Sunday Thoughts...

If I would have told you that last night's match up between Virginia Tech and Nebraska would have been a shootout, an old fashioned "whoever has the ball last is likely going to win" slug fest, how many of you would have sworn off reading me for good?

Wow guys. Just, wow. Let's look at the good, the bad and the ugly from last night's gritty road win:

THE GOOD

- The offense is finally starting to click. For the most part, the play calling allowed Taylor to roll out, find someone open, or tuck the ball and run. Don't adjust your computer screens - but Tech had 377 yards of total offense last night. No, really. Tyrod had 177 yards of passing. Seriously. 21 first downs. Honestly. Granted, this was a porous Husker D they were facing, but progress is progress folks. And on the road no less.

THE BAD

- The final score should have been 47-30. We settled for THREE field goals inside the red zone. Now, had our offense not been able to move the ball as easily, clearly this would not have been such a concern, but when you have those kinds of opportunities to put a team away, you must take advantage. The pass to Greg Boone was a gorgeous play call, just overthrown. Beyond that, all of the blame goes to Billy Hite who calls the plays in the red zone. Just terrible. Reverses on third down? What? QB keeper at the 15? Huh? Come on Billy.

THE UGLY

- Not much, truly. The pass defense was pretty bad, giving up close to 200 yards through the air. The tackling, not much better. And rover Davon Morgan is out for the season with a torn ACL. Dorian Portch will be an adequate replacement as the two were neck and neck in preseason.

All in all, a great, tough, gritty road win in a venue that has been virtually impossible to come home with a win. The Huskers were 26-3 at night over the last 25 years. Make that 26-4.

Barring a complete meltdown next week at home vs. Western Kentucky, VT should be 5-1 (2-0) going into the bye week. Then comes the rough stretch with BC and FSU on the road. Not many predicted that VT would sweep GT, UNC and NEB all in a row after that Furman win. Kudos to Beamer who, regardless of how young and inexperienced his club is, always finds a way to coach them up, have them play physical, and never give up.

GO HOKIES!!