VT 30, BC 14: Trust Spaz, Get Burnt

This morning, there was a Twitter flare-up of those BC fans who just can’t quit Coach Spaz, hoping against hope that we’d have reason to trust in BC football once again.

Today was Exhibit A in why we all stopped doing it a long time ago.

Boston College showed some early life in this one, but was stomped later as the Virginia Tech Hokies kept BC winless in the conference by taking it, 30-14.

The Eagles took advantage of a poor first half by Virginia Tech to cash on one of their mistakes almost immediately. The Hokies’ punter shanked his first of the game out of bounds, giving Boston College good starting field position well onto the plus-side of the field. BC marched 35 yards down the field and scored the opening touchdown to go ahead, 7-0. The Hokies would eventually score later in the quarter, connecting on a Cody Journell field goal to make it 7-3.

Boston College legitimately looked like they were disrupting the Hokies, but towards the end of the first half, Frank Spaziani’s all-world coaching reasserted itself. The Eagles, with 4th and 6 at the Hokie 39, elected to punt. His defense then went into prevent mode, and VT came right down the field for three points to make it 7-6 at the half.

It was just about all Hokies from there. VT then went ahead 13-7 on a 42-yard pitch to David Wilson, followed by 20-7 on a 20-yard pass to Marcus Davis. In the 4th, the Hokies went ahead by 20 on a Logan Thomas keeper. The Eagles narrowed the gap somewhat with a Rettig touchdown pass to Chris Pantale, but the final score of the game came on a short VT field goal late in the fourth quarter.

Boston College did about as well as they could have in the first half, while Virginia Tech was terrible. Still, the best BC could manage at halftime was a one-point lead — a lead which did not last very long in the third quarter. The Hokies made adjustments, reasserted themselves, and took the game over. All told, Virginia Tech gained 483 yards of offense and were +2 on turnovers for the game.

You know, I haven’t been all that harsh on individual players all year, and I’m not going to be today. These guys played hard and showed that, despite the incompetence of the men in headsets, they care and they didn’t give up. I hope that the guys who are coming back next year will get the chance to play for a coach who knows what he’s doing and can bring an exciting brand of football back to BC.  It should be completely obvious now that no matter how hard these guys play, we’re not going anywhere with Spaz in charge, this year or ever.

If you’re into moral victories, and many people at BC are, the Hokies didn’t cover the 21-point spread. Sadly, this will be good enough for a few BC fans tonight.  I, for one, await the latest Blauds article which will tell us “well, they’re actually a decent 1-6.”