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If I knew for sure, how many turnovers we would get and give away and if I knew for sure that we would sack Armstrong a half a dozen times I would feel confident about Tech getting a mild upset. If Coach Thacker sits back in a soft zone and drops 8, Armstrong will eat us alive. UVA to win but...

Good question. My optimism, if it can be called that, is based primarily upon the fact that UVA is the most one dimensional team we will face. It is pass, pass, and pass some more. My experience is that the teams that run it down our throats and hit us with big play action passes are the...

Yep. In the Coastal just about anything can happen. Sometimes, though not often, you just might see some pretty decent defense being played too.

This is probably true but Louisville got multiple turnovers, ran the ball like crazy and still lost. Of course, letting Armstrong complete 40 of 60 passes and giving up 21 points in the 4th quarter while blowing a 17 point lead will tend to do that.

He was just yapping as so many of them do. You will recall that he was a disruptive force in the first half and then Johnson got an A back to split out just a tad wider and get the angle on him and it was lights out for him and the Hokie defense. Great player and fine athlete though, I will...

It was Billy Ward and he was open running towards the sideline but Sims overthrew him. I wonder if Jeff is having trouble seeing all these receivers going this away and that away? More than one poster has noted that he locks in pretty early on one guy and does not look away safeties as much...

Woods is that big tight end. Armstrong will throw the ball up to him or Thompson trusting they will come down with it. Their defensive line is big but tired noticeably as the game went on. I am more concerned about that offensive line than anything else. How are we going to get pressure on...

His coach, not an unbiased source to be sure, just said he was the "best quarterback in the ACC" or words to that effect. He is absolutely fearless in throwing the ball into traffic. Gets away with it most of the time it would seem.

Quite right, but if anyone has better ideas, I would certainly entertain them. At this point, I am past being pleased with moral victories especially with teams like UVA which while certainly entertaining are nowhere near being a great or even very good team. One poster described them as...

That's him. He is multi talented, tall, no blazer but fast enough. They love to drag him across the middle and he is just about always open.

They have two of them that are long and can run pretty well. Thompson (?) is a guy they use in all kinds of clever ways as a former high school quarterback. UVA uses a lot of formations and likes to swing Kemp, the short receiver, in motion as eye candy a lot. Coach Thacker is going to earn...

The tight ends don't catch passes and don't seem to block all that well. I don't know if that option is really open to us. It's bad enough having one of them on the field, put two of them in there and the offense will grind to a halt.

Perfect. My impressions exactly after watching both the UNC game, and the Louisville game. You did not mention some good receivers, like the big all purpose ex-quarterback Thompson(?), the two really fast wideouts, one of whom just ate Louisville up (Henry?) and the little short guy who is...

Upon further review, as they say on TV, I watched the Louisville - UVA game from a few weeks ago. Louisville has given us the template on how to beat this team. At the end of the third quarter, Louisville was ahead 30-13 and seemed comfortably ahead. How did they do this? By running the...

Winning more than 3 or 4 games would be a nice start.

On the contrary, that is precisely what I meant. We can and should score points, perhaps a lot of points but that is not the game we want. Ideally, we need to have a game in the twenties. Again, I say we do not want a track meet with both teams going up and down the field. Eventually, we...

They are favored by 8 points but I think we can beat this team. Make them play football instead of letting every SOB that is an eligible receiver to run scot free through the secondary like it was fraternity flag football. The one way to let this game get out of hand early is for Tech to have...

No. This is just my opinion but when Duke lost their game with us through a mix of bad coaching decisions and a foolish holding penalty that was it for them. Stick a fork in them they were already done by the time they played UVA. The week off could not have come at a better time for us. On...

Yesterday, when Kiffen was being pelted by Tennessee fans by golf balls among other things, he was asked by a sideline reporter after the game what gave him confidence and comfort (or words to that effect) his answer was "Matt Corral". Ole Miss is elite on offense, but in Duke territory on...

The differences between the two teams is that UVA does not have anyone quite like Downs but UVA has an experienced, tough, offensive line that excels at pass blocking. The total yardage in the UVA vs UNC game was well over 1,000 yards. UNC managed a couple of second half stops and that was the...