I have been hearing from a number of sources that the game is going to be postponed to Dec 3rd.
From everyone I've talked to last night and this morning, moving the #UVA-#Hokies football game to Dec. 3 is a very real possibility.— Mike Barber (@RTD_MikeBarber) November 21, 2022
Multiple people are claiming that their mobile tickets already reflect the date change.
Looks like this will give UVA some much needed time with everything that is going on this upcoming weekend.
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The upcoming Virginia Tech vs. Virginia football game has been canceled. Details: https://t.co/je7ixpfNV9 pic.twitter.com/7fAJes6YRf— HokieSports (@hokiesports) November 22, 2022
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I'm down with that. Anything we can do to help them return to normalcy. I hope they get the chance to honor their seniors so they don't miss out on that. Neither of us are bowl bound so why not do it on championship weekend? And, while I don't mean to belittle their situation, but nothing is more normal than a loss to the hokies. /ducks
Just checked my tickets and they're still showing this weekend.
They apparently reverted it back. I bet someone in the ticket office jumped the gun and got called out on it.
@ 2:30
That's what my tailgate group said as well. Haven't seen any official confirmations yet.
I'm guessing they're letting UVA/Elliot make the announcement. Should know for sure by tomorrow I would think.
Looking at coming up. Will anyone be tailgating in Lot 18 or other lots and wouldn't mind a free loader?
You know you're always welcome in Lot 18..
Wasn't sure y'all or other folks would be making special trip up and tailgating or just coming up.
We will have to figure out what the rest of the crew is doing. Maybe we will get that Thanksgating in after all.
Whatever they want, its cool. Don't really care much about the game or the result. Just give them any and all support you can
Dare I say it.... but do we invite them to jump with us and we run side by side out of the tunnel together?
I don't think the UVA alum would be interested as it's not their tradition, but I could see some sign of unity being done pre kickoff.
We can be friends, but let's not get carried away.
I think the Senior Day idea is a good one, though.
We have the game, but we're still going to compete against them.
Both ECU and VT ran out at the same time to Sandman in the opener of the 2007 season
That's a no brainer then. If we let ECU run out with us for writing a check I really hope we give UVA the same honor.
I just read that UVA has not practiced since the shooting happened. I doubt they are ready to go for Saturday. Thinking back to 2007, I really hope they play the game even if it is moved. I remember how the first football game vs ECU felt. It was about coming together to say shout that this will not define Hokie Nation. For a few hours, it gave everyone a chance to be focused on something positive about VT rather than the shootings (it didn't hurt that we had a stacked team). Personally that was very comforting and if we play, I hope UVA fans can experience that as well.
Canceled- official
I really hope this was a decision left to the UVA players and coaches and NOT the ACC and media partners. Plans were being drawn up earlier today for the game one 12/3 then suddenly everything went radio silent now it's canceled. Those players, coaches and staff at UVA deserve to have their say and their time how they want.
That had better be the case.
They're the only ones who deserved to make that call.
From the email (obviously take w/ a grain of salt but fwiw):
"The decision was made following communication between the Atlantic Coast Conference, Virginia and Virginia Tech athletic department administration.
The ACC and Virginia Tech continue to support UVA as it deals with the devastating tragedy..."
That's sounds like UVA making a decision and VT respecting the decision.
Sounded like there was some chatter that UVA may not have had the numbers to play, some players wanting to opt out if the game went ahead. I can't imagine honestly wanting to mentally prepare for a game under these circumstances. I think it was probably the right call and hopefully everyone was onboard.
This would make the most sense. As of yesterday mid day, it was announced internally that the game was pushed to Dec 3rd and everyone was preparing for that.. Then out of the blue it was canceled. .
2022 season:
I'm a little relieved that it's over, though I wish it were for different circumstances. We go out on a high note, UVA gets the time they need.
Disappointing part is that our Seniors won't have Senior Day.
We should do a senior day celebration during the first game next year for all current seniors.
Spring Game?
It's a glorified practice in a half filled stadium. The seniors deserve all the pomp and circumstance of senior day during a regular season home game.
That didn't feel like much of an ending to a season, but it is what it is.
Forcing a fumble on a sack to beat a nearby in-state opponent? I'll take it.
Ending on a win is about as good as we could have hoped for.
Seemed like a horrible long shot just 2.5 weeks ago
If that's what the UVA players needed then that's fine by me. Whatever is best for them I'm okay with
Honestly, beating Liberty to close out the season feels like a win to me. That game would have been bittersweet regardless of the outcome. Too soon.
Hopefully this was UVA's call and backed by us, either way I understand it.
How do cancellations get recorded in overall records? Or do they not count at all?
Game never happened.
Our season record is 3-8, 1-6. UVA ended at 3-7, 1-6.
The listing of Commonwealth Cup games will skip from 2021 to 2023.
