Going into the 1985-86 academic year, the two major sports at Virginia Tech,
football and men’s basketball, were attempting to answer the same question: how
do you replace talented long-time starters and still maintain program momentum?
In the case of football, superstars like Bruce Smith, Jesse Penn, and Ashley Lee
were gone, and on the basketball side, the Youngs, Perry and Al, were done, and
it was left up to Dell Curry and Bobby Beecher to carry on.

Football

...