Confessions
of a webmaster: Throughout the Signing Day hysteria Wednesday, my heart raced and pounded, but it wasn’t because of the
ongoing recruiting drama, server crashes, and high levels of traffic on the site. It was because the Hokie men’s
basketball team was facing a critical road game at Miami. There, it’s heresy, but I said it: I was more hyped up over
basketball than recruiting.

While Hokie football fans’ stomachs churned at the decommitment of tight end John Hannah to the South Carolina
Gamecocks, my stomach churned at the thought of trying to contain the Hurricanes’ three-headed backcourt monster of
Guillermo Diaz, Robert Hite, and Anthony Harris.

For we old schoolers, who are loving the Hokie basketball renaissance, this game against Miami was as pivotal as it
gets. As Chris James wrote in his preview, "Win, and the Hokies will stay in the upper tier of the conference for a
couple more games; lose, and they’ll start to move towards the lower tier."

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