A senior captain on the Hokies team that played for the national championship in 1999, Anthony Midget returns to Blacksburg as a coach. (Ivan Morozov)

Anthony Midget served as a graduate assistant at Virginia Tech in 2007, so his wife and oldest daughter got to experience the place where he starred on the field, a three-year starter at cornerback in the Hokies’ late-’90s heyday who was a senior captain when the school came within a quarter of winning a BCS national championship.