[FlameDad]

The D2 team takes on the Virginia Tech Hokies in a rare 7:15 PM start at LaHaye this Friday, Dec. 1.
Thats right - 7:15 PM!

BTW - What is a Hokie?

GO FLAMES!

[bigsmooth]

i have a few ideas on what i would call a hokie, but here is the official word from the VT site.

What Is a Hokie?
A Look at Virginia Tech Traditions
Here is the answer to that oft-posed question, "What's a Hokie?" and an explanation of other Tech traditions.

What is a Hokie? The origin of the word "Hokie" has nothing to do with a turkey. It was coined by O. M. Stull (class of 1896), who used it in a spirit yell he wrote for a competition.

Here's how that competition came to be held. Virginia Tech was founded in 1872 as a land-grant institution and was named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1896, the Virginia General Assembly officially changed the college's name to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, a name so long that citizens shortened it in popular usage to VPI. The original college cheer, which made reference to the original name of the institution, was no longer suitable. Thus, a contest was held to select a new spirit yell, and Stull won the $5 top prize for his cheer, now known as Old Hokie:

Hoki, Hoki, Hoki, Hy.
Techs, Techs, V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola-Rah.
Polytechs - Vir-gin-ia.
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.

Later, the phrase "Team! Team! Team!" was added at the end, and an "e" was added to "Hoki."

Stull later said that he made up the word as an attention-grabber. Though he may not have known it, "Hokie" (in its various forms) has been around at least since 1842. According to Johann Norstedt, now a retired Virginia Tech English professor, "[Hokie was] a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise. Hokie, then, is a word like 'hooray,' or 'yeah,' or 'rah.'" Whatever its original meaning, the word in the popular cheer did, as Stull wanted, grab attention and has been a part of Virginia Tech tradition ever since

[thepostman]

a tech student once told me that a hoke was a castrated turkey....i never researched it because i figured why in the world would a tech student make something like that up?? I will continue to go with the whole castrated turkey theory that i got from that tech student...who made it sound like it was the truth, simply because its much funnier

[PAmedic]

that may be dumber than the "official" explanation, which struck me as quite possibly the STUPIDEST thing I've ever heard.

[PAmedic]

ouch. sorry (or maybe not) we missed this- but the guys lost 11-zip

[FlameDad]

ouch. sorry (or maybe not) we missed this- but the guys lost 11-zip

The score doesn't tell the whole story....

Apparently the first 5-7 minutes were a little chaotic and VT exploited some defensive lapses to tally 5 goals in the opening few minutes...

A less secure Flames fan might point out that, unlike Liberty, VT & NCS don't have the pucks to move up to D1, preferring instead to beat up on new teams.

The D2 guys want another shot at VT this season - I guarantee a much different outcome.....

[PAmedic]

agreed on another opportunity!

I looked at the details of this game over on the ACHA D II site- you're right, a big flurry of scores in the 1st period.

that's hard to rebound from (See: what our D I has done to everyone all year long!)

best of luck to this young team the rest of the way

they are 4-6 now, ranked 20th in M2 (Southeast Div) but look like they have the potential to finish better.