Rich Luttenberger

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Predicting the 2026 Hokie Football Season

Virginia Tech Football Fans – Be Wary of Expectation

Virginia Tech football received a lot of national attention from an offseason. They hired an established winner as head coach, signed a highly ranked recruiting class, brought in a solid transfer portal class, and received the largest single donation in school history. So what should the fanbase expect for the 2026 season?

Post Season Thoughts: Playoff Reform, SEC Bias, and Then Some

As we head into the college football playoff semifinals, it is a good time to reflect on some post-season results, while also expressing a few frustrations and sharing some shout outs. It has been another excellent post-season, but it has not been flawless. Because of some of th…

Virginia Tech Football Finale - Year End Vibes as the Hokies Lay an Egg in Charlottesville

With Virginia Tech’s 27–7 beating at the hands of in-state rival Virginia, the 2025 football season has finally – and thankfully– come to a conclusion. After yet another uninspiring performance by an offense that has been less than pedestrian all year, Hokie Nation can finally b…

The James Franklin Hire: Thoughts from a Penn State Dad and PSU Season Ticket Holder

After weeks of rumors, Virginia Tech finally hired former Penn State coach James Franklin as its newest head football coach. Hokie Nation is happy, and I couldn’t be more thrilled with this decision. As a 1993 Virginia Tech grad, I was a student for Frank Beamer’s early struggle…

Around the ACC - Week 12

Week 12 came and went in the ACC, as did several teams’ championship hopes. The muddled mix at the top of the standings shrunk a little with losses by Duke and Louisville, yet the path to the ACC title game is anything but clear right now. It seems like nobody wants to win this …

Five Takeaways After the Cal Weekend

What a treat it was to be in Blacksburg last weekend! The Virginia Tech football team beat Cal in a Friday night game that had everything. The multiple overtimes gave vibes of the 2019 UNC thriller. The second one-score victory this year is already more than the previous three s…

The Franklin Firing - Parallels up in Penn State

Penn State fired James Franklin last weekend in a move that has garnered incredible attention all week (and rightfully so). The situation in Happy Valley is interesting to Hokie Nation, obviously because Virginia Tech needs a head coach. And let me go on record by saying that I …

Midyear Musings - Around the ACC

We are entering the bye week for Virginia Tech, and since the rest of this season is really just biding time until the coaching and staffing changes occur in Blacksburg, let’s take a look around the league as everybody has already played half of their schedules. There have been …

Hokie Nation, Welcome to Purgatory

The Catholic Church believes in the doctrine of Purgatory, where the deceased experience a final cleansing of human imperfection before being able to enter Heaven. In other words, souls are indeed destined for Heaven, but they are not quite ready for the Pearly Gates, so they ne…

Virginia Tech Football Week 5: a One-Score Win, a Pesky Next Opponent, and a Landmark Budget Increase

It has been several days since Virginia Tech beat North Carolina State in Raleigh, but Hokie Nation is still riding the high of the surprising upset. Given the poor start to the season and the questions around the program, we may not quite be on cloud nine, but the vibes are hig…

Around the ACC - Week Four; From a Hokie’s Perspective

We are four games in to the 2025 college football season, which means the regular season is a third of the way over. (Slow it down, please!) After of month of play, the fraudulent pre-season rankings have been exposed, and the four weeks of actual football have market-corrected …

Embarrassed by Old Dominion Again? Searching for Light in a Tunnel of Darkness

The Monarchs, an FBS program only since 2014, now have three victories over power conference foes. All three of those teams are named “Hokies.” Virginia Tech was coming off a dreadful second half against Vanderbilt where they were outscored 34-0, and this was a great opportunity…

Hokies Are Embarrassed by the Commodores, Pushing Hokie Nation to the Brink

Thomas Paine famously wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” This was the opening line of his pamphlet, The American Crisis , and it was meant as a rallying cry to boost the morale of the American army during the Revolutionary War. Well, 250 years later in Blacksburg…

Is The Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Virginia Tech vs South Carolina Reactions Vary Widely

Going into the Virginia Tech South Carolina game, I was bearish in my Hokies and their ability to emerge victorious in this one, having not won a game against a team ranked this high since 2014 at Ohio State (yes, Tech beat 10th ranked UNC to open the 2021 season, but that doesn…

Predicting Every 2025 Virginia Tech Football Game

There’s a saying that goes “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Did you know that there is actually an extended version of this proverb? "Fool me three times, shame on both of us." For each of the past three years of Virginia Tech football, I bought the hype…

An Open Letter to the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors - Please Fund the Athletic Programs!

To the Esteemed Members of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, First of all, thank you for your service to Virginia Tech. Your leadership of our beloved institution takes much time and effort, and you often have to make very difficult but necessary decisions that appease some y…