Dallas Hokies

We went up to Dallas yesterday to watch the Duke game with the local Hokie Alumni chapter, and had a good time. The drive was pleasant and scenic, plus getting out of Waco for awhile felt great! The Dallas Hokies have been meeting at the Fox and Hound Pub to watch the games in north Dallas, so we got to drive through a large portion of the city. Driving by Southern Methodist University on the way back made us realize that the George W. Bush library will more than likely be housed there. (Baylor and SMU have been bidding for the current President’s library, but SMU is in a nice part of Dallas, and Laura Bush is an alumnus… so Baylor should get over its delusions of grandeur.) Watching the game at a bar was exciting, given the large TVs and other games shown. We were tracking Cincinnati’s upset bid over Ohio State with particular interest. The Hokies played well, and we saw the slow maturing of our offense. While I am a die-hard Hokie, I don’t think we are a top-10 team just yet… but we are 3-0 and UVA is rather pathetic this year. The Dallas Hokies tended to be older, and graduated from Tech well before Beamer started coaching at Murray State, thus they were not the most energetic crowd. However, one guy had just moved to Texas after going to every home game for the past 15 years. He grew up in Texas then went to Tech for college and didn’t want to leave Blacksburg. His girlfriend finally made him move, but he was missing Lane so much he had about 10 beers in the first half. The other side of the bar was the Ohio State Alumni club, who were worried about an upset most of the game. We may check out the Austin Hokie Club for next week’s game.