They are trying to make fun of us, uh er tried to make fun of us.
http://chat.virginia.sportswar.com/message_board/football/2013/October/1...
UVA-winning National Championships in sports no one cares about since 1819.
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Poor guy got tore up too.
I like this response:
http://chat.virginia.sportswar.com/message_board/football/2013/October/1...
I actually read through this thread, despite the fact that their site is set up like a mailing list archive from 1994.
Yep... my personal favorite was, "They're ranked and playing well. We should prolly STFU."
Reading around here on this site I notice that we of the large avian variety of sports fans tend to take it one game at a time, focusing not on a national championship, but instead on Duke.
of a certain avian variety? A certain ornithological piece?
hey look! one of them is rational!
"Can we just stop poking fun at Va Tech? We are a joke of a program and making fun of them makes us look retarded"
- cavaleerjones
Seeing that so few of them are rational, is it possible that it is reverse trolling and someone just trying to lull them into a false sense of calm and self realization?
There are actually a few replies along the lines of "dude, shut up, we suck." Which I'm glad to see.
Heed your master
This made my night. Well played, sir.
*BYRN
< sarcastica > Isn't it Bryn???
Yeah but his middle name is Coale...
I went ahead and added my two cents on thesabre..glad they linked TSL and thesabre together through sports wars lol
Seriously, how is it ridicule-worthy for a program to set up a prominent goal and proclaim "THIS IS OUR GOAL"? When was the trophy case set up? If it was just prior to us losing in '99, I can kind of see his point, but if Frank set it up afterwards as a motivational tool for the team to get back to the Championship, what basis is there to make fun about aiming high for a hard-to-achieve goal? Other than the fact that deep down he's jealous that his own team can't even sniff a chance at what our program has set as its minimum standard (10+ wins, ACC Champs game).
It was set up in 97 or 98 if I remember correctly
In this day and age UVA has about three arguments that come up when talking Virginia Tech Football.
1) They have better academics
UVA is a fine institution of higher learning. Their medical program, business program, and law program are just outstanding. A lot of very smart people go to UVA and go on to become very important members of society. But VT has academics that are just as good as UVA. We have engineering, architecture, science, and a business program that isn't hard to argue is on par with them. The thought that any of those fields is somehow less important or meaningful is plain asinine.
2) Empty Trophy Case
Trust us, UVA, we know that we do not yet have a NCAA Team national title. But please understand that your argument is basically saying that we are lesser people for having a goal that pretty much any other university's athletic program has, and that is to win a national championship regardless of how many have come before it.
3) They have more national titles than us
Yes you do. Congrats! I won't sit here and try and take that accomplishment away from you. I know we want one badly too. All I ask is that you don't bring this up while talking football because you have approximately zero national titles in that category as well.
Notice how each of these have little or nothing to do with football, and it definitely has nothing to do with UVA vs. VT football. They have nothing on us in football, they can sit on their site and bitch and moan and take their little shots. They can take solace in their national title teams, most of which they probably never saw play a single game in person, or even heard of the team's success until they saw the news of the championship.
Just remember this, Hokies; we had a year last year that as we don't come to expect as VT fans, it was a tough year for us to watch. UVA would haev taken a 7-6 season with a bowl win over many of their last few seasons and done so happily. They had a chance to beat us, in our own house. They had us beat, but we were able to fight back and win. They know that was their best chance in years and likely their best chance for more years to come.
This year, we've come back strong, proving that last year was not acceptable and that we are better than that. UVA has been trying to improve for a while now and can't seem to leave square one, we did it in one year. While they still struggle to beat teams like Ball St. we are competing with Alabama and in the ranks with teams like Auburn, Clemson, Miami, LSU, etc.
So yes, UVA, take your shots on your little message board, and keep bringing up your points to redirect conversation. We'll take owning you in football and having the drive to get better instead of being arrogant enough to try and make fun of a program that has dominated your team for a decade.
They wish they had our football program's success.
Well done.
Love this
A thousand times yes.
"on par with"?....no, our engineering, architecture, computer science, vet medicine, and agriculture are superior. They have us in medicine, law, business, etc. but we are just as exceptional in the latter fields.
The only thing I was saying we have on par with them is business. I agree with you on everything you just said. You just misinterpreted what I said.
We also just started medicine and don't have a law program.
I don't think that UVa will be getting a vet school anytime soon considering that ours is the Virginia-Maryland School of Veterinary Medicine, or something along those lines. From what I've heard too, Virginia isn't really supporting the Vet school.
We actually have two medical schools. Our osteopathic school (VCOM) is ten years old. Our allopathic school (VT Carillion in Roanoke) is in its fourth year.
VCOM is technically a separate school from what I understand. They have a collaboration with Virginia Tech, but is still a separate institution. My girlfriend's sister is a student at VCOM now and she has a hokie passport (with a VCOM seal), can buy season student tickets to games, use the library, etc. so it's basically Virginia Tech.
I cant wait togo to Charlottesville for that Beatdown. We should invite our recruits to UVA just to see what a beatdown really is 38-0 BRO
Paint VT on London's ass..lol
I know it's been posted here before, but really...trying to follow the format of The Sabre is like trying to give yourself a root canal in the garage with a pair of rusty salad tongs and a garden hoe.
Damnation. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today he'd smack a 'Hoo. Right out in public.
Thomas Jefferson Smacking a Hoo prompted my creation of this :
