While the eye of the storm last week centered around Marcus Vick, there was a
lot of turbulence circulating around Frank Beamer and the VT football program as
well. Sparked by "The Stomp," fans and media took the opportunity to
question the behavior of the VT football team as a whole, and Frank Beamer's
disciplinary methods for the Hokie program. Vick is gone now, as of last Friday,
and it's an opportunity for the Hokies not just to heal and move on from the
Vick area, but to look at how they do things, top to bottom, and improve.
While
opinions on the message boards ran to both extremes --which is their nature,
since people tend to post only if they're really happy or really ticked off --
the Hokie fans I canvassed in person over the weekend said one of two things:
(1) "It was the right decision"; or (2) "I'm not sure what I
would have done, but âĻ" followed by a shrug, indicating that they didn't
feel what VT did was wholly right or wrong.