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
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I think it's got the makings of a heck of a Thursday night football game. I think they're better. They talk about they're back in the title hunt, and they are. They control their own destiny.
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I think it's huge. Anytime you say you're doing something for the third time in your football history, that's pretty significant.
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I think you've got to check the schedule. You don't want to be playing, in my opinion, Tennessee and LSU out of conference in the same year. I think you have to get it worked out that way, too.
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I think you'd have a hard time winning a championship without a defense. Over the years, it's a proven fact.
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I think with our fans, taking that next day off is the least of their worries, ... They're loyal fans, and they'll be ready for Thursday night.
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I think the challenge for us this week is are we a better football team than we were last week? As many good things as we did in the N.C. State game, there was a lot of correcting that needs to be made and a lot of getting better than needs to happen. I believe ... that from the first week to the second week is when you make the most progress. And we have to take advantage of that situation here.
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I think that's what changed this game around. Instead of them being 7-3, it's 14-0. It's momentum. It's points. It's everything. There's just no bigger play in football than when you block a kick, particularly a field goal.
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I think that's something, as we go through the week, we talk about a little bit and think about,
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Football is a lot like life, and you're going to have disappointments. The issue is how you come back from them.
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It's a chance for not only coaches, but everyone in the country to come together and help these people. As much as we watch it on TV, we can't get the real picture of what's going on down there.
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It's not a problem to me. When you start talking about 20 million bucks for your athletic department, that's pretty significant.
Every one of them has been good, I think.
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I want to remember the second half. I don't particularly want to remember the first half. ... We got back to Virginia Tech football. Personal fouls, penalties and sloppy play. That's not us. We haven't won all these games by being like that.
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I think us getting Cornell showed a lot of players that Virginia Tech had something going here. Getting him here was huge for us, and it helped us get a lot more good players down the line.