Tech to play Virginia Tech on Labor Day
Georgia Tech will open the season at Virginia Tech on Labor Day night, according to a person familiar with the ACC’s scheduling.
The schools and the league had been in discussions trying to organize the game, which will have a national ESPN platform at a time slot with little competition.
The game is a break from Tech’s scheduling pattern, in which the Jackets have opened at home against an FCS-level opponent in each of Paul Johnson’s four seasons. Tech associate athletic director Wayne Hogan had previously indicated concern about playing such a meaningful game in the opener. The winner of the Yellow Jackets-Hokies game has gone on to represent the Coastal Division in the ACC championship game all seven years since the league split into two divisions.
However, the opportunity for national exposure is a considerable temptation. Virginia Tech almost certainly will be ranked in the top 25 in the preseason and Tech could be as well. The ACC is scheduled to release the league schedule by mid-February.
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Go Jackets
January 26th, 2012
2:40 pm
First
Winfield Featherston
January 26th, 2012
2:51 pm
Love this idea
K
January 26th, 2012
2:51 pm
Second
East Cobb Hokie
January 26th, 2012
2:55 pm
Guess that will give Bud more than a week to prep for Paul’s offense.
Jackets21
January 26th, 2012
2:56 pm
Love it. No more false confidence from an easy early sked. Sets the tone early in camp before the season starts that Jackets have to bring their A-game on day one. Not to mention great recruiting exposure assuming no blowout loss.
Burdell
January 26th, 2012
3:00 pm
Bring it…better than on a cold November Thursday night in Blacksburg.
Rduck
January 26th, 2012
3:02 pm
Love it… if you are gonna strive to be a big time football program, you have to take it to quality opponents on the big stage. i love the fact that we will have this game to shoot for all offseason. the guys should have no problem hitting the practice fields hard. great exposure on a national stage for recruiting also… maybe the Vad Lee coming out party?
Georgia Tee
January 26th, 2012
3:03 pm
Go Jackets! Poop on the dawgs!!!!!
Tommy
January 26th, 2012
3:05 pm
Should help recruiting.
FL Jacket
January 26th, 2012
3:05 pm
VPI is returning few starters in skill positions, except for Logan Thomas. I’m sure they are as nervous about playing a tough opponent to start as we are…
Joe
January 26th, 2012
3:08 pm
Im off to get my anus bleached…
GooblerNation
January 26th, 2012
3:08 pm
It will be a great summer leading to this game. Everyone talking Tech vs. Tech and a real seriousness to spring workouts and pre-season football in August. Can’t wait for September 3. Go Hokies!!
SansWorld
January 26th, 2012
3:08 pm
VPI have had some pretty unimpressive home openners, maybe we should wear James Madison or East Carolina uniforms.
GT GRAD
January 26th, 2012
3:09 pm
There are advantages and disadvantages to playing a huge game against a quality opponent this early in the season.
I like the approach; however, I’m not sure this year the best year to play Virginia Tech first. I would imagine Vad Lee will be the starting quarterback…………. competing against Virginia Tech in your very first college game is almost too much to ask from a young quarterback.
All of the Georgia Tech players will be motivated and I think this approach will help prepare them better for the entire season.
It should be an exciting game………… go GT!
Jeff
January 26th, 2012
3:11 pm
I like it!!! Virginia Tech has traditionally gotten off to slow starts, but they are usually clicking on all cylinders by November!
Stinger 2
January 26th, 2012
3:16 pm
We will lose our first game earlier than usual.
Techman78
January 26th, 2012
3:16 pm
Remember last time the Jackets and Turkeys attempted to play an opening game…Lee Corso’s rental car got struck by lightning!!
Hoping its the Hokies that gets struck this time!
Go Jackets!!!
GIVE ME A BREAK
January 26th, 2012
3:16 pm
That’s what I’m talking about. Play FCS school two or three games in. It could serve as an off week. ” GO JACKETS “
Hokie CPA
January 26th, 2012
3:17 pm
Nice… Looking forward to it!
Oh, and for any of you figuring VT might be nervous because Logan will be our lone returning skill player… you all need to be MUCH more concerned about our DEFENSE returning 9 starters plus getting our hurt guys back healthy. You remember the unit that just held Denard Robinson and that Michigan offense to 180 yards?
