https://hokiesports.com/news/2025/01/15/virginia-tech-football-vick-name...
The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Football Hall of Fame announced Wednesday that Virginia Tech legend Michael Vick is one of 22 new inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame. The class of 2025 includes 18 first-team All-America players and four coaches.
Vick was selected as a First Team All-American in 1999 as a redshirt freshman, making him the first Tech freshman to ever achieve the honor. Playing for Hall of Fame coach Frank Beamer and with Hall of Fame teammate Corey Moore anchoring the defense, Vick helped guide Tech to the school's first ever 11-0 regular season in 1999 and its first appearance in a national championship game, the Sugar Bowl against Florida State.
"Michael revolutionized the quarterback position with his combination of speed, accuracy, and big, strong arm," said Beamer, a 2018 College Football Hall of Fame inductee. "He inspired a new generation of dual-threat quarterbacks. No one did more than he did to put the Virginia Tech program on the national stage. I am grateful for the opportunity to coach him and thrilled he is being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame."
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Absolutely deserves it.
Congratulations.
Not gonna lie, I saw the headline and my mind read "Michael Vick selected for.....Defensive Coordinator", lol.
Really need this to be over with!
I almost put "Norfolk State Head Coach Michael Vick ...." lmao
It's very kind of them to say "first appearance in a national championship game" lol
25 years too late!
Not sure when he was eligible, but should be a first ballot HOF.
The numbers don't support it but he should be a NFL HOF as well. Allen Iverson of the NFL.
Damn. This hurts because it's true. lol
If we're being honest, Vick wasn't nearly as good in the NFL as Iverson was in the NBA.
And while he was (and still is) the most athletic QB in NFL history, I wouldn't quite say he was a trailblazer either. He wasn't the first "running QB" (that would probably be Randall Cunningham), and he didn't really change the position considering that the majority of elite NFL quarterbacks this century have still been primarily pocket passers.
Vick did lead the first NFL team to ever beat Green Bay at home in the playoffs.
Tim Tebow is the only Denver QB drafted by the team to win a playoff game. Equally "important" stat.
You are just a ray of fucking sunshine, aren't you?
Yep- I hate Vick too- you nailed it. I love Vick, he is VT. He did much more than beat GB in Lambeau though- something Kaepernick among others have done since.
Why are you always responding to things people didn't say? It's like you're having an argument with yourself and the rest of us are just confused. Maybe try not being so prickly and abrasive and aggressively defensive towards every comment. It's exhausting.