Something new: ‘Like’ this Hokies blog on Facebook
The Twitter account I inherited from The Virginian-Pilot and The Roanoke Times is fast approaching 6,000 followers, and I thank everyone who has helped me on that front. But I also realize that not everyone uses Twitter, or even knows how it works (my parents would certainly fit the bill in that regard).
So in an effort to help get the word out whenever I post something, I’m starting a Facebook page for our Virginia Tech football coverage. It’ll be your one-shop stop for Hokies football news, be it a blog post, a story in the paper that’s online or a picture gallery that some our excellent photographers put together after games.
It’s a simple premise. Click on the “Like” button and anytime I post something, it’ll appear in your news feed. This will make it easier for people to share stories or posts that they like and is a good forum to have a discussion with someone whose name isn’t an Internet pseudonym. I’d imagine the discourse is more civil without that shield of anonymity.
But bottom line is this: I want to make the information on the blog and in the paper easy to access in a timely manner on multiple platforms. If I write something about Virginia Tech football, it’ll be posted immediately on the Facebook page, just like it is with Twitter.
I had intended to do this before spring practice, but for various reasons things got postponed. Regardless, I intend to have something on the blog every day, even in the next few months when football news is scarce. I’ll begin my post-spring position-by-position reviews this week before taking an extended look at the teams on the Hokies’ schedule next year after that.
April 29, 2012 - 11:04 PM
Don’t do facebook, don’t do twitter, consumes too much time. I can check the blog, either post or not, and move on. Not that I don’t understand it, I just don’t like my personal life on the internet.
No offense, but because of the repeated invasions of privacy and identity theft on Facebook, I avoid using that. Just some feedback for your RT bosses who seem intent on driving everything to Facebook content.
I’ll search you on here, but the more that RT goes to Facebook the more I refuse to access the web site.
Completely understandable. And we’re not trying to push traffic to anywhere specific. Just want to link our work in places that people use a lot. Some like Twitter, some Facebook, some neither.
haha… If people really want your information, they will find it regardless if you have a social media account or not. Trust me, it’s happened to me.
Thanks for joining Facebook!
ABDNVA , it’s no strange coincidence that media outlets not only attack the user with regard to privacy they’re also the same outlets that create ,repackage, and reinvent the truth. With all due respect to Mr. Bitter’s blog you are not going to find a completely honest commentary on the status of the Virginia Tech program nor will you find it on any other website or outlet. The Greg Robert show is probably one of the most pathetic pieces of … Uhh entertainment that I’ve ever heard on the radio. Mr. Roberts is carrying the water for Frank Beamer. getting paid to carry the water for Frank Beamer. At some point the consuming public has to rise up and start demanding and expecting a better product on the field, in the newspaper,on the Internet,and on the radio.
I’m not a Facebook or Twitter guy either. I know the RT has to keep up or be left behind. I only ask that you don;t drop the blog as I enjoy writing annoying opinions and irritating certain UVA fans that roam this site.
Let me be clear: this is not replacing the blog.
It’s just another way to get word out when I post something on the blog or have an article in the newspaper.
Mark r you need to stop reading or listening to VT info that is supposedly paid for by Frank Beamer’s army of yes men. This condition warrants a trip for you to a shrink for counseling.
You need to get a life, preferably a meaningful one, that is not so full of hate and jealously.
@Mark r – As a longtime hokie that remembers the days in which the Roanoke Times wouldn’t give a drop of water to Frank Beamer if he’d been walking across a desert for three days, I’m glad to see friendly coverage in the Roanoke Times. As for demanding a better product, c’mon. Tech has risen from being a nobody in college athletics to being the premier college football program in the ACC and the mid-Atlantic. Sure, we want an MNC and we’ll get one at some in the future. But if anybody should be rising up, it’s the Hoo-boys. On to Facebook . . .
Mr SPigninelli and to a Lesser extent Hokie 92,
First Hokie 92 I agree with you we are a long ways from where we used to be 30 years ago. My point is always been not where we’ve come from but where are we going and at what point are the expectations raised for a national championship. Seriously, when did Alabama finally realize that winning a conference title wasn’t enough? Alabama and Louisiana are two of the poorer states in the United States however some of the greatest players are recruited their year in and year out. I guess it really boils down to where priorities are placed .Some schools place a high standard on academics versus athletics and vice versa. Since football moves the needle with regard to funding for any athletic program at Tech or any other program for that matter and increased expectation should be placed squarely on the people responsible for putting championship talent on the field every year.
As for SPigninelli, Life is good,don’t be concerned. I contend that more people should voice their concerns of Frank Beamer’s inability to win against top five programs and our inability to play championship football versus those teams outside of ACC is creating a reputation that is even being surpassed by “Beamerball” is now become a thing in the past.
Alabama and Louisiana may be poorer states, but they put everything they have into their athletic programs. Alabama has total athletic revenues in excess of 130 million dollars. We Virginians, despite our superiour wealth are only feeding 65 million dollars a year to the Tech athletic program.
We are all united in our desire to have the Hokies win it all. All of the conference championships and wins are a testimony to Beamer and all of the players, coaches and staff to build a top notch program. But we are still in the building stage. Alabama BTW, one its first of four Southern confernce championships in 1924 and first of 22 SEC championships in 1933.
Tech also will never sacrifice it’s academic standards for the sake of winning. Did you catch the decision to close it’s Computer Science department to save 1.6 million dollars, while increasing it’s athletic budget over two million? What a joke.
I understand the frustation. But Beamer keeps replacing talent with talent. The funding has to continue to grow and Tech will win it all.
Ooops. That was the University of Florida that closed its Computer Science department.
Mark r, don’t let people’s overuse of the “no good against top-5″ stat fool you. NOBODY is good against the top 5.
What type of winning percentage against the top 5 would you consider acceptable for a program that wants to be considered as a national title contender?
Hokie 24, what is the percentage number that 1-28 vs top 5 teams is?
After following college football for nearly 40 years now I definitely understand that top-five teams stay that way because no one really beats them however there are teams that find a way to win those games at least a third of the time and those teams generally are in the top-five themselves.
My question has always been: at what point do we start to expect at least some form of winning versus Marquis teams when our reputation is on national television?
The last and only top-five team Virginia Tech has beaten was against Miami in 2003, almost 10 years ago.
Now to your point no, no team has a high success record against top five teams. But it what point should he win more and at what point should we beat a significant team on the road. I am no ungrateful Virginia Tech fan. I understand what Virginia Tech used to be but that brand is changed, and college football has changed. The landscape of college football is such today that coaches have to change within the middle of game situations. there have been several examples about Frank Beamer is outcoached versus these teams that I speak of top five top 10 teams. Our inability to keep our heads up versus Boise State, the fourth quarter versus Alabama in 2009, our inability to maintain some sort of clock management in the final five minutes versus Boston College in 2007. There have been several instances where we have look poorly versus top-ranked teams. Frank Beamer’s inability to adjust to in game situations is what puts Virginia Tech rightfully so and deservedly so versus top five and top 10 opponents.