.500 is for Champions!

From the heights of Hokie delusion to their fans just hoping for a .500 season, it's been a beautiful 2012 for the staff at the ETC blog. But a new joy awaited us yesterday in the Washington Post with the following quote:

For Virginia Tech Coach Frank Beamer, this week has been about
emphasizing one slogan: “I’ve never been to a bad bowl game.”

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. The slogan has gone from national champion wannabe and 'Logan Thomas for Heisman' to "oh god please, just let us make a bowl game!"

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A Tech Player Wearing #7 is "Dogging" It?

C'mon man...you can't dog it when you're wearing #7. That jersey has history, doggone-it!

The following video, posted on Deadspin, shows just how much Tech is mailing it in now that they're 4-6 and filling that trophy case with tears. The video shows Marcus Davis (#7), identified with a white arrow, and he obviously takes every blocking play off.

Sadly, the direct link video was removed by a Tech website.
But you can still see the video in all its glory at Deadspin.

Davis responded to the Washington Post, saying a few plays were mental errors or him reading the wristband wrong. Really...a redshirt Senior who played in every game for the past two and a half seasons can't read a wristband? Actually, that kinda makes sense. 'Wristband Reading' is a 500-level graduate course.

Trent Dilfer tweeted it "was a disgrace to all the Hokies that invest so much." But it really couldn't be that bad; based on the number of empty seats, a lot of fans didn't invest anything on Thursday.

Are you guys even trying anymore?