Virginia Tech is often overlooked as one of the ACC's quarterback cradles. Other schools have greater heritage or produced more professional signal callers, and the internal perception more often centers on "Beamerball" on special teams or Bud Foster's "lunch pail defense." It's easy to overlook the depth of talent that once donned maroon and orange to touch the Hokie Stone.
There's Don Strock, who came off the bench to throw for 400 yards and four touchdowns in The Epic in Miami in 1982. He still holds passing records for Virginia Tech even though he played in the early 1970s.