Winning Again 09/22/08 Act 2, a win is a win is a win. For the second straight week, the Virginia Tech football team garnered few style points. For the second straight week, they looked downright ugly at times. For the second straight week, they still managed to win. For the second straight week, they won [...]
With the football season right around the corner, this seems like as good a time as any to make my annual football predictions. As always, these predictions are guaranteed to be correct unless they are not. Atlantic Division 1] Florida State- For 16 years the Noles have resided atop ACC preseason forecasts. For most of [...]
04/23/08 The Spring football season has come and gone. It culminated last Saturday at Virginia Tech with the Spring Game, actually played this year. I’m told it was as most, with virtually nothing to be gleaned. I can’t say for sure, as I didn’t actually see it. I was in the vicinity of Lane, with [...]
Comeback Weekend 03/03/08 There were five ACC games played over the weekend. All five at various points had one team holding a double-digit lead. What made the whole business somewhat interesting is that four of the five managed to lose. Things kicked off in grand style noon Saturday with Duke playing at NC State. Given [...]
The time has come. The suitcase has finally been unpacked from the Miami trip. The coolers have been relegated to their off-season basement location for another year. The used tickets, programs and assorted other detritus from a season that tends to collect on my kitchen table from September to early January has been stashed into [...]
It was a trip that was much anticipated. From the time that Tech put away Fredo in the ACC Championship Game, securing a berth in the Orange Bowl, the notion of a journey to Miami was attractive. A few days spent frolicking in the signature South Florida warm weather, enjoying tropical breezes and libations under [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]