Norfolk State ignores HC Michael Vick’s victory formation call, loses after costly fumble
By Mark Kern
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Norfolk State coach Michael Vick thought his team had the game won against North Carolina Central. With the Spartans up 28-23, all they had to was kneel out the clock and go home with the win. However, they came out in a shotgun formation, and the quarterback fumbled the ball. The Eagles got the ball with 1:27 remaining, and were able to score a touchdown with 27 seconds left.
After the game, Vick said he had taken his headset off and told everyone to get in victory formation.
“I don’t know what happened at the end of the game,” Vick said. “I put my headset, and I called Victory Formation. All we had to do was take a knee and kneel the clock out. I looked up, and we were running the ball, and I seen the fumble. My final instructions was Victory Formation. I don’t know what happened. I really don’t. I don’t know why we even ran the play.”
Even despite all the chaos, the Spartans had a chance to win the game, but missed the field goal.
With the loss, the Spartans fell to 4-6 on the season.
While he has made improvements this year, Vick is now 5-17 in his two seasons at Norfolk State. While he is saying that he didn’t know what happened, it is a bad look that the head coach doesn’t know how something like that could have happened.
