Ya, I thought it was something broken with Reed. Better than some of the other things that happen when someone rolls up on a lineman like that.

As for MVP... Well, I can't really justify giving the offensive MVP to someone who gave up TWO safeties to dumb intentional grounding penalties. It's kinda like his two successive pick 6's in the Missouri game last year. Except those only cost us 4 points instead of 14.

I still want to give LaCour some credit. That kick when the ball went over his head was amazing, especially considering that I haven't found yet in the rulebook where it says that a kicker can be roughed if the ball touches the ground or any other sort of condition that would have made him a free target (considering that the player did not touch the ball being kicked).

I'm still all over the place, but I want to put the defense's game in perspective:

If it weren't for the 96 yard run, I would say the defense had a great outting at stopping the run. They ran the ball 47 times for 249 yards (counting sacks). Without the 96 yards, that's 46 attempts for 153 yards, 3.3 yards per carry. For our biggest vulnerability on defense, that's GREAT.

People talk about shortening the game, but a shortened game, if our offense is executing, favors us. It removes their time to make a comeback or, if they are up on us, their time to distance themselves in the case of our own eventual comeback.

is a tough call in this game. I think Morris and Amendola are really the only ones who distinguished themselves for a full 4 qtrs.

Harrell proved why he won't be a Heisman winner next year. He lays an egg like this one several times a year. Yes, he finished well, but he was not great at all.

Tech's trademark lack of fire and focus nearly bit them. Missed receivers all over the field, dropped passes, more missed tackles than I could count, silly penalties, etc.

A win is a win, and I'll take it. But by golly that was a bad game to watch.

boggles my mind watching this offense is the lack of sense of urgency. The 4th down play at the goal line where we had a receiver split out wide COMPLETELY uncovered for about three seconds (and we were in our set, the ball could have been snapped with no penalty), killed me. I was SCREAMING at the TV to snap the ball and fling it over there. Would have been the easiest TD in Tech's history. The announcer said the DB was baiting Harrell. I'm not buying that. I rewound and watched that play 3 or 4 times. The DB was lined up behind the DE and would have had no chance to either deflect the ball or cover the man. He only had to move forward 9 feet to score...the DB had about 15 yards to make up. Harrell waited until his WR was covered, and threw the other way, incomplete.

That, to me, is Harrell in a nutshell. His presnap reads are too slow, and he doesn't take what is given. If he did, he'd have snapped the ball. Now, all that being said, we still won the game. But if UVa would have just run a sweep or a dive on the ill fated screen, we probably would have run out of time.

You can probably tell I'm not a massive Harrell fan and really never have been (although I don't hate him or think he sucks or anything drastic like that...I just don't have the het-crush on him that soo many seem to have and I see his warts pretty clearly.). I'm not totally sure why, except that it's his decision making that kills me. That, and his propensity to give the other team points. I think he had something like 4 pick 6 interceptions this year, and two safties in the game yesterday. Yikes. He's got to clean that mess up. In the end, though, he is solid and has an impressive cast of players around him so he SHOULD be good.