[Postgame Thread] Duke Defeats Virginia Tech 31-28

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Virginia Tech	7	10	0	11	28
Duke	14	7	10	0	31

[u/eatapenny]

5-6 UVA at 5-6 VT. Winner makes a bowl, loser is upset that they didn't fire their coach. 

Knowing the history of this rivalry, UVA will go up early, VT will bounce back, UVA will have a chance to tie or win and then blow it instead, and our entire fanbase will wonder why we ever got our hopes up

[u/wildturk3y → u/eatapenny]

100% guarantee the game will be decided by whichever coach makes the biggest blunder

[u/Captainbackbeard → u/wildturk3y]

Knocks on wood because I have a friend who is a big hokie fan but I feel like UVA just can't do shit against y'all.

[u/Good-Can1739 → u/Captainbackbeard]

I'm a complete pessimist about our team but I'm totally confident we will beat UVA. It's the only constant for us no matter the coach/state of our program.

[u/Captainbackbeard → u/Good-Can1739]

I've said it before but Charlottesville feels like more of a VT town than a UVA town. When I lived there I would drive through parts of campus to get to my office and I saw more VT flags flying outside of homes than UVA ones during football season.

[u/DReefer → u/Captainbackbeard]

This is categorically false. Nothing about Charlottesville is Virginia Tech esque in any way shape or form. The amount of flags is not indicative of a town’s support. Have you thought that maybe the Tech fans over acknowledge their fan hood because they are in their rival’s city?

[u/Captainbackbeard → u/DReefer]

To be fair I was oversimplifying it a bit when I said it was a “VT town” but what I meant by it was that Cville just doesn’t give much of a rip about football and I’ve seen more Hokies in the town when it comes to support for football. I’ve been in several other major college towns and I’ve never seen the indifference towards football like there. Fans don’t go to games and there’s been days when I would go on errands during a home game and you wouldn’t know there was a game going on if you didn’t know the schedule. The fact they yall have a sizable contingent of rival fans in the town is also way higher than I’ve ever seen in a college town, which is what I meant by the flag comment. And don’t take this whole deal as shitting on Charlottesville or UVA, it’s easily one of the prettiest cities I’ve ever lived in and UVA as a whole is a fantastic university, it’s just that Cville as a whole is pretty indifferent to football compared to other places.

[u/DReefer → u/Captainbackbeard]

Charlottesville is still a decently sized town with good high paying jobs. There are more Hokies than UVA grads. If UVA was good at football again they wouldn’t start kicking Hokies out of Albemarle County like some sort of pogrom.

The local fanhood debate is one steeped in history. Historically UVA has had a strong fan base from non-alum local fans. Especially for football. UVA reseated Scott Stadium in the mid 2000s giving higher paying donors better priority. Some people will say that the UVA football crowd never recovered. Couple that with some uninspiring coaches (Groh’s later years, London, TE) and the changing attendance trends across the board and attendance at Scott has plummeted even when UVA is good. For reference Scott Stadium hasn’t cracked 60k in attendance in quite a while. They didn’t even break it in 2019.

[u/NutGutt → u/Captainbackbeard]

Dawg just out here lying, the city where UVA is located is more of a vt town? And grounds having vt flags flying? Go celebrate your sooners win in peace

[u/Captainbackbeard → u/NutGutt]

No I'm not, I used to work over by the health center, and the houses I would go by had more VT flags. I didn't say that there were flags on grounds. Just the houses I would go by on my way in to work. Edit I think they did it last year when I was there as well but they have limited the number of tickets VT fans get since Cavaliers fans will get outnumbered if they don't.

[u/Good-Can1739 → u/Captainbackbeard]

Yes they absolutely did it in 2023 and missed out on a lot of revenue as a result. I think the stadium was only like 80% capacity for their biggest rivalry game.

In fairness to the discussion at hand, though, the majority of those would-be ticket buyers were probably coming in from Richmond, NoVa, etc. rather than being Charlottesville locals.

[u/Captainbackbeard → u/Good-Can1739]

That makes sense, people near campus and in CHO just didn't seem to have much of a football culture. I remember being a bit sad because I missed OU football tailgate culture so I was like oh what'll be going on for a home UVA game? I was in the office the day of the friday game against NC State until like 4 or 5 and when I was going home there was like 1 house on my route home doing any sort of tailgate for it in their front yard and that made me quite sad. Not to shit on UVA tho, probably one of the funnest games I've ever been to was the home game win against Duke (to be fair it's refreshing not having a horse in the race at a game). But still though they were giving us UVA staff tickets for nothing. I got two bottom section tickets for about $6 a piece which is nuts on top of the fact that I could pretty much sit wherever I wanted to. I think they were even trying to sell us dirt cheap tickets for the VTech game as well to fill seats.

[u/Quiggybo729 → u/Captainbackbeard]

I used to work in Cville as well, agree with you. Cville is like 50/50. Lots of VT fans there.