Chris Coleman and Raleigh Hokie sat down over the weekend and discussed the Orange Bowl, as well as other parts of the Tech football program. Today’s discussion focuses mostly on the Orange Bowl, and how Stanford was able to take control of the game in the second half.

Chris Coleman: It seemed like Stanford’s gameplan was to attack the middle of the field and exploit the safeties and linebackers. Did you see the same thing?

Raleigh Hokie: Really Stanford’s gameplan was to formation Tech into a lot of checks. They knew Tech would do that. One thing Foster might have to look at is simplifying some of that down. He’s got his free safey checking every move the offense makes. Every motion. They were moving all over the place. On some of the big plays, some defenders got their checks correctly, and some didn’t.

So yeah, they went after the safeties. And why wouldn’t you? You don’t want to pick on Hosley, and Carmichael is probably better than Hosley from a technique standpoint. Morgan and Whitley? Whitley had been hurt for awhile and shown some vulnerabilities. He’s healthy now, but they got him on playaction two or three times.

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