WELL, ITS VT, IM A HOKIE DAD...

[snakeeyes]

FIRST OFF THANK YOU GLENN W , I REALLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR HONEST OPINION ON THE SCHOOL, WELL IT SEEMS VIRGINIA TECH AND MY SON CAME TOO AN AGREEMENT ,AND HE WILL BE ATTENDING, AND SWIMMING FOR VT. MY NEXT ? IS T EXACTLY IS A HOKIE. . I COULD GUESS BUT I THINK I BETTER ASK..

[snakeeyes]

BY THE WAY , I FORGOT TO SAY HOW PROUD ,AND HAPPY I AM , EVEN THOU MY SONE BLAKE DOES NOT FISH, HOWEVER HE DEFINATLY SWIMSLIKE ONE.... DAVE.

[Miles Offshore]

im not glenn but congrats for you and your son!!!VT is like the home school for everyone here at the beach - and welcome to the best basketball conference in the country- "ACC!!" heres a link to the "bird"

http://www.vt.edu/about/hokie.php

Go Cavaliers !

[Finishing Touch]

I am very happy for you and your son. VT is a great school.

The fresh water fishing there is great in the New River and the hunting aint bad either.

Hokie is a turkey with no nuts.

[striper101]

Dave,
Even though you constantly pick on me , I still have to say it! Tell your son Congradulations! I do know how it feels to have your Son/Daughter accepted into a good college. My daughter finally picked Temple to go to. Not a bad college at all, but as she was accepted into better she picked that one! Tell your son to swim well!

[melville84]

I have spent 6 years here in undergrad and grad and loved it. I finish in December. Your son will have a great time here.

[Glenn W]

No doubt you are extreemly proud of your son's accomplishments--- and you should be. I'm sure he will enjoy Blacksburg and grow up alot during the next four years. Don't be suprised however, when he shows up from college break with a pouch of Levi Garret in his hip pocket.
Congrats.

[Squidnation]

Congrats to you and your son Dave. Does this mean you will have more time to fish next year?

Well - I'm not a Hokie but I did gradatate from Whitey's school of googlogy

Here is the answer to that oft-posed question, "What's a Hokie?" and an explanation of other Tech traditions.

What is a Hokie? The origin of the word "Hokie" has nothing to do with a turkey. It was coined by O. M. Stull (class of 1896), who used it in a spirit yell he wrote for a competition.

Here's how that competition came to be held. Virginia Tech was founded in 1872 as a land-grant institution and was named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1896, the Virginia General Assembly officially changed the college's name to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, a name so long that citizens shortened it in popular usage to VPI. The original college cheer, which made reference to the original name of the institution, was no longer suitable. Thus, a contest was held to select a new spirit yell, and Stull won the $5 top prize for his cheer, now known as Old Hokie:

Hoki, Hoki, Hoki, Hy.
Techs, Techs, V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola-Rah.
Polytechs - Vir-gin-ia.
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.

Later, the phrase "Team! Team! Team!" was added at the end, and an "e" was added to "Hoki."

Stull later said that he made up the word as an attention-grabber. Though he may not have known it, "Hokie" (in its various forms) has been around at least since 1842. According to Johann Norstedt, now a retired Virginia Tech English professor, "[Hokie was] a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise. Hokie, then, is a word like 'hooray,' or 'yeah,' or 'rah.'" Whatever its original meaning, the word in the popular cheer did, as Stull wanted, grab attention and has been a part of Virginia Tech tradition ever since.

[gradywhite273]

Congrats to you and your son Dave, what a great accomplishment.

[tolbard]

Damm Bill. You never cease to amaze me.