And as far as our skill guys go, y’all may end up having nightmares about Michael Holmes, Dyrell Roberts, Marcus Davis and DJ Coles before all is said and done.
WAR DAMN HOKIE!!!
GSUStud
January 26th, 2012
3:17 pm
So Tech starts the year off with a loss. What else is new? I am surprised that Tech has not been demoted to Div II by now.
FL Jacket
January 26th, 2012
3:27 pm
Hokie CPA…
I recall GT having their way with your defense all night with a young, inexperienced, and undersized O-Line.
Mike Lum
January 26th, 2012
3:33 pm
Knowing CPJ, he’ll start Tevin against VT…only delaying Vad’s developement.
Jacketz
January 26th, 2012
3:34 pm
Fantastic news. vpisu is always slow out of the gate. Jackets can take owvership of the division and let me book my hotel room in Charlotte by the second week of September. Go Jackets! stop the hokie pokie
BillS
January 26th, 2012
3:37 pm
With VT having time to prep for CPJ’s offense, I’m predicting a Virginia blowout, 36-20. GT will soon find out they do best when they open with FCS-level opponent and stick with that.
FL Jacket
January 26th, 2012
3:46 pm
VT had extra time to prepare for GT this year and gave up 5.0 YPC anyway, and stood to lose if not for a dumb personal foul and 4th-and-1 stand at GT’s 31 yard-line. Make no mistake, GT LOST that game more the VT won it.
GIT
January 26th, 2012
3:47 pm
Since 2001 an Al Groh defense is 1-10 v. VT….Hokie fans love that he’s in the Coastal
GT fan
January 26th, 2012
3:50 pm
Very Cool.
I see some VT fans feel the Hokies will never lose again! I mean, how could they? Didn’t everyone see the Sugar Bowl? They kicked the livin dog out of Michigan! But I forget…can someone tell me what the SCOREBOARD said when the clock went 00:00?
I’ve seen GT play more than good enough to beat VT (2008 & 2011) only see a PF penalty derail the win.
swarmi
January 26th, 2012
3:53 pm
Perhaps Tech can decide how to slow (stop doubtful) that big QB. The last time, all he had to do was run a QB sneak (and protect his head from a hammer blow…LOL)(hopefully no more WWrassslin type moves).
Old Blind Dawg.
January 26th, 2012
3:55 pm
Good on GT for stepping up and opening with a better opponent.
The early chatter will help them get some TV time which helps with recruiting.
Even if you get knocked around it will be positive. UGA has used some early tough games to boost recruiting even when the results were less than hoped for.
You Techies should get a pretty good feel for what the year holds as opposed to the over rating you got last year.
UGADawg
January 26th, 2012
4:08 pm
Sounds like an interesting start for both Tech’s. Should be a good game.
ArkyTech
January 26th, 2012
4:11 pm
Yeah Hokie CPA, we are all shaking in fear of Hokies returning the same a defense that couldn’t stop GT last year.
bulldog steve
January 26th, 2012
4:15 pm
Not going to work out well for GT. Anytime a team has ample time to prepare for that offense, it gets shut down.
DesignerJacket
January 26th, 2012
4:17 pm
Never did like a Hokie. Never have feared them under CPJ either. Scores may not have been close, but the games we’ve lost to them have always been perceived as “VT survived that one until the last few plays” and took control of the Coastal. Well, I think this is the season to change that when you won’t even know how to scout us. Kansas sure does remember how GT plays at the beginning of a season (our receivers and A-backs catch passes). I thin if you put the same defense GT played against in 2011 up against a GT offense that is ready to catch and run….it’s not gonna go like it has in years past. Heck, we may not even know who the starting QB is until we absolutely HAVE to declare a starter. Good luck scouting that. And to spend extra time prepping for an exotic system you’ll only see in your first game when you’ve gotta play 11 more wouldn’t be very prudent. I think GT is gonna do work in this game, and it could be very nice! And it’s good for both schools regardless who wins.
stingembuzz
January 26th, 2012
4:19 pm
Here’s to an early Hokie dinner!!!!
need a new stinger
January 26th, 2012
4:25 pm
it’s nice but how about a high profile non-conference game for the bees? i know you played auburn and ND…but how about someone who’s actually good when you play them. perhaps someone west of the mississippi for a change? at least gt isn’t as bad as florida about that…
BigTimeTechFan
January 26th, 2012
4:26 pm
Should be a good game.
