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I come from a family full of Keydets and cavaliers (some went to both), only to become its first Hokie. The only thing that would make this crappy, crappy year worse, is for them to be able to gloat over a win.
Destroy them, Hokies, and keep kicking them when they get down! You owe it to yourselves, your school, and its loyal fan base!
OOPS!!! I done mixed up them Fullers! lol. Thanks for the correction.
North end zone. Scoreless first half. Bryan Randall, Josh Hyman, and Cedric Humes.
Rushing the field.
It's still one of my mom's favorite pictures.
(Also, damn did we have a good team and good unis that year.)
Inorite? Ever since Joe & Co mentioned them I've been wanting one!
Except they're not quite so horrendous this year. Quite...
No.
"Boise State, San Diego State and BYU have had conversations with Mountain West membership about the possibility of returning to the league, sources told ESPN."
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8653727/boise-state-bronc...
November 25, 2006 was my first Commonwealth Cup experience. The day after my 12th birthday. I experienced a tantalizing defense led by Adibi that was in the backfield the whole game and gave Jameel Sewell hell. Eddie Royal had the fantastic catch and run and we won 17-0. I loved every bit of it.
Saturday's my birthday and there's nothing I want more than an annihilation of the Hoos. I expect us to bring it, and I hope most of the students come back for the game despite the rough season.
(Technically, this pre-dates the Commonwealth Cup, which was started in 1996.) The wahoos visited Lane Stadium, which was nearing completion of its first expansion. Seating was getting close to 54,000 fans, as I recall. The weather was cold, with a few showers in the area. Bill Dooley's boys brought their A-game. Tech used a stiff defense, and Cyrus Lawrence to crush the wahoos 30-0. The Roanoke Times had a picture of the stadium taken from a plane overhead the next day, showing the crowd....and that lovely 30-0 score! What a game! It was my birthday weekend, and what a birthday present!
I would totally buy that!
GT or FSU may try to join the B1G as well
I agree that there are negatives such as the fan base growing to care less about football and more about making it a show -- and by no means am I trying to eviscerate your argument, just presenting the other side of the story -- but I'm not sure if waiting til the ACC crumbles to jetset our way out is necessarily in our best interest. We've had a great run in this conference, sure, but do we want to continually beat up on lesser competition and lose games out of conference that we might win if we had to prepare for stiffer opponents for the meat of the season?
Also, if we stay until that point, there may be less opportunity for us to move elsewhere. Additionally, the ACC might be begging us on hands and knees for us to stay, as well as gesturing to giant bags of money that they'll give us if we don't leave (since it's hard to believe we wouldn't be Top Dog in the conference at this hypothetical point in time).
I was not a military brat, but by the time I entered my Freshman year of high school I had lived in 5 different states on either coast and about 11 different houses. I had little knowledge of what east coast colleges offered and thought I'd end up at Oregon or Cal since I lived near both. By the time college applications were to be filled out I realized going out of state wasn't possible financially so I sent a barrage out here within the commonwealth.
Little did I know how much would change after the acceptance letters started filing in. I had my choice of just about any in state yet was between JMU and Tech as my final two. Since I hadn't made a choice yet I wasn't really concerned as to telling anyone. I also had friends who got into neither and wanted to save the awkwardness. I thought that was the best way to handle that kind of thing.
Apparently not after getting into UVa. Within two days of receiving letters I witnessed kids in my class adorning gear left and right. If you couldn't see it on their new sweater they'd be more than willing to make sure you knew that they got into the best school in state.
I thought them cheesy and did not like most any way so I cared in a direct correlation opposite of their jubilation. I really was naive to think they were just overtly excited.
What I wasn't prepared for was the transformation after that. In hindsight, for many it made sense and I could see it sort of coming. Not from my buddy though. I will refer to him as Fred.
Fred and I were more acquaintances the first two years of high school but as time went on we'd become close enough to joke around and choose seats near one another in the variety of classes we had together.
Fred and I were very close in class ranking, GPA, SAT scores, etc by senior year. We talked little about where we wanted to go to school until the day he got his letter back from UVa saying he was wait listed.
Fred's dad was an alumn and had ties to the school so Fred was a little crushed by the news. Time went on and he was slowly accepted by every other school he wanted yet still hadn't gotten into UVa. Our friendship worked how it always had until at the last possible second he got his acceptance letter.
Over night Fred became an asshole. I congratulated Fred at first only to hear how he was aided in getting in by his father writing donation checks and making a few phone calls.
Within a few weeks Fred stopped talking to some of us all together and even chimed in with a few others joking on the "lesser schools in virginia". He was also the first person I got to hear the played out Tech grad on your porch joke.
Fuck Fred and the thousands like him at that oversized tool shed they call a University.
"Even a blind squirrel can find a nut once."
UCLA won the PAC-12 south again and will play in the championship game.
Thankskilling 3 is so intense that Thankskilling 2 was skipped so they could go straight to it....(seriously I believe this is really the second movie they just named it 3)
I definitely see both sides to the argument. I want so bad for Tech to be playing better opponents and have the opportunity to earn their place as a nationally recognized team. And I agree that the SEC is a better place to do that than the ACC.
But I guess what I'm saying is that I don't know if I prepared to be a part of the most hated conference in college football.
The SEC fans suck. After being in South Carolina for a football season, I don't think I want our fans to be like this. We've all been complaining about how bad it's gotten, especially with some of the students. Well, that's how it is here. Everyone here goes to the game to get hammered and dress up in their polos, button downs and bowties, dresses, and cowboy boots. Football here is all about being seen and looking cute, not football.
I don't know about y'all, but I go to watch the game and scream until I'm hoarse. Not to look cute (although I have been known to wear my cowboy boots to cold games, but that's for practical reasons--warmth! You will NEVER EVER catch me in a dress at a football game. I even refuse to wear dresses to Richmond games.)
So I just don't know if I want to be associated with the kinds of fans that the SEC has. I don't want it to be that way at Tech.
Still on the fence. We'll see how this whole thing shakes out. I still don't think Tech is going anywhere, unless the entire ACC crumbles. Then you better believe I'll be screaming LEAVEEEEE NOWWWW. GET OUT. But until it comes to that, Tech is still in the ACC.
Side note--Lane is ten times louder than Williams-Brice.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/pete_thamel/11/19/maryland...
a lot of big 10 fans are against this, they dont see what umd and rutgers bring to the table. frankly i dont either.
They make it so easy to hate. The fact they care more about scuffing their sperrys or staining their bow ties than watching or cheering on their team. The fact that even amongst themselves they have secret societies to separate the "elite" from the "elite" The fact that each year after we win they say wait til next year as the take another hit off Mike London's pipe dream. This season has sucked but kicking the dog shit out of those insufferable pricks will at least make this season tolerable.
As the daughter of two USF alums, I have to think it would be FUN, though :P
so close....
I love it, too.
VT can still make the CFA bowl ONLY IF Clemson beats USC (losing most likely drops them out of BCS at-large range). Due to the "within one game" rule no other eligible teams will be 8-4 (except for FSU and Clemson). So the PEACH Bowl will be able to pick any 7-5 or 6-6 team they want.
I listen to his UVA rant at least once a month
I believe that was Mr Jimmy Williams you are referring to, and I think it may have happened in the same game as the Elvis stomp. Considering Jimmy's history, he was probably mooning the ref when he backed into him or something that would equally justify his ejection. Not that I don't love our players, but some of them make questionable decisions at times.