But we keep the cup for another year... :)
Wish we could get JMU. Makes sense, they're open and would prob agree to it. In state game in their first year, we could make back some of the lost revenue
I don't think playing anyone except UVA on 12/3 would have worked out, because I don't think any other team would have generated a decent enough crowd turnout to justify the expense.
I know JMU is not thought of too fondly around here but I do think they were the only opponent that would have been legitimately excited to play VT. Their fan base would have likely bought a lot of tickets and treated it as their "bowl game."
There are a couple of legitimate questions I have regarding JMU and their transition period.
First, why did they only have 11 games scheduled this year? Is that part of the transition rules? Would they be able to schedule a 12th game?
Also, I know they were pushing to get bowl eligibility this year, but I all of the articles I can find about that are from early October. Did the NCAA close that window?
They're insufferable and second only to Liberty in state in my eyes. I live and work in Harrisonburg and it's obnoxious. I want to pummel the shit out of them one more time then never schedule them again
In lieu of an actual game...
A joint spring game in Charlottesville would be kind of cool. $X general admission, raise money for the families.
I hope they give the option to refund the ticket money or have it donated to a fund for the victims/families.
I vote for option B
So, not to take away from the tragedy at UVA, but any word on what VT is doing for practices/senior day? I imagine the team's not going to practice since we didn't make a bowl game... we just shutting it down early?
Hopefully we can use the practices to work on things to kick start the spring.
Pretty sure we don't get anymore practices after this weekend. No bowl game no organized practice allowed.
Yea this was my question. Well, another week of recruiting and traveling to high schools for coach pry
Technically, the final week of the regular season is championship weekend. If we weren't in a conference with a championship game, we might have a regular game scheduled. Are teams allowed to practice through the end of that week, even if they don't play?
Nope only if they made a conference championship or bowl game.
Seems like an odd rule.
Don't the teams who DIDN'T make it to a bowl game need even more practice?
It's part of the "privilege" of getting to a bowl game.
The rich get richer.
Same as it ever was, as long as the rich make the rules.
Though I feel certain that it's out of concern for the student athletes.
VT has gotten the longest end of that stick.
It hasn't really hurt VT too much, it's true.
Yeah I don't think we get anything, but double up monday/Tuesday then let the team leave for Thanksgiving. But every little bit helps and we need it, if only film room or whatever. Let the seniors watch the rest practice or something.
Maybe do senior day before a basketball game too.
I hate to even bring this up in the grand scheme of things but I have to imagine losing a home game in a year where we only had 6 home games scheduled will have a major financial impact on the athletic budget. Is there a possibility that the ACC will change future scheduling around to have UVa@VT again next year?
There would be too much of a ripple effect. Right now, the ACC has the opponents for 2023-2026 already planned out with the new divisionless model. Flipping UVA/VT next year would mean they would at least have to flip 2024 as well, if not all four years. But then that would make each team have an unbalanced home and away conference schedule.
UVA only has 6 home games scheduled for next year anyway, because they go to Maryland and have a neutral game against Tennessee.
Not to mention, it would be pretty asinine to take a home game away from them after what they're going through.
This may sound callous - but I have to wonder if it was a home game for UVa, would they (players, staff, admin) have been more enthusiastic about playing the game? If even a week later?
doubtful.
Disagree.
Given that they already cancelled a home game, what are you basing your opinion on?
UVa cancelled a home game that would have gotten....what, maybe 35,000 people?
Ask yourself hypothetically, if UVa had to forego their home game with VT next year and not have a home game with VT until 2025 - meaning loss of income, a tougher schedule in '23,, and some players only getting 1 rivalry game at home in their career - do you think it may have played out differently in the minds of the UVa admin, coaching staff, and players?
I asked a few people who alums/fans of other schools who don't really follow VT and UVa football (and don't have a dog in the fight) - and they all said they could easily see it playing out differently if UVa were to lose their home game rather than VT.
If we're being completely honest, I don't think some of those considerations go through the minds of the folks in Charlottesville in normal years.
I didn't downvote you but this is a really weird argument to bring up and then to double down on.
Agreed. I'm glad that people that have nothing to do w uva or uva football are perplexed by this, but with all do respect, that means nothing in this case. The game isn't happening. They are suffering. Respect them and the uva community.
I doubt the team members who made the decision were thinking about team revenues as their top concern.
We shouldn't, either. We should respect their decision.
I won't downvote you, but you are really banging the drum that UVA cancelled the game, not so they could grieve their murdered teammates, but rather to somehow screw us over financially and that said financial concerns would override their mourning three MURDERED teammates if the financial hit was theirs not ours?
Maybe you should take a step back from the Internet for a minute.
I mean, they already lost a home game, but Coastal Carolina was already booked over the next two weeks. Also, the CCU game was their 7th home game.
I was going to post this in the UVA post game thread, win or lose. Here's to the first season under Pry. I hope it is a building block in the foundation to a great future for the Hokie football program. 3-8 is almost 4-8!
