The Wreck in the Hills 12/20/07 It’s like riding past a particularly gruesome automobile accident. You know you shouldn’t look, but you just can’t help it. The fascination of what you might see overrides all sense of decency. Such it is with the multi-car pileup that the situation in the Hills has become. The wreckage [...]

These continue to be great amusement to be found in college athletics. Within the last few days, we have seen chaos erupt in the Hills and David Cutcliffe decide to end his coaching career. And how about that hilarity in Hooville? By now, it should go without saying that college coaching is a sleazy business [...]

During my early-morning jaunts around the Internet taking full advantage of the possibilities offered by the Information Age, there are numbers of things that catch my eye. These are some of those things. As of this writing, there are two Virginia Tech football teams with games remaining. One of them actually has a chance to [...]

The prognosticators were right after all. Last August, the media covering ACC football picked, in overwhelming fashion, Virginia Tech to win the league’s football championship. While being tabbed the favorite in the post-expansion ACC has usually been the kiss of death, the media, lo and behold, this time got it right. Tech actually won the [...]

A very interesting part of college football, at least from this perch, is the annual observance of the coaching carousel. As is always the case this time of year, the comings and goings are numerous. Some are downright amusing. Out in the Ozarks, Arkansas coach Houston Nutt, fresh off of ending LSU’s MNC march, decided [...]

It’s all a matter of perspective. That came through loud and clear in Sunday’s fish-wrap edition of the Daily Hoo. Splashed across the front of the sports section in large type and big bold letters was the summation of the previous day’s activity from the local point of view. It read: BUMMERBALL. Not from where [...]

And now the Hoos. With Tech’s perfunctory thrashing of a Canes team that showed that while it might be Backless it is not quite spineless out of the way, it is off to Hooville for the first Really Big Game in the long history of old rivals Tech and the Hoos. The winner grabs the [...]

While few seem to be noticing, it is Tech-Canes Week. To say that the usual luster is missing from this game is to put it mildly. Well, that sure ain’t Tech’s fault. The Tech-Miami game for over a decade has generally had a huge bearing on conference and national championships. Tech used back-to-back wins over [...]

I recently got around to watching the replay of the Virginia Tech- Florida State game. It was immensely satisfying to observe Frank again flinging the Bowden Monkey off his back and relieving to see that between the end of the game I saw and the time Comcast replayed it Tuesday night Bobby had not found [...]

Well, that was fun. In one of those ‘Lane After Dark’ moments that demonstrate that those ‘loudest stadium in the country’ remarks are not all hyperbole, Tech staged an impressive Fourth Quarter rally to knock off Florida State. Frank’s ‘Bobby Jinx’ is over. And, further amusement was to be found from a score in the [...]