Perhaps you are content with mediocrity and qualifying/winning an ACC Championship by upending inferior oponents in weak conference, then qualifying by default (deservingly or not) to play in a BSC bowl against some lowly Big East team. Well I am not…

The VT Football program of the past (pre Beamer) is no execuse or justification for the shortcomings of a program that could be MUCH better if only Coach Beamer would get out of his own way!

I am afraid Beamer has become content setting his sights reaching a conference championship game in an otherwise weak conference that garners no respect. Beamer’s delusions of grandeur every season of playing for the national championship are just that, delusions and every year I just laugh. VT continues to be out coached and out played anytime they play against the “big boys.”

Even when the program reaches a BCS game by default as a result of dominating inferior opponents in the ACC, the offense continues to perform at a subpar level – just look at the stats over the last 10 years!!! Every season is like Groundhog Day, the VT defense bails out the underperforming offense, but alas the defense has an off year in 2012 and further exposes the VT coaching staff and offense for what they are, nothing more than a cut-rate offense.

If you’re not careful Beamer you too will fall out of favor just like your peers Bobby Bowden and Joe Pa. The sport is passing you by because you refuse to adapt and acknowledge and address the underlying root cause. Every season you stand on the sideline after a loss with this dumbfounded look on your face as if to wonder what just happened…

This quote/summary says it all about how clueless Beamer has become….

47.“When Virginia Tech led the nation with 41.4 points per game and was ninth nationally averaging 451.8 yards during Michael Vick’s breakout year in 1999, only one team averaged more than 500 yards and two more than 40 points.

Yet those offensive numbers remain the highs of the Beamer era. Virginia Tech has cracked the top 50 nationally in total offense only four times under Stinespring, who has been a lightning rod for criticism over the years.

Last season, with ACC player of the year David Wilson, the school’s two all-time leading receivers, Jarrett Boykin and Danny Coale, four senior offensive linemen, including ACC blocker of the year Blake DeChristopher, and Thomas, the Hokies averaged 413 yards per game, their highest total since 2000 but still one that ranked only 35th nationally.”

Like the UVa fan said, be careful what you wish for. It took Beamer 7 years to build this program up from the trash heap. Do you really want to destroy it all because of a bad 8-game start with a program that’s lost huge stars to the NFL, some of which were early exits?

I’ve read other posts comparing Frank Beamer to Don Nehlen. Are you insane? Nehlen had just 2 seasons in 21 years with less than 3 losses, 5 losses or more in 10-of-21 seasons, just 1 conference title, and 4 losing seasons AFTER his first 7 years. His teams were ranked at the end of the season just 7 times in ANY poll.

Virginia Tech languished for a century in nowhereville in college football before Beamer surprised everyone by turning around a program that was in debt and on probation into one which became loved nationally and a featured annual draw on ESPN Thursday night football. Heck, we made ESPN Thursday night football what it is.

The fact that we now draw criticism for our first truly bad season in years (it’s not over, yet, by the way) speaks volumes about how much we have become envied. And the fact that so many posters are going beyond the pale to rip Beamer to shreds speaks volumes to how spoiled so many fans have become.

Rise above the noise and do Virginia Tech proud. We survived a mass murderer. We can surely survive a 4-4 start without losing our minds. We Are Virginia Tech!!!!

From 1992-2011, VT had 77 players drafted, 13th most nationally. 47 in last 10 years. 20 in last five.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d828a004e/article/which-college-football-program-produces-most-nfl-talent

http://espn.go.com/nfl/college/_/letter/v

“I did not attend Va.Tech but am a Virginian. For years I have
contribute Thousands of dollars each year and hold 4 season tickets.
Since things won’t change in my time, I am giving it all up.
I can attend Emory and Henry games with out the disappointments and save
lots of money.”

It seems the only way we as fans can persuade ADJW to direct a change in the coaching staff is by witholding the financial support. We as fans need something to get excited about, and it won’t happen with the current coaching staff. We need an OC who can complement the competent mind of of our DC Bud Foster.

How many of those NFL quality offensive players spent their time in Blacksburg playing on an offensive ranked outside of the top 100 in college football? It is really interesting when you consider how many were in Hokie uniforms at the same time!

But I’m not paid to analyse football talent? Too bad we don’t know what an expert NFL draft analyst like Todd McShay thinks. He would probably be more credible than any high school coaches defending Frank.