So Virginia Tech lost a couple games? Big deal. The sky is not falling. The Hokies lost one game against the ‘pack that we probably should have won, but then the ‘pack went and beat unc too. The Hokies also lost a game on the road to a tough bc team. This happens — good teams lose sometimes. We’re probably going to lose again this season.

After sharing these sentiments last week with one of the more excitable contributors to this site (rhymes with squeemo), I was pleased to see this quote from Will Stewart on Techsideline.com: “For their part, the fans need to stop flipping out over individual losses, or even a couple of losses strung together. It happens all the time in basketball.”

After the nc state game, one comment on TechHoops predicted that the Hokies would miss the tourney, “folding up the tent and collapsing.” While this is certainly a possibility, there is no good reason to count it as a likely outcome — let’s take a deep breath and manage expectations a little. We’re going to win some, we’re going to lose some — but this is still the team that already beat unc, duk, md, and gt. They are who we thought they were! (gratuitous and somewhat senseless Dennis Green reference).

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Have I mentioned how awesome it is to be in the ACC? Yeah, I think I said that in my last post. Well its has continued to be fantastic… I’m a pretty versatile sports fan, but not historically a big college basketball fan during the regular season – like most folks, I’ve always gotten fired up for March. Now, with the Hokies in the ACC (and competetive!), suddenly a midweek uva at md game is compelling… Suddenly I know that gt put up an 18-0 run in a comback win over nc state… Suddenly beating duk is a winter ritual.

And perhaps more to the point, suddenly Virginia Tech is a two sport school, and we’re all along for the ride. Joining the ACC has been incredible. Thank you John Casteen, you fantastic dopey wahoo.

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Today is national signing day for college football… Perhaps due to the rebirth of the Hokie basketball program and the added excitement generated by participation in the ACC conference schedule, I haven’t had much thought today about the football program — coming from a fairly obsessive Hokie football fan, that’s saying something on signing day. A clemson friend e-mailed me about VT’s recruiting class, and I realized 23 new football signees came in today unbeknowst to me while I was fretting over whether Z and Jamon will be able to shut down reynolds and singletary on Saturday.

Yay football signing day. Hoorah. Talk to me in April. Until then we’ve got business in Cassell Coliseum to attend to.

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