27
Oct
2007
College Weekly Picks Week 9
As you’ve probably noticed, I have not updated my site since Thursday. The reason being, I just stopped puking from disgust in how my alma mater, Virginia Tech, squandered a 10 point lead in the final 2 minutes of a game in which they had the number two team in the nation laying in their coffin. This collapse of epic proportions rivals that of some of my losses in Madden for xbox360, which lead me to vow never to play the game again; just like I have vowed never to watch VT football again 28,492 in the past four years. But like an addict, I always come back. Score on a 91 yard touchdown drive, kick the onside, recover it, and then score a touchdown with 11 seconds left on a 3rd and 20. I have never seen the air sucked out of a restaurant so quickly as I did Thursday night when I was with a bunch of friends in a venue that housed about 1,000 Hokie faithful. But what are you going to do? At least we had the opportunity this year to make a national title run, twice. If we didn’t capitalize, that’s on us. We faced the #2 team in the nation two times in the same season which is as rare as can be. We messed up, but at least we had the chance to mess up.
The fans were great. I will not budge from my statements in my previous post about Tech being a near impossible place to win on a Thursday night. There is a reason rivals.com has ranked Lane Stadium the toughest place to play in the nation. It took a miraculous collapse for BC to even get on the scoreboard. Their high powered offense was shutout for more than 55 minutes. You can’t ask for more from VT’s defense. I am hearing a lot of criticism of the defense and how they choked at the end. Wrong. The defense was on the field for a vast majority of the game because of the offense’s ineptitude to move the football consistently. The defense was gassed. I don’t blame them. I’m not going to make excuses but it is significant to note before you pile on Virginia Tech and call them the “Chokies” that they were without their starting quarterback. The quarterback that played, Sean Glennon, has led the Hokies to score 27 points in 3 games that he has started. That’s 9 point per game average for the mathematically challenged readers. I am also not going to sit here and say Matt Ryan won the Heisman with that performance. He played awful almost the entire game and played outstanding for the final few minutes. That’s impressive, but that doesn’t make you a Heisman winner. But again, I give all the credit in the world to Boston College for coming in and beating Virginia Tech in a low scoring slugfest. They deserve to be considered for the national championship. And I end this column with the same sentiment I’ve ended so many years of following the Hokies with everything I have:
Maybe next year.
