Two Questions????

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Living in Alabama I depend on VolNation to keep me informed. Two rumors I heard in the past month that I would appreciate verification.

1) I heard Tony Barnhart on a Huntsville station say that Tennessee would likely play Florida State in the 2009 Chick-Fil-A preseason Classic in the Georgia Dome. Any truth to this?

2) It was reported 1-2 weeks before Kiffin was hired that Ed Orgeron was on campus scouting the UT underclassmen to ascess the talent level and how difficult it would be to establish a credible defense at UT. Was this actually true? I have never heard of anything like this. If true did he talk with the prior coaches and players or just look at tape?
 
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Prolly have to drop W Kentucky because 2009 already has 12 games. Now the 2010 opener is still "TBD" so maybe Barnhart mixed up the year...
 
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I want a piece of Va Techs a$$ in the 2010 Sec/Acc opener. Thats all we here about in Bristol is Hokie this and Hokie that and it makes me want to vomit!
 
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Ya i think that Alabama is playing someone in the preseason thing. Like this year. I think it is FL ST. unless that was a couple years ago.
 
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Rumor has always been that if UT played VT @ Bristol motor speedway they could draw 150,000 + plus fans. And you know what, I believe that UT would give them an arse whipping all the way back to Hokieville.
 
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I feel your pain, it sucks living in ala & being a UT fan. All we hear about down here is bammer b.s......
 
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I am pretty sure that they announced during that game this year that it would be Alabama vs VTech.
 
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got this off there website about hokie


What is a Hokie? The origin of the word "Hokie" has nothing to do with a turkey. It was coined by O. M. Stull (class of 1896), who used it in a spirit yell he wrote for a competition.

Here's how that competition came to be held. Virginia Tech was founded in 1872 as a land-grant institution and was named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1896, the Virginia General Assembly officially changed the college's name to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, a name so long that citizens shortened it in popular usage to VPI. The original college cheer, which made reference to the original name of the institution, was no longer suitable. Thus, a contest was held to select a new spirit yell, and Stull won the $5 top prize for his cheer, now known as Old Hokie:

Hoki, Hoki, Hoki, Hy.
Techs, Techs, V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola-Rah.
Polytechs - Vir-gin-ia.
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.

Later, the phrase "Team! Team! Team!" was added at the end, and an "e" was added to "Hoki."

Stull later said that he made up the word as an attention-grabber. Though he may not have known it, "Hokie" (in its various forms) has been around at least since 1842. According to Johann Norstedt, now a retired Virginia Tech English professor, "[Hokie was] a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise. Hokie, then, is a word like 'hooray,' or 'yeah,' or 'rah.'" Whatever its original meaning, the word in the popular cheer did, as Stull wanted, grab attention and has been a part of Virginia Tech tradition ever since.

a cheerleader thing
 
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bristolvolfan said:
I want a piece of Va Techs a$$ in the 2010 Sec/Acc opener. Thats all we here about in Bristol is Hokie this and Hokie that and it makes me want to vomit!
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The big game at BMS may will never happen. But, a rivalry between the VT and UT would be awesome. Living in the mountain empire you can't help but see a clash of rabid fans. It would be a huge game in both Knoxville and Charlottesville. :rock:
 
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