Thomas is going to real good QB, just grew up last year and this will be his year.
VT has been replacing RB’s every year, last time they lost big time RB they had froh step in and rush for over 1000 yards
Get one big road game over with to start season, On Big road game to end of season (UGA), so middle of schedule should be packed with home games
Hope the Schedule goes something like
09/01/12 at Va Tech
09/08/12 Middle Tennessee
09/15/12 BYU
09/22/12 Southeastern Louisiana
09/29/12 at UNC
10/06/12 Duke
10/13/12 Miami
10/20/12 Bye
10/27/12 at Clemson
11/03/12 Virginia
11/10/12 at Maryland
11/17/12 Boston College
11/24/12 at Georgia Bulldogs
12/01/12 ACC Championship Game
BigTimeTechFan
January 26th, 2012
4:28 pm
@need a new stinger
BYU is that game
ormewood
January 26th, 2012
4:28 pm
I think the Jackets have a great chance to win this game. The Hokies lose a ton on both sides of the ball. If the Jackets minimize their turnovers, they win this game.
John Bell
January 26th, 2012
4:29 pm
Any chance this gets moved to a neutral site? Charlotte? DC? GT would go to Va Tech in 2013. That would help the major problem of having a great home schedule in odd years – UGA, Climpsun, Va Tech, UNC and a stale home schedule in even years Duke, UVA, Miami.
Mitt Santorum
January 26th, 2012
4:30 pm
The added exposure from a nationally televised game will be good for GT. However, if the past is any indication, giving Virginia Tech the entire offseason to prepare for Paul Johnson’s offense figures to be a major issue for GT. I’ll go ahead and take VT and lay the points.
GT Dude
January 26th, 2012
4:37 pm
this should motivate our boys and coaches all off season
Dragon
January 26th, 2012
4:40 pm
GT will gets its ass kicked. Beamer will have all off season to get ready for our offense, and we know how that works out when people have even 10 days. Scary.
ToeMeetsLeather
January 26th, 2012
4:42 pm
As stated above, better to play on a warm September night vs a cold as hades November Thursday.
Hey, maybe we open up in the shot-gun formation and make the five weeks of prep time null & void for the Turkeys!
DesignerJacket
January 26th, 2012
4:43 pm
Mitt Santorum, Bud Foster can’t use the entire offseason to teach defensive schemes for the Option-Based Spread without taking time away from teaching his regular defensive schemes – the ones he’ll need for the other 11 games. Will he devote extra time to it? Yes, and he’d better. Will it be more than another week or so? That would be a dangerous gamble if he wants his defense to be as good as it normally is in the other ACC games. He could beat GT and then lose to his other Coastal opponents if he’s not careful with that balance. And remember, they already devote extra time for option defense in the offseason as it stands now. How much more time can he really afford to teach and practice? Makes ya think that GT might have a better shot than it would if this were a bowl game.
spider
January 26th, 2012
4:49 pm
i ll bet lee corso will opt out of being in this game or at least he will be checking the weather very carefully.
Tyrone Sorrells
January 26th, 2012
4:54 pm
34-10 Hokies
GTSteve
January 26th, 2012
5:06 pm
VT hasn’t consistently slowed down the GT triple option, much less stop it, and correct me if I am wrong…doesn’t the schedule come out months in advance anyhow……they know when they are playing GT, they know what offense GT runs, and they still can’t stop it…this game will be no difference, if GT plays good defense, they will have a chance to win
GTPhenom
January 26th, 2012
5:17 pm
I don’t get where anyone even gets the idea that VT has even really “slowed down” our offense in the past. In 08, we were a bs PI call from winning the game, in 09 we ran all over them, in 2010, they got the break from Nesbitt (literally . . .), and this past game the momentum was entirely in our favor until a foolish personal foul by Attaochu. Foster and the Hokies don’t scare me. What we have to worry about is our defense stopping them. They lose a lot of skill players, sure, but if all they have to do is run a QB sneak every time again, then we are screwed. Either way, I’m really excited about this. I love the idea, love the exposure, and if it keeps on happening, I sure as hell love a mild september night in BDS as opposed to a cold november night. I expect it’ll be a close game as they ALWAYS have been, and yet again, it wouldn’t shock me if this game determined who won the Coastal. Go Jackets, and THWG.
