It\u2019s that time of week again. Two more games left in this disaster of a season, and with the head coach news out of the way, there are still two games left in the season, and the first is a home game against high-flying Miami.<\/p>\n
The game is at noon, so why they\u2019d call it Senior Night, I am not too sure. What we do know is that someone found the trunk that contained all the cool gray-and-white Hokie Stone uniforms from almost a decade ago. They have always been cooler than any alternative uniform worn by the team.<\/p>\n
Of course, the big news is something that won\u2019t have any effect (positive or negative) until next year, but the hype is sure pervasive and continuous\u2026 James Franklin replaces his former Penn State defensive coordinator as Virginia Tech\u2019s new head coach.<\/p>\n
Does Franklin Keep This Tradition?<\/p>\n
The Franklin hire was a major get by search committee members Bud Foster and BoV Rector John Rocovich. The surprise major player in all of this was former head coach Brent Pry, and Frank Beamer himself blessed the move.<\/p>\n
Does he keep the #25 position honor for special teams intact? This week, kickoff specialist Kyle Lowe gets the #25 for his last game at Lane.<\/p>\n
If there was any other major football, or Hokie Sports news for that matter, it was all lost in the ground clutter of the Franklin hype.<\/p>\n
This is a big game, and it has nothing to do with what happens on the field. The Hurricanes are the better team. It\u2019s not close. Sure, the Hokies have been feisty lately, but the talent disparity is huge. So, why is this game huge? New head coach James Franklin will be there. He will be hosting several recruits, some of his former Penn State commitments and other uncommitted players, in the hope of landing some last-minute additions to the 2026 recruiting class. Can the Hokies win? Sure. Miami is not as good as many believe. However, the \u2018Canes are better than the Hokies. Tech will put up a fight, but it won\u2019t be enough. Miami 31, Virginia Tech 20<\/p>\n
This one becomes an \u201coh please\u201d just don\u2019t let anyone get hurt event. The team will be completely rebuilt starting almost immediately, behind the scenes for now, but next season the Hokies are likely to look very different. But that will be then, won\u2019t it. This is now, and this team just doesn\u2019t look very good. There have been flashes of good things but then always tempered with mistakes, penalties, and a total lack of a passing game. No matter how good the defense is, with little or no offense you just aren\u2019t going to win anything much.<\/p>\n
Tech effective has little or no offense. It\u2019s a good ground game matched with a near negative passing game and it all spelled loss after loss.<\/p>\n
The Miami game isn\u2019t expected to be any different. The gambling crowd sets the spread at a near ridiculous 18.5 in favor of the Hurricanes. The Over\/Under is actually a relatively low 48.5 which means the wiseguys are showing action that favors Virginia Tech scoring not much of much. That\u2019s probably a very realistic estimate.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not even going to guess at the score. The Hokies take a big \u201cL\u201d on this one and prepare for UVA week with the probability that they aren\u2019t going to be anywhere good enough to come close to keeping the Commonwealth Cup this season.<\/p>\n
My knees have given out so I won\u2019t be covering the game live this season. It\u2019ll have to wait until 2026 and new knees to go with the new everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s that time of week again. Two more games left in this disaster of a season, and with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,31198],"class_list":["post-56482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-virginia-tech-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}