I know BWCD will be in here. I think he lives near Blacksburg.
I live about 3 hours from Blackburg, still in VA moving towards Tennessee. Doesn't matter though--I'm surrounded by Blacksburg grads and VT fans in general who are a bunch of bandwagoning, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging dolts.
There are a few (read: miniscule amount) of VT fans who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to football and just root for their team and/or alma mater. I have zero problem with these folks.
It's the mental-midgets who say crap like: "You know, God paints the leaves maroon and orange in the Fall for a reason!!! Go HOKIES!!!". These people, I CANNOT tolerate, and they're the majority of the fanbase. These same folks walk into my office and see all of my Miami stuff, and talk all the Thug U bull****e, but, when one of their Tidewater thugs decides to get arrested (ahem--Michael Vick), it's a tragedy and has no reflection of VT football or Beamer and his boys at all...no connection could POSSIBLY be made by a rational mind, and for someone like me to try that is, and I quote: "sour grapes".
A few weeks after the shootings at VT which were tragic indeed, I had a VT grad here at work in conversation, and to distract away from that b/c I didn't want to rub in such a bad thing that happened up there--I started talking football. This was the year that our latest uniforms came out, I think it was just before the 07/08 season, so I mentioned those when he asked me what was new with Miami. His retort? "HA--did they finally decide to abandon the green and go for a County-issue jumpsuit orange?"...it was all I had in me to stop from putting this dude on blast right then and there and talk all the stuff in the world about the shootings. Somehow, we're still Thug U when facking massacres are happening on YOUR campus? Gimme a **** break.
Back in 2007, when we actually went up to Blacksburg for that game, the shootings were still a topic. The CanesOverHere group I tailgate with normally started our walk from Prices Fork Drive to Lane Stadium, and were doing our chants and having a good time. Well, one drunk VT dude with about 3 empty cases of Natty Light behind him gets in one of our
female fan's face. He's screaming in this girl's face, "Come on! Go ahead! Say something about the shootings!" she says, "Why would you want me to do something like that?"...he replies, "So I have a good reason to tell the cops when they come after I've beat your ***!!!"
That there is the integrity and class that VT folks speak of when pontificating about their adoring fanbase in Lane. It's a small sample, but the sentiment is not that far off. Redneck culture run amok.