GodsendJen

Thursday, October 26, 2006

The trend of Coach Beamer and Stinespring listening to my offensive gripes continues. (Ok, they don't really listen to me, and they didn't entirely do what I said...but a girl is allowed a few dellusions.) They didn't crank up the QB carousel. They started and ended the game with Sean Glennon under center and asked him to do a great job handing that football to Brandon Ore. With 203 yards rushing Ore took a beating but played one great game leading us to a 24-7 win over tenth ranked Clemson.

The real stat of the game is that we held the nation's top scoring offense to 7 points and only 80 yards rushing. Coming into this game Clemson averaged almost 250 rush yards/game. The Hokie defense was amazing to watch. I don't know what Bud Foster saw ahead of time but we knew what play to expect on every one of Clemson's offensive snaps. Everyone knows that the Tiger's tailback tandem carries the workload for them, but we kept managing to send 8 guys to the same side of the field their back chose to run from. Foster is incredible and watching his unit work when they feel like they have something to prove is always a treat.

After the BC game 2 weeks ago he took away the coveted defensive lunch pail. When Erin Andrews asked Bud after the game if he was going to give it back to the players now he was non committal. His response is classic and I hope he was serious. It was something like "I think I'm going to hold onto it until the players out work me, and they haven't done that yet." Way to go Bud. After that performance I'd say you earned the right to carry the lunch-pail another week.

A solid running game and incredible defense. That is the Hokie Football that made a name for Virginia Tech and I'm so glad to see it return.