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I completely agree. We beat a team ranked lower than us that we were favored to beat. It was an exciting way to way which was cause for celebration but rushing the field was overboard and made us look bad.

Nobody "tore down" the goalposts. They're lowered by crews using 'big wrenches' for lack of better words - Specifically so they aren't damaged if an attempted 'tearing-down' were to occur...In which case you'd have to get past the K-9 cops standing guard. Maybe you'd know about that if you went someplace where the football program actually has uprights not rooted in the 19th century, and where last second freaking miracle wins cause big time fans to rush the field for big time plays at the last moment. Why don't you run along and find Toto?

What is wrong with rushing the field after one of the most exciting Hokie game finishes since 1999? At first I thought it was just students being students. Then I remembered that there's nothing wrong with enjoying being a Hokie on the winning side of a high-ranked matchup for once. Thanks for enjoying the moment, Hokies and for not being a Debbie Downer like Dave Graham who obviously has nothing to do in Kansas. PS - No one can possibly tear down the goal posts in Lane, Dave. They are let down at the end of the game.

So, why did the CT staff decide to post this? They could have asked anyone who was there and they would have known that the goal posts were not torn down. The CT should have informed Dave of Topeka Kansas (?) he was misinformed and saved the room for an ad.

I completely agree and was almost embarassed that they rushed the field. "There's nothing wrong with enjoying being a Hokie on the winning side of a high-ranked match up" - Yes, maybe if you are the LOWER RANKED team of the match up and pull out a win not the higher ranked team beating a team you were expected to beat! (Also, it was not a high-ranked match up as neither team was in the Top Ten) It made us look like amateurs - not a growing football program that is used to being at the top of their conference.

When you have little hope of ever making a big offensive play, you have to celebrate it every chance you get. It won't happen for another 10 years... that being said, Go Hokies!

We're Virginia Tech, not Nebraska. We have no history of national championships. We have no Heisman winners. And those of you complaining that we had simply beat a lower ranked team obviously were not at the game. Those last two minutes were the most excited I'd ever been in my life and the loudest I've ever heard the stadium. This was one of the most spectacular wins in our history, so there's no shame in rushing the field.

Why is this comment even here..no goal posts were torn down. What a waste of time. GO HOKIES!

I was at the game and the only thing spectacular was that the offense finally managed to make a play. That game should not have been that close and was not worth rushing the field. A little bit of luck does not make up for 58 minutes of bad play calling, dropped balls, and incomplete passes. You know what would make me rush the field? An overhaul of the offensive coaching staff - starting with the firing of Bryan Stinespring. And if the last two minutes of that game were the loudest you've heard the stadium and the most excited you've ever been then you weren't at the Miami game in 2003 - That was an appropriate time to rush the field.

Dave, the fans that stormed the field didn't tear down the goal posts. The field crew automatically takes down the goal posts after every big win and none of the fans were near the endzones, they were at the 50 yard line celebrating with the players. Also, I was at the game, and the way we won was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. The 81 yard pass to Coale and the TD pass to Roberts were combined the best feeling I've ever had other than getting married and having children. A moment like that deserves a field rush.

As an '06 VT alum, I agree that the Miami game in 2003 was absolutely incredible and the loudest game at Lane Stadium I've ever experienced. However, we beat them 31-7 and it didn't come down to the final 1:44 with an 81 yd reception (after only mustering 5 yds in the 3rd quarter) and an 11 yd TD pass to win the game. This ending is the most incredible ending to a game I've ever experienced live at Lane Stadium and I absolutely think it was deserving to rush the field just as the football players did. And Dave, as everyone has said below, we have a crew that takes our field goal posts down and K-9 cops that surround them so no one touches them. GO HOKIES!!!

This wasn't a pre-meditated action, it was a spontaneous out-pouring of pure joy and excitement and exactly what college football should be all about. The ranking of the teams has absolutely nothing to do with it. I've been going to Hokie games since 1980 and this was the best finish I've ever seen at Lane. Other moments were great like beating UVA in 1990 when they had been highly ranked, beating Miami for the first time in the Beamer era and beating BC to go to the National Championship, but for pure spur-of-the-moment emotion, this was number one. GO HOKIES!!! BEAT MIAMI!!!!

Next time you should go to the game before you decide if it was "worth" rushing or not. Unless you were there and felt what the fan's felt, you would not understand.

I am a recent VT alumni and a die-hard Hokie football fan. I completely understand why you would want to rush the field if you are relatively new to VT football and have never experienced a more epic game than the one this past Saturday (which was very exciting, by the way). However, rushing the field is for upsets only, or for teams who are not used to winning any games. This is unwritten football fan code. Violating this code is an amateur embarassment to the team, and very UVA-esque. Please remember that Virginia Tech has a winning record, we are ranked above Nebraska, and we beat them last year. They are not even a rivalry. Wait until you experience a rivalry upset a la Miami 2003 before rushing the field again. And Go Hokies!

