[05] - WE BRING THE BOOM! 🐓🍪

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Intro:

Hello everyone it is 🍆🪵, bringing the 🪵 and the BOOM for your 🫵 4th weekly preview of the 2024 Season 🏈🏟️🚗👏. Last week we fell to the Syracuse Orange 🍊, losing 31-28 in the Carrier Dome in heartbreaking fashion. Tech was trailing for the majority of the game but after a miraculous onside kick recovery, the Jackets had a sliver of a chance. But Kyle McCord (Syracuse QB 🍊) proved to be too much for our secondary and we failed to get a stop on D and the Orange prevailed. Looking ahead to next week, we play the VMI Keydets in Bobby Dodd. This will be a win, and I can’t wait to be 3-1 😁 (if we don’t win I will do 24 hour waffle house). Also, what even is a Keydet?!?! VMI doesn’t even know what it is 🤨 

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STRAIGHT FACTS:

• WHO ARE WE PLAYING AGAINST: VMI (Virginia Military Institute)

• WHERE IS THE GAME: Bobby Dodd

• TIME: 3:30 on Saturday

• WHERE TO STREAM IT: ESPN+

• Career Series against VMI: 14-1 (only loss was in 1950)

• Spread: Tech -42.5

• Over/Under: 56.5

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Quick Game Summary and Notes

1. our defense played bad. like poopy bad

   • we gave up like 350 passing yards and played really soft D

2. syracuse offense (kyle mccord specifically) played really well

3. syracuse tried to start beef with us for no reason? Fran Brown is definitely a bulldog through and through. THWg

4. our special teams was cracked. our ST coach literally got an extension after the game. We had a blocked punt, a blocked kick, and an onside kick recovery

5. haynes king played very well overall. he absolutely broke a ‘Cuse players ankles on one of his TD runs.

6. switchin lanes with chase lane scored his first TD of the season

7. another reason we lost is we didn’t control the game. we were forced to play outside of our comfort zone and try to come from behind. need to stick to our game and what we are good at

VMI Profile:

• This team is in the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the FCS

  • They compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (D1 - AA)

  • This means they ARE division one, BUT they cannot qualify for a bowl game

• Record is 0-2

  • Lost to W&M 41-7 (I actually watched this entire game). GO TRIBE!

  • Lost to Bucknell 35-28

• Danny Rocco - Head Coach of VMI

  • joined as coach last season

  • 5-6 record last season, 4-4 in conference

  • 3 time Big south coach of the year

  • 2 time CAA coach of the year

  • former HC at schools like Liberty, Richmond, and Delaware

  • 126-71 career record as a HC

• VMI (the school)

  • Also known as Virginia Military Institute

  • in Lexington, VA (same city as Washington and Lee)

  • oldest public senior military college in the midwest

  • mascot is Moe the Kangaroo

  • women were not allowed to attend the institute until 1997!

    • 87% male, 13% female

• Hunter Rice (RB - #24)

  

  not the most flattering pic imo

  • by far he is VMI’s best player

  • Team captain and Second team all SoCon last year

  • 14 rushing TDs last season

  • he went to a high school called Lord Botetourt?

  • 247 yards rushing and 3 TDs through 2 games

• VMI’s starting QB from the first two weeks (who isn’t good) is hurt

  • they will be starting a freshman QB so expect Hunter Rice to get lots and lots and lots of touches

  • also if we don’t get our first interception of the year this week im going to be super sad

Dwood’s 🔑s to the Game:

1. Don’t let any good players get hurt

2. Use our athleticism to beat them both in the trenches and out wide

3. Get the second string some reps (and rest some players for Louisville)

4. Also this is not a Bowling Green Sitch

   • when i tell you this team is 20 times worse than Bowling Green i mean it 100%

   • the spread in the Bowling Green game was like 20-25 points

     • this one is 40+ points