Last week, we answered some questions about our beloved Hokies for Bloguin homie, SECRivals. This week, Darrell Owenby of SECR returns the favor and provides a little insight into Lane Kiffin and the Vols.

Jump it.

Yeah, you read that right, our defense held UMBC to 34 points!  Damn, Gina!

So now we're 10-1 and torching the competition.  I mean we scored more than double the points the Retrievers did last night.

Now, I'll be the first one to tell you that I am not a basketball fan, but I have always rooted for our team, based on principal alone.  And also, Seth Greenberg is a completely underrated coach given how he has not only turned our team into a competitor, but has tirelessly worked to bring basketball into the mainstream at Tech.  I mean this guy will do almost anything to get people to support the team, and unlike Al Groh, I'm pretty sure it's working.  That and apparently he's a pretty awesome guy off the court.

But back to the point of the post, we crushed the souls of UMBC, and rightfully so.  Malcolm Delaney had 17 points (half the total of the opposing team), Dorenzo Hudson had 16 points, and Eric Green had 10 points off the bench.  Only one player on UMBC had double digit points, and he only got 11.  I couldn't watch the game because it wasn't televised up here and my cable company doesn't allow me to get ESPN360, but I'm just going to assume that it was our awesome defense that held them to less than Kobe scored last night, BY HIMSELF.

Good job, Hokies.  Keep it up.

Tonight, we take on the University of Maryland - Baltimore County Retrievers. We're not even sure what to make of that sentence. Being from Baltimore, we assume they are retrieving some sort of narcotic*.

*Everything we know about Baltimore is from the first season of The Wire.

UMBC is red hot, coming off their first victory of the season over American University. So look out Hokies. Don't be taking this team lightly.

Seriously, a win tonight will put get the Hokies to 10-1 for the first time in... ever, we assume. And that would be quite a Christmas present.

So to lock this game up, we're going to the man that provided the greatest Christmas present of all time...

The Old Man

So light up the leg lamp, get out the Red Ryder, and let's take the Retrievers out back.

LET'S GO HOKIES!!

Darrell Owenby over at SEC Rivals asked your humble editor to complete a few questions about the upcoming match-up between the Vols and our beloved Hokies. Those guys have their shit on lock over there. You know they're legit when they are covering the Kentucky bowl game.

As usual, no actual research or football knowledge was utilized when the survey was completed.

And fear not, there is at least one Layla Kiffin pregnancy joke.

Link

We know that it's been a long time since we've posted, but we'll have to keep this one short. Some times, important things like work, Beer Olympics, and watching Independence Day again get in the way.

But we woke up this morning and realized that Hokie basketball is 8-1 right now. Men's basketball!! (Remember when the women were good?) And tomorrow night, we take on the sports powerhouse Charleston Southern.

Tomorrow night is special, because it's Faculty Appreciate Night. As it is again on Tuesday. And then again on Wednesday. We get it, we appreciate the faculty. They're super awesome*.

*Except Professor Keown. You know what future value has to do with my job? NOTHING. Ya jerk.

So yeah, the Buccaneers come into town at 4-5, and will leave town at 4-6. You know why? Because we have a pirate on our side to take you out.

Steve the Pirate kicking whoever-the-hell-coaches-Charleston-Southern's ass.

Question: Has any pirate movie actually been rated R?

LET'S GO HOKIES!!

Via Deadspin

Over/under: Number of times Pearl and Kiffin have hit a strip club together? I think we're going to put it at once a week.

Kyle Tucker has put our worrying hearts to rest.

Unless a head coaching offer comes along - and maybe even then - Bud Foster will likely remain Virginia Tech's defensive coordinator for at least five more seasons.

Well, this is the first good move Jim Weaver has done in his entire career.  Throw tons of money at Bud Foster to make him stay.

Now this deal has Foster getting the same amount of cash each year, but if he's still the DC at Tech in 2014, he will literally get a bag of money dumped on his naked body.

Merry Christmas, Jacqueline Foster, you'll probably be getting a ginormous rock under the tree this year.

So apparently the Red Sox have signed John Lackey this fine afternoon, and Roy Hallday and his agent have checked into a Philadelphia hotel.  What does this mean?  Two things.

1.  Barring any major injuries, the Red Sox may have the best rotation in the AL this year with Beckett, Lester, Lackey, Buchholz/Daisuke/Wakefield.

2.  The Phillies will have the best rotation in the NL with Halladay, Lee (maybe, pending the Halladay deal), Hamels, Blanton/Happ/Moyer.

What wins championships?  You got it right.  Pitching.  If these deals go down, sorry, anywhere west of the Mississippi and south of the Mason Dixon line, it's going to be another northeastern Series.

Oh and on another note, who does Jason Bay think he is?  The Sox take you out of the shit hole that is Pittsburgh, and you have the gall to say "The Red Sox don't value me enough"?  The Red Sox brought you into this world and they can sure as hell take you out of it.  Ok maybe not, but a hometown discount is not too ridiculous to ask, seeing as how you would be all but forgotten if he were still in the Pirate "organization".

UPDATE: Looks like Philly moves faster than we thought.  SI.com is reporting that they have a three-way (hehe) deal with Toronto and Seattle, involving the acquisition of Halladay and sending Lee to Seattle.  No word on what Toronto is getting other than shafted.

An away game at Penn State calls for a Hokie Men's Basketball Hero.  Since the the Hokies are traveling to Penn State, this evening, I felt it only fitting for our Hero to have served time in the State Penn.

So that leaves us with our Hero being the one and only.

Mickey Rourke

(ok it wasn't as much of a state penn as a city jail but that did not work as well)

With the power of his hair the Hokies will be able to Wrestle a win away from the Nittany Lions at Happy Valley.  (enjoying the puns tonight I am)

BTW:  Malcom Delaney's Thumb > Kobe Bryant's index finger.

We got this tip (they are starting to roll in!) from, let's call him "Skap", which linked us to an article saying this:

Blacksburg, VA -- According to the football coaching blog footballcoachscoop.com, the Richmond Spiders are going to talk with Virginia Tech offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring.

Holy balls, Christmas may have come a couple of weeks early (or for our Jewish friends, about 12 hours early).  Now I won't get my hopes up, because they first contacted QB coach Mike O'Cain, and he shot them down.  Now we get to see if BS is that self-serving and take the job if it is offered to him (and we here at the NEZ hope that he is).  I mean if this actually happens, it will save Coach Beamer from having to deal with criticism about not getting rid of Stiney and we will get a new OC.  Win win.  We will keep you updated with any happenings in this awesome, awesome news.

UPDATE: Oh and also, to put your fears aside, for now at least, Footballcoachscoop.com has confirmed that Head Coach Jimbo Fisher decided on two finalists for his DC job, Mark Stoops (DC/Arizona) and Sal Sunseri (DC/Alabama).  Notice that neither of those are spelled "B-U-D F-O-S-T-E-R".