As a season ticket holder since 1998 and a 2-3 games/yr Hokie before that, I have't seen much mention of another issue that those of us in Hampton Roads (and NOVA) are tiring of: the increasingly miserable driving experience in Virginia's high population corridors. While I have always done the full weekend stay (and that gets more expensive every year), it now requires a strategic plan, and two tactical plans to prepare one's escape/return from Hampton Roads on a weekend. It's a 330 mile one way trip to begin with but that trip is so increasingly arduous with routine 6 mile backups on the regions bridge tunnels and now the increasingly common I-81 backups that I have begun considering bagging my season tickets. I am a Golden Hokie and would still give money but, with regard to this thread's focus on getting more people in the stands, nothing VT can do will alleviate this problem for an increasingly large set of the alumni base. Like many of the posters here, I value the tailgating as much as the game experience itself, but win or lose, I am exhausted by the to/fro that is now required. The Tidewater Hokie Club offers bus trips but they do not jibe with our need to bring canopy, tables, etc for our tailgates. Short of a massive infusion into the state highway system (ain't gonna happen), I can see myself saving my energies for a Hokie game watching party with my Hokie neighbors acknowledging I will miss much about the "being there" but such is life being stuck at the dead end of I-64 (or anywhere north of F'burg on I-95).