Roth Report: First Sight, Bright Future

By Bill Roth Brian White had spent his career preparing for a moment like this, but he’d never actually seen Blacksburg from the air. Even before we left Boca Raton on Virginia Tech’s Citation jet, our pilot let us know he was lining up a special flyover for the White family when we got to Blacksburg. As the clouds broke, the mountains of Southwest Virginia suddenly pierced the horizon. Tech’s new Director of Athletics aboard the school plane with his wife and three kids, gazed out the windows, waiting for that first glimpse of the Hokie stone. When the plane…