Perspective, and “What If’s” About Conference Realignment

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I got a very interesting gift last week.  It’s a gift that only a true historian of Virginia Tech athletics can appreciate: a Metro Conference banner that once hung in the Richmond Coliseum.

The guy who gave me the banner knows what a big Tech basketball fan I am.  When he gave me the banner, he told me “If we lose a basketball game, you can go home, look at that banner, and say ‘at least we aren’t in the Metro anymore.'”

Indeed.  And the A-10, for that matter.  Thinking about it like that really puts things into perspective.  It’s easy to complain about some of the things that have happened over the past 3-5 years, but it certainly could be a whole lot worse.

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