VT Football - Clemson Game

ESPN college football analyst Ed Cunningham was in the booth for the Clemson-VT game October 1, 2011 and he made more intelligent comments about the weaknesses of VT in 60 minutes of football than I’ve heard from VT coaches in 25 years. He also pointed out flaws in the offensive game plan of VT as well as inappropriate use of selected players for specific play-calling situations.

The VT defense played as well as anyone could expect considering the lackluster play of the offense and the unimaginative play-calling of the offensive coordinator, or whomever was in charge of that failed task. VT will never be a serious contender for the National Championship until they hire quality coaches with the knowledge and experience of professionals, such as Ed Cunningham.

Beamer is a nice guy and a quality coach but he isn’t surrounded with equally talented football coaches who possess sufficient football analytical skills to bring a National Championship to VT. Frank Beamer sticks with people too long who aren’t an asset to a winning tradition. He sticks with a miserable punter too long. He has kept coaches on the payroll who haven’t contributed enough to the VT program to deserve renewal of their contract from year to year. Hey Frank, how about instilling some tough love into your football program?

Frank, who’s in charge of recruiting players for your offensive line? Provided that quality players are successfully recruited for the offensive line, who is the best available coach to hire as the offensive line coach? The VT offensive line is and has been a liability for too many years to want to remember.

Jim Weaver, are you responsible for the yearly schedule that matches VT against wannabe football teams early in the season? What are you thinking? Football fans aren’t fooled by the lack of competition and they actually dread when a decent opponent, such as Clemson, comes to town and kicks butt. Prices for anything and everything football have gone out of sight at VT and there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight. Megabucks are provided to the VT football program yearly and you have yet to produce a legitimate contender for a National Championship.

Something is lacking and those who are supposed to shoulder responsibility for VT football success, or lack thereof, aren’t being held accountable.