GTPhenom
January 26th, 2012
5:21 pm
Exactly GTSteve. This is no different than any other situation. I like the odds of our defense having a breakout year this year. The secondary returns almost fully intact, the LB corps have a chance to return 3 out of 4 starters, and the front 3 could be helped big time by some impact recruits potentially coming in. Al Groh’s defense takes three to four years to implement, so I’ve also never understood the immediate hate dished onto him. Maybe in a year or two, if it is still average, then so be it, but we’ve had the system for two years only. We were playing 4-3 guys in a 3-4 scheme. At this point, not only are we getting recruits better suited for the 3-4, those same 4-3 guys are starting to understand the principles of the 3-4.
big gt fan
January 26th, 2012
5:21 pm
If washington is going to be the qb then its going to be blowout city baby, he cant beat good competion
hokie
January 26th, 2012
5:23 pm
Opening with a gimme game against A GT team who’s talent goes down each year.
Technically Correct
January 26th, 2012
5:23 pm
Since all it takes to beat our ground-oriented offense is 7+ days of preparation by a talented defense, dare we dream that ours will not be the same ground-oriented offense on Labor Day 2012 as we saw in 2011? Maybe CPJ changes to TO-Lite. Maybe CPJ comes up with a more balanced attack between running and passing, one that penalizes defenses that stack against the run. Pinch me quick…
GTPhenom
January 26th, 2012
5:24 pm
big gt fan, you don’t know that. Washington can’t make the defense play well. He’s had his ups and downs, but if he gets just a bit of help from the receivers he’ll play fine. I’m more than willing to let the coaches, who know a helluva lot more than any of us do about who the starting QB should be make the decisions. If they decide Vad Lee is the way to go, I’m going to be excited. If they decide TW is the way to go, I’m going to be equally excited. Entire O-Line coming back, young, hungry receivers just waiting for their chance to stand out, impact running backs, and either an immensely talented young QB, or a wily, veteran QB. Sounds good to me no matter what.
GTPhenom
January 26th, 2012
5:27 pm
Technically Correct, last I checked he did that many times last year. He can’t make the receivers catch the ball. It’s funny, the main reason we lost a lot of the games that we lost was because our “ground-oriented offense,” decided to get WAY too pass happy. It happened against Miami (first play was an INT), it happened against Maryland, it happened against UVA. An occassional shotgun package is fine by me. But there is no reason to get pass happy and screw ourselves over. I’m quite fine with the elite ground game we’ve pumped out for the past four years. Get some EFFICIENT passing along with that and we are damn near impossible to stop
Smyrna Gold
January 26th, 2012
5:40 pm
I never have understood this “the tv exposure will help GT”. GT has a lot of TV exposure and the program is still in a tail spin. The fact is, the GT football program is a lot worse than 5 years ago with CPJ and his triple option, poor defense, pathetic special teams, and recruiting that is suspect. It an embarassment for GT to play on TV, ala UVA, UGA, VA TECH, Air force, Idaho, Maryland, et al.
Beamer will take CPJ to the woodshed with this much time to prepare.
Really?
January 26th, 2012
5:40 pm
At least the trade school will get hammered early and there will be no false expectations for the bug boys. Everyone knows what happens when there is more than a week to prepare for coach hypocrites high school offense. The bugs get squashed.
Go Jackets!
January 26th, 2012
5:41 pm
57th?
Go Jackets!
January 26th, 2012
5:43 pm
It should be a good game.
Go Jackets!
January 26th, 2012
5:45 pm
One troll, so many screen names
Southern Man
January 26th, 2012
5:45 pm
Vad Lee will not start for GT. Get over it.
crackbaby
January 26th, 2012
5:46 pm
Ken,
Will this game count on the schedule as VT home game? Or will the 2013 game be at VT b/c this is a “neutral site”?
If Jackets get to keep their 2013 home game, this is a positive development. I hear the talk of time to prepare, but I’d rather play Logan Thomas early in the season. That kid could be a special QB.
