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There's always grad school :D
(Today was my first day and I just got the info email from hokiesports about how student season tickets are gonna work. Football is baaaaaaack)
We had no ticket lottery so had to wait in line outside Cassell for tickets. Fraternities/Sororities had resources (lots of people) to take shifts and could stand in line for days while the rest of had to go to class. The only games that sold out were UVa and some other rivalry games, plus homecoming.
Cheerleaders would throw out tiny plastic footballs at halftime, so if you were in the lower rows you might get one if you were lucky. I still have one from around 1982/3.
Not sure about when this started/ended but people would make a stack out of stadium cups, some reaching up to twenty feet long.
There were no South end zone or North end zone seats. The East side extension was built during my tenure.
Have you ever seen someone smuggle in a half gallon bottle of Jim Beam?
I like the atmosphere now. I could never have envisioned this is what VT football would become but I like it. No, I love it!
My old dorm room is now an office! Third floor of Femoyer.
Class of '84. Offense is definitely more exiciting than what we had.
I wish him a full recovery and hope this is just a blip in a stellar career.
Although I am still nervous about the expectations on LT. When he struggles early, which is very likely, we need to realize this is his first year as a starter and he is still very green. When he makes mistakes in later games we need to remember he is still learning. He has not played a full game and been uder the same pressures he will face. I hope he surprises us all and makes big plays when we need it. I don't buy into the NC talk, at least not yet, since he has not yet proven what he can do.
Did you wear a suit too?'
Joe sums it up about right. I've been to Blacksburg three times and they've all been great experiences. It's an overall great environment for football.
because I was there in the Bill Dooley era (for all of you Steiny detractors, you should have seen the three-off-tackle-plays-and-punt offense then). But on the plus side, I did get to see some incredible athletes...Cyrus Laurence was amazing...not to mention Bruce Smith(no superlative is adequate here). I've always gravitated toward defense oriented football, and the Dooley teams from 1980-1983 were just that...good, sometimes great defense, so-so offense. Most memorable game had to be the 1980 Wahoo beat-down (30-0, with what was, at the time, the largest crowd to ever witness a football game in the state of VA...stadium expansion wasn't even complete at the time...no north or south stands, no big press box, east side was under construction). My last year, the Hokies went 9-2 and got snubbed by the bowls, a complication of being a football independent at the time, which was a major disappointment. So, to see where we've come since then is incredible.
Oh....and I NEVER left a game early!!
We need to blow out teams we are supposed to beat and easily win the tough games. OOC games are much more important to our ranking than conference games. Conf. games are about pride.
...to see Ryan go down like this when there couldn't be a better football player representing us hokies. let me explain and i apologize for it being so long but its worth it.
Three years ago, I had a hunch about RW because our defense was saying how he was the best back they played against all year while on the scout team. i'm sure you all remember the hype and with DE going down with the injury, i thought RW would have a solid year.
So I made colin, my newborn son at the time, a 34 jersey for RW’s first game against bama. Although we lost the game. as you know, he showed flashes of being great. So I put that pic of my son on facebook with a comment about how the bama game was RW’s coming out party and he was going to do great things that year (09-10). well after the game, he commented on the photo with something like, ‘thanks for the love, I appreciate it more than you know.’
After that and throughout the next two seasons, we kept in touch through facebook and twitter (as much as a fan and player could keep in touch without ever meeting) mostly talking football of course like the unc game in 09 (i sent him a message of encouragement after the fumble) and uva/tenn game to end the year as well as before the boise game last year and during the draft this year.
RW always quickly responded and always gave thanks and showed he cared about his fans.
Then last may, my wife asked him if he could send me something for her as my anniversary gift because she knows how much i love VT football and how much i followed RW.…he responded to her immediately and said, ‘no problem, anything for nick, he has been there supporting me since day 1’. so i was pretty hyped and couldn’t stop thinking what it could be…maybe it was a signed picture or maybe, just maybe a signed jersey or something like that.
it was BETTER, unbelievably better. It was something i could never have imagined.
Ryan Williams, arguably the greatest running back in VT history, someone who broke 4 major VT/ACC records in 09-10 gave me his GAME WORN maroon helmet from that record season, visor and mouth/guard still attached, personalized to me.
and after i thanked him on twitter, he simply said : ‘thank YOU for the love bro, you (my son actually) were repping #34 before 99% of anyone else.’
I still can’t believe it and its been 2 months since i got it in the mail. i probably thanked him about 30 times on twitter since than. lol It is seriously amazing to think that i have something that valuable from someone of that caliber of a player. i’m astonished that RW would do something like that for a fan he has never met, but simply someone who showed support during his VT days. its truly inspiring and will be the one of the first things i reference when i talk to my son about being a humble caring person.