The reason they tore down the goalposts is because VT got a win over a team that is superior to them, and it was incredible luck that it happened. By the way, we won three national titles in 4 years in the mid nineties and the nebraska program has much more tradition and history. I will make a comment in January. Nebraska will be a top ten team and VT will not be rated for the final poll of the year.

I've spoken out against rushing the field in the past, on the premise that often the announcer specifically requests not to. However, this did not happen this time, and the rush of winning this game against, as Rockin Eric points out, a team worthy of respect, was too much to overcome. I find no fault with the fans who chose to rush. More appropriate to do it then than if we happen to have the Miami game wrapped up by the beginning of the 4th.

Easy Rockin Eric, I guess you are not among the classy Nebraska fans I got to meet at the game, all whom by the way stated we deserved to win and ya'll should have stopped us. You lost, deal with it like a man.

Ok dave i'm sorry to tell you this but your completely wrong. This wasn't about the fact that we beat Nebraska it was about the fact that the Nebraska coach insulted us as hokie fans. He said "The fans don't play the game the players play the game". I find that insulting and apparently the rest of the hokie nation did too. If it wasn't for the noise the fans where making, we would have lost the game. end of story. so when we won why is it wrong for the fans to celebrate alongside their players? It wasn't a slap in the face to Nebraska in anyway it was a coming together of a sport where fans and players truely worked together. With such an outcome it would have been wrong for the fans to walk away. It wasn't a rivalry it was just a good game.

I have no problem with rushing the field after beating a team ranked higher than us. I do have a problem with how rude our students were on national television when the reporter was trying to interview beamer after the game. If you haven't seen it yet look it up on youtube. Even beamer gets upset that the students won't stop shoving a being rowdy. Rush the field all you want, enjoy the win, but respect our coach. . .he just won the game for us.

Jim Weaver said this week that he doesn't mind students rushing the field and that they're not going to try and stop it. Its all summed up in the notes from his call in radio show on Mondays. The notes are on techsideline.com.

I agree with Jordan and the other VT Alumni - rush the field for an upset. And I also saw the Frank Beamer post-game interview and was ashamed at the way those kids acted - like FRESHMEN. It wasn't Hokie Nation celebrating the win and showing the Nebraska coach what kind of fans we have, it was a fraction of the student section who jumped the gun and wanted to get their chance to stand on Worsham Field. When there is a game worthy of rushing the field EVERYONE will get involved like Miami '03 - not just the underclassmen

To Ed Bradley says Common!: Why couldn't you have just offered the explanation that the goalposts weren't torn down, etc. in a grown-up fashion. The writer made a mistake and misunderstood what was happening. Big deal. You on the other hand have to act like an ignorant smart-a$$. You are in college now - grow up. You reflect badly on Hokies.

We rushed the field because T-Mobile completed a pass.

I guess people don't remember (know) that the goalposts use to be torn down quite frequently. I remember WVU beat VT at Tech and the WVU fans tore down the goal posts in their own stadium in Morgantown. It is what you do when you beat a good opponent or a team no one likes ala Miami.

I don't think it was inappropriate to storm the field after the Nebraska game. Tech was down almost to the very end of the fourth quarter, and most of us had lost hope of winning. It really seemed like the Huskers were going to beat us! Then a stoke of luck saved us, and we were ecstatic! The conditions definitely overrode the "code" of not storming the field. Additionally, you'll find many letters from Nebraska fans praising the way they were treated while in Blacksburg. They didn't seem to be upset that the students stormed the field. They understood it was a really close, exciting game!

Field Rushing, K-9 Cops... torn down goal posts... what intellectualism. I wonder if the masses also rushed the field in the old days, you know... the days of the Roman empire when the drunken hordes of spectators would watch the gladiator events. What? A comparison between college football fevor and the gladiator games? How inappropriate.

This is stupid. "Why did you guys celebrate on the field after the most improbable, exciting comback victory since Shayne Graham kicked 50 yard FG square into the testicles of WVU?" Are you kidding? It was incredible. I was not at the game, I was at a restaurant and even I was throwing stuff and running around and upsetting old people. It was awesome.

I'm usually on board with the whole 'it's only appropriate when the team is top-5 and you upset them' wagon, but this game was different. It's a sign of respect to Nebraska that we felt a win like that over them justified rushing the field. If they weren't such a storied program, no one would have cared. It was one of the most exciting football moments in VT history. If you nay-sayers think football is about quietly sitting in the stands and golf-clapping when we score points, you probably oughta head to C-ville, I hear there's a class act worth watching down there.

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