The Grounds

Thanks for stopping in and for the kind words.

Most of the fans around me felt the same. especially late in the game. I'm guessing that Lazor felt he needed to call some passes to keep the defense honest. After living with that D for so long I felt pretty confident that we could move the ball with consistency as long as we didn't make mistakes.

Thanks to Highlander and Play for the responses.

Yep, you saw the same things we did.

Series 1: GT didn't make 1 play to stop a run after getting shoved around the whole first half. Then UVA has a big run and then passes so GT never stops the run.

Series: 2: Yep, two yards to make and GT hasn't stopped your run all day and another pass instead of a run.

Series 3: Another pass on a short yardage play, GT STILL hasn't stopped UVA's run.

Really poor playing calling by Lazor in our opinions as UVA was running it right down Tech's throats and never forced GT to stop the run. GT never stopped UVA on the ground the whole game when forced to do so.

Good point that Lazor was trying to be unpredictable. That is what it seemed like. But your offensive line was blowing GT off the ball and your backs were running hard and GT NEVER stopped your run on a possession down the whole game. And quite frankly your QBs are average at best so until the other team stops the run keep pounding. Lazor almost out-thought himself into a loss.

If anybody asked London about it in the post game presser or if he's asked about it this week I'd be interested to hear what he says.

Bottom line, you guys won the game. Congrats again.

Great topic....

One small point, at the end of the 1st Quarter it was 3rd and 2...we had been blowing them off of the line and then (from the Play by Play):

3rd and 2 at GT 14 Kevin Parks rush for a loss of 1 yard to the GTech 15.

One of Lazor's MAJOR strengths is that tries to maintain balance.

There were two observations from the broadcast:
1) Dan Hawkins (the announcer) talked about how the pre-snap shifting allowed UVa to become unbalanced (in a good way) and that The Pilot was never able to adjust.
2) Lazor had talked about how he felt he was too conservative in the play calling in the game last year, hence a 4th and 1 that (if it had been completed) there was no safety help and could have been a scoring play.

I hated the 2nd and 2 call the most. Get the 1st down then throw it. I don't have a problem throwing the ball some but throw it out of play action. Why when you are running wild are you going to move out of a running formation into a 4 or 5 wide set? The TD to Smith was a thing of beauty and it was a play action play. I kept wanting to see a fake into the line and hit a TE in seam over the middle.