I keep going back to something that Charlie Phlegar wrote to me last week about the Reach for Excellence campaign. It wasn’t something he said during the podcast appearance; it was something he wrote in follow-up “thank you” emails that we exchanged.

“Be assured it’s a moment in our collective history that will change our course and avert mediocrity for VT athletics,” he wrote.

Somewhere else along the way, in all the ink spilled and airtime filled in talking about the campaign last week, I also heard the words “inflection point” used.

Those at Virginia Tech who put in the work to make the campaign happen are speaking of it in glowing terms, as a new moment in Virginia Tech Athletics history. From this point on, things are moving in the right direction.

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