Virginia Tech shuffled their season tickets this year to reward the biggest donors. As a generous booster to Virginia Tech, we got to pick our seats rather than have them assigned. I piggy back off my sister's Hokie Club membership, and matched her donation to bring it up to the Golden Hokie level. Basically, I helped her double her status in exchange for the option on a pair of season tickets. Previously I only got to go to the games that she skipped out on, and had to scalp tickets for the rest of the games.

So, she sent me an email last week telling me where our seats would be this year. They're exactly one row down from where they were last year. Just think, if we hadn't pooled our money, we would have been bumped up to the nose bleed section.

Of course, after scalping those dream seats (50-yard line, Row D) for last season's Virginia game, it's going to be difficult no matter where they are. (One day when I'm rich and famous I hope to buy the naming rights to the stadium and sit where ever I damn well want.)