Ross Martin, who covers North Carolina for 247Sports, stoked the flames on Metallica playing Enter Sandman live from Lane.
In player interviews today, UNC's Marquise Williams mentioned that Metallic will be in Blacksburg playing "Enter Sandman" LIVE on the field— Ross Martin (@Boss_Martin247) November 16, 2015
This is a rumor we have been hearing for two weeks. If true, that is going to be really cool.— Ross Martin (@Boss_Martin247) November 16, 2015
Re: Metalliica (which I misspelled earlier) playing in for Beamer's last home game in Blacksburg. This is a rumor, nothing is confirmed.— Ross Martin (@Boss_Martin247) November 16, 2015
Does anyone know what hotel Metallica is staying at in Roanoke?
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The same one as Drew Harris. (Sorry, that joke will never get old)
Neither will Drew Harris.
Maybe not the right place for this but Drew is tearing it up
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I think you forgot the /s at the end of that.
He still misspelled Metallica.
was just about to mention, i like how he catches his mistake, then misspells it again while trying to correct it.
Lol...what business does UNC's QB have in knowing anything about Metallica's schedule?
They must be enrolled in the same non-existent class together.
Beautiful!
He did some research and wrote a term paper on it. Definitely. Totally legit. He even got an A on it.
Kevin Asante told him.
Larry Fedora coached him into throwing that out there to mess with us. As if Hokie nation was not a big enough emotional dumpster fire already this week...
I think I saw them in Lynchburg. Laying low with Jerry Junior until gameday.
HAHA, Lynchburg Native and Jerry's World Graduate. Jerry Junior is waaay to busy being with being nationally relevant in his search of the next top republican to even say Metallica. But knowing him like most people don't, I could see him partying with them secretly!
Haha ain't that the truth.
he also air-humped/dropped the the "U" after 1 of his td's this past week... i doubt the kid has any clue probably just bringing it up to laugh at us
I got a good laugh when I saw him do that
Someone better start checking hotels in Roanoke.
The times they have played in Roanoke, they stayed on the top floor of the Holiday Inn (Tanglewood) in Roanoke..
This was on Whit's to-do list. The man strikes me as someone who completes a to-do list
I hate to break it to you, but this list is not getting completed. He could still hit 3/4 I guess.
He most definitely seems like a man who completes at least 3/4 of his to-do list.
Really, I'm just hoping he complete's the first half of it. The rest is just feel good stuff.
But Babcock really did want to get GameDay to come, GameDay just didnt want to start a trend of Universities campaigning for GameDay to come
Do or do not, there is no try.
#FireWhit #RonP4VT
So, my to do list?
1) Send Coach B off in style
2) Identify next Coach
3) Secure Metallica
4) Get #Gameday4Frank
https://t.co/G3sJAjCwKo— Whit Babcock (@WhitBabcock) November 4, 2015Edit: Dam, beat by 2 minutes.
Crap, we had gone at least a week without that GIF showing up.
Marquise getting my hopes up only to dash them is nothing new:
http://www.gobblercountry.com/2010/11/28/1840933/report-4-star-qb-recrui...
Those comments are hilarious. They run the full spectrum; fun to reminisce
What ever happened with Lafonte Thorougood?
Signed with Vandy-Transferred to JMU and I never heard anything beyond that. I don't know if he made any sort of impact at JMU.
I did some digging on JMU's football page. He showed up in the box score for JMU's 2013 opener. He assisted on 2 tackles. And then he disappeared and was not appearing at all after that. Isn't on the roster for 2014 or 2015 either. I tried Google searching - and that also led nowhere. He might have a LinkedIn page which was interesting.
Impact @ JMU. Would it matter?
Apparently to Gameday it does. /s
Metallica to interview for HC
Has anybody seen the tour bus though?
No, but they're not on tour right now so it means nothing!
If this were to happen, I would pee my pants and not even care.
#PeePants4Frank
#DependsForFranks
I thought we decided discussing any alleged health issues was out of bounds unless Frank himself decides to make them public.
Definitely not where I was going there, more like a reflection of the hashtag above mine...
I know. just trying to be funny.
how to be funny on the internet:
take someone's completely innocuous comment
add innuendo/twist meaning
reference inside joke/shared communal history
sprinkle gifs where appropriate
profit
still honing my methods
I don't understand sarcasm yet sooo my bad
But would you wear your pee pants all day?
Like a boss.
#PeePants4Frank
via GIPHY
We would!
Is there any way at this point we could get a slightly later game time? Noon kick is lame...
we have the same shot at getting a non-noon kick for UNC as UVA has at winning the ACC
Has a radio host in Arizona said anything? That's where it will break first, and not from one of the beat writers.
