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
feet great mind thrown tying
He's going to be a great player, but right now I think there's a lot being thrown at him and his mind is tying up his feet a little bit,
attitude football great heck nasty nice tougher
He's been good, ... He's got everything it takes. He's tougher than heck and he's nasty on the football field. He's a nice person off the field, but to be a great player, you've got to have that nasty attitude and he's got it.
chance guys works
He's been around, and he works hard. He just hasn't been able to get on the field. ? You always want to give those guys a chance if you can.
He's doing the things you want to see a quarterback do.
run throw
We have to be able to run it and throw it,
blocking both helps intelligence next played playing positions year zone
He's played a lot at both positions. He played a year at guard. He played a year at center. Now, he's going back and forth. It's not like one of those positions is a new position for him. And I think his intelligence helps him. Of course, playing next to each other, you're doing a lot of things with that guard, you know, zone blocking with him and so forth. I think that makes it a little easier.
people
He had a lot of people in there in the backfield with him,
tells
He may. I think he does some things that tells you he can be in that running.
happened happy leave whatever
Whatever happened is unfortunate. I'm not happy about some of the things that happened in the first half. We'll leave it at that.
front running seen seven
But we'll see. He hasn't seen this front seven running after him. We'll see how he reacts to that.
five football good penalties team three threw
But that good football team - we fumbled five times, we threw three interceptions and we had 13 penalties for 115 yards.
defense field goal played returned scoring three
Bud's defense played great. Getting a field goal returned and scoring three times, that's pretty special.
bunch chasing football penalties playing tech virginia win
If we play like Virginia Tech plays, we'll win the football game. Be efficient, hard-nosed, tough, chasing the football, playing aggressively. Now if we get a bunch of penalties like we did in the first half, we're not going to win.
florida guys shot south tough
We thought we had a shot at him. But it's tough to get those South Florida guys away from Miami.