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
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.
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.
butler expected gets movement next quickly recovers wait
Butler is not expected to play this week, and we'll have to wait and see next week. How quickly he recovers and gets his movement back will be an issue.
check guys
I say come back and check with me in two years and let's see where these guys are.
holes
There's holes available. You just have to get to the gaps.
tells
He may. I think he does some things that tells you he can be in that running.
louisville
I would like to see if we couldn't use him a little bit. We'll see if Louisville has a roster.
confident reading seems
Just reading his comments, he seems like a very confident guy.
intended talked
I never intended for it to come out like that. We hadn't even talked to the quarterbacks ... I was going to talk with our quarterbacks, and where they were, before they read it in the paper.
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.
michael
If he could throw, he'd be Michael Vick.
hoping
I'm hoping we can get to that point.
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.
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.