![\"\"](\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/frankbeamer-e1448311336899.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Honestly?\u00a0 I thought Virginia Tech could\u2019ve beaten North Carolina.\u00a0 I know that North Carolina was ranked #17 going into the game and Tech was ranked somewhere between Pop Warner and Grambling State, but come on, it\u2019s North Carolina; this wasn\u2019t a basketball game, it was a football game.\u00a0 And sure, UNC is known as the standard-bearer in bullshit student athlete ringers to field a football team, but still.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, more often than naught I\u2019m usually pretty plain when it comes to facing defeat in sports, but over the last few years, Tech games have climbed my ranks of \u201csports ball games that matter,\u201d especially compared to my dwindling care of the Braves and my general lack of an NFL team to support.<\/span><\/p>\n The fact is, I was pretty disappointed in Tech\u2019s overtime loss to North Carolina, mostly because of the magic comeback they put together to set up overtime in the first place, but naturally the main reason being that it was Frank Beamer\u2019s last game in Blacksburg.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Coach slandering is pretty much the same thing as mom jokes; fans are allowed to make them, and fans will sound like the worst people on the planet when it comes to the subject of their teams\u2019 coaches, but when the day is over, we still care, and we\u2019re still melancholy when the time actually does come, when a long-time, revered coach decides to step down from their mantles.<\/span><\/p>\n I remember seeing Braves fans go through the same thing in the years preceding the retirement of Bobby Cox, but when the year final came where ol\u2019 Bobby announced his impending retirement, the man could do nothing wrong.\u00a0 The same thing basically occurred with Frank Beamer, except the fact that he sprung his retirement announcement up with three games left in the season, but since then, it\u2019s been nothing but adulation and praise for the career that he has had.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, I\u2019ve said my share of critical things about how ol\u2019 Frank\u2019s coaching style is dated, and that a team whose reputation revolved around\u00a0special teams\u00a0<\/em>meant that the teams were severely lacking in more primary areas, like offense or defense.\u00a0 But the fact of the matter is that without a guy like Frank Beamer, there\u2019s no telling that Tech fans would have enjoyed the luxury of having halfway watchable college football over the span of the last decade, with some particularly good seasons along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n And the fact that with the departure of Frank Beamer, it really is kind of going to spell the end of an era, as well as a higher chance of difficulty in getting back to success.\u00a0 Recruiting might become a little more difficult when Frank Beamer\u2019s name isn\u2019t involved in potential coaching, and barring the hiring of a fairly reputable replacement, it may become harder to draw some hotshot recruits over to the Hokies.\u00a0 Either way, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to be holding my breath for any ten-win seasons any time soon, not that I have been since the bullshit loss to Michigan in the Sugar Bowl a few years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, the season is not over yet, with (at least) one more game left, for the Commonwealth Cup against UVA.\u00a0 It might not be a home game in Blacksburg, but given the propensity of Tech travel, and the fact that it\u2019s still within the state, there will undoubtedly be a massive warm reception for Frank in Charlottesville.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, there\u2019s been a ton of rhetoric about how Tech owns UVA in football, but if there was ever a time when the magic would run out, this is probably the year.\u00a0 UVA fought to the last minute last season, and neither team is really that much different this year.\u00a0 There wouldn\u2019t be any more fitting way for Frank Beamer\u2019s career to end in the same manner in which has so often been the case – falling just short, of that magical 23rd straight year of bowl eligibility.<\/span><\/p>\n And even still, say Tech beats UVA, finishes 6-6, and is invited to like, the Popeyes Chicken Bowl or something, they\u2019ll inevitably get smashed by someone like Ball State or Bowling Green.\u00a0 Because if there\u2019s one thing that\u2019s been consistent about Frank Beamer\u2019s bowl performance, is that he\u2019s always consistently lost most of them (10-12 actually, but still that\u2019s under .500<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n Wrestling logic, wouldn\u2019t have it any other way, that no matter the prestige, no matter the accolades and the winning history, when the day is over, no one man is bigger than the business, and there\u2019s no better way to show the business respect, than to go out with your back on the mat.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, here\u2019s hoping for the best (two more wins), but kind of expecting the worst (demoralizing loss to UVA).\u00a0 But that\u2019s often the case with most Virginia Tech fans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Honestly?\u00a0 I thought Virginia Tech could\u2019ve beaten North Carolina.\u00a0 I know that North Carolina was ranked #17 going into the game and Tech was ranked somewhere between Pop Warner and Grambling State, but come on, it\u2019s North Carolina; this wasn\u2019t a basketball game, it was a football game.\u00a0 And sure, UNC is known as the … Continue reading According to wrestling logic, this is going to be an ugly finish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,155,15],"class_list":["post-41974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-football","tag-hokies","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41976,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974\/revisions\/41976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}