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Agreed. The way VT athletics does tickets for any Tech game has been baffling to me. Students should be rewarded for effort (i.e. arriving at 6am). I'm also big on saving paper and ticket stubs and just letting students use their hokie passport barcodes to get into games.
edit: it is even more crazy that they split groups up. I would still go...but I'd be ticked off if I was sitting with a bunch of people I don't know...makes logistics difficult.
I can't fucking wait! I just had to close my office door & listen to Enter Sandman! Five Fucking Days!!!
roll damn hokies.
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# | Sam Rogers Named Starting Fullback for Alabama Game and more Depth Chart News Rodgers better grow a mullet and a wicked stache
As I noted in our Alabama game preview that we will publish this week, this is a foundational moment. Is August 31st the moment where Virginia Tech's football program rediscovered what makes it special, or were the new hires just a band aid on the wound of complacency that detailed other older coaches like Bobby Bowden and Phillip Fulmer?
I want to see fight. I want to see players executing. I want to see outstanding fundamentals. I want to see physicality. I want them to hit Alabama in the mouth and clearly send a message to every other team on the schedule that no matter what the score, fear the day you have to suite up against the Hokies.
The painful reality of sports is that there are two teams. You can squeeze every bit of effort and execute at a high level, but if your opponent is bigger, stronger, and faster and executes just as well, physics takes over and the scoreboard may not read what you want. But, way too often over the season, the Hokies didn't get equal execution (and sometimes effort Marcus Davis Dyrell Roberts cough cough.) That was appalling to watch every week live and then again on film.
August 31st isn't about winning and losing. It is about character. Will this team and this staff play and coach in the aggressive confident manner that took the Hokies to the verge of a National Championship? Win or lose, will Alabama players and coaches reveal in interviews that the Hokies were the most physical and most disciplined team they ever played? This game must be a springboard to a return to dominance. Scoreboard be damned.
My message to every player who will walk on to the Georgia Dome turf on Saturday is simple, echoing the words of the late great Fred Selfe:
Believe in yourself. Believe in the guy next to you. Believe in the play called. Men, let's go to work.
boom.
Up vote, sir.
AHHHHHHHHH FUCK YES!!!!! I'm so pumped right now, I'm listening to the Enter Sandman intro for the rest of the day until I'm ready to run through a damn brick wall.
And I may be a complete idiot who shows a complete lack of respect for reality, but I start every season with the idea we could win the National title. It may take a ton of breaks going our way and a player or two revealing himself to be playing on God level a la Michael Vick, but it's always in my head from the second our bowl game ends until (or IF) it becomes not achievable. And then you focus next on the highest remaining goal. Because they are playing for it every season, regardless if every single media personality dismisses our chances all summer. Fuck them, fuck the point spread and BEATBAMA.
I still think it's about beating Alabama.
Why not?
They're starting a new offensive line, it's the first game of the season, they're looking ahead to TAMU...if the Hokies are ever going to beat Alabama, this week is it.
Screw the moral victory, I can't wait to see ESPN go into cardiac arrest when the golden boys from Tuscaloosa go down this Saturday evening.
I love reading these posts early Monday morning. My colleagues in the office continue to remind of the -19.5 point spread and how we are going to get destroyed. At times their chatter makes me feel like this:
Then after reading the post and the comments here I started to feel like this:
Thank you guys for pumping me up.......#beatbama
"Lawrence Gibson is starting? That's a terrible idea." - Curt Newsome.
Farris used to work the drive-in window at the McDonalds in beautiful Fairfield, Va.
So, yeah, he's probably got camo crocs. That's how Rockbridge rolls.
i'm in tarheel/clemson country this week before rolling down to atl friday. if i see a bammer i'm just gonna wanna yell "LETS GO!!" in his face after reading this. joe i gotta say this got me electrified for the game.
haha we are gonna be raising holy hell walking into that dome. we might scare some bammers.
A bag full of methamphetamines wouldn't get me anymore hyped than I am.
There are more than winds of change in coaching. It really feels like our fanbase, OUR Hokie nation is finally back on board.
If Bama wants everything we've got, they're going to get it full blast and with the momentum of every single Hokie fan behind them.
It's not about just #BeatBama. It's way more than that now.
I'm going to start using the phrase "let's fucking go" in all of my conversations. I love everything about this post. HELL YES HOKIES.
a miami fan once told me that we'll never get 5 natty titles.
i said, "maybe but yall will never have 7 medal of honor winners."
HOKIES, GET YOUR PISS HOT!!! LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!
PS: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
I still remember watching #BEATBAMA develop on Twitter after we beat Rutgers - it was still #BEATALABAMA back then - my New Year's resolution was to #BEATALABAMA. We all hated that stupid commercial with the "Roll Tide" theme - I refused to spend my entire off-season being 0-1 when the freakin Alabama game wasn't for another 9 months! Thanks to The Key Play, I got to focus my energy on sharing the BEATBAMA theme - I have BEATBAMA shit all over my office, the hallway to my office, my Facebook page, and everywhere I can without "littering". While my friends know how obsessed I am, and are generally understanding, they are eagerly awaiting the removal of the orange and maroon BEATBAMA circles that appear wherever I've been. Most of them know that it's not about one game, it's about believing, about my pride in being a Hokie, and about my passion. Granted, it's also about hating the fucking Roll Tide shit, but the Hokie love greatly outweighs the Alabama hatred...that's a lot of love. Thanks for this article - it is right on point. I can't wait to watch us BEATBAMA on Saturday - we are decorating the car on Thursday for the drive from RVA to ATL where we will sit in Row 4 in the Georgia Dome staring at the backs of the best team in college football!! GO HOKIES!!
HOKIES!
I feel like running through a brick wall. LETS GOOOOOOOOO.
I think he might be good against Bama because the center needs to be quick enough to get head position on the nose and hold it just long enough so he can pass off to a guard and bump up to mash at the next level.
I think Wang's got enough quick to do that.
http://www.vt.edu/about/buildings/war-memorial-chapel-pylons.html
Don't forget these guys too, most of you probably know about these names as well. For those of you who don't, each pylon is inscribed with the names of Hokies that have been lost fighting for this country.
I have served in the military for just over 9 years now, all during a time of war. The Ut Prosim pylon holds a very close place to my heart, names on it include those lost over the last decade. It will always be one of the most striking and sentimental parts of the campus to me.
GO HOKIES...........Major Motivation, thanks for the post!
I want to come into work on next Monday, on the off chance we don't win, and I want the Bama alum I work with to tell me "I'll tell you what, you guys came out and gave us all we could handle. Ya'll were flying around, making plays and every hit had some extra pop in it."