Reinventing Frank Beamer's pride and joy.
When Frank Beamer eventually does retire, there’s little doubt that he’ll look upon the 90s and early 2000s as his heyday. It was during that roughly 15 year period that his ‘pride and joy’ unit - special teams - grew to become among his most defining contributions to Virginia Tech. So prolific and reliable were the blocks, punts and returns that the system took on his name: Beamerball. Where most teams resorted to blocked punts or other such difficult plays only when desperate, Beamer made it a cornerstone of Tech’s success. And it paid dividends.