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I tweeted him this thread about two hours ago.

@WhitBabcock http://t.co/KxqRdjSZwF Worth your read I hope. Let us know the best way to support you. #Hokies #Hokieproud— Robert Peterson (@REPETEinDC) March 11, 2014

Don't know if they do this already, but maybe the athletic department could offer some sort of partial season ticket deal. Similar to what professional baseball teams offer. Five game passes where there are a list of games to choose from, weekend game passes so alumni from out of town can actually come, etc.

Very happy you decided to contribute, insightful comments like this are what make the community here so great.

You're partially right, I don't need a beginner's UI, but I do appreciate the major step forward in their UI design. Hell, I have an Android with just about the same UI.

I think the Apple fanbase is a big part of it, too. I drove by the Verizon store on my way to work when the iPhone 5 came out and saw a big line. When I went into Starbucks I asked them what the line was for and they told me it was for the new iPhone. I almost yelled at them, "REALLY?! People are still lining up for that?!"

People like to deride Jim Weaver for blaming "the economy" during the late-Seth-era slide. I wonder whether either Weaver or those people considered looking around the corner to find out what was inhaling VT alumni's and fans' limited leisure dollars.

The price of football attendance has skyrocketed. Don't just look at home ticket face value and donations; look at the cost of gas and food for an alumni base centered 3-5 hours north and east, look at the number of "neutral site" or special event games, look at how many nearby road games VT alumni can travel to, look at ACCCGs, and look at travel costs for bowl games. All of these are significantly higher than they were in the Big East days. I'm not saying any of that's bad, I'm just saying that if you've got maybe $2K you can afford to drop on sports in a year, in 2002-03 that would've taken care of all the football you could handle plus a ton of basketball. In 2013 you're probably done after football season, maybe one ACC basketball home game.

I also think taking the post-ACC ticket sales bump as the new normal was perhaps a bad assumption.

All that said: the suggestions about improved gameday experience are good, but in the end hope and winning are what will improve VT basketball attendance. Nothing else.

There's only one answer to this problem: More RED PANDA

Those are bad but what scares me more: The potential for the iBuck

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11948602/1/could-apple-become-your-next-b...

Where mobile QBs hurt us, were primarily in games where we didn't have Kyle Fuller in there. It helps having a smart and athletic ROV/SS like him, because he could read the QBs well. He forced them into crappy situations. Not having a player like that means the mobile QB has the advantage.

You can't tell me that Kyle didn't make QBs afraid, especially GT QBs that got destroyed by him most of the time.

The other side of that, is if the offense doesn't put up the points that force the QB into an unfavorable position of playing from behind, they're going to scramble and make plays.

Still remember playing Ghostbusters and Quest for Tires on my parents commodore 64. I would spend hours on there.

Yeah, it's an undersell if you go full blown technically. Going that path you can choose every play that resulted in a score or more than 4 yards. But what he probably means is plays that lost us the game or opened the floodgates to a big issues. Yes there were big plays that would be nice if they never happened, but really didn't kill us. Think about against Duke, that game wasn't really the defenses fault which played really well. The offense just sputtered into nigh uselessness. Also during the Pitt game, Fuller got beat by a double move and the receiver made a huge play, is that a play you want back? I'm sure that wasn't counted because it really didn't screw much up.

Also a play in which there's a huge momentum shift that puts a team back in the game would probably be another good example, because without the game would have went a different direction.

Record with Kyle Fuller: 6-1
Record without Kyle Fuller: 2-4

His versatility, ability to tackle, play coverage, etc, gave our defensive the ability to play aggressively at a (relatively) low risk. After he went out, the reward remained constant, but without him policing the secondary, the risk increased.