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It came about every 15 minutes on Toms Creek and was packed with near puking freshmen fri/sat nights.
I pushed a black Ford Taurus that I pimped out with two tens and neon lights underneath the front dash.
that is one sweet ride.
definitely sweeter than my 87 Jetta I had in Bburg.
He is also playing against the Bud Foster D. I expect he will throw some picks during the year. Hopefully it will not impact the outcome of any game.
working on the image...
From all the film I've seen Logan has been underthrowning go routes for INT's...
He is best of playaction (who isn't?) but his straight drop concerns me
"big Ben" comes to mind
He can make some big plays with his feet
He needs to stop throwing picks!
North EndZone were 2 stories high of student bleechers... With ample guard railings to protect against intoxication
1) There are no assigned seats in the North End Zone. I agree about no assigned seats in the North End Zone. In fact I am sort of a pioneer b/c I was one of the first people to sit/stand there. They did not exist for my first year at Tech but when UVA came to town as the #17 ranked team in the country the ticket demand was so great that they put temporary bleachers where the North End Zone "seats" are now. After we one the game I stormed the field with about 3500 of my closest friends and we tore down the north goal post. So I am like the f'ing Daniel Boone of the North End Zone.
2) Wear orange in September, maroon the rest of the season. I had never heard this rule and I am guilty of breaking it multiple times. I am a little sad that you are effectively shelving my DWECFAOS, Seattle Hokie and Hokies United shirt until October. Or does this just mean if you are going to the game?
3) Do not enter the student ticket lottery only to scalp the tickets. Tech wasn't good enough my first years there to warrant scalping a ticket. Besides the UVA game, Lane was never full and I was lucky enough to be a student during the Will Furrer/Maurice DeShazo eras.
4) Regardless of the score, or the time remaining, never leave a game early. I live by this now, but in the early years this was hard to do. I also went to VT at Pitt in '93 and left after VT was up 42-6 at half. We were out of booze so we had to head to a bar, had to. I do now live by the rule that I never stop watching the game or listening to it if I am too pissed off to watch.
5) Know when to be loud. Its sad this needs to be told. STFU when we have the ball, simple enough. Cheer when we get a 1st down, make a big play or score but make it quick and STFU if we still have the ball. Otherwise, drink, text, twitter, speak with your neighbors and be as loud as possible when we don't have the ball.
6) Don't be an asshole. I agree to an certain extent. I am always friendly to opposing teams fans. I don't want it put in my face when the opposing team is doing well so I will not do it to others. But if you are an asshole first and I have been drinking, this rule is thrown right out the window. At the Boise game last year a Boise fan kept getting in my face every time they did something good. I didn't bite my tongue. I told him that I hoped they didn't win another game, played in a shitty bowl and I hoped his trip back was miserable. Also, I have a pretty good friend from high school that went to WVU. After they crushed us on a miserable night in Morgantown in '03 he called me the next day to gloat. I hung up on him and we have not spoken since. I am Italian, I never forget and I can easily take a grudge to the grave with absolutely no regret.
7) The coaches aren't looking up into the stands listening to what you think they should do like they're a confused Price is Right contestant. This is tough. Everyone is an expert, add a little booze and you become a professor. Its just too hard to follow this rule.
8) Ladies are subject to being tossed into the air one time for every point on the scoreboard after each touchdown. I have to go with HokiESQ on this one. Ask politely before tossing a lady, if denied, move on.
9) Never, ever, let schoolwork get in the way of going to a football game. I never let that happen and I don't let it get in the way of my life, mainly b/c it is my life. I did miss watching/listening to 2 games due to weddings. Both times I had a non-smartphone with someone watching the game texting me with updates the whole time until I could get to a tv.
I can definitely say a game in the Swamp to end the regular season would be quite a sight. I'm actually taking grad classes here at UF, and I can attest that - although nothing will replace or surpass my true home in Lane - the Swamp is everything they say it is.
With all of the talk of super conferences, I just don't see it. Unless the BCS is visibly dissolving in front of our eyes, there is little potential for 4-16 team conferences. As it stands now, the lower tier teams can cherry pick and still walk out of a year with 4 wins (see UVA.) Now, if they were to play an 11 game league schedule, quite a few of those teams could end up with 1 or 2 wins a year. Think of the Vandy's, Miss St's, Iowa St's, Washington St's, etc. Their preach academics, but nothing sells like wins. A 4-8 season is NOT the end of the world to them. Next year it could be 7-5...who knows. But, playing in a super conference could spell a horrendous year. That's the bottom teams. Look at how Texas dealt with a 5-7 season last year. What if that were every year????
And that's just in football. With several major conferences in basketball, they can spread the wealth around and get their fair share into the dance. Look at the Big East the past few years. Again, with the super conferences, the number of teams in may not go up dramatically...can you imagine a 15-17 Kansas State team getting in over a 24-5 VCU simply because they are in the Big 16? I just don't think the suits at the top will allow it...
But, it would be awesome in football if it did!!!!!
The thing we all hate about the Virginia Tech offense is that it is not as dynamic as other fun and flashy offenses in college football (see Oregon), but it is this style that also protects a very green quarterback. I fully expect Logan Thomas to have a few bad games this year, but I believe our team is strong enough and our competition is weak enough to win despite a few mistakes... as long as they don't come at the wrong time. In fact if Logan doesn't struggle and make mistakes in the first few games I will be worried that they will come when games really matter during ACC play. Overall the more lessons he can learn earlier in his career will help the team reach their ultimate potential, whether it is at the end of the season in a BCS bowl or in a few years against Alabama.
p.s. I can't wait for Enter Sandman time in 10 days 14 hours 36mins...
If you look at the first year starter QBs to win championships there are big differences from what Logan is compared to them. McElroy was a Texas star who had never lost a game in his life when he became a starter and played QB through his entire career and had 4 years or so at Bama before starting. Matt Flynn was another Texas stud who had 4 years under his belt at LSU before starting at QB and went onto win a title. Then you have Cam Newton who was the JUCO stud. You look at guys like that and there is more experience with them--and then you look at the teams surrounding them and those were teams that had more capabale defenses.
I think we will be lucky to have a "Bryan Randall" type season with 10 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. We are going to run the ball more than we ever have. Bud has already said Logan will be running the ball quite a bit. Compared to what we had in 07 and 08 with Tyrod and Glennon, we have a better running game. Evans was good, but Wilson is better. Our O-line is much improved since then as well. I think Logan knows he doesnt need to carry the team so there isn't so much pressure but this year his growing pains will produce maybe 8-12 touchdowns and around 10 interceptions. We keep hearing about how important Logan's abilities are this year...but the truth is it doesnt matter that much. Our O-line depth is sound and we have a stud running back. All Logan has to do is not be AWFUL and I trust that he won't be. Herbstreit just said he expects the new star of the ACC to be David Wilson and he is right about that.
My prediction for this year is we lay an egg in the regular season, who that is is anybodys guess. It all boils down to the game in Charlotte against Florida State, and my feeling is that we have taken enough abuse in history from the Seminoles and the momentum is back on our side. They will be flying high on hype and nobody will see it coming when we beat them to play in the Orange bowl again this year. If we win the Orange Bowl I would consider it a great season. If Logan Thomas turns out to be an elite quarterback, then we are about to enter a truly special season.
Always was a fan of their seasonals too
if this yr, would mean peach bowl. can't make the thurs night game.
i want to see the porter bar pretty bad.
Does anybody remember went Imoh ran for about 240 yards against UNC in Chapel Hill and held the single game rushing record until Evans broke it against Maryland? I was at that game in Chappel Hill and there were about 10 UNC fans wearing suits behind me and they responded to us shaking our keys on 3rd down by shaking dollar bills and chanting "You're gonna clean our Summer homes!" Its because of those moments that I am proud to be a hokie. Here is to VT thumping the over-privileged degenerates that permeate the ACC.
I'm old enough to remember the SMU death penalty, and it ended up killing the SWC.
Point well taken, especially with the likelihood of 16 team mega conferences right around the corner. Like you guys said, the death penalty at Miami would put the ACC on shaky ground. I honestly don't know what a television ban for them means for us. Can the game be televised locally in Blacksburg and just not nationally or in their market, or do you have to be in Lane to see it? At the end of the day it would make an already attractive conference more ugly.
With the way everything is shaping up it looks like the SEC, Big Ten and Pac-12 are here for the long haul, and the Big 12 is done for. It don't think it's a given the ACC will survive and the Big East will fail.
thats freakin awesome. classic
I almost told that part of us going to the bathroom at our seats/under our ponchos but felt too ashamed to share!!!
Hokieguy81, how could you leave out the fact that I was with you at that game and it was raining so hard that I never had to take a trip to the bathroom.
If the death penalty is levied against the canes, I can envision that the ACC starts down the rocky road to dissolution. I agree, the TV contract would at least come up for re-negotiation, very likely cancellation. The money tree starts to dry up for the member schools, and if the SEC comes calling for at least one of the ACC members (FSU? VT?), I can see the conference falling apart like you pulled a can from the bottom row of a display at the grocery store. It could create a "perfect storm" of sorts. I'm old enough to remember the SMU death penalty, and it ended up killing the SWC. For that reason alone, I think the NCAA would be very hesitant to apply the death penalty to the canes. If there's another shoe out there to drop (a second "rouge" booster perhaps?) they might consider it more closely, but I think the suits in Kansas City will stop shy of shelving the program in South Florida. I think you're going to see some MAJOR sanctions, if even half of the allegations are proven. No bowls for multiple years, severe scholarship limitations, etc, etc. If any of the 15 or so current players on the roster are found to be in violation, they might get banned. We likely won't know much til the end of the season, so I'll be in wait-and-see-mode.
As a freshman, I rode a sweet Huffy around campus... Later, I had a Toyota pickup that was an awesome upgrade until it blew a head gasket and sat in my parking lot for a few weeks until a buddy towed it 250 miles back to my parent's house!