Wait a minute!!! We have a basketball team????????

[48zip]

How many times did you camp out for BB tickets between Washington St and the tennis courts? i remember 3 times. And obviuosly Cassell was packed, standing most of those games, with lots of noise during our run to the 73 NIT championship.

Many. a week for the Phil Ford UNC game. Got 80 tickets front and center. That's about the time they started limiting groups and randomly seating so we wouldn't be so tempted to camp out. wHen it was very cold, they would let us sleep in the hallway around the Cassell so we wouldn't freeze.

[crooked road]

I looked it up, he was. What a waste of talent... Such a shame.

[crooked road]

There's always that.

[HokieSA]

He was (only other Mr.VA we've ever gotten). But of course we know how that turned out.

If I recall during Hussey era, Jenis Grindstaff (remember him?) was a Mr. North Carolina but of course he didn't stay either.

[chuckd4vt]

I want VT to have a solid basektball program. We need it and we certainly have the fan base that will support it. I see no reason why VT can't have a solid basketball program. We are certainly in a much better position now than we were 9 years ago when Greenberg got the job.

Nearly EVERY neutral observer I've spoke with thinks VT has been very solid lately. Only a delusional fanbase, one that regularly undervalues 10 win football seasons, BCS appearances, and has no clue about the ebbs and flows of college basketball would deem our program as being "un-solid" the last 6 or 7 years.

[chuckd4vt]

Most succinct and fair statement so far. I was there in '73 when we won the NIT. Many close wins. Electric atmosphere. We even cheered the guy who broomed the floor at half-time. With a good hire and some better luck, we could be a contenduh!

Oh, so NIT appearances makes one a contenduh now? Coulda fooled me. It was a highlight and electric back then, but gets a coach fired nowadays. hell, in Cassell this season, there were many supposed Hokie fans that wouldn't cheer our coaches and players, much less the broom guy.

[HokieSA]

I never said it was Cameron...but I remember it being largely full more often than at times of the SG era. A lot is different now though, I don't remember 9pm tips, or even 8pm tips dictated by television except when we played at Memphis St which was central time.