespring movement is an overwhelming majority, just ask 5th year senior linebacker Purnell Sturdivant who criticed Stinespring’s play-calling against Miami. 5th year seniors normally have a head enough about them to not say things that are way out of line..The same is the case here. If you were Tech’s defense and didn’t get the W two thursdays ago, you’d be pretty upset too. Bottom line, Stiney’s got to go.