I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

Michael Corleone: There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

• Well we certainly learned that lesson well, didn�t we? We kept them really close. All game long we kept them close. And when we were rolling and had a chance to completely deflate them in the 1^st half, we took out our on-fire QB and put in a cold QB, who would understandably need some time to warm up. All in the name of keeping them close. Excellent call folks, excellent call.

Michael Corleone: Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

• Well our judgment was definitely affected. From our team all the way through to our coaching staff. The Ref�s judgment too � hmmm, maybe I�m wrong but I thought the ground couldn�t cause a fumble. And if you ask me, Clowney had his foot in the end zone. But our subsequent play-calling left a lot to be desired as well.

Michael Corleone: I�ll change, I�ll change. I�ve learned that I have the strength to change.

• Do we? We need some changing in the way we play this game. We need some play calling that allows us the chance to win, and we need HEART. We displayed none Saturday night. Zero.

Michael Corleone: If anything in life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

• We did it to Miami this year. We did it well. And like the Don told Tom � BC got to us. (The comparison between these movies and BC is uncanny.)

Michael Corleone: Your enemies get strong on what you leave behind.

• Turnovers. Could we have killed ourselves more this year with turnovers? We are the king of capitalizing on the turnovers of others so we, of all people, should know that when you leave the ball behind "bada-bing! You blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit." Not a good thing.

Fredo Corleone: I�m your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael Corleone: That�s the way Pop wanted it.
Fredo Corleone: It ain�t the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I�m smart! Not like everybody says . . . like dumb . . . I�m smart and I want respect!

• This speaks volumes about BC this year. They play Fredo to a "T." They were passed over by the ACC for VT and that got to them. They were invited later, that�s true, but the damage had been done. They wanted respect and, well, they earned it today.

Michael Corleone: Hyman Roth has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years.

• Like our Jewish friend, originally hired to fix the young Don Vito�s truck, BC wouldn�t die. We kept scoring and they kept answering.

Michael Corleone: I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren�t.
Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael Corleone: It tells me they could win.

• Well they did. They won because they had passion about what they were there to do. We had passion about sticking our thumbs up our butts and watching them take away our trip to Jacksonville.

Michael Corleone: Fredo, you�re nothing to me now. You�re not a brother, you�re not a friend. I don�t want to know you or what you do. I don�t want to see you at the hotels; I don�t want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won�t be there. You understand?

• I�m pretty sure we all feel this way.

Fredo Corleone: Every time I put my line in the water I said a Hail Mary, and every time I said a Hail Mary I caught a fish.

• Well BC, you must have said quite a few Hail Mary�s. Maybe you and me � we take a fishing trip to Tahoe, eh Fredo?

Hyman Roth: This is the business we chose.

• Smash mouth, hard nosed college football. No instant replay. These are human refs who might call back a VT TD or give a turnover to the bad guys even though the ground caused the fumble. This is the business we chose. Do I sound bitter? Was that bitter? I think I might be a little bitter.

Michael Corleone: In my bedroom where my wife sleeps! Where my children come and play with their toys. In my home!

• This should have been the speech Beamer gave to the boys at half-time. The Eagles must have switched �em. You know for some BVDs or something � like that Maxwell House commercial. We�ve secretly switched Virginia Tech�s Under Armor with Fruit-of-the-Loom. Let�s see if they notice the difference. Well Juan Valdez, did you see any house protection going on? Yeah, me neither.

Frank Pentangeli: Those were the great old days, you know . . . And we was like the Roman Empire . . . The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire . . .

• So was we once. We was like the Roman Empire. Remember �99 and �00. It is eerie how similar our last three season endings are to the slow and painful fall of Michael Corleone.

Clemenza: It�s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

• Come Monday at work, I am expecting a Hokie jersey delivered to my desk with a lobstah wrapped inside.

Tom Hagen: You know how they�re going to come at you?

• Yep. Derrick Knight. We all heard Foster say it. We have to take the run away and make them beat us with the pass. Or we could let them run a whole lot and beat us with the pass. I guess that might work, too.

Don Corleone: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you? Or my boy back to me?

• No. All vengeance is going to do is get D Lo. a questionable unnecessary roughness call. Head in the game. Head in the game!

Don Corleone: What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you�d come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.

• This has nothing to do with Fredo, BC, or their trust funds � I just really like this quote.

Michael Corleone: I�ll make him an offer he can�t refuse.

• I thought we made the offer? Did we make the offer? Who was supposed to make the offer?

Michael Corleone: It�s not personal, Sonny. It�s strictly business.

• Think that�s what Beamer told Randall when he took him out after a start with 10 first downs and 17 points? Not all business decisions are good ones, eh Sonny?

Don Corleone: Someday, and that day may never come, I�ll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day accept this justice as a gift on my daughter�s wedding day.

• The gift we gave BC was courtesy of Wilford with a 1^st quarter fumble (just a horrible, horrible call). Evidently we forgot to call upon the refs to do a service for us in return.

Don Corleone: I�m a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael, if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell . . . or to be struck by a bolt of lightning, then I�m going to blame some of the people in this room, and then I do not forgive.

• Well we were struck by lightning and we were shot in the head. I want some answers as to why, �cause I�m ready to blame some people.

Michael Corleone: Kay, I had a very different destiny planned for us.

• I think we all did this season. I am afraid that some of us fans take this stance when it comes to our team. A 9-3 season is pretty good. We were spoiled with Michael Vick and what he brought to our program. But we need to get over it and accept that we can�t go to the NC every year. That said, we still should have beaten BC.

Michael Corleone: I swear on the lives of my children, give me one last chance to redeem myself and I will sin no more.

• We said it after the WVU game and we said it after the Pitt game. When will we follow through with it? I think it might be a good idea to do it, you know, next week or something.

Mary Corleone: I�ll always love you.
Vincent Mancini (Corleone): Love somebody else.

• I�d like to but I can�t. I will always love the Hokies, win or lose. I got an email from a BC buddy after the game and he was bragging about their victory and it made me think . . . It must be nice to root for a mediocre team, to never expect them to win so that when they lose you don�t really care, but if by some chance they were to win, you take that opportunity to brag about it to the fans of the other team. I look at it this way: If I were the one bragging like that, then that would mean my team was the mediocre one, and we lost that label a long time ago.

By the way, Fredo Corleone was played by John Cazale, who was, ironically, born in Boston.

Bring on the Hoos.

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