Crying shame
posted by LW, Monday, October 26, 2009
Frank Beamer is probably slightly more qualified than I to talk about football.
He's a great coach, no doubt.
But -- and maybe I'm missing something here -- he seems completely off his rocker when he complains about some of Georgia Tech's blocks in his team's recent loss to the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta.
Hokies safety Kam Chancellor cried about Georgia Tech's blocking techniques after the game, and Beamer joined the chorus. Beamer said the block that sprang Josh Nesbitt for the clinching touchdown was "dangerous."
I remember watching the play live and thinking: "Wow. That was barely even a block. Chancellor totally gave up on that play. He must be demoralized."
Chancellor, by the way, is the same guy who said over the summer that he picked up something on film that allowed him to figure out where Georgia Tech was running the ball and which play it would be.
Georgia Tech rushed for 278 yards last year in Blacksburg (a 20-17 loss). The Jackets upped it to 309 this year (a 28-23 win).
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Paul Johnson ripped Virginia Tech's allegations.
“That’s a joke,” Johnson said Monday. “Put the tape on and watch. Tyler Melton cracked the free safety. He doesn’t even block him. He shields him.
“They got out-schemed. So it’s illegal to out-scheme them, I guess.”
Take a look at some of the highlights of that game here. Included is the block on Nesbitt's touchdown run.
If that's illegal, then I don't know as much as football as I thought I did. And that wasn't much.
Pure speculation here, but Jim Grobe might feel like a dummy for not getting the heck out of Winston-Salem sooner.
After scoring 72 points in wins over N.C. State and Maryland, the Deacs have put up a grand total of 13 points in losses to Clemson and Navy.
Saturday, in losing to the Middies for the second time in three tries over the last year, Wake didn't reach the end zone until late in the game.
Navy runs Johnson's flexbone offense, and the Middies were missing their starting quarterback. So you know they're not going to pass much. But they didn't throw the ball one time and still managed to win rather convincingly. If not for a lost fumble inside the 5 late in the third quarter, Navy probably would've won by double digits.
It doesn't look good for Grobe's Deacons. They're 4-4 and have games remaining against Miami, Georgia Tech, Florida State and Duke.
Think Grobe might be thinking he should've taken that Arkansas job in 2007?
Boy, Coastal Carolina isn't exactly rolling as it heads into Saturday's game at Clemson.
Last week, the Chants lost at Stony Brook.
The week before, they were pasted by Liberty (58-13).
After the Stony Brook defeat, coach David Bennett started looking ahead to next year.
And now, Coastal is hobbled in the wrong places as it faces a team with, uh, slightly more depth and talent.
This might not end well. Maybe Bennett can try to call his old coach Danny Ford and see if Ford can get Dabo Swinney to call off the dogs in, oh, the first quarter.
Overshadowed in all the late-game drama at Miami was success on short-yardage -- an area in which the Tigers have struggled in recent years.
One of the major factors in that improvement was some major licks laid by fullback Chad Diehl, whom Paul Strelow profiles today in The State.
With Clemson needing a touchdown to take the lead midway through the fourth quarter, redshirt sophomore fullback Chad Diehl had a first-and-goal pass thrown behind him bounce off his right hand.
On the next play, a run designed for C.J. Spiller, a flustered Diehl lowered his head and knocked the helmet off charging linebacker Ramon Buchanan.
Buchanan was the same guy Diehl blasted like a cannonball to the gut during a second-quarter run up the middle.
"I was a little bit mad," Diehl said softly Monday. "So I turned it up on him a little bit."
Note to self: Softball questions only for Chad, er, Mr. Diehl over the rest of his career. Self-preservation trumps journalism.
Brad Scott discusses his OL rotation here and here.
In the Greenville News and Independent-Mail, the Tigers say they won't have a letdown after that monumental victory.
This team could probably sleepwalk through Saturday's game and win by 30.
LW
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Frank Beamer is probably slightly more qualified than I to talk about football.
He's a great coach, no doubt.
But -- and maybe I'm missing something here -- he seems completely off his rocker when he complains about some of Georgia Tech's blocks in his team's recent loss to the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta.
Hokies safety Kam Chancellor cried about Georgia Tech's blocking techniques after the game, and Beamer joined the chorus. Beamer said the block that sprang Josh Nesbitt for the clinching touchdown was "dangerous."
I remember watching the play live and thinking: "Wow. That was barely even a block. Chancellor totally gave up on that play. He must be demoralized."
Chancellor, by the way, is the same guy who said over the summer that he picked up something on film that allowed him to figure out where Georgia Tech was running the ball and which play it would be.
Georgia Tech rushed for 278 yards last year in Blacksburg (a 20-17 loss). The Jackets upped it to 309 this year (a 28-23 win).
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Paul Johnson ripped Virginia Tech's allegations.
“That’s a joke,” Johnson said Monday. “Put the tape on and watch. Tyler Melton cracked the free safety. He doesn’t even block him. He shields him.
“They got out-schemed. So it’s illegal to out-scheme them, I guess.”
Take a look at some of the highlights of that game here. Included is the block on Nesbitt's touchdown run.
If that's illegal, then I don't know as much as football as I thought I did. And that wasn't much.
Pure speculation here, but Jim Grobe might feel like a dummy for not getting the heck out of Winston-Salem sooner.
After scoring 72 points in wins over N.C. State and Maryland, the Deacs have put up a grand total of 13 points in losses to Clemson and Navy.
Saturday, in losing to the Middies for the second time in three tries over the last year, Wake didn't reach the end zone until late in the game.
Navy runs Johnson's flexbone offense, and the Middies were missing their starting quarterback. So you know they're not going to pass much. But they didn't throw the ball one time and still managed to win rather convincingly. If not for a lost fumble inside the 5 late in the third quarter, Navy probably would've won by double digits.
It doesn't look good for Grobe's Deacons. They're 4-4 and have games remaining against Miami, Georgia Tech, Florida State and Duke.
Think Grobe might be thinking he should've taken that Arkansas job in 2007?
Boy, Coastal Carolina isn't exactly rolling as it heads into Saturday's game at Clemson.
Last week, the Chants lost at Stony Brook.
The week before, they were pasted by Liberty (58-13).
After the Stony Brook defeat, coach David Bennett started looking ahead to next year.
And now, Coastal is hobbled in the wrong places as it faces a team with, uh, slightly more depth and talent.
This might not end well. Maybe Bennett can try to call his old coach Danny Ford and see if Ford can get Dabo Swinney to call off the dogs in, oh, the first quarter.
Overshadowed in all the late-game drama at Miami was success on short-yardage -- an area in which the Tigers have struggled in recent years.
One of the major factors in that improvement was some major licks laid by fullback Chad Diehl, whom Paul Strelow profiles today in The State.
With Clemson needing a touchdown to take the lead midway through the fourth quarter, redshirt sophomore fullback Chad Diehl had a first-and-goal pass thrown behind him bounce off his right hand.
On the next play, a run designed for C.J. Spiller, a flustered Diehl lowered his head and knocked the helmet off charging linebacker Ramon Buchanan.
Buchanan was the same guy Diehl blasted like a cannonball to the gut during a second-quarter run up the middle.
"I was a little bit mad," Diehl said softly Monday. "So I turned it up on him a little bit."
Note to self: Softball questions only for Chad, er, Mr. Diehl over the rest of his career. Self-preservation trumps journalism.
Brad Scott discusses his OL rotation here and here.
In the Greenville News and Independent-Mail, the Tigers say they won't have a letdown after that monumental victory.
This team could probably sleepwalk through Saturday's game and win by 30.
LW
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