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Busy, Busy
It was certainly a busy week for ACC athletics. Between the silliness known as football recruiting coverage, the release of the 2010 schedule and the normal amounts of ACC basketball seen in February, area sports fans were hopping keeping track of it all. Maybe it was best that the snow kept people at home and [...]
Cold Chicken 01/04/10
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 [...]
Broken Glass 11/30/09
The A-Line Board of Football Experts Jim on WSET-TV [middle-aged?] “I’m sure I will always call the guy in the glass a friend.”- algroh And so it ended. Hoo football coach algroh was algrohed early Sunday, following what must have been one of the shortest program evaluations ever undertaken. The reign of the Great NFL Legend Poetry Reader [...]
Down East 11/10/09
Congratulations, Ivan! The A-Line Board of Football Experts Virginia Tech- East Carolina Tailgate pix at the Clubhouse Tailgate A win is a win is a win and Tech won. Considering how the second half of October had gone, it was nice to win again, finally. Style points don’t show up in the record. Virginia Tech ventured into the land [...]
Black Thursday 11/03/09
The A-Line Board of Football Experts “We came in with a very specific plan.”- algroh Well, that was certainly embarrassing. The Virginia Tech football season came to an abrupt end last Thursday night, or so it seemed, as the Hokies somehow or another managed to lose to North Carolina. Let’s have a quick show of hands: how [...]
The Week That Was 10/06/09
The A-Line Board of Football Experts Well, that was a fun weekend. Well, take away the nagging cough, sniffles and general all-around feeling of malaise that won’t seem to go away [the rain during the Canes game- the gift that keeps on giving] and it was still a fun weekend. Well, take away the annoying [...]
Back and Backless 09/28/09
“The U might be back, but we never left.” – Rashad Carmichael “They’re a lot better than I thought they were.”- Bobby Bowden The A-Line Board of Football Experts So, it turned out the emperor had no Back. After a week in which the national media in general and ESPN in particular set new standards for media irresponsibility [...]
Miracle on Spring Road 09/21/09
“The U might be back, but we never left.” – Rashad Carmichael “They’re a lot better than I thought they were.”- Bobby Bowden The A-Line Board of Football Experts Well, that was fun. Virginia Tech coupled a crisp, well-executing offense with its usual outstanding  defense to totally dominate Nebraska on the way to a solid 16-15 wipeout of [...]
A Horse of a Different Color 09/14/09
“We need an eraser.“- algroh The A-Line Board of Football Experts What a difference a week makes! Things went a little better for both Virginia Tech and most of the rest of the ACC. A week after being utterly embarrassed in the OOC corral, this time only one team was thrown. There seemed to be little wrong with [...]
Game Travel 09/02/09
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. [...]