The National Park Service has gone back to work and magically I can save layout changes to the blog again. Suspicious, I know. And you doubted their involvement, didn't you?
With all the government employees back to work and traffic back to horrendous levels in northern VA, I sat back last week and thought, "I should check out the latest news on hokiesports.com." So, I pulled up the website, which tends to have some sort of annoying video to bypass, clicked on football, and saw THIS glaring at me... "ESPN Announces Date Change of 2014 VT/Ohio State Game". Oh really? My first inclination was to blame Weaves for this. We all know how much he likes to painfully embarrass us at the beginning of each season. Then I saw that, technically, we play William & Mary first at home on August 30th. This leads to two thoughts:
1. Does William & Mary even have a football stadium, or do they play on their multi-purpose field?
2. This isn't Weaves' style - game #2 and not #1? Therefore, only the Worldwide Loser in Sports is to blame.
It says that both schools supported the change. HAHAHA! I wonder how much cash was thrown around to gain that "support"? Didn't Beamer say he was going to stop putting games like this on the schedule? Don't get me wrong - I fully support playing teams like Alabama and Ohio State - AT THE MIDDLE OR END OF THE SEASON. We are in the ACC for crying out loud. It's not like we play anyone of their caliber at any other point in our season. Marshall and Western Carolina aren't quite breaking any records these days. Can't we just save these kinds of games for November? Give us a little time to work out the kinks and create a quarterback controversy or something. Losing at the beginning of the season is just egregious. Why are we being the Western Carolina for Ohio State?
The second piece of disturbing news this week came while eating at Dickey's BBQ in Winchester - the BCS has us ranked at #14. ONE - FOUR. The AP, modestly, has us at #16. What the fudge??? I realize that we are 6-1, but a BYE week should NOT qualify us as a top 15 team in THE NATION. This is completely ridiculous. This is precisely why your crappy coworkers make fun of you all the time. We scored ONE touchdown during the Pitt game - ONE. And now we're #14. The BCS is stupid. The AP is slightly less stupid. Ridiculous.
Notes from the CBoPA game:
Saturday night hotel stays are luxurious. Not having to get up at 5am, drop kids off somewhere, and then battle the trucks down 81 probably feels a lot like Doug Gansler driving down the beltway on the shoulder during rush hour. We might as well had a state police escort. It was awesome.
Hokies Respect. Hokies Respect is asinine. It may be the only thing separating us from the animals, but we all think it's stupid. I feel sorry every time they force some student or coach to stand there on the field and read the little snippet. Can we just stop this? Instead, we, the fans, should take it upon ourselves to police the idiocy in the stands. For example, when the two guys behind us in Section 9 are cussing enough to make the Navy proud, and there are two little kids - oh, maybe 3 years old - right in front of them.... then it is your duty to say something to the two guys (because apparently the parents didn't feel that they should stand up for themselves and instead opted to find ear plugs for the kids). I understand that we've all paid for our tickets and have the right to all sorts of mocking and such, but is it that difficult to keep it clean with little kids around? If you don't know enough words to express yourself without constant cussing, then I am ashamed that you are cheering for my team. That's all I'm going to say about that.
So here we are, all rested and relaxed, and ready for an incredibly late 3:30 kick-off. Lane stadium will look Wahoo-esque today, minus the ties and chinos, with Orange Effect and Blue Devil fans. Perhaps it will only be down that one little side of the student section, but darn it, doesn't someone think about these things before declaring some sort of "effect"?
The Goatees are 5-2 this year, losing to GA Tech and Pitt. I don't know if we will win this game in the air or even on the ground, but I think we'll win it. It may be another kicking showcase a la Cody Journell. Prep the cannonballs. We may need lots of 'em.
The Goatees are way more effective than us offense, which I'm sure is no surprise. They have more than 20% more passing yards than us on the season. And on the ground, it actually seems like they get positive yardage and score points. I know we aren't familiar with rushing TDs, but the Goatees have 15 this season. As always, the game will come down to our D. In Bud We Trust.
I'm sure it's beautiful down in the New River Valley today. A high of 55 and a little bit of sun, the leaves changing to Orange and Maroon... ahhh.... enjoy it if you're there. And, don't be surprised if there's a freak snowstorm.
Love 3:30 kick-offs,
The B.S.C.
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