SansWorld
January 26th, 2012
5:48 pm
Smyrna Gold
GT has 34 wins in the last 4 years. Chan never won like that. George O’Liery is the only other coach since Bobby Dodd to do it.
crackbaby
January 26th, 2012
5:48 pm
BTW – Beamer’s coaching errors cost VT the Sugar Bowl. He is slipping.
Mitt Santorum
January 26th, 2012
6:03 pm
Designer Jacket
My point was that VT will have significantly more time available to devote to GT’s offense than they would if they game were in the middle of the season with a week to prepare. They probably won’t be able to spend quite as much time as they would prepping for a bowl game, but given how much the matchup typically means in the Coastal Division race, I’m sure they’ll do what they deem appropriate. If VT ends up having 9/8 off, that’ll work even more to VT’s advantage. We can nitpick over the exact amount they should/will spend on GT specific prep, but my original point stands.
PJs last stand
January 26th, 2012
7:00 pm
Sans World, The ACC was a better conference when Chan was at tech. Plus tech didn’t play Jax State or W. Carolina every year. Chan won Bowl games and developed talent. PJ beats cupcakes , as witnessed by last years 5 wins over teams with only 10 wins among them. #71 ranked schedule. many many teams would win 8 games with the tech schedule.Maryland 2 wins, W. Carolina 1 win, M Tenn 2 wins, Duke 3 wins, Kansas 2 wins. Maryland and Duke last place in their divisions, M Tenn last place in Sunbelt , Kansas last place in Big 12. NC State was injury riddled when tech beat them or that would have been a loss. Pj driving the Ramblin wreck straight to hell and GT fans cheer him on.
DawginSewer
January 26th, 2012
7:13 pm
We`s likes to watch, if Ms. Richt buys us a telivision ands runs a lines fromes his castles to de sewere.
Ruffs ruffs. Go Dwags
chas_jacket
January 26th, 2012
7:46 pm
Question about the issue of whether or not it would count as a home game for VT – Are we looking at a venue other than Lane stadium? Overall I think it’s a positive playing a tough game early on – no problem getting focused during Spring/Summer. We have an experienced offense and CPJ can throw in some wrinkles over the summer. I think Washington will be the starter but Vad and Justin Thomas (JT) will get playing time in some capacity – probably special formations/plays. Don’t think we will see JT redshirt – just can’t keep someone with 4.23 speed off the field. It’s also better playing in Blacksburg early September rather than November due to weather. Love to see us start with 2012 with a big win – go GT!
Go Jackets!
January 26th, 2012
8:15 pm
Post at 7:13 pm, what does that mean?
Nevermind!
CPJ
January 26th, 2012
8:38 pm
choke the chokies!!!!!! hahaha
sports
January 26th, 2012
9:02 pm
the yellow blowflys will get it handed to them early…SWEET.
dustin bailey
January 26th, 2012
9:19 pm
the hokies only lose 2 starters on the defensive side of the ball and on offense they will be even better with logan thomas only gonna get better
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
9:25 pm
Mark it down. GT wins this one. I don’t care what you nattering nabobs of negativity say. Good grief fellas, if you support GT, then sound like it, type like it, write like it, walk like it, act like it & talk like it or shut the stuff up and go away. SHHHHHHEEEEEESSSSSS!!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JACKETS THWG
Dawglasville
January 26th, 2012
9:47 pm
This is a no lose game for Tech. Great exposure. Great hype. Big build up all summer. Should be fun.
chas_jacket
January 26th, 2012
9:49 pm
Agree with 1 4 GT, think we will win. The hokie offense is always slow starting and they are losing a lot of starters – Logan can’t do it all. Think that Tevin will get better with another year under his belt. And if not, we will have more depth at QB then ever before.
Ed
January 26th, 2012
10:15 pm
This is almost 9 months from now. Why make it the top story? Slow sports day?
Tech Fan Since 1950
January 26th, 2012
10:23 pm
Sounds like a Hokie loss to me. Think I’ll start celebrating now. Yes, talk is cheap, but Novembers in the cow pastures of the Virginia foothills are just too cold and rainy. Labor Day sounds like a nice time of the year to me. Go Jackets!
OkieDawg
January 26th, 2012
10:33 pm
I’m pulling for the GT vs VT game. I’m all for GT losing early and often. The Tech players will be extremely nervous playing in Lane stadium before 65,000 fans. Coach Fish Fry can’t outcoach the Beamer.
