Coming off a disappointing 20-23 Sugar Bowl loss to Michigan, Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer wants to shelve football momentarily and focus on the culinary arts. This summer, Coach Beamer anticipates opening his new restaurant, Beamer’s 25, in Roanoke, Virginia, anchored next to the newly renovated apartments in the Lofts at West Station. A soft opening was held on Wednesday night where it was announced that Beamer’s 25 will be open to the public later in June. The...
Virginia Tech is having difficulties in selling its allotment of 17,500 tickets for the 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl. As of Monday evening, Tech only sold about 9,500 tickets. This is considerably low considering Tech’s reputation of traveling well and garnering strong fan support. In a desperate attempt to boost ticket sales, Tech’s top brass asked, if not guilted, fans to purchase proxy tickets. “The Athletics Department is asking Hokie fans that cannot make this year’s Allstate Sugar Bowl to...
Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer is always looking for unconventional ways to improve special teams. The most recent move was opening the doors to a female kicker. Freshman Lauren Luttrell, an outstanding multi-sport athlete who played soccer, volleyball, and football for Spotsylvania High School last year, impressed Beamer and company during Monday’s practice. Her kicking accuracy caught Beamer’s eye, so much so, he invited her back to camp in 2012, saying “I was impressed with her and we’ll bring her...
Since entering the ACC in 2004, Virginia Tech dominated the Coastal Division winning the conference an unprecedented four times. Unfortunately, for head coach Frank Beamer and company, conference success did not translate to much beyond one failed title shot in 1998 (Virginia Tech was a member of the Big East at the time) and a disappointing 1-4 BCS bowl record. In recent years, Beamer attempted to change the team’s persona by scheduling top non-conference games in hopes of strengthening...
Since Frank Beamer took over the reins at Virginia Tech, he has brought nothing but success to the program. Regardless of whoever Tech hosted at Lane Stadium, fans came out in troves to see Beamer Ball. However, with the economy, lack of impressive wins, and no national championship, the donor base is apparently receding. This is most evident in season tickets sales. Donors are always first in line when it comes to season tickets, but for the 2011 season,...
Virginia Tech will be without one of their offensive playmakers this Saturday as sophomore tailback and return man David Wilson is a scratch for the upcoming game against North Carolina. According to athletic trainer Mike Goforth, Wilson was experiencing virus like symptoms all week which was ultimately diagnosed as Mononucleosis. This is a huge blow for the rebounding Hokies in a key Coastal match-up against the Tar Heels. The resurging Hokies will certainly miss Wilson’s 28.6 yards/kick-off return average...
Monday night’s Allstate Kick-Off In The Capital game, featuring No. 3 Boise State and No. 10 Virginia Tech, is one of the most highly anticipated season-opening matchups college football has seen in years. While only in the first week of the season, tonight’s game has national title implications. The meeting, which is also the first ever between these schools, will be televised nationally on ESPN at 8:00pm ET from FedEx Field (home of the Washington Redskins) in Landover, MD. Tonight’s game...
Virgina Tech football received a crushing blow this past week. No, no members of the football team were arrested, but rather, head coach Frank Beamer tore his bicep after falling while exiting Va. Tech’s private plane upon landing at a stop on the team’s Orange and Maroon tour. Beamer, ever the good sport, laughed off the incident: “It just chucked me,” said Beamer, laughing. “I thought I was being careful and the next thing that hit was my shoulder...
