{"id":41994,"date":"2015-11-30T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=41994"},"modified":"2020-07-17T23:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T03:19:23","slug":"one-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=41994","title":{"rendered":"One more time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One more time, for\u00a0Sting\u00a0<\/span>Coach!<\/span><\/p>\n

After an agonizingly painful game which saw the Hokies best UVA for the 12th consecutive time, Virginia Tech finishes the regular season at a sparkling 6-6, meaning that Virginia Tech has all but secured their place in one of the 40 Bowl games to be played around New Years.\u00a0 This means Frank Beamer\u2019s retirement is prolonged yet one more game, even after it\u2019s already been announced that following Frank begins the audition* for Justin Fuente, now formerly of Memphis.<\/span><\/p>\n

*I say \u201caudition\u201d due to the fact that in modern sports, contracts are irrelevant, and barring immediate and sustained success will henceforth be rephrased as \u201can era,\u201d otherwise the coaches are vilified after their first negative season and immediately fired<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Regardless, in spite of just how stressful the game was, I was happy to see Tech pull out the victory over the Hoos, I was happy to see that Frank Beamer\u2019s bowl streak continued all the way to the end, and this is where I\u2019d say that I was happy to see that Frank Beamer\u2019s career doesn\u2019t end on a loss, but make no mistake, there\u2019s a very, very, very high chance that at whatever Bowl Virginia Tech makes it into, they\u2019re probably going to lose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long gone are the days of perpetually making it into a \u201cgood\u201d Bowl, like the Sugar, Gator, Orange or Peach Bowls.\u00a0 Despite the forced importance of bowl eligibility for Virginia Tech, the reality is that Virginia Tech is going to get into a very known second-or-third-tier Bowl game, and Bowl games are where Frank Beamer simply does not have a very great record.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to pretend like I know how Bowl invitations work out, but I\u2019m going to immediately rule out the (Hyundai) Sun Bowl, the Russell Athletic Bowl and the Military Bowl (presented by Northrop Grumman), based solely on the fact that these are the three Bowls that Tech has already played in within the last three years.\u00a0 That being said, there\u2019s still a variety of Bowls, named more after sponsors than anything else, that the Hokies will likely be playing in:<\/span><\/p>\n