Again People, Enough with the Overreaction!

Oh my freaking goodness gracious! The second Virginia Tech lost to FCS opponent James Madison on Saturday night Boise State fans and haters all went berserk with complete moronic overreactions and mass hysteria. It was like the movie "The Happening" when some random virus or infection took over peoples' brains and made them do really stupid things, like kill themselves. While no one died this time around (that I know of), everything I read on blogs, Facebook, articles, and message boards made it sound like the Broncos' season is over because VT is the biggest fraud of a good team in the history of the world. Take a chill people, life will go on and things should be OK. I say should be OK, but only time will tell. Let me explain to you why.

Our nation and I think humans in general often succumb to knee-jerk reactions when something undesirable occurs. For example, a terrorist attack leads Americans to hate all Muslims and want to obliterate the Middle East into a nuclear crater. Again, chill out. It's not what it may look like. Back to Boise State, there are many claims now that the Hokies are absolutely terrible and that the Broncos' win over them means nothing. Their chance for the BCS National Championship is shot and they suck all of the sudden. Anti-Boise State people (especially Vandal lovers) are glowing with excitement and "ha ha's" are abundant. I had to demoralize a teenager and destroy his soul for getting smart with this kind of garbage. The kid will probably never recover. Anyway, again I will say; chill the freak out!

Look at it this way, Virginia Tech had 4 days between games. They played Boise State on Monday and the James Madison Dukes on Saturday of the same week. That is hard enough as it is. Short weeks are the worst for sports teams to try and prepare themselves and break down game film of their next opponent. Usually a short week means 6 days, though, and the Hokies only had four. To make things worse and more dooming for them, their match up with the Broncos literally drained them physically, emotionally, and mentally. They had injuries all around and four days is not sufficient time to heal. It's not even enough time to get rid of soreness after working out. Combine these previous facts with one that should ease some of the desire to freak out: James Madison is a top ten FCS football program. The Dukes are not the regular cream puff opponent that a lot of FBS schools play. All of those things combined made for a huge trap game for the Hokies, and they fell for it. The athletic director should be hung for not giving them a week off.

Don't get me wrong, the loss feels like Boise State lost a game when they didn't even play. But like I said, the season is young and there is a lot of football left to play. Let's let it play out a little more and see what happens. Virginia Tech could completely implode and finish with 4 or 5 losses. Then and only then would it be a bad thing for the Broncos. On the other hand, they could regroup, unite, and win the ACC championship. Then we wouldn't hardly remember them starting 0-2 and that would be good for the Broncos. We should know which side of things Virginia Tech is going to be on this coming Saturday. They host East Carolina in Lane Stadium and can start their climb out of the hole with a win over the Pirates. I have a feeling that it is going to suck to be an East Carolina Pirate this weekend. The Hokies have a lot of rage to take out and it could happen then.

The polls did not change much for the Broncos. It appears the voters understand the concept of a long season where anything can happen. The fans don't, obviously. The voters kept Boise State at number 3 in the nation, but they lost all but one of their first place votes. So again people, stop the freak out. At least put it on hold until later on in the season, depending on what happens.