Welcome to the 2013 VirginiaTechFan countdown. Today, we are 99 days from the kickoff of the 2013 football season in Atlanta. So, just like the last two off-seasons, we begin our countdown with number 99 on the roster Mr. James Gayle. Entering 2013, Gayle should find his name on a few pre-season All-ACC lists but he’ll need to continue the momentum he built at the end of last season if he hopes to earn that honor in the post-season. In fact, this entire defensive line will need to pickup where they left off against Rutgers if the Hokies have any chance at beating Alabama on August 31st.
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Thanks to a terrific performance this season during ACC play, the Hokies wrapped up a six seed in the ACC Tournament. For those of you who don’t pay a lot of attention to ACC Baseball, the tournament is set up with two pools (an ‘A’ pool and a ‘B’ pool). The Hokies are in a pool with Virginia, Florida State, and Georgia Tech. Each team plays the other members of the pool once and whoever emerges with a 3-0 or a 2-1 record (with the tiebreaker over the other 2-1 team) plays Sunday in the ACC Championship game against the winner of the other pool.
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The ACC has often received flack for its inability to produce big wins in recent years. Of course, the conference took a needed step in the right direction last year when the top four bowl seeds all won. Florida State dispatched Northern Illinois for their first BCS bowl win since the Sugar… Ok, still too soon. Clemson defeated LSU in a thriller in Atlanta. The Hokies failed to out-suck the Scarlet Knights in a game only the true faithful could stomach. Lastly, Georgia Tech dispatched an unfocused USC team in the Sun Bowl.
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Virginia Tech's Athletic Director Jim Weaver continues to solidify Virginia Tech’s out of conference schedule in football for the next 10 seasons. On Thursday, Michigan’s official website broke the news that they had scheduled a home and home series with the Hokies beginning in 2020 with a game in Ann Arbor. In 2021, Michigan will travel to Blacksburg to face the Hokies in Lane Stadium.
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I'm a facilities guy. To be one of the best programs in the country you need to have the best facilities in the country. The Hokies will inch closer to that sometime in the next year when construction on a new indoor practice facility gets under way. Of course, this has been a heated topic over the past 12 months. Those who are proposed to save "Stadium Woods", which is a small strip of forest just behind Lane Stadium consisting of trees that are over 300 years old, have derailed the plans to build the new facility right behind Tech's practice fields. It's unclear whether or not that's still the intended location.
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The Hokies are entering a particularly active recruiting stretch with seven of our coaches out on the road visiting prospects. We’ve seen reports of Coach Moorehead traveling down to Florida to visit some of Tech’s recruiting targets in the Sunshine State. Most of which just so happen to be wide receivers. Shane Beamer has visited Richmond. Cornell Brown was up in New Jersey visiting several prospects up there before swinging through the 757 where Bryan Stinespring joined him.
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