You couldn’t have asked for a better outcome to Saturday’s proceedings. Justin Fuente and his staff put a lot of eggs into this basket, inviting all their committed North Carolina recruits and a few big remaining targets from their #NC2VT recruiting effort into Lane Stadium to witness an epic beatdown of their home state North Carolina Tar Heels, on a beautiful day in Blacksburg.

Everything gelled perfectly, and in the end, Fuente could only gloat like the A-Team’s Hannibal Smith.

Virginia Tech has now outscored North Carolina 93-10 in the last two seasons, bringing harmony and alignment to the football relationship between these two schools. As I wrote in last week’s Monday Thoughts, there’s something inherently wrong about North Carolina beating Virginia Tech in football. If that’s true (and it is), then there is something inherently right about the Hokies not just beating the Heels, but crushing them. Fuente and his staff seem to get that, and they make every effort not just to win, but win big.

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