Closed scrimmages and the Ohio State dynamic

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For the first time in years, Virginia Tech football won’t have any open scrimmages this fall. That’s an interesting wrinkle for a program that has probably been too open recently.

To bring you up to speed: the Hokies have closed their football practices for many years. Back in 1999, when TSL went from a hobby site to a full-time venture (we were called HokieCentral.com back then), I showed up at the first practice that fall.

Practices were quickly closed to the public.

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