The ACC football meetings wrap up in Georgia, and Monday was the sit down with coaches.  The weekend gives the media a chance to find out the challenges the teams will be facing this season.

Clemson was selected as the early favorite to win the ACC Championship, while the Hokies were the choice to win the Coastal Division.

Glennon took a call last season from New England Patriots three-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady, who called to compliment the Hokies senior on his play in the season-opening win against East Carolina.

David Wilson picked the Hokies over Auburn, Clemson, and Michigan, among several others

About 1,400 tickets went on sale this morning because returning Tech student season ticket holders failed to purchase their entire allotment.

Virginia Tech has agreed to move its 2009 football season opener against Cincinnati to 2012 in order to accommodate a made-for-television game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta

Virginia Tech says about 1,400 tickets for the Hokies’ season opening football game in Charlotte, NC will be made available

Bassett High School graduate Brandon Dillard ruptured his Achilles tendon

Radford redshirted at Virginia Tech in 2006 and was relegated to special teams last season. At 5-9 and 192 pounds, he also was one of Tech’s smaller running backs, and he said that a proposed move to defensive back didn’t sit well with him.

One is from Norfolk, the other is from Bassett

U.Va.‘s Board of Visitors has approved a new video screen for the 60,000-seat stadium that will more than triple the size of the current board.

  The Hokies top pair of backs coming into the spring are on pace to return in the fall from injuries.

The Hokies’ class of 2009 now includes 5-foot-9, 180-pound cornerback James Hopper, 6-0, 185-pound cornerback Jerrodd Williams and 6-0, 170-pound kicker Cody Journell, all of whom made oral commitments over the weekend, according to recruiting Web site Rivals.com.

Daryl Robertson just wants to play football, which is why the former Liberty High School standout has left Virginia Tech to play at Liberty University.

The idea of a ninth league football game has some merit in that it would create the opportunity for more intriguing non-divisional match-ups.  But there was one drawback that trumped all. A nine-game conference schedule inherently means that teams would play five home games some years and four home games some years.

Rising senior Tucker Windle, from Charlotte Catholic (N.C.), picked Virginia over three other ACC schools and Wisconsin, electing to follow in his father’s footsteps as a Cavalier linebacker

Brown, a cornerback who was charged Feb. 29 with three felonies and a misdemeanor, was arrested again April 24. This time Brown, 21, was charged with DWI and refusing to take a blood/breath test. Both are misdemeanors

Each scholarship student-athlete at a Division I school earns Academic Progress Rate points for remaining eligible at the school at which he initially matriculated, staying in that school’s sports program, and graduating.

Former Virginia Tech running back Branden Ore might play his final college season this fall at West Liberty State, a Division II school in West Liberty, W.Va.

USF had faced the loss of scholarships this school year because of the weakened academic performance of its football and baseball players.

Jim Dombrowski, who helped lead the resurgence of Virginia football under coach George Welsh, is among the 15 former players and coaches elected today to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Chris Long has had a busy month. If traveling from city to city to meet with prospective employers in advance of the NFL Draft weren’t enough, the former Virginia defensive end has had a full slate of marketing commitments.

VMI has a new head coach in Sparky Woods, and a young, talented football team. There are several former local stars in the mix for playing time.

When Branden Albert declared himself eligible for the NFL Draft shortly after the Gator Bowl, he was outwardly confident that he would be a first-day pick. Inwardly, he thought he had first-round potential.  But months later, the former Virginia guard has made a meteoric rise up most draft boards. Some prognosticators, including ESPN guru Mel Kiper Jr., have Albert going as high as fifth overall.

The rising junior wide receiver, entering his fourth season, showed Saturday why he is the Hokies’ fastest player and why he could help them replace the four senior receivers who departed after last season.

Sean Glennon threw for 119 yards and two touchdowns in the win.  Former back-up Quarterback Ike Whitaker caught one of the scores, and Bassett High School graduate Brandon Dillard hauled in the other touchdown pass. 

University says money’s ready; plan hinges on OK from city

The Hokie Nation needed the Virginia Tech Football Squad more than ever this past year. Head Coach Frank Beamer’s squad delivered.

A high school football player says he’s responsible for the destruction of the University of Florida’s 2006 BCS National Championship trophy.

Some local names get the call to be captains for Virginia football in the fall of 2008.