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
good looked ohio played
I tell you, Ohio looked pretty good to me. I thought they looked good and they played hard.
ball great lost running
I think he's lost a little weight, and, boy, he's running the ball great right now.
ability experience
I think he's got the ability to do it. Now does he have the experience to do it? We'll see.
I think he's going to play, ... The more I read (about it), I don't think there's a question. He's going to play.
ability michael people pride sitting takes throwing
I think he takes pride in sitting in there and throwing the football, ... But people that have the ability that he has ? Michael and Marcus ? they've got to take off when they feel the need to take off. That's what he does.
chasing couple defense fast
I think Marcus showed he's going to be dangerous. That was a fast defense chasing him, and a couple of times he outran some fast guys.
catch dead deep good hit josh morgan others stuff threw
I thought he threw the deep pretty good, ... Even the first one to Josh Morgan that he didn't catch was a good throw. The others he hit on the dead run. And I thought Cory did some good stuff in there.
maybe practice quite
Maybe one practice day wasn't quite what we wanted,
hoping
I'm hoping we can get to that point.
confident reading seems
Just reading his comments, he seems like a very confident guy.
credit defense hard line side stop
I think it's a credit to our defense to be able to stop them after turnovers on our side of the 50-yard line. Turnovers on the 1-yard line are also hard to overcome. That's not us.
against beat college football good past premier program team
That day was very important, ... We were 0-2 and going against a good football team. Miami, for the past 10 to 15 years, had been the premier team in college football. To be able to beat them that day jump-started our program a little bit.
fans football hope respect respecting teams
My thing is that the two football teams respect each other. I just hope the fans will do the same thing in the stands, show respect for everyone. I just hope that we keep respecting each other ...
football good happens prove start thinking week
That's what happens when you start thinking everything's OK, that 'hey, we're a good football team,' ... We were then and we are now. You've got to prove it every week. Certainly, this week we're going to be challenged.