Folks I got this idea in part because it's a down year and I haven't seen as many UVA hate posts on the boards or on twitter, and partly because my buddy who's a Miami fan (and needs us to beat UVA to make the ACC title) asked me to send him an inspirational speech on how we're going to win tonight's game. I figured if a Miami fan is getting more hype for us this week than some of the Tech fans I know, that's a problem.
So start jumping and let's get fired up!
I'm crowd sourcing all UVA hate stories, inspiration, highlights of old games and anything associated with hate week. And I expect some good ones as everyone starts drinking in anticipation of the game.
I also remember in the past (maybe a WVU game?) we had a Fire me up thread where everyone shared what hype music we were listening to to get hype for the game. So it would be cool to include that as well!
I'll start:
UVA hate for me and my family is deeply personal. To be clear, I've hated them as long as I can remember, before I had any real reason to. As a kid I used to dream about being called into the game if Tech had an injury, so that I could get on the field lay a hit on whoever their top players were that year. (Sitting low and getting to the game early in case your number was called, was a very real thing when I was a kid).
We all got hyped for the game, but nobody hated UVA more than my grandad. I found out later why. My grandad grew up in Virginia during 1930's and was a teenager at the height of the depression. His father was an alcoholic who abandoned the family when things went south (and later helped found AA but that's a different story). So my grandfather, the oldest of the kids, had to work to help the family get by. At the same time he had a very rich uncle who refused to help their family out. This uncle was a UVA grad, who the same year my great grandfather abandoned the family, sent the University of Virginia the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars today, to be used on "lawncare". Yes this pompous, self-centered, better than you attitude at UVA has existed long before today, and is at the very heart of the institution itself. All the better, my grandad paid his way through college and graduated in engineering at Tech. Every man in the family since has been a Tech engineering grad.
Go Hokies and Fuck UVA!
I'll be firing myself up with Dire Straits, Run the Jewels, and some heavy EDM. Starting off with a pack of Millers then getting into some Wild Turkey 101
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Im a Jersey guy who went to Tech and I hate loluva cause they're just so hateable.
Three words:
BELT. TO. ASS.
THIS IS OUR STATE!!!
We're HOKIES, we're bourbon and beer drinkin, women chasin, cannon firin, Sandman jumpin, key janglin, yell till we're hoarse SONS OF BITCHES!!! They can't beat us. As much as little brother tries we always end up getting him in a headlock with a wet Willy and noogie to boot.
Let's show those ascot wearing, zima drinking, pompous asshats whose state this is, AGAIN!!!
LETS GO...
No one anecdote in particular to share, other than a few unpleasant online interactions in the wild where the other party comported themselves in a completely expected fashion. I do have a few good-ol'-boy LOLUVA fan coworkers, and I still don't know the best way to tell them the average graduate of that institution wouldn't pee on them if they were on fire.
My dad grew up just outside Charlottesville and my grandfather was a well-thought-of member of the community there (he was a farmer and one of the first practicing large animal veterinarians in the area). That side of the family are steadfastly committed to fence-sitting when it comes to the rivalry, and they always have been. I forgive them for it, considering.
But the Wahoo vibe has always - always - been rancid. The last time I was on "the grounds," I felt it in the air. It wasn't just humidity. It was douchebaggery. I had to get back in the car before I had an allergic reaction.
I have friends who went there and turned out all right. And if I'm being honest, they're such preppy dandy fops I have a hard time taking them seriously. It's way easier for me to work up some pure hate for WVU and even the likes of Miami, UNC, or Clemson.
But I damn sure don't want little brother taking that Cup tonight. It's been a horrible season, few to none of these coaches will be back and most of the players will be gone too. There is nothing to play but the role of spoiler.
But we can still do Hunter Carpenter proud tonight. We can still go out there and kick their candy asses for 60 minutes. We can still retain the Cup. LET'S GO
Not a UVA hatred origin story, but just a funny interaction. A few years ago, #mywife and I were on our honeymoon in Portugal. One evening, we were enjoying some beers at a tap room in Porto sitting at a table outside. Dude in a UVA hat strolls by on the sidewalk. Of course, I hit him with a "Go Hokies!"... he replies with something like "even on another continent I can't get away from you!!"
I was flying to my friends wedding in Mexico, at the time I was flying a lot and upgraded to first class, but it was a midsized Airbus so everyone walked through first class.
This woman boos me and holds up her hand bag that had the UBA logo on it. She then said something snide Ina typical turn your nose up fashion. It was odd to be because she was in the back and me being in first class. Like read the room lady.
softest bunch of cream puffs, bowtie wearing, brie cheese-eating, ascot-wearing wussies I've ever seen
Man fuck UVA, they don't even want to compete. I can't imagine the leadership at VT would have ever let this program get so bad if we hadn't gone 23-2 in the last 25 games against UVA. Even with as bad as things have become around here we've only lost 1 game since Beamer left. What a terrible rival.
