Cassell Coliseum
Arena in Blacksburg, VirginiaWikipedia
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Oct 5, 2026
ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg on the Syracuse Orange: 'They are going to be interesting'
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1:37Seth GreenbergGUEST
And they're pretty big.
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1:38Seth GreenbergGUEