Throwback Thursday: Photo of Virginia Tech Defensive Coordinator Bud Foster from 1985 is Glorious

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The Hokies won't play football for another 102 days, and the Virginia Tech athletic department is seemingly biding some of its time by flipping through an old media guide for the benefit of Hokie Nation. Tech shared this gem of a photo of defensive coordinator Bud Foster from his stint as an assistant coach at Murray State in 1985.

Perusing old photos of Bud Foster is a tried and true way to make it through the long offseason and arrive to September sane and in one piece. (If you really want to make a dent in the clock, read the feature I wrote on Foster last year.)

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Such a contrast to the terror he induces in opposing QBs.

"When I was growing up, Virginia Tech was a school that was kicking ass and taking names, and it's time we get back to that" - James Franklin

Perfect way to start my day! +1.

I would buy a pack of cigarettes and a 6-pack of beer from this man, behind a gas station, adjacent to the trailer park.

"...sticks and stones may break my bones but I'm gonna kick you repeatedly in the balls Gardoki!"

Right? Then walking away you'd think to yourself, 'he seemed like a good dude' as he hopped in his red 84 Thunderbird.

"That kid you're talking to right there, I think he played his nuts off! And you can quote me on that shit!" -Bud Foster

Ahhh, so THAT'S where I recognize that guy from.

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yeah, in that picture... Bud is definitely a suiting name. lol

Of course we laugh now.

I was an older teenager in 1985, so I've got street cred.

That hairdo is SPOT ON. Coach Foster had some serious eighties swag.

Leonard. Duh.

Is it weird that I want a Bud Foster throwback jersey from Murray State?

"Nope, launch him into the sun and fart on him on the way up"
-gobble gobble chumps

"11-0, bro"
-Hunter Carpenter (probably)

"That kid you're talking to right there, I think he played his nuts off! And you can quote me on that shit!" -Bud Foster

All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding, dang my dang a long ling long....

A good steak, another man's wife, the Wu Tang Clan, and Bud Foster are all Nothing to fuck with

I'll second that

Is Bud Foster for the children?

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente

Bud foster is for the universe.

Tweedy can run like a dadgum antelope or whatever. I like to use scalded dog. Do antelopes lumber? Cheetah, OK. He runs like a cheetah. He's fast. - Bud Foster

He still looks like he'd rip yer head off just to look at your guts!

IN BUD WE TRUST

Never crimp your blasting caps with your teeth. - Dr Haycocks

Its always 110 Holden...said every mining engineer ever.

You should probably give credit to Bill because it's maybe possibly potentially from his Power Hour video

/sarcastica

Party Positive.

SCREAMS 80's!

Stop it with the Negative Waves!

Too bad that was 1995.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

"I liked you guys a lot better when everybody told you you were terrible." -Justin Fuente

It was the thing, man:








The friggin Mt Rushmore of staches. Well done.

"That kid you're talking to right there, I think he played his nuts off! And you can quote me on that shit!" -Bud Foster

MusTashmore

The Dude Abides

From the beach, are we?

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The only superlative Bud ever cared about...

"Exit light..."

We have a winner...no more entries necessary

The Dude Abides

He looks eerily like DreZ, the DJ for 105.3 who does the tailgate show.

“You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.”
― John Madden (describing VT's offense?)

HELL to the YES! This made me want to join twitter. So my first job out of school was about 20 miles north of Murray State (I got an MBA there) and most of the operators I worked with knew the players. Said Charlie Wiles was a partier, didn't mention Bud, maybe he was too busy scheming up ways to decimate QBs.

Plan for the worst and hope for the best, not the other way around.

The man doesn't age. Unreal.

What's Important Now

Even Father Time is skeered of Bud!

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