Frank Beamer
Frank Beamer
Frank Mitchell Beameris a retired American college football coach, most notably for the Virginia Tech Hokies, and former college football player. Beamer was a cornerback for Virginia Tech from 1966 to 1968. His coaching experience began in 1972, and from 1981 to 1986 Beamer served as the head football coach at Murray State University. He then went on to become the head football coach at Virginia Tech from 1987 until his final game in 2015. He was one of the...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth18 October 1946
CityMount Airy, NC
empty hard rather seats stadium time
I'd much rather play in a stadium that's jumping, that's moving. If you've got a lot of empty seats and no one's moving, I find that's when you have a hard time playing.
balls clock control guy house worked
He put some balls right where they had to be. He was in control and worked the clock down at the end. He was the calmest guy in the house and I thought it really showed today.
plays practice
He plays the same way all the time. If it's in practice or on Saturdays, he's always full-tilt, let's go.
michael
If he could throw, he'd be Michael Vick.
ball hold
I don't see why we can't keep it up. If you can hold on to the ball one time, why can't you do it every time.
danny good solid
Danny is solid and tough, a good player,
pet special
You think you're part of a special breed. You think that you're his pet Pekinese.
battling chasing coming ended football gave great hung kept kids playing proud team tech virginia win
I told our football team at the half, if we play like Virginia Tech plays, we win the football game. That?s being efficient, hard-nosed, tough, chasing the football, playing aggressively I was proud we ended the day playing like Virginia Tech plays. I thought our kids gave great effort. They hung in there and kept battling and kept coming back.
ability both bunch guys indication spring
It's all a bunch of young guys there and it's another indication that this is a tremendously important spring practice. Wheeler and Wang both have got ability and toughness, but they just don't have the experience.
avenue east gave television
The Big East was the change. We wouldn't have made it without the Big East. It gave us the avenue to television and to the bowls.
against defense great prepared time whacked
They just whacked us and socked us and got after us. Hopefully, we're going to be better prepared to go against a great defense this time around.
sacked whacked
They just whacked us and sacked us and got after us.
challenge offensive prepare thursday wednesday
It's just different. You try to prepare for it here on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and it's a challenge for your offense. We haven't scored an offensive touchdown in two years. Part of that's them, part of that's us.
both extremely hard seems stakes teams
It seems like it's always an important game, ... I think both teams play extremely hard when we play each other. The stakes have always been high.