The A-Line Board of Football Experts Well, that was fun. Virginia Tech’s 2009 football season ended where it had begun, in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome against an SEC team. From this Hokie point of view, the results were considerably more satisfying. As always is the case, the trip was great fun. Things got underway last Tuesday morning. I [...]

Once again, a long and dreary Dead Zone is at an end. Very soon, football will be played. The tedium of waiting is almost over. Like thirty-some odd thousand other Hokies and an equal if not greater number of Bama fans, I will in a couple of days be journeying to Atlanta to observe the opener. [...]

05/19/09 There is precious little to comment on these days, one of the reasons this site’s updates have become less frequent. There is a bit of news, what promises to be an excellent example of media overkill and an Atlanta announcement that will be of interest to some. The ACC last week held its Spring meetings. You [...]

04/27/2009 How about that Spring Game? Was that fun or what? Well, for the most part it was. The Virginia Tech Spring Game drew a crowd of 41,000, claimed to be the largest in the history of Tech holding these things. It was certainly the biggest I had seen in the 15 or so years I have [...]

The Virginia Tech Spring Game is now all that stands between us and another dreary Dead Zone. It will be a long four months. The social event that is the Tech Spring Game will mark the end of the 2008-09 sports year. It began with a bonus game trip to South Carolina to watch NC State [...]

There ain’t much separating us from another Dead Zone. In this Commonwealth, we are down to two weekends. Spring football practice will conclude at Virginia Tech and Hooville with two notable social events, the Tech Spring Game and the always-exciting Hoo Football Festivus. I doubt there will be many people attending both. It is always interesting [...]

As usually happens this time of year, the NCAA has decided to conduct a basketball tournament. Once again, that august body’s Selection Committee closeted themselves in a luxury hotel, not emerging until they had thoroughly screened and vetted both the potential teams and room service options. We have the Final Sixty-Five. The NCAA Tournament will again [...]

We now have an answer to the question of ‘Suppose the ACC gave a football championship game and nobody came?’ The answer, of course, is ‘Virginia Tech would win it, as usual.’ The Hokies knocked off Fredo last Saturday in the relative solitude of Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium. If Tech is going to continue to split [...]

Thawed out yet? That exhilarating display of offensive football in brisk conditions last Saturday night was certainly a wonder to behold. Uh, let’s rephrase that. Brisk? Brisk my [still] numb hindquarters. It was damn cold. Let’s try this again. That miserable display of offensive ineptitude on the frozen tundra of Lane Stadium last Saturday night sure [...]

Many will recall the riotous adventures experienced last year by the Clubhouse Tailgate in dealing with Catch-17. The marvelously-devious Catch-17 stated that RVs must have a parking permit to park in Lot 17, then the designated RV lot, unless one had a parking permit, in which case it could not park in Lot 17. Enacting [...]