When new Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente was young, he would hear bits and pieces about his great-grandfather when his dad and uncle got together. Even then, the details were a little fuzzy.
He remembers being told great-grandpa Jack was a wrestler during the Great Depression. But nobody called him Jack. He was "The Spanish Red Devil." Sometimes “Spanish Jack.”
When Fuente got a little older, he saw a yellowed picture. “He’s got no shirt on and what looks to be those old pants that you’d see on a boxer, with the drawstring on them, standing there, wiry with a mean look on his face,” Fuente says now.