Yay Bird's and Mike's teams!

LSU survives Arkansas comeback bid, 33-30 in OT

Williams, Hokies run past Virginia, 42-13

We are very happy that our teams won! We are especially glad that Mike's team learned from their mistakes and figured out how to read the clock and make it stop. We hope Buzz's team (Georgia Tech -ed.) wins next week so that Bird's team doesn't have to go to Atlanta again and maybe (in my dreams -ed.) they play here in the sugary game instead.

Uncle Jam wanted to talk about CavMan's team needing a new coach so we will stop talking. -Bird and Mike

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Every newspaper in Virginia already has their piece ready for when their coach, Al Groh, is fired. Much as I liked seeing them lose, football at Virginia Tech would be even better if their principal rival were competitive, so I make the following statements as constructive criticism.

There are a few inherent disadvantages that make it difficult for UVa's football team to succeed in the long term, no matter who the coach is. Tonight at the hotel where I work I ran across one UVa fan who blames everything on UVa not wishing to make any exceptions in their academic admission standards to accomodate athletes.

The nearest parallel I could draw to schools that have a structural difficulty recruiting some athletes were the service academies. I think that UVa could overcome their limitation most easily if they went away from a pro-style, athlete-vs-athlete approach to playing and adopted a "college" strategy-vs-strategy method. Paul Johnson showed at Navy and now at Georgia Tech that a disclipined ball-control offense can make up for having fewer star athletes. Since he's presumably not available I'd go after Navy's new coach, Ken Niumatalolo, who has at least kept Navy up to the point where they were able to drive the decisive nail in Charlie Weis' coffin.