Almost two years ago, Virginia Tech Athletic Director Whit Babcock hired Bill Lansden out of the University of Memphis to run the Hokie Club. Lu Merritt, the longtime head of the Hokie Club, had retired, and Lansden was Merritt’s replacement.

Lansden had a tough road ahead: transforming an entity that had been doing business a certain way for decades into an organization set up to succeed in the modern era of college athletics.

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