So a little over a week ago, Georgia Tech had one of the biggest victories it’s had in 20 years when they beat then #4 Virginia Tech. Prior to the matchup, VT free safety Kam Chancellor decided that it would be a good idea to announce that he knew exactly how to stop the Georgia Tech option offense just by reading the blocking schemes. Unfortunately for Kam, everyone picked up on his comments, and ESPN ended up embarrassing him by showing a little highlight montage of Mr. Chancellor getting owned on several plays by the Yellow Jackets. Not a peep was made last week about anything being amiss, because, shockingly, Georgia Tech won the game, fair and square.
Fast forward to today, after Georgia Tech travelled up to Virginia and beat the Cavaliers on the road for the first time in 19 years, and Miami found a way to lose to Clemson at home. Georgia Tech now sits alone atop the ACC Coastal, with the circular tie breaker no longer an issue. Virginia Tech has decided that in the clear light of losing all hope of going to a BCS bowl, that some of those blocks on Kam weren’t legit, and at least four of them were illegal chop blocks.
Chancellor was credited with exactly zero solo tackles. He did however manage 9 assists, likely coming from jumping on piles after the play was already done.
Somehow I have a difficult time believing that it took them over a week of analyzing film to come to that conclusion. Also, it’s not very likely that ACC officials would ever make calls or non-calls against the conference’s best hope for a national title. While I understand that officials miss calls, and there have been some pretty heinous ones, crying to the press because your golden boy couldn’t make a single tackle makes you look kind of pathetic.
Something else that makes me giggle a little bit, VT’s Secondary Coach Torrian Gray said it was “definitely unfair” that ESPN singled out Chancellor. Waaaaaaa!
