HateFest Preview: Out of Conference

Written by C Gally | 16 August 2011

Hate that's actually football-related?? No way!!

After the jump, we hate on our out-of-conference foes this season. It's as difficult as you can imagine...

Screw any I-AA school. Yeah, we’re happy that Michigan went down like they did.

But seriously, screw any I-AA school anywhere.

Don’t talk to me EVER about running up the score on anyone. If they want to play with the big boys, then they will get beat like the big boys. I hope we win by 70.

Marshall

It’s pretty tough to hate on Marshall, especially for me. My sister just graduated from there. Byron Leftwich became a Steeler. Randy Moss was hysterical before wide receivers were supposed to be hysterical. And Tech really has no beef with them at all.

If anything, we should like Marshall, since WVU hates them. My enemy’s enemy is my friend, right?

The last time we played the Herd was in 2009. I went to the game with my sis, who had a VT hat with a Marshall shirt. At one point, Marshall scored a touchdown to make it 21-7, Tech. My sister cheered, of course. The actual, completely sincere quote from an older lady behind us:

“Awww, you came all the way here to root for Marshall?! That’s adorable! Good for you!”

We then discussed how Tech has nothing against Marshall, and she promised my sister she would root for them from then on. Must not have helped. Marshall finished 6-6 and 5-7 in their past two seasons. That includes a loss to WVU in overtime in a game that they should have won. A loss there would have devastated Mountaineer fans worse than the Pitt loss a few years back.

So why do I hate on Marshall? Because I wish they were better at football.


Arkansas State

Arkansas State was actually your humble editor’s first Hokie game as a student. It was technically not counted as a regular season game, but I didn’t care. At least, at first. The only two games I had gone to were the 1999 Miami game and the 2001 Miami game.

Shockingly, an Arkansas State scrimmage didn’t exactly meet those expectations.

It was hot as balls and Tech won 63-7. And that is why I hate Arkansas State.


East Carolina

Man, f*** ECU. Unlike the teams mentioned earlier, the Pirates can be hated on immensely by any Hokie fan. That’s why we saved them for last.

August 30, 2008. Final score: 27-22, ECU. Tyrod’s redshirt: BURNED.

This game was frustrating on so many levels. First, there was the complete shitting of the bed done by one Sean Glennon. Apparently, the VT coaching staff was the only people not aware of his high-level of suckitude.

On top of that, we had a punt blocked and returned for a touchdown. This meant that we had to hear stupid announcers talk about how Beamerball backfired on us. (Do we still block kicks any more? Maybe I just expect it to happen on every play, but I’d like to see some stats on how we rank nowadays. Will I try to look them up? Probably not.)

Since this game, we have yet to win our season opener, proving yet again that most teams with any longer than a week to prepare will likely beat us.

But how’d everything work out? The Pirates went on to finish 9-5 with a loss to Kentucky in Liberty Bowl. Tech went 10-4 and enjoyed a rare BCS-Bowl win (over a mediocre Cincinnati team).

We won the Orange Bowl. They lost the Liberty Bowl.

Bite my shiny metal ass, ECU.