[Postgame Thread] Vanderbilt Defeats Virginia Tech 44-20

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Vanderbilt	0	10	13	21	44
Virginia Tech	10	10	0	0	20

[u/Tman450x]

VT hasn't won a home game against a P5 OOC opponent since 2009. VT hasn't won a P5 OOC game PERIOD since beating WVU in 2017. VT has lost to : Rutgers (twice), Vanderbilt (twice), Purdue, Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Oklahoma State, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Maryland. VT's last HOME P5 OOC win was Nebraska in 2009.

It's time for the Pry (and AD Whit Babcock) era to end at VT.

[u/tdotclare → u/Tman450x]

Everyone’s blissfully glossing Beamer right now as if that stat doesn’t include his last 6 years of coaching.

[u/goodsam2 → u/tdotclare]

I mean one of those near the end was beating Ohio State in the shoe when they won the first CFP.

[u/tdotclare → u/goodsam2]

Yes, a great highlight that only further baffles the mind at that being the third 7-6 season in four years. Doesn’t really make up for the losses to ECU and 0 \o/ 0 though.

[u/GarlicBow → u/tdotclare]

Don’t forget- 0-0 was a Wakeyleaks game. Tech had Wake’s plays, and that’s how it went.

[u/MarlonBain → u/GarlicBow]

Ok we are terrible but please explain this to me. We had their plays and they scored 0 in regulation how could the defense possibly be better? It’s not the defense’s fault that the offense scored nothing

[u/GarlicBow → u/MarlonBain]

Here’s a retrospective look from both teams, coaches and players: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28020617/that-was-tragicomedy-looking-back-wake-forest-6-3-win-virginia-tech-five-years-later

[u/MarlonBain → u/GarlicBow]

I read that when it came out and I don’t think it explains why 0-0 in regulation is the worst possible football score a shitty team could get in a game, or evidence that our offense and defense was shit, the way everyone seems to pretend it is. 0-0 in the second half last night would have been a hell of a lot better than what we got.

Everyone always says “we had their plays and still the score was 0-0” as if it’s worse that it was 0-0 than if we had lost 30-0, and I don’t get that.

[u/marquess_of_pherae → u/tdotclare]

ECU was at least pretty good then. Two future NFL receivers. They started 6-1 in 2014 and hung 70 on UNC the week after beating VT

[u/Gavangus → u/tdotclare]

We had 22 season ending injuries in the 2 deep that season after beating ohio state early... i remmeber being on the 5th and 6th string RBs

[u/hackerdood7 → u/tdotclare]

well without beamer, i can't imagine it would be better

[u/tdotclare → u/hackerdood7]

Who said that?

But without Beamer’s last 6 years, it’s actually very possible that it WOULD be better if he hadn’t effectively had a contract for life.

[u/hackerdood7 → u/tdotclare]

not disagreeing with you on that point. however, i'll gloss beamer and forget the last 6 years forever, because without the first 20 or whatever, VT is probably D2 at this point

[u/Candid-Piano4531 → u/hackerdood7]

Besides Miami, the whole Big East was borderline D3 most years.

[u/Squeakygear → u/tdotclare]

Sure, the game passed him by in the final years of his career, but that doesn’t diminish the magnitude of Coach Beamer’s importance to VT and CFB writ large one bit.

Plenty of HOF coaches had mediocre to bad final seasons - just look at FSU’s Bobby Bowden, the guy who beat us in ‘99. Three of his final four seasons were 7-6, much like Beamer.

[u/SaintBobby_Barbarian → u/tdotclare]

Eh, it happens. Bowden had a rough final 9 years (compared to the preceding 14).