| 21 September 2007
It has been a crazy week. The Hokies are now 2-1 after a solid rebound win over Ohio. OJ is back in jail, Bellicheck is getting hugs from his team, and the Phillies are only 1.5 games behind the mutts (were 7 games behind last Friday). This week's feat should be an easy one. Anybody trying to realistically explain that W&M has a chance to pull off the upset needs to wake up.
Virginia Tech leads the series 39-18-4. Throw in the fact that VT has won 9 straight (1977-1985) and has won 27 of the last 31 (1955-1985). Also, Tech has a nice 27 game winning streak at home against non-conference opponents. And if the following checklist happens, I feel very confident that the streak will hit dos-ocho.1. Turnover margin. It became apparent to me last week that VT has not won the turnover margin in quite a while. One of the basics to football, the more you turn over the ball, the more you lose. NO fumbles, and 1 interception on offense with 2-3 interceptions is what the doctor ordered for this game. W&M likes to air the ball out a lot, which only plays to VT's strength (pass rushing and good CB's).
2. Kenny Lewis, Jr. I'm half-ready to see Branden Ore turn pro just to see what KLj and a couple of our other rb's can do (Cheeseman, Radford, Oglesby, Evans). The talent we have waiting for PT is extremely underrated and will surprise a lot of Tech fans. For those fans that don't know, Kenny Lewis' father held the single game rushing record until Mike Imoh broke it in 2004 at UNC. Kenny Lewis continues his ascent with his first 100 yard performance.
3. Weaver realizing that even though most could do without the "Stick It In" chant, nobody wants to make "We Are Virginia Tech" a football chant. It was a good slogan/rallying cry after 4/16, but it doesn't belong on the football field. And it doesn't even have rhythm as a chant. The student section was even showing that we just wanted the good old "Let's go Hokies" by cheering Let's Go instead of We Are (the older alumni didn't get what we were doing...).
4. Should I mention something bout Tyrod? I guess I'll hope for him to get better at ball fakes (as was his biggest problem according to Mike O'Cain). I am not too worried to be honest. He made mistakes but they were from lack of experience. This will just be more experience.
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