Hokie Sports has announced and Twitter and Facebook universes are alive with the news that you are retiring end of the season. Once the emotions and the passions clear away, the new Virginia Tech Football staff will be determined; but for now we all should remember how much this school, our school and this fan base owe to you in gratitude.
When I arrived on campus as a freshman in the late summer of 1977, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fighting Gobblers were playing in a partially finished Lane Stadium to sparse but loyal crowds and the wins were fewer than our occasional appearance on UHF TV.