Hall of Fame Coach, Frank Beamer, celebrated his 76th birthday last week.

His son, Gamecock Football head coach Shane Beamer (@CoachSBeamer), told Dusty Dvoracek & Danny Kanell that the team gave his Dad a gift with some Beamer Ball on Saturday night in a victory. #DDSXM #SpursUp

The last time the #Hokies lost five straight games was 1992.

The last time they lost all of their October games was 1952.

They'll try to avoid both futility marks at NC State this week.

Some early-week takeaways on Mansoor Delane, injuries and more:

theathletic.com/3726033

NC State Thursday nighter offers the #Hokies one last chance to salvage a historically bad October.

Takeaways on that, Mansoor Delane’s move up the depth chart, injuries, being less vanilla on offense and needs on punt return and defense.

theathletic.com/3726033

The last time the #Hokies lost five straight games was 1992.

The last time they lost all of their October games was 1952.

They'll try to avoid both futility marks at NC State this week.

Some early-week takeaways on Mansoor Delane, injuries and more:

theathletic.com/3726033

NC State Thursday nighter offers the #Hokies one last chance to salvage a historically bad October.

Takeaways on that, Mansoor Delane’s move up the depth chart, injuries, being less vanilla on offense and needs on punt return and defense.

theathletic.com/3726033

Pry called Malachi Thomas and Keshawn King a nice 1-2 punch. Said #Hokies have considered both being on the field at the same time but 'didn't want to let the cat out of the bag.'

I'm liking this new NFL-like approach to injury reporting by VT. Pry just gave a bunch of status updates off the bat and it cut down on us asking five different questions about it. #Hokies twitter.com/AndyBitterVT/s…

Re: Pry calling the offense too vanilla post-Miami, he said the #Hokies set out to be a two-tight end, hard-nosed running team with play-action and 'it hasn't gone as we hoped.' Said VT has to open things up to a bit to find ways to move the ball.

Pry called WR Stephen Gosnell (head) probable. He's missed the last two games after the hard hit he took at the end of the UNC game. #Hokies

Brent Pry says CB Dorian Strong (hand) is doubtful this week against NC State.

DE TyJuan Garbutt is expected to play.

RB Keshawn King is questionable and CB Armani Chatman is probable. #Hokies

Updated depth chart for the #Hokies . Freshman Mansoor Delane is listed as a No. 1 corner along with Armani Chatman.

Virginia Tech's home game on Nov. 5 against Georgia Tech will be a 12:30 p.m. kick (woo-hoo!) on regional sports networks (boooo!) #Hokies

#Hokies open as 12-point underdogs for their Thursday nighter at NC State this week. Total is 39.5.

I always liked how Clemens goes, “I thought it was the ball!” As if you can just chuck it at someone like it’s kickball. A totally normal reaction to have in a baseball game.

Can’t help but think Syracuse would’ve felt less pressured with time if Dino used his timeout properly the previous drive.

So Duke-Miami is not available to stream on ESPN3 with my provider, while the ACC Network is showing last year’s BC-Wake game.

Why does the ACC Network exist again?

And should the league really be turning away anyone who *willingly* wants to watch Duke-Miami?