Birth of the Hokie Nation

Virginia Tech hired Frank Beamer in December 1986 to take over a football program rocked with scandal and on NCAA probation. After the 1992 season many assumed the university administration would fire him when the Hokies finished the year with a 2-8-1 record. The ad-ministration was patient. Starting in 1993 the Virginia Tech football team set upon a path that would lead to the National Championship game of 1999 played on January 4 2000 at the Sugar Bowl. This is the story of the games played between 1992 and that January night when for a few minutes Virginia Tech reached the pinnacle of the college football world. While Frank Beamer never won a national championship as coach this book is about the teams that put Beamer and the Hokies in the stratosphere where dreams became goals and the quest for those goals changed a university.