While the Tar Heels celebrated their first Coastal Division title, Virginia Tech has to beat Virginia next week to extend Beamer’s career for one more bowl game.
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As is turns out, Fedora was right about one thing: This team was something new and the past was indeed in the past. “We just went out there, and we executed”.
Tune in for today’s North Carolina vs Virginia Tech game as the ACC picture will become much clearer after it concludes. Tar Heel QB Chris Keldorf threw an interception which was returned 96 yards for a touchdown. The Virginia Tech Hokies are 4-5 and 4-5 against the spread.
Williams was just a hop, skip and jump away from the all-time UNC record for rushing yards by a quarterback, but he went up against a tough Tech defense. Moments later, Williams fumbled again and the Hokies recovered. Beamer was obviously emotional and proud as he walked out of Lane Stadium for the final time, saying he was proud of his players, and tipping a cap to the fans. In Fedora’s view the 2015 Tar Heels were unencumbered by the sins of their predecessors. “We’re not anxious about it being Frank Beamer’s last game and how fired up they’re going to be”, UNC linebacker Jeff Schoettmer said.
“He told us to start focusing on UVA”, Brewer said. “It’s my last time walking through the tunnel at Lane Stadium, so I know I’m going to have a few emotions running through my body”. Why do you run a standard sweep to the one side for 4 yards, and then follow it up with the same exact play to the other side?
Following the game, Beamer did an interview with ESPN and then he addressed the fans, thanking them for their support.
It’s usually a good day when your special teams units don’t make headlines. Why with 34 seconds left on the clock, and a timeout in your pocket at the end of regulation do you take a knee at your 35 instead of trying to get three plays in that could possibly get you in field goal range for the win in regulation? But why risk it?
Metallica paid tribute to Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer in one of the weirdest yet coolest salutes from the weekend. Now in his 29th season coaching, Beamer sits at 278 victories in NCAA division 1 football, more than any other active coach and sixth all time. A win today against a Syracuse team forced to start a fifth-string walkon quarterback because of injuries would still leave State’s postseason prospects up in the air, but it would also go a long way toward helping it avoid that inglorious fate.
That’s because the Hokies mirror their coach, a hardscrabble kid whom life has scarred, literally and figuratively, from the burns he endured in a childhood farm accident to last year’s throat surgery.
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Virginia Tech (1-1) led by as many as 12 in the second half, but Jacksonville State cut the lead to two on two occasions, the final time coming on a Jeremy Watson basket with 7:07 left. The suggestion that Virginia Tech would ever break out of its independent shell and win membership in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which shunned it for years? “The running backs have been protecting the football, both hands on the ball”. Travon McMillian rushed for 80 yards on 21 carries. Wolfe recalled through the entire season how Beamer reminded his team not to get caught up in worrying about the bigger goals and just harped about the practices and games that were ahead. T.O. averaged just shy of two points per game in 16 contests as a Moc hoopster.
