This game was vintage “SEC home cooking”. I guess SEC teams also don’t play quality teams outside of SEC venues and/or without SEC officials either. I guess it is also OK in the SEC to allow your defensive team captain to put his hands on officials as well after making a blind cheap shot against another player not even involved in the play. Horse collar tackles aren’t permitted usually either, but Bama players didn’t understand that as well as these blatantly biased officials.

Tech really didn’t play well enough to win this game, as the actual offensive stats and time of possession indicated. However, the SEC “home cooking principle” held true, to assure we couldn’t walk away with a victory. But this is actually good exposure for the Virginia Tech football program because you have to be aware of things like the “SEC home cooking principle” if you are going to complete for a National Championship. I say “Tide”, lets play in Blacksburg next year with neutral officials and we’ll see how you roll.

Want to add how much I detest having to use my DVR to try and disect how aweful our offensive schemes are after each and every play.

I truely miss the downhill style of offense we once had. It works. Screen passes, quick slants, reads and adjustments even within the schemes we have are also void. Something has to be done. I’d be happy if it’s done THIS WEEK as opposed to the off season.

Despite all the games we’ve won past few years, watching this offense play is not fun. Thank goodness for Bud Foster and his Defense. Without them, Hokies would be entirely off of the national radar – which we need to stay on top of.

You just get the feeling our offense coaches are easy to out-smart. They can’t out-game plan you, can’t react to what you are doing, can’t exploit your weakness, and don’t get the most out of their players.

I still content you give our talent to most average OCs in the major conference, and they would have tremendous success. Tyrod Taylor should be a superstar with his talent in his 3rd year of playing.

Game Plan: Bama runs a 3-4 defense with a lot of lateral speed. You can’t run wide on them and you can’t run plays that take time to develop. The weakness of any 3-4 defense is the lack of the extra big body up front. With their big, experienced offensive line, VT should have lined up in the I-formation with both of their massive tight ends and just run straight ahead between the tackles. Once the running game is establish, use play action to throw downfield. The VT game plan Saturday night played directly into the strength of Bama’s defense.

Play Calling: This game reminded me too much of the 2007 losses to LSU and Kansas. Just as in those games, Bama was consistently blitzing. And just like those games, VT made no adjustments to counter the blitz. All Stinespring needed to do was watch Bama. They effectively countered VT’s pressure with screen passes. VT didn’t throw a single screen pass the entire game. You can’t blame Tyrod Taylor if on every play he has to dodge a linebacker before he can even look upfield.

You also can blame the offensive performance over the past few years on a lack of talent. As the NFL season starts next weekend, two 2007 VT receivers, Eddie Royal and Josh Morgan, are starters, and a third receiver from that team, David Clowney, is a backup.