My only complaint is with WHOEVER made the final decision waiting til late Monday to make the call. Made it harder to adjust plans at almost the last minute. Ultimately, it freed me up to spend more time with out of town friends coming in, but wish they had announced last Friday or at the latest Saturday. But 'c'est la vie' ..... at least we get to savor GIFtory and positive momentum for the entirety of the off season.
I hope and fully expect the football seniors to be honored at a home basketball game before the end of the year. UNC might be a good one to do it at.
Good idea, looks like that is exactly what is happening:
What are the next winning VA lottery numbers?
As I am not in Virginia, sadly I have no idea.
Megamillions then
18, 55, 39, 71, 43
One number short, what's the megaball?
7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 27
After careful consideration and consultation with my wife and family, If asked, I will respectfully decline to respond to questions regarding a large sum of cash I may or may not have recently acquired.
I asked for mega millions numbers not our offensive output for the first six games
69
4
20
So I have the pylons tattooed on my left calf. It's like the old academic logo. I had an old lady at the grocery store ask me if I scanned it how much I would ring up for. I kinda laughed and shrugged because most people ask what it is, but her little joke took me by surprise a little bit. Then I looked at her dead pan and said $420.69. She said, "Is that all?" The joke is still in space after flying over her head.
FYI, I called the ticket office because as far as I know, they hadn't put anything out yet about what they will be doing in regard to ticketholders. They said the tickets will be refunded soon.
Wife just informed me that my Xmas gift was to be on the field for enter sandman for the UVA game this season. Would have been my first time seeing UVA in Lane.
I would have rather never known that. That's devastating.
Raincheck to 2024, fingers crossed!
Damn that's worse than my 30th bday present. My wife had tickets for us to see Sturgill Simpson (one of my favorite artists, who has since blown his vocal cords) and Tyler Childers at Hampton Coliseum (a bucket list venue of mine) in March of 2020.
Damn, Gina! The secondhand depression from reading this is palpable. That blows, man.
Oomph man take your leg. I Was supposed to have a throw down in NYC for my 30th birthday weekend in March 2020. My girlfriend had every detail planned out, it was gonna be epic. You have my sincerest sympathies for yours
It's not like 2020 was kind to any of us. I hear 33rd birthdays are the new 30th birthdays anyway.
Had a 21 day European excursion planned and paid for only to be able to roll the airline tickets into a trip to Florida in late 2021 :/
Oof that's painful.
Florida can be like a different country, but probably not in the way you were hoping.
oooooof
O M G. I wish she didn't tell you so you didn't tell us. :(
I had tickets too as it was going to be my son's last game as a VT student. Guess I should try to get some basketball tickets instead. Still not the same though.
Yeah basketball is much more fun.
Ugh, that is a bummer. Hopefully you can get to have the opportunity the next time UVa is at Lane.
Adding to the list of bummer cancellations others have mentioned around COVID, I'll add that I was going to take my wife to Quebec and to stay at the historic Le Chateau Frontenac for her 50th birthday in Spring 2020. She had been there but had never actually stayed at the hotel. Needless to say, we didn't make it.
https://www.hotels.com/ho169541/fairmont-le-chateau-frontenac-quebec-can...
Ooof. That's a great stay. I wonder if Jean Soulard is still the chef there. I've met him a couple of times, great guy.
This better go plaid.
Got my refund, and apparently the UVA game isn't as important a game as I thought it was. According to the "face value" of the tickets, UVA ranks ahead of Wofford, and that's it. Silly me, I thought our rivalry game was bigger than Boston College and Georgia Tech, but nope.
Guess that makes the loss of playing Miami every year - 25% more important than UVA according to ticket office pricing - even bigger than I originally thought.
Gotta take Thanksgiving weekend into consideration. That could temper the demand a little bit, because it's not as easy to travel to games that weekend for some people.
But on the flip side, they might have more tickets available anyway. Students are on break. I don't know how they handle the main student tickets for that game, but if the VTCC doesn't require all of the cadets to come back, that opens up a few hundred seats in the south end zone alone.
And if you look at the seat availability at the home games after school was out of session, there's lots of empty seats at the Bball games.
I have not received a refund for this game that I can find. What sort of notification should I have received? Anyone else still waiting?
My seats were through VT but have a buddy buy some from StubHub. Anyone know how they are doing refunds for sites like StubHub?
I did not receive any notification aside from the email saying they were processing refunds and would be done in a few days. My parking and tickets were refunded in separate transactions, a few days apart, about two weeks ago, back to my credit card. I didn't initially see the refund for the tickets and emailed the ticket office to inquire. The rep was great and explained the process, and that tickets sold through third parties would take longer but mine should have processed (they had been, the day prior, but it didn't hit my statement yet).
The only notification I got was seeing the refund posting on the card that I bought the tickets with. StubHub are the ones providing refunds through their site, not the athletic program.
Got a refund from Seat Geak in the form of a credit +10% or so