Someone check flightaware /s
Does anyone know the story of how the "Enter Sandman" tradition started?
I dont think Ive ever heard anything legitimate?
I wanna say student vote before the 2000 season. I want to say Welcome to the Jungle was also on the list.
Edit: I want to say a lot of stuff, evidently.
Welcome to the Jungle was a basketball staple under Seth Greenburg. Never really had the same effect.
Actually, read this. Fresh off of the USA Today press 2 days ago and it has a nice blurb about how it started.
Virginia Tech is 2015's USA Today's Top College Football Entrance
Nice video, wonder where they got it.
They forgot to mention that Corso picked GT to win that game where his car got struck. Nice touch billdozer, ha ha.
The tradition of jumping during enter sandman was actually developed during an especially cold game when the band started jumping in unison to keep warm. It caught on with the students and voila, tradition.
Not that it matters, but Metallica is on a hiatus from touring until February. So theoretically they'd be available...
$250,000-$300,000 I think is their appearance fee..
I would hope we get a discount. I'm sure they have made additional sales because we use it as our entrance.
Nah, because I'm pretty sure I got my copy of Enter Sandman from Napster.
Ahh, the good ole TKP Metallica stories.
Marquise with a decent trolling
The crowd is going to make a Metallica concert sound like a lullaby. We'll be paying Mr. Williams back soon enough.
Pretty sure that means Whit has failed in 2 out of 4 items on his to do list:
Not sure he's the right guy for the job, pretty hard to overlook these failures IMO.
/s
Well hold on, no where in that to-do list was a deadline (with the exception of #GameDay4Frank) if whit secures Metallica next year or the year after that still counts as a completion of a task on his to-do list. And trust me on this, I'm a grad student so I know a thing or two about rolling deadlines.
Are you saying I have to settle for him hiring Buzz Williams for the time being?
Fine.
Still could complete it, sort of, with Bristol next year. Frank as the guest picker on Game Day and Metallica live before kickoff.
I really, really want Metallica at Bristol. I just want Tennessee fans to have to listen to the entirety of Enter Sandman and look all bitter while we jump like crazy.
Whit is DEFINITELY the kind of man that completes 2/4 of his to-do list.
I hope they stick around and do a set at halftime. Play the ENTIRE Ride The Lightning album. Nothing gets a crowd pumped like six angry yelly songs about death, one power ballad about death, and an instrumental that I'm pretty sure is about death from a kraken...
OH it is about death from a kraken. For sure.
Ktulu?
Yup. Track listing:
Death by electric chair
Death by nuclear war (sorry, nu-clee-YAR WARFARE)
Death by regular ol war
Death by suicide (Debbie Downer track)
Death by frozen water
Escaping death
Death by biblical plague
Death by kraken
Then the second half starts and Frank and Bud play DEATH BY BEAMERBALL and DEATH BY LUNCHPAIL for Fedora.
Ktulu isn't a kraken... It's just another spelling for Cthulhu
But wasnt he part octopus?
Just in time for Thanksgiving...
That is very disturbing.
In madness you
dwelldineI mean, he has tentacles on his face, but he's an ancient alien thing. He's like a dragon with an octopus for a head.
Uplifting album right there.
FWIW:
AC/DC to VT confirmed...er, #marinades
We've had it wrong all along...
Wait so Metallica and AC/DC are playing?
This is comparable to:
**ALL SPOILERS GAME OF THRONES**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psS2IMFkxKo
Do I see a #Metallica4Frank thing coming where we produce 120,000 Tweets to @Metallica in 4days to get them here on Nov 21st?
I am sure the band would send a 20 second video apologizing that they weren't able to make it. That they heard Hokie nation loud and clear, but they were going to go in another direction.
Oh wait, that's already been done before...
Theirs was better than Gameday's...
Can someone superimpose the "Enter Sandman" audiotrack over CollegeGameDay's apology video? It might take the sting off a bit.
we need someone who can hack into the live feed of gameday this week and blare enter sandman at some point during the show...that would be soooooo much more worth it
^^^^^^^^
Even better idea! This please!!!
I'm googling "How to hack ESPN's live feed" right now.
It won't be long guys.
I know it's probably not happening, but all of the "Exit Light. Enter Night." promotional material they're doing with the unis just screams that Metallica needs to be there.
I want this to happen just as much as the rest of Hokie nation, but let's be rational about it. If they didn't come to the anOSU game, a game that featured the reigning champs and the only team that beat them last year, why would they come for a nooner between a sub par VT team and a UNC team that both reside in one of the weakest divisions in the P5? While it would be cool to honor Frank with something this big, I feel as though it would take the focus away from him. He definitely isn't a huge Metallica fan. Bottom line, is a Metallica performance really the best way to thank our beloved coach?