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Mine's Hokie stone and I love it. Looks cool and even though it's not as shiny, I have yet to meet someone (VT student/grad/etc or not) who doesn't think it's an awesome and unique way to set your ring. If I can get a picture in the near future, I'll put it up here.

I actually think that's what's wrong with the Thursday night model. We shouldn't play our best, or even second best game on Thursday. Those should stay on Saturday so there's a chance they move to primetime. Weaver's goal should be to get our 3rd or 4th best matchup on Thursday night so we're guaranteed that primetime slot, with the chance to play into others.

To be honest, if there was ever a year not to have a Thursday night game, this would be it. Hopefully fans will be more excited about it next year and we can get a good, TNF-game-worthy opponent to make it exciting.

The internet is no place for people who actually know how to write. You don't belong here. There's too much logic and reason in your post and the fact that it makes so much sense is likely screwing with some people' heads. Message boards are for irrational, emotionally-charged posts with plenty of grammatical errors. Figure it out.

Can the paper airplane thing just die? Please? I've never been more annoyed with my fellow students than that awful night when we lost to UNC in 2009. It was a close game and all the students in the East stands were more concerned with making their tickets into airplanes than actually supporting the team. I wanted to slap every one of them in the face. Please, people. Save that crap for your most boring classes. Lane Stadium is for yelling and jumping, not paper airplanes.

her points are valid. It is a hassle.

But when you go a year or so without it, it's a good hassle. Like Busch Gardens. Or a blind date. Or going to the beach.

It was stale, this piece proves that point. There wasn't a Thursday night game worth getting excited about this year, but next year.....next year....we'll be ready.

Individuals are expressing their opinions about something they read. You're doing the exact same thing with this comment. No one has been forced to read anything. You may find the comments in this thread embarrassing, but it's also apparent that the individuals posting here also found the females article embarrassing. Pot, meet kettle. Just sayin'

I agree with.

I think the main problem with her piece (and why it is getting criticized so much) is because she sided with an unpopular opinion and really didn't make anything but self-serving or illogical arguments to back her case. That's fine and all, but you have to expect a backlash is coming, and she did, "I know, I know, real Hokies live for night games. Whatever. Bring on the anonymous comments."

Doubt he's doing much recruiting for VT these days.

For the most part, the people that read TKP are true fans, the ones who share your plight.

We are the ones who enjoy the atmosphere of Lane just as much as the game itself.
We are the ones who would sit at our computers and hit that F5 key every hour (or 5 minutes) after the Russel Athletic bowl, hoping to see some shred of news about our impending coaching changes.
We are the ones who stick it out week in and week out, through sun, wind, rain and snow, just for the privilege of doing what we can to cheer our team to victory.
We are the ones who yell until we are hoarse for the next 6 days, just to do it again on the 7th. And we like it.

We have all seen our team's triumphs, as well as our heartbreaks. Personally, I've been able to watch Michael Vick invent the "backflip touchdown" against JMU in 1999. I witnessed our chances of taking down what is regarded as one of the best teams in college football history, the 2001 Miami Hurricanes, slip right through Ernest Wilford's hands. I've been there for blocked field goals against WVU as well as withstanding the cold rain as Matt Ryan torched our defense for 2 late touchdowns in 2007. Hell, I left Chicago in the early hours of Thursday morning in 2011 and drove 11 hours to Blacksburg just to watch us play UNC, weeks after doing the same to see the atrocity otherwise known as the Clemson game.

The people that need to read what you wrote aren't on TKP, and most likely don't even know it exists. They are the ones who treat football games as a social gathering, the ones who don't know to yell on defense, the ones who leave at halftime because they're bored and would rather be drinking. The people who show up wearing THE OPPOSING TEAM'S COLORS because it's the homecoming game, and their fraternity/sorority happens to be blue, and then the north endzone is empty after halftime because they only bothered to show up because they wanted to see who was named Homecoming King and Queen.

I never sat in the student section until 2007, but even in the 5 years since then I am disappointed by how terrible it has become.

My biggest problems with the article are that she uses classes as an excuse and tries to use the corps as supporting evidence. As a cadet who has had evening classes on Thursday nights, this is preposterous. If I can go to my 5 PM class, get something to eat, change uniforms, warm up with the band, and march down for the Hokie Walk before screaming my head off, she can damn sure walk an extra hundred yards for parking, OR JUST STAY THE FUCK HOME. Second, there are few people in the corps who don't like going to football games. The freshmen love it because they get a break to have a little fun. The rest of us love it because formation on Friday gets canned. Plus, if you have some pressing academic issue, you aren't actually required to go. If you have a test or a project, the corps doesn't make you go to a football game, so long as you tell someone ahead of time. It's articles like this that make the CT such a joke.