With the biggest damn saguaro 🌵 cactus in New Mexico and 3 hard smacks square on the ass with a cow tongue cactus.
Or, more simply with the horse they rode in on.
I'll never forget going to the restroom at Lane North and having some douchebag UVA fan say, "yea, well, we have higher SAT scores than you." And I responded that nobody gives a fuck about SAT scores and how big of a loser he is to bring that up.
I had a grown man sitting with his grown wife at my hometown bar disparage me and a few fellow VT students for once while home on break. Something to the effect of we didn't have the grades to get into UVA. And it was clear this man didn't even go to UVA and probably didn't even go to college. When the Wahoo gets cornered that's where they go and I think it's hilariously pathetic.
I have to say, I'm dissapointed in a lot of you.
Cheese is wonderful and deserves none of this slander. Don't besmirch the good name of cheese.
UVA sucks though.
My fraternity brother and I went to C-ville for the
38-0 bro2007 game. We stayed with some high school friends of his and hit the town the night before. After a few rounds we decided to streak the lawn. So we head over, strip down and take off to the other side, where we added our own twist to the tradition. I don't know whose statue is on the far side but we climbed up gave the poor bastards a pecker smack on each cheek, ran back to the rotunda and my brother gave the keyhole a Let's Go and I followed up with a Hokies!Additional note, my psychotic fraternity brother greeted my hangover with a hair of the dog concoction of Tequilla and Cheerwine because "that's what I could find". One sip and NOPE on that haha.
I've heard a story where the crossbar from that game is the footrest at a VT fraternity bar. Can't remember where ive heard that, but my foot knows where it is.....
I've got a few stories:
From the 2009 game - I was a senior in high school. I remember walking to my seat from the bathroom before the game started and on my way back some UVA frat douche wearing a bowtie, an untucked white shirt, and boat shoes body checked me and looked back all smug about how big a man he was. I was 17. That cemented to me that going to VT was the right call.
Later in that game my dad (also a VT alum and a TKP lurker) and I were sitting next to a UVA fan. After Vic Hall, playing wildcat QB, ripped off a run early in the game, he turned to us and said somehow along the lines of "see? We've got a dumb black guy who can run, too." My dad and I were stunned hearing such blatant and disgusting racism from a random person.
2 years later at the 38-0, bro game I got a good chuckle when the UVA fans in front of me stuck their fingers in their ears because I was yelling too loudly 😂
My dirty secret is that I actually applied to UVA early decision back in the day. I was deferred and ultimately denied, and thank God I did. The trajectory of my life would've been much douchier, and I absolutely love my Orange and Maroon life now.
Being in the MVs for five years is a central part of my VT story, and seeing LOLUVA athletics up close made it crazy easy to hate them. Somehow they have both a superiority and a Napoleon complex. Truly the worst athletic organization I have ever seen.
My dirty secret is...I actually have a graduate degree from UVA. It was really surprisingly easy and I ended up with a 3.7 gpa. I thought it was way easier than VT lol.
TRAITOR! BURN HIM!
Also got my other grad degree from UNC. I'm a spy sent to undermine the enemies.
The network is expanding. ODU and working on GT. I tried everything I could to prevent the elevator debacle. My cover got blown
They're too damn lazy to come up with their own flight song so they sing about being gay Virginians (not that there's anything wrong with that) to Auld Lang Syne.
Went to the game at Lane North in 2013. Got some cheap nosebleed seats with a couple buds. We thought we were at a football game, and so we were standing, being loud, and having fun.
This family of toothless Walmart fans who very obviously didn't have a single family member that had ever even applied to UVA kept relentlessly whining and/or yelling at us for our despicable behavior. We ignored them and they were so disgusted they left.
After the game, got to watch the kick six ending to the iron bowl in the car leaving the parking lot.
My mom's cousin (who played football at Tech and is the reason I went there) was coaching at Maryland in the mid-2000s and one of those seasons Maryland played in Charlottesville. We took one of my best friends who had applied to both Tech and UVA, among other schools. UVA crushed Maryland and we heard their goddamn band play iron man for Chris Long and their godforsaken fight song so many times that my friend went home and pulled his application to UVA. I hated UVA from that day forward.
Side note: my first experience watching VT football was the Thursday night game that Darren Evans ran for 250 yards against that Maryland team. I was not happy that day. Pretty crazy that just a couple years later I would be cheering in the stands for Tech and Darren Evans lol
Edit- Wrong thread