Georgia Tech 28, Virginia Tech 23: Some Perspective
Scenario No. 1
Road Team: In its previous two games scored 82 points and compiled 918 yards, averaging 7.4 yards per play. Was receiving serious national title talk from the media.
Home Team: Came in allowing over 385 yards per game and was receiving criticism from the media and its coaches.
Result: Facing a hostile crowd and an inspired defense, the road team scored three first-half points and went on to lose.
Scenario No. 2
Road Team: In its previous two games scored 71 points and compiled 930 yards, averaging 7.3 yards per play. Was receiving serious national title talk from the media.
Home Team: Came in allowing over 364 yards per game and was receiving criticism from the media and its coaches.
Result: Facing a hostile crowd and an inspired defense, the road team was shut out in the first half and went on to lose.
I'm sure you know the answers
Before you tear into me in the comments, let me point out there's a big difference between "defending Stiney" and defending reason.
Scenario No. 1 is Virginia Tech's 28-23 loss to Georgia Tech Saturday. Scenario No. 2 is Miami's loss to Virginia Tech earlier this season. I didn't see any Cane fans calling for Whipple's head after that one. Sometime, you just run into a perfect storm. In a vacuum, Stinespring and Whipple's results are very similar.
Look, a lot of things went wrong for the Hokies Saturday against the Jackets. But once again, I think there's a lot more credit that has to be given to Georgia Tech's coaches, players and even fans than there is blame for the Hokies.
Now, for reals this time, see next week (insert generic disclaimer about big news breaking and special circumstances and such and such here). There's also another link dump coming today, but no real editorial content from me.
Special Guest
However, Kyle freaking Tucker of the Virginian-Pilot will be our guest on the Gobbler Balls Podcast this Wednesday. We'll break down what's gone right and wrong for the Hokies so far and look ahead to the remaining five regular season games.
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by furrer4heisman on Oct 19, 2009 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're right...in a vacuum
Of course if you pick one game with similar qualities, then yes you can compare Stinespring to Whipple and say we can’t completely blame Stinespring. However, we do not live in a vacuum and there has been a very long record of this exact type of disappointment going on directly related to the play calling of our team.
In addition, if I may toot our own horn a little, we played a complete game against Miami, while we had many opportunities to cash in on the poor pass defense of GT, and didn’t. We didn’t get shut out against GT like Miami did against us, and given five more minutes in the game, we may have ended up winning. But the lack of offensive production in the first half is what did us in. Certain key plays on defense could have changed the game, but many other opportunities on offense could have made those defensive mishaps moot.
by The North End Zone on Oct 20, 2009 12:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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