“First, I take my hat off to Virginia Tech. That was clearly the best football team we’ve played. The most physical. The biggest. The fastest. The strongest. The smartest.”
Those were the very accurate words of first-year ECU head coach Scottie Montgomery following Saturday’s 54-17 blowout loss at Virginia Tech.
For a second straight week, things went downhill quickly, but the Hokies (3-1)—unlike South Carolina—didn’t allow the Pirates (2-2) to make a game of it. Justin Fuente’s club kept its foot on the gas and routed its opponent for a second straight week (The Hokies shut out Boston College, 49-0, last week).