This blowout has all the potential of being remembered as a watershed game. And not in a good way.

Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines watershed as “a time when an important change happens,” so I guess it behooves me to explain what important change happened last Thursday night. We’ll get to that, in time.

It has been a very long time since the fans cleared out of Lane Stadium so early. I don’t remember the last time I saw such a mass exodus, leaving only the I-stay-till-the-end-no-matter-what crowd at the final whistle. It started at half time, when Miami scored late to take a 24-0 lead, and accelerated with Virginia Tech’s third fumble in eleven offensive plays with about six minutes left to go in the third quarter.

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