Ken Sugiura
January 26th, 2012
11:02 pm
it’s my understanding the game will be in blacksburg.
Alan
January 26th, 2012
11:08 pm
The defense you talk about that played Gah Tech in Nov had (I think) 5 starters missing, and we still beat you guys! We have 9 starters returning (obviously including those that were injured), so I am MORE THAN CONFIDENT that we’ll shut you butterflies down. Keep talking the smack that we can’t stop you, but last time I checked, you guys rode the LT3 train on 3rd down conversions LOL!
Go Jackets!
January 26th, 2012
11:10 pm
The GT players might be anxious, but I doubt nervous. Not even in Lane Stadium before the Hokie faithful. I like the early match up.
William Casey
January 26th, 2012
11:26 pm
I like the idea of GT playing on Labor Day. The Jackets have little to lose since few unbiased observers will expect GT to win in Blacksburg anyway. VT hasn’t seemed to play well recently in the early season. For all you “Foster will have all preseason to prepare” guys, it also gives CPJ the opportunity to put in a few surprises of his own. A “Days” package of old-school wishbone. A “Lee” package out of the shotgun. Who knows! Personally, I don’t fear VT nearly as much as Miami. Yeah, we’re only 1-3 vs. VT under CPJ but could easily be 3-1. This is exciting news for the Jackets and a good barometer.
Alan
January 26th, 2012
11:41 pm
“Yeah, we’re only 1-3 vs. VT under CPJ but could easily be 3-1.”
LOL — yeah, we could easily be 14-0 as we could have been 11-3. Should’ve could’ve would’ve. Guess you guys are the team that chokes more.
HokieHero
January 27th, 2012
7:33 am
I think this has benefits for both teams. VT’s defense has always had trouble with GT in large part because Bud has had to change is scheme 3/4 of the way through the season. GT has always struggled with VT because VT has hit their stride by the time November comes around and the offense can generally help out the defense by that point in the season. I haven’t looked at GTs defensive unit. If they have a strong DL returning then I’d say the match up favors them because VTs O-Line will need a few games to gel after replacing so many starters. Otherwise I think its advantage VT because they’re returning so many starters on D, won’t be banged up, and will have time to prepare. VT’s DL will be a major strength for them this year, which is a key to stopping GT’s offense. Should be an interesting game, I wouldn’t dare make a prediction when its 7 months away.
Tokyo jacket
January 27th, 2012
7:38 am
I love it. You can’t simulate the spread option in practice, Tech is generally pretty good at the start of the season, and VT won’t have even played a full speed oponent when they face GT.
Add to that that VT will be a top-15 team to start the year and they will have lost most of their offensive line and RBs and this one looks like a win-win for GT. If we lose, we get a tough game out of the way early, but it looks like it favors GT.
Tokyo jacket
January 27th, 2012
7:47 am
Oh yeah, the other thing this does is add a cupcake in the middle of the season which is great when you’re banged up. We have really hit a wall the last two seasons because of the strength of schedule in the mid/late season we’re out of gas. Nice to play a MTSU or Lower Southwestern Arkansas Tech in late October or early November.
Road Scholar
January 27th, 2012
8:27 am
As long as we don’t lose our normal Thursday night game!
Tokyo jacket
January 27th, 2012
8:44 am
I’d expect a Thursday night game with Miami to replace our game w/ VT.
Egg_guy
January 27th, 2012
9:25 am
PLEASE……get Vad Lee ready for this game! No more TW…..too many da passes to the wrong team. Good kid, I’m sure, but we got to have a better QB to make the offense a “TRIPLE” option!
Jim 70
January 27th, 2012
9:53 am
the best time to beat a better team is the first game, so we have a chance there. however, vt has extra time to prepare and in the past with bowl games and playing teams which have had a previous week bye, gt has not fared well.
i would like to see vad play qb, but worried about the first game with the jitters and ball handling. maybe tevin would be a better qb for this game and inserting vad in the next couple with weaker (hopefully!) competition.
