I would hate to take a class taught by Kirk Herbstreit. He seems entirely too demanding. This is a guy who can come up with any number of reasons why the grade of ‘A’ should not be conferred. He most definitely does not believe in grading on a curve. The more coherent of ESPN’s Gameday loud [...]

Virginia Tech made it through its trap game while the Silver Chalice changed hands. The un-deification of Chuckie continued and football season officially ended at Duke. A hurricane screwed with the Hurricanes. It was another grand weekend of ACC football. The weekend actually began on Wednesday with a lovely drive up I-81 through the Shenandoah Valley. [...]

All in all, it was not a bad Open Date. A weekend when Virginia Tech was playing no football found me spending a Saturday in my recliner watching football on television rather than in a stadium. If one had to choose a weekend to observe football as it is played in the rest of the [...]

Last place in the Atlantic Division is up for grabs. The Butler gets a day off and an ‘Atta boy’ from Wake. The long knives are drawn in Chapel Hill. Tech fans had REALLY better be worried now. There’s never a dull moment around these parts. It was not exactly up there with the Pakistan earthquake [...]

It was an impressive show of security Tech marshaled for Marshall. Gang warfare in Boston produced casualties. Big John spent a Saturday scoreboard-watching. The Rolling Stones produced no even bigger bang in Hooville and a demonstration that the busses still can’t run on time at Duke. It was an interesting few days around these parts. One [...]

Ah, another home game. Virginia Tech returns home to Lane Stadium to complete the hardscrabble portion of its schedule against the other team from that charming state to the west. This week’s visit by Marshall doesn’t seem to be carrying quite the Holy Crusades sort of emotion that accompanied the Tech team last week to [...]

It was a fairly normal morning. I was engaged in my customary practice of reading area newspapers on the Internet. Taking a break to re-fill my coffee cup, I took the opportunity to glance over the fish-wrap edition of the local Danville Register and Bee. I was astounded. Tucked behind the usual stories about the necessity [...]

It was a fitting exclamation point. The longstanding rivalry between Virginia Tech and West Virginia was winding down. Tech was not long from winning this final Coal Bowl and depositing the Black Diamond Trophy in the case at Merryman for a very long time. What had become a very bitter mountain feud needed a punctuation [...]