-: The Virginia Tech experience to me,
I mean you hear all this stuff, this is home,
and we have all these different themes, but it is.
This is a special place.
I came to grad school here.
Every job I took after that was to hopefully get back here.
There's just a pull.
And it's a pull that goes beyond students,
it goes to this community.
We were playing a game this year
and I remember my son was upset that he couldn't come home
from college to watch it.
It was the Clemson game, and he felt this pull
to come back to Blacksburg,
not to necessarily just see the game,
but it's a big time for our community and this campus.
I think everybody feels that pull, that closeness,
that walk across campus and talk to folks.
I mean, you walk across campus,
you still see Coach Beamer walking his dog,
stopping and talking with students, so,
I don't know that I can define the Virginia Tech experience,
I think you gotta live it.
We've had some tough things happen to us here,
but I think it happened to us because we were the ones
that could handle it and get stronger from it.