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Hokies know expectations are higher this season

By Doug Carlson
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, April 15, 2005

This time a year ago, Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer was finishing up spring football practice with no clear idea how his team – inexperienced at several positions – would fare in its first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The story is far different this week in Blacksburg, where the defending ACC champions play their spring game on Saturday. "I think we're probably much more settled in most positions now than we were in the spring last year," Beamer said. "It seems like wh ...

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