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Hey, you asked for it.

Well I have two responses. One is a more general one while we are in the topic of rooting for sports the other is specifically to your New York comment.

First, saying that you need to be from New York in order to root for the Yankees is a vast misunderstanding of that area. I'm from New Jersey and consider myself a die hard Yankees fan. I have been going to games my entire life and I have been to at least one game at Yankee Stadium every summer since I was born. The New York Metropolitan area stretches from southern Connecticut to northeastern Pennsylvania to central New Jersey coast line. That whole area is run by New York TV ads and is centered around NYC. The area is the most populated area in the country bar none with something like 23 million people living in the area I described. I'm not going to be labor the point but saying just cause you don't like in NY means you can't be a Yankee fan is not realistic.

Secondly, and this goes to the broader topic, people get too hung up on locale when discussing sports teams. Blacksburg and NoVA are great examples of there being no connecting with physical location and fandom. By all intents and purposes Charlotte is a smidge closer to Blacksburg than a lot of NoVA, so by basing fandom off of locale Charlotte should be VT fans and vice versa. Maybe it's just me but I personally don't care who anyone roots for, from where ever they root from or for what ever reason they root for. To me the important things are not being a douche noozle about it, being loyal through good times and bad, and having a reason other than they're winning. It's the people who go out and buy a ton of Seahawks stuff when they're in the playoffs and then go buy 49ers stuff the next year when the niners are in the playoffs that need to be called out. If you're a Braves fan living in Richmond, that's great more power to ya. But you better be one next year, you better have a reason why you like the braves and you better not go around blasting other people for being Nats fans for whatever reason they call themselves that. I'm not trying to lash out at you but I wanted to comment on this topic because it's so damn annoying to me when people are like "you're not even from there how can you like them?" Like who you want to like and at the end of the day don't be a dick.

With this announcement, if people cant see Whit's ambition for VT, they need some serious ophthalmologist help.

Or from a less cynical angle, they're people who just wanted a home team and now they finally have it.

As recently as last night CBS had talking heads trying to sell me the Big 12 as the best conference in college basketball.

No.

P*wnge

Guess I had that one coming! Lol

This year, I doubt either will. But Crean was as good as gone before this season, he really pulled it together.

Matta has a lot of recruiting success and not a lot of substantial on court success. It's just one to watch in the next year or three.

Keep an eye on Beilein at Michigan as well. And how long Pitino wants to keep this up.

All good next steps for Buzz.

It holds true for hockey, probably basketball as well. Remains to be seen for baseball. But Redskins fans are in no way remotely fairweather. That stadium sold out for up to two decades of absolute incompetence.

In Whit We Trust, indeed.

I'm hoping that rumored facilities master plan comes out soon - if it hasn't been noticed yet, I think at that point people will realize how serious Babcock's ambitions are for VT.

Another Home Run for Whit!!