Today is Friday, it's the end of February, the ACC schedule still hasn't dropped, and spring ball is a long month away. Right now, aside from recruiting and attrition, there's not much football to be talked about.
The time honored tradition of appending a football to one's crotch as if to say, "come get some," is glorious in grayscale. Picture is via TheBurgs
The Hokies were 4-1 in 1894. They started the season off 4-0, shutting out Emory & Henry, Roanoke College and St. Albans both home and on the road. Their season ended with a 6-10 loss against VMI. That's your history lesson for the day.
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There are 192 days left until kickoff.
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192 is too many
Are we 100% confirmed on the Georgia Tech game to kick off the season? I know that Georgia Tech is now the ones holding up the ACC schedule, but I'm not sure if we're still hosting them early with the BC-Miami game being played around the same time.
Raising Hokie Boys
I have two future Hokies, ages 6 and 3. Last night, my 6 year-old son asked if I wanted to play football with him (indoors). Typically this occurs while a Tech (or Carolina Panthers) game is on and I will sit on the couch and hurl passes to him between plays.
Well, yesterday, there obviously was no live football to watch and the only game on the DVR was the last 8 minutes and OT of the Sugar Bowl. So, I bit the bullet and pressed Play. I hadn’t let my oldest stay up for that game and he had forgotten the outcome that I had mentioned to him the next morning, so it was a “new” game for him. And, in properly preparing him to be a Hokie, I let him watch without telling him how it ended.
After learning the outcome of THE COALE CATCH (words that should be capitalized into perpetuity), watching the missed FG, and then the made FG, he said to his 3-year old brother, “It looks like we ALL lost that game. Me and you and Mom and Dad, we all lose.” Serious and somber, I think he’s well on his way to understanding all that comes with bleeding Maroon and Orange. As for his quick-witted little brother, he may have a few years of learning ahead of him, as his reply was “Nooooot meeeee. I’m going for the bad guys in the white clothes this time.”