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Va. Tech may use four RBs
The 225 days, 27 practices and four scrimmages since the Virginia Tech football team left the field at the Orange Bowl have offered precisely zero clarity for the Hokies' muddled backfield situation. The two questions that became paramount once Branden Ore's off-field problems forced him off the roster -- how many running backs will replace him and who are those running backs -- remain. With the season two weeks from opening, the urgency is mounting, but answers so far are not. Virginia Tech must choose from an eager-yet-inexperienced gaggle of six players, largely anonymous beyond the most ardent Virginia Tech supporters. They are, in the order of Hite's ever-fluid depth chart: Kenny Lewis and Jahre Cheeseman (who are tied for first), Josh Oglesby, Darren Evans, Ryan Williams and Dustin Pickle. Hite hopes the running back picture tidies this afternoon, when the Hokies hold their second scrimmage of the preseason. He would prefer to whittle the rotation to two primary tailbacks while using a third for spot duty, but even the personnel structure is uncertain. Running back coach Billy Hite watched Louisiana State win the national title last season employing four tailbacks, and "if four of them deserve to play, I'm going to find a way to work all four of them in," he said.
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HOKIES SUCK!!!!!
cavman5
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HOKIES SUCK!!!!!
cavman5
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from the headline, i thought they were going with the wishbone + one.
now that would be different
MATTUSA
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Those Cavs are gettin' more and more intelligent in their expressions. Fifty years and they will be talkin' in whole sentences.
Hoche
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That is what Sally Hemingway was doing to old Thomas up there in Charlotsville. Beat Tech first, then make comments like that.
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