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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 119526, member: 780"] You can criticize the strategy. But VPI is in a much better Bowl than they deserved this year because of their fan support. So while it is classless and shameless, it is effective. Universities have personalities. VT was for most of its existence a sports "have not". Then they sprang on to the scene through a number of really lucky breaks. First, the Big East. Then an almost accidental place in the ACC. Their football programs has benefitted from penetrating area around Norfolk, a real treasure trove of football talent. Even though many of the kids that they have gotten from there have been a little "rough" (e.g. the Vicks). The UVA people still look down on them and consider VT little more than a "trade school" where kids with high math scores and little social grace learn to maintain the technical infrastructure. [/QUOTE]