Looks like Danny Coale may get some kicks in the Sugar Bowl after all.

[jeffro151]

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Virginia Tech has lost its 2nd kicker in a week, Tyler Weiss missed curfew and was sent home. Justin Myer will be the kicker in the Sugar Bowl, Hokies down to 3rd string kicker.

 

[Cobrabit]

Idiot kickers. Looks like once we're inside the 40, we'll be working with all 4 downs. Sadly, with the special teams play we've had this year, I'm kind of glad. Especially if we can get it to 3rd and 4 with Thomas running QB dives (not really sneaks if everyone knows it's coming).

 

[bigesse16]

Justin Myer will be the kicker, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Branthover kicking in the game. Myer is going to be interesting to watch. It'll be like watching Charlie Sheen in Major League.

 

[VTscores]

Unbelievable.

VT has had serious issues with its kicking game all year. They may need a halftime competition from the audience to see who kicks in the second half.

 

[VTscores]

If their is one bright spot, it's that Beamer sticks by his guns on discipline.

Maybe the team will pull it together leading up to game time. If the Hokies show up with good coaching and discipline, they've got this.

 

[VTscores]

Since I'll be at the game, I'm wondering if I should start kicking some field goals...

 

[TagAndBrag]

I'll say it again: Bring back the young lady that tried out over the summer. I doubt she'll put marijuana or alcohol over football.

 

[ACC_HOKIES]

I prefer Myer over Weiss anyway. Weiss is no less a part of the team, but in reality he was never supposed to see the field. Myer has more general game experience, which is critical on this stage. I also expect that kicking field goals will not be a trusted asset WRT play calling.

 

[Ragingcroc]

I am pretty confident in Justin Myer for field goals. Sure his accuracy stinks but he has a big leg and made big time kicks in big time games before by making touchbacks on key kickoffs.

 

[hunzworth]

Justin Myer will be the kicker, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Branthover kicking in the game. Myer is going to be interesting to watch. It'll be like watching Charlie Sheen in Major League.

^this

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Branthover kicked some today and was duck hooking them. I trust Meyer to be more ready for prime time if push comes to shove. What about Connor Goulding?

Anyway, what a dumbass, wrt Weiss.....

 

[bigesse16]

Branthover kicked some today and was duck hooking them. I trust Meyer to be more ready for prime time if push comes to shove. What about Connor Goulding?

Anyway, what a dumbass, wrt Weiss.....

Yeah I saw that tweet, so it looks like Myer will be the guy. Well doubt he'll be short on any kicks.

 

[wildturkey]

Let's just drop kick everything Doug Flutie style.

 

[hunzworth]

Speaking of Danny Coale, heres a pretty good write up about him from David Teel @ the Daily Press.

Jimmy Coale vividly recalls the camps and disappointments. Virginia and Wake Forest. Vanderbilt and North Carolina State.

Major conference football programs just weren't interested in his middle son, a modestly sized receiver.
No matter that Danny Coale ran smart, fast routes and rarely dropped a pass. No matter that he was an outstanding student.

Family connections didn't even help. Danny's older brother was a lacrosse player at Virginia. A former teammate of Jimmy's was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt.

"I couldn't even convince him Danny was worth taking," Jimmy said of his Vandy friend.

Was Jimmy blinded by parental love? Was Danny not as good as his father believed?

Well, Jimmy knows talent when he sees it. He played football at Springfield (Mass.) College. He's been the strength and conditioning coach for VMI's athletic department since 1979.

"As a dad it's hard to be objective about your own kids," Jimmy said. "When Danny was in high school we'd go to these recruiting camps, and it seemed to me that Danny would time as well as anybody, if not better, and catch everything that they threw to him.

"But nobody was willing to pull the trigger (on a scholarship offer). Toward the end of it, Danny was getting discouraged. He didn't know what else he had to do."

All he had to do, turns out, is flash those skills during a one-day camp at Virginia Tech in the summer of 2006. The Hokies offered, and Coale accepted, commencing one of the worthiest careers in program history.

Entering his final college game, Tuesday's Sugar Bowl against Michigan, the 6-foot, 200-pound Coale ranks second all-time at Tech, behind teammate Jarrett Boykin, in receptions and yards. This season, he's a second-team Academic All-American and the ACC's football scholar athlete of the year.

"I've been very fortunate and blessed, and I don't think I could have imagined it," Coale said of a career that's included two conference championships and three Bowl Championship Series appearances. "To get the opportunity that I've had from this coaching staff and from this community — it's been everything I could ask for."

Hokies coaches, players and fans hold Coale in similar regard, for how well he's represented his team, school and family, and for how well he's performed, often in the clutch. The 81-yard catch-and-run as a sophomore that set up the winning touchdown against Nebraska; the career-high 143 yards in last year's ACC championship game victory over Florida State; the last-resort, Pro Bowl-caliber punting this season at Virginia.

Coale's versatility and athleticism are products of nature, nurture and hard work.

He and his two brothers shadowed their dad at VMI, observing first-hand its physical and psychological challenges. They forged themselves into capable soccer, football, baseball and lacrosse players.

Danny so admired Kevin, his elder by three years, that he followed him to Episcopal High, a boarding school in Alexandria. This so he could spend one season catching passes from Kevin, a quarterback.

Kevin matriculated at Virginia to play lacrosse for Dom Starsia's national power, and Danny seemed destined to follow again — until Virginia Tech's football offer.

"He's worked himself into a really, really good player," said Mike O'Cain, the Hokies' play-caller and quarterbacks coach. "He came in probably a little overweight, got his weight down, every year his 40 times has gotten lower. He's gotten better running routes. …

"Now what's made the difference with him is, he's taken what the good Lord has given him and made it better and better and better every year. Just a special guy. He's smart. He's out there every day, just goes about his business. If you didn't see No. 19, you never would know he's there. …

"He's a pleasure to be around, a pleasure to coach, and he deserves every good thing that happens to him."

After redshirting in 2007, Coale made a mockery of his two-star prospect ranking. He caught a team-high 36 passes as a freshman and will start the Sugar Bowl with 154 receptions for 2,541 yards and seven touchdowns

"Danny is running down the field wide open more than anybody I can remember," Tech coach Frank Beamer said in a statement after Coale received the ACC academic award. "It's amazing. I think it is a credit to his effort, a credit to his instincts and a credit to his ability to find the open area. And for as good a player as he is, he is an even better person.

"He is the perfect example of what you are looking for. He gives you all he's got on the field, he has great character and he excels academically."

Coale has earned a degree in finance and is poised for another in marketing/management. Given those credentials, you might picture him in the business or investment world, raking in millions. But Coale envisions a simpler life, modeled after his father and older brother, who teaches middle school and coaches football and lacrosse near Atlanta.

"Coaches and teachers have been the most influential people in my life," Coale said. "I see myself doing that."

But first, he wants to "hold off the real world as long as possible," which translates to pursuing professional football.

"He's obviously not the flashiest guy out there," Jimmy Coale said. "But I think there are a number of people that appreciate what he's about and how he goes about doing it. He understands the game. … He understands how to create some space. He's got decent speed. He's got all the tools, I think, that you need in a receiver. He can go deep. … There's more to Danny than just that possession game.

"All he's ever asked for is an opportunity. He wanted an opportunity to play Division I ball at a big school, and he got it. He wants an opportunity to play at the next level, and we just hope somebody gives him that opportunity. … Because I think if he can get on with somebody, he'll have a shot."

Tech quarterback Logan Thomas seconds the motion.

"Danny, he's a great route runner," Thomas said. "He does everything smooth and perfectly, doesn't drop balls. I'd say he's a lot like a guy that plays for the Rams, Danny Amendola. Catches everything, gets up the field, and he runs great routes and gets open. If you need a receiver to catch the ball and be open, that'll be him."

Indeed, Virginia Tech couldn't have asked for much more than Danny Coale has given.

 

[Taz_Hokie]

Rep when I can Hunz, great article.

 

[hunzworth]

DC made an xtra point missed a 30 yarder and made a 30 yarder in sugar bowl warm-ups.

 

[HokieChamp]

DC made an xtra point missed a 30 yarder and made a 30 yarder in sugar bowl warm-ups.

Danny "Always Open" Coale? Or Danny "Swiss Army Knife" Coale? Would love to see him throw for a TD too just to add that to some of the other things he's done.

 

[hunzworth]

Danny "Always Open" Coale? Or Danny "Swiss Army Knife" Coale? Would love to see him throw for a TD too just to add that to some of the other things he's done.

FTR they arent going to let him kick. Beamer said they had already overloaded him this year and coale said he was "just messing around" when he made the kicks.

 

[NickVT10]

I hope we run a fake punt with him punting in the Bowl game

 

[wildturkey]

I hope we run a fake punt with him punting in the Bowl game

Even better. Have him kick FGs but run that LSU fake FG where the holder flips the ball over his head to the kicker.