It speaks volumes to what kind of player the arizona cardinals organization now has and its just not fair that something like this happened to such a good kid. I just hope he can come back and do the one thing that he loves to do so much and can impact the lives of thousands of other fans the way he did me and my son.
a true class act and a hokie we should all be proud of.
thanks for listening.
-coop.
Let's cut to the chase and just morph the NCAA into the SEC. A 128 team conference.
Yes, was right around the corner....great place...was in 271 the first year, 263 for three years afterward
Buns in the oven? Must be a soft brie-loving UVa quarterback to gets sacked.
Paper airplanes and the wave should be outlawed in Lane
One game in the student section, a guy was trying to start the wave, about the 10th time he ran past me, I told him if you run by one more time I'm going to plant your ass like Adibi would, that was the end of his attempt to get the wave going
My experience, like anyone who spent their undergrad in the band, was a bit different, but nonetheless very similar to a typical student gameday experience. Thankfully, the MVs are some of the most hardcore fans in the stadium, and having seats (read: standing room) in the NEZ for four years doesn't hurt either.
Ironically, I finally got to have a chance at being a regular student after I graduated. I bought student season tickets under the name of a friend of mine in the MVs, and I'd just pick them up every week from him before the game. Since MVs can buy student season tickets, but don't need them, they're perfect for this situation. The folks at the gate don't (or didn't, at least) check to make sure the name on the student ID matches the name on the ticket, much less check if your ID is even active.
I wish more people would understand that watching the ball is more important than anything else while in Lane Stadium!
My favorite part of the game was that aTm was called for a false start on the very first play of the game!
My parents both went to Tech and it was destiny that I would be a Hokie. My first game in Lane stadium was the BCA Classic vs Georgia Tech when I was 12 years old. I heard Enter Sandman saw the lightning strikes and I was sold, without even seeing a single snap.
My first year was the last year of the waiting in line to get tickets. For the UVA game that year, we camped out for 2 days in November. We rotated who would go to class and who would answer the hourly role call that was administered to ensure you didn't sign up and leave. We didn't have a tent or sleeping bags and slept outside in the cold of Blacksburg in November. I think my throat is still sore from those few days/nights! The guys that had the van parked in front of Cassell with the TV and video game systems are still idols of mine...
I'll be sure to tell my roommates (who have cars) about this. Finding parking for tailgating after classes is a huge pain especially on Thursday nights.
Don't treat football games as a social event, yes you can be a social here and there, but talking through the whole game about shit other than football will probably make the true fans around you hate your guts by the end of it. It gets annoying. You're there to watch the game, not to talk about who dumped who the weekend before. Talking the entire time just means you aren't screaming when the defense is on the field, which is one less voice that can help force the opposing offense into a mistake.
I was born in 81 and a freshman in 2000. However, if my memory is correct, 263 was around the corner from me on the Barringer side of Vawter.
I left Nebraska game 2 minutes before it ended. TWO FRIGGIN MINUTES! I cant get that back. Damn you girlfriend for being hungry and wanting to hit the Quesadilla line before anyone else.
I was also blessed by hitting the 5 year stretch of 03-08. Miami was my all time favorite game as I had to literally sit at war at 5 am to be in line for tickets. Mine were in the East Stands but I had to basically sit nose bleeds closer to the South. Some fuck face had the audacity to claim his seat. HE WAS BY HIMSELF! and proceeded to try to push me down the bleachers. My freshman hallmates luckily grabbed me and pushed back. Also loved the hurricane aTm game where I had to get in a ski position to remain from being blown over. I was 120lbs then haha.
6) How about the asshole who ruins it for other fans with you. My most prolific shit show happened against '06 against GT wherein I had two full cups of Jack and washed it down with Bacardi 151. My performance included hitting on a fraternity brothers mom in front of dad, screaming my girlfriend of two weeks name for an hour bent over the bed of a truck, and having a BT personally Taxi me home devoid of any sanctioned BT stops. Point here is have fun but "dont be that guy". Its utterly embarassing waking up to your head and elbow wrapped in gauze.
Alumni Rule: Yes, do be nice to us. We will give back to the university later, give donations to respective organizations, and pump money into the local economy by buying massive amounts of regalia so please let us into our old hall to drain the lizzard. We also love meeting you and share war vstories.
also, i don't know if it was the first time we've ever worn them, but we rocked the all maroon unis that night. man, this thread makes me insanely jealous of all the new freshmen starting school today
Pedro Phillips (DE) doing his "wind-up" before a play started?...hilarious!