Hokie Football Video to Pump You Up
These Virginia Tech YouTube videos are a plenty, and every once in a while you can find one that’s good for an adreneline rush. TechSuperFans.com has a good one on his blog. Here’s an accompanying one that also pretty cool.
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HokieJerseys.com Totally Focused on Virginia Tech Jerseys
We do a lot of surfing of Virginia Tech Sports related sites, and we blog about them frequently. Many of them are on our links page and on our blogroll, and when we come across a new one that is substantive, offers VT focused products, and is totally targeted to Hokie Sports Fans we are glad to share.
As you make your preparations for fall football season, HokieJerseys.com might be a site you check out if you are looking for new Virginia Tech jerseys.
Hokie Offense: Ranking the Players
As a follow up to our post on Hokie Defense player rankings, its time to rank the offensive players. Again, to be clear on the criteria I’m using, this list is ranked based on each player’s overall value to the unit as a whole. In other words, who would be most difficult to do without.
The buzz with Hokie fans is that there is probably more talent on the offensive side of the ball in Blacksburg than has existed in a long time. But offense we know is so much more than talent, it takes chemistry, schemes, rhythm, playcalling and much more for a unit to perform and those things have often been missing with the Hokies.
Some Things Are More Important Than Sports
We haven’t done this before at VTF.com. This blog is dedicated to Hokie sports and its fans, and some may not like us straying from that. However for over a week we’ve been captured by events in Iran and the fundamental struggle for freedom its people face. What’s fascinating is how web 2.0 technologies and social media have become a weapon against tyranny.
We figure the least we can do is use our little piece of cyberspace to offer our support.
Hokie Defense: Ranking the Players
As we’ve blogged before, hands down our favorite non-Virginia Tech related college football fan site is collegefootballnews.com. If you are a college football fan, this site is loaded with great content from some excellent writers which is critical especially during this ‘dead’ part of the year. I read the columns by their lead writers religiously but what is great about the site is that it feeds us CFB fans what we want: conversation and debate fodder.
A quick surf through CFN.com and you’ll see what I mean. They focus on rankings, and all kinds of rankings, teams, players, conferences, positional units, bowls, stadiums, etc. They feed their writers thought provoking questions to write about like “who is the pain in butt team in each conference”. They also aren’t afraid to push the envelop as they’ll freely disagree with polls or the rest of the media on a given team or player if they think something is over hyped or out of whack.
So in a similar vain I’m going to do some posts related to Virginia Tech Football that will allow you readers to ponder and debate. This post will be ranking the Hokie Defensive Players.
Virginia Tech Recruiting the Way Zach McCray and Most Hokies See It
Virginia Tech had a high school football camp recently and if you follow Virginia Tech recruiting, these are important events to follow as lots of news about what happens or doesn’t happen tends to come out of them. The news was pretty good from this one in that the Hokies got a very big commitment from Lynchburg DE Zach McCray, a kid that had 20 offers and is a top 10 rated DE in the country. McCray gave his pledge to Bud Foster and the rest of the coaches during the camp making for many smiling faces.
Given the number of recruiting services that interview kids after they commit, including some very good ones for Virginia Tech in our blogroll, you can always find an interview or 10 with a new Hokie, and its interesting to read at least what they say it is that lead to their decision. While I’m sure its very different for every individual, in reading McCray’s comments, his impression of Virginia Tech and the Hokie football program is likely pretty close to what most serious Hokie fans expect every recruit to think.
Early ACC Football TV Scheduling Notes
Ok, we still have what, 15 weeks to go? But if ESPN is starting to release TV times for college games it only fuels the anticipation for fall gridiron action. Looking at what the first couple weeks of the ACC schedule, there’s not much in terms of premier match ups, and if you want to watch all your team’s games in the first few weeks, you better hope you know how to watch ESPN360.
Regardless, the Hokies will get lots of attention early in the year with match-ups against Alabama and Nebraska. There game against Marshall, compared with the other I-A and I-AA teams on ACC schedules, is not that bad and probably a game they better not sleep on. The Thundering Herd are sandwiched between the 2 mega-OCC games and will be an after-thought to the fan base.
Here a summary of ACC TV games for the first 3 weeks.
Tyrod Taylor for Heisman
College football preview articles, blogs, and straw polls abound these days, and I’ve even started to read some of those early Heisman lists. Honestly, this is one of those years where the Heisman race might be boring, given there are clear front-runners coming back (Tebow, McCoy, Bradford). More interesting in regards to the 2009-10 Heisman are the ’sleepers’, guys like QB Tyrell Pryor from Ohio State or RB Jonathan Dwyer of Georgia Tech.
So does anyone think Tyrod Taylor falls in this sleeper catagory? Probably not. The more relevant question is: when will VT next have a legit Heisman candidate, and does the collective fan base care?
Michael Vick and Virginia Tech
Michael Vick has been in the news this week. He is leaving prison to spend his final month of sentencing in home confinement. This unsurprisingly led to live minute-to-minute coverage by ESPN, and of course filled all the off-season NFL talk shows with plenty of discussion fodder concerning the probably of Vick’s return as player. One ESPN question of the day actually made me ponder: “More likely to play this season: Vick or Brett Farve?”
After the roller coaster Hokie and NFL career of Michael Vick, then his brother Marcus, I was one of the Virginia Tech fans who had tried hard to wash the “Vick Attachment” to Hokie Football. I’d had enough of both of them and severely hoped for less media association between MV1 and VT.
But yet it seems even today as a Virginia Tech fan its hard not to follow the Michael Vick story and have an opinion on his situation.
Hokie Baseball Beats UVA (finally), Needs A Lot to Make ACC Tourney
Well, here we are again with another Virginia Tech bubble team down to the end of the season needing to beat conference rivals. The Hokies got a good start yesterday beating the Wahoos for the first time in 12 games. Austin Wates hit a walk-off home run in the 10th inning to finally end a (unacceptable!) loss streak to UVa.
That was the first of a 3 game series with the UVa, which winds down the Hokies baseball season. If they want to keep playing in the ACC tournament (which takes the top 8 teams), they need a sweep then some help. But the question really is, besides the team and the die hards, what’s more important: beating UVa or making the tournament? I have an opinion.