GssiT
January 27th, 2012
9:57 am
The most important divisional game of the season and we’re going to start the season with it? And the reason is—national exposure. We are GEORGIA TECH- THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-GEORGIA TECH. Get it? Obviously, the inmates have taken over the asylum. DRAD and his staff need to go to work for CPJ, his staff, and the team. BYU/GT Labor Day Night This would be NATIONAL exposure. C’mon DRAD, you’re being duped! Go, Jackets!
juvenal
January 27th, 2012
10:23 am
Super, you going? guess i’ll get a ticket, have friends that tailgate there…….
reebok
January 27th, 2012
10:53 am
Gutsy move…high-risk & high reward. The winner has effectively a 2-game lead in the ACC Coastal…the loser will be chasing the schedule the rest of the season. I don’t see how our offense can be ready to go full speed at a Div-1 team without a tune-up game, but hopefully CPJ will have them ready to go.
reebok
January 27th, 2012
10:55 am
We match up very well against VT, the last 4-5 games all could have gone either way. I just can’t figure out why we keep getting our clocks cleaned by Miami.
Hokie Witch -Atlanta
January 27th, 2012
1:06 pm
We are definitely worried about playing such a meaningful game this early.
Hokie Pokie
January 27th, 2012
1:25 pm
Should be a good game, but GT will not face the same defense it faced in 2011. VT played without several starters because of injuries at defensive tackle, inside linebacker, outside linebacker and defensive end. Looking forward to an early season showdown.
crackbaby
January 27th, 2012
1:50 pm
Thank you, Ken. My bad.
My error thinking this would be played at the Dome as one of the season kickoff games. Would have been nice but VT understandably would not sacrifice a home game.
Hope Lee Corso doesn’t show up and bring lighting…. LOL
r2who
January 27th, 2012
2:34 pm
Great idea. Two respected teams in the ACC starting right out of the gate. ADs got it right this time. GO HOKIES!
go GT
January 27th, 2012
8:24 pm
Time to se what CPJ if really made out of
A storm is coming...
January 27th, 2012
8:56 pm
Tech by 14 plus…Vad becomes the man!
Born2Buzz
January 27th, 2012
9:00 pm
This is good news. I might even go up to see the game. Although the last time I went to see us play VT in the season opener the game never happened. What a surreal event that was.
On another subject, Ken, what’s up with the AJC headline writers. First is your article about recruiting – “Tech Class lacks Splash” . That was totally misleading from the actual article. But the the other one “Tech Recruit Headed to Auburn” was even more misleading. I take it the headline writer was a UGA grad just trying to gives us Techies a hard time.
GTClass
January 27th, 2012
9:05 pm
GSU Stud….get off the varisity blog and go back to the pee wee league where you belong.
yellowest-of-all-jackets
January 27th, 2012
9:31 pm
Great! Now we can begin and end our season with losses. How ’bout Kansas or Ga Southern or App St. or The Citadel?
Report: Ken Ekanem won’t visit Notre Dame; more Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech … – The Virginian – Labor Day
January 28th, 2012
4:34 am
[...] source with knowledge of the ACC’s scheduling, reported that Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech will meet on Labor Day to start the 2012 season. The Georgia Tech Rivals site tweeted something similar [...]
Buzz 2011
January 28th, 2012
5:17 am
The Jackets should win the ACC Championship this year. Two Championships in three years would be swell!
Buzz 2011
January 28th, 2012
5:24 am
GSU Stud…..Yourbig rivalry is who, Redan High School?.
HighTech
January 28th, 2012
10:02 am
At one time there was talk of GT playing Southern Cal in a non-conference game. My Dawg friends would call it The Arrogance Bowl. lol. I’d love it.
The Truth
January 28th, 2012
10:29 am
Word on the street this is good for gt since VT won’t have many seniors returning. So gt starts off 1-0.
gt4ever
January 28th, 2012
11:53 am
If we can stop the QB sneak I think it’s close…. Two average teams playing, anybody can win….
HokieNGa
January 28th, 2012
8:05 pm
FL Jacket:
“As though as we are..” My dentures popped out I laughed so hard when I read that.
HokieNGa
January 28th, 2012
8:08 pm
BigTimeTechFan:
I see your schedule but don’t understand the last entry.
HokieNGa
January 28th, 2012
8:13 pm
My son is a GT grad and I always take VT (even). The benefit this fall is that I get my money earlier.
WEST BLACKSBURG JACKET
January 29th, 2012
1:20 pm
VT Blanks sheep