My dislike comes from a couple of things, Back in the 60s and 70s they were fawned over as Virginia's team and had maybe more Virginians than Carolinians on their team. It was the place Amos Lawrence and Lawrence Taylor saw a the closest "big name team" and went there. They were the ones who tried and tried to find something, ending up with a load of firewood, to hang on VT and Bruce Smith because, well, no way Bruce would consider going to VT instead of UNC.

And finally, they feared us and more actively than anyone else blocked every attempt we made to join the ACC. Allegedly they even vetoed playing us in a bowl game when they knew we had a solid chance to beat them.

was simple, they had to keep their advantage of being in the ACC and us not so they could keep their Virginia players and standing with the Richmond, Southside and what became 757 media. Even Bill Brill tried to suck up to them as the closest thing Virginia was going to get to a local team to root for.
[Post edited by VTCALS72 at 08/22/2021 6:36PM]