Draft Day

Don't you think the Atlanta Falcons should start sending a stipend or some scholarship money to Va Tech since we have basically become a farm team for their draft picks......

ESPN.com - NCF - ACC team-by-team spring guide

ESPN.com - NCF - ACC team-by-team spring guide

Virginia Tech Hokies
• The Hokies open spring practice March 22 and finish with the spring game on April 15.

• After four years of stability on coach Frank Beamer's staff, there was a flurry of change this offseason. The most recent movement involves former NC State head coach Mike O'Cain, who replaced Kevin Rogers as the Hokies' quarterbacks coach in late February. Rogers took a job with the Minnesota Vikings. Curt Newsome was hired to coach Tech's tight ends and offensive tackles, replacing Danny Pearman, while former Wake Forest assistant Kevin Sherman will coach the team's receivers. Sherman takes over for Tony Ball, who left Blacksburg after eight seasons to take the running backs post at Georgia. O'Cain's first order of business will be to find a replacement for starting quarterback Marcus Vick, who was booted off the team in January.

ESPN.com - NCB - Va. Tech forward suspended for kicking Duke player

ESPN.com - NCB - Va. Tech forward suspended for kicking Duke player: "Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver suspended sophomore forward Deron Washington for Saturday's game at Wake Forest for kicking Duke's Lee Melchionni in the face during Thursday night's game."

Maybe moving to the ACC wasn't the best idea. It's like we've been corrupted by thug life. I don't want Va Tech to get that FSU/Miami reputation.....

Human Nature

Isn't funny how some people only seem to want to talk about your favorite team after something bad has happened? There are those that relsih in the failure of others. I have had more people come to me and ask my what happened to Marcus like I was on the field or in the parking lot during his recent demise. Then, when I refuse to make excuses for him, they hope I will insult him, call him a punk, that sort of thing. He was once a Hokie and even though I refuse to make excuses for him since he has been kicked off the team, at the same time I refuse to spout disparaging remarks about him because he once was part of the family........

Excellent Article

ESPN.com - COLUMNIST - Wojciechowski: Two backs, two cautionary tales: "Common lives, plenty of questions for Vick, Clarett
Wojciechowski
By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com
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The convenient reaction is to call Marcus Vick and Maurice Clarett thugs. Or punks. Or ungrateful, numb-from-the-neck-up crazies who co-authored the book, 'How To Screw Up Your Life Before Your 23rd Birthday.'

They had everything. They have nothing. Cautionary tales, right?

Call it coincidence, fate, sad destiny … whatever … but Vick and Clarett have more in common than recent photo sessions with police mug shot cameras. They share a childhood, a confusion, a confluence of circumstances that should give you pause before dismissing them as knuckleheads who deserve whatever bed they've short-sheeted.

In 2002, both were college freshmen in their home states: Vick at Virginia Tech, where he was expected to continue the legacy established by his famous brother, Michael; Clarett at Ohio State, where the Buckeyes soon would name him the first true OSU freshman to start at running back since 1943. No pressure there.

Vick grew up in a part of Newport News, Va., that was harder than the back of your father's hand. Visitors drove through quickly and with their car doors locked. That explains why Michael later used some of his Nike and Atlanta Falcons money to buy his mother a brand-new house in upscale Suffolk.

Clarett lived with his two brothers and 11 cousins at his grandmother's house in a Youngstown, Ohio, 'neighborhood' -- if you can call a ghetto a neighborhood -- where the sound of gunshots was commonplace. He ate pork and beans for dinner, a couple of folded slices of bologna (no bread) for lunch. By the time he enrolled at Ohio State, Clarett had attended the funerals of 10 friends, seen two people shot and killed in front of his grandma's house, and served three stints in a juvenile detention center.

I still have the blue no"

Here we go. . . . .

NCAA Football - CBS SportsLine.com

Virginia Tech will suspend quarterback Marcus Vick for an undetermined number of games next season if he returns to school, two sources within the athletic department, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Newport News Daily Press.

It's a sign of the times when you can look at an 11-2 season and be slightly disappointed. With that said, I sincerely want to thank the Hokies football team for a great season.

Wouldn't it be a sad career note if the Marcus Vick stomping incident caused a penalty harsh enough for Marcus to consider the NFL draft early......?