Befitting their status as institutions of higher alienation in our fair dominion, Virginia Tech and Virginia don't have a lot in common. Tech's campus is home to cattle, Virginia's to Cabell Hall.
Tech produces engineers and architects, Virginia spawns lawyers and country club applicants.
And we're not talking about a switch from, say, Rawlings to Wilson. Check out tomorrow's spring games in Blacksburg and Charlottesville, and you'll spy the first public glimmerings of magical mystery tours. 25 after 18 springs and autumns of George Welsh flinging his cap to the turf and conjuring the only bowl trips Mr. Jefferson's football program has ever known. Now it's being done a different way. That in itself causes an adjustment on the part of the players.