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Born in the Bronx but otherwise raised in northern New Jersey, my Hokie life began in the fall of 1989. I walked on to the baseball team and spent a year and a half as a redshirt catcher. After my stint with the baseball team ended, I finished my time at Tech on the ice hockey team, playing Hokie hockey as a club sport. Despite this pursuit of other sporting interests, my passion became Tech football, and I have been a die hard fan ever since. When I’m not obsessing over Hokie sports, I enjoy running, traveling, and fostering dogs. And of course, spending time with my wife and three kids.
My “real job” is as a high school English teacher, where I have worked for over a quarter of a century (and everyone in the building knows where Mr. Lutt went to school). My daughter is now a Hokie - as if I needed another reason to make the long drive to Blacksburg! I started my sports writing journey with Gridiron Heroics, covering Virginia Tech football and some college sports news. But I’m excited to join the Sons of Saturday now and I look forward to adding content through my story-telling abilities.
'93, Business, English, & Communications // Pompton Plains, NJ
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?
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As August progresses, it is time for my annual attempt to mimic Jim Cramer and pick some stocks that will make me say “Boo-yah” come December. For the purpose of this exercise, I am treating Virginia Tech players and coaches as stocks and trying to find some diamonds in the roug…
Fall camp opened for the 2025 Virginia Tech football team, and there has to be a sense of urgency this summer, not just on the field, but throughout the entire athletic department as well. The disappointment of last season’s 6-7 record still lingers at the start of year four of …
Worst College Fight Songs As we plow through the summer doldrums, waiting eagerly for the start of the college football season, we find ways to cope with the absence of the sport we so love while knowing it is oh so close. One escape is to talk about anything related to college,…
Who are the people responsible for choosing “Enter Sandman” as the entrance song for the Virginia Tech football team? This is a supplement to the original article that details the full story behind the choice ( Why did Virginia Tech Choose “Enter Sandman?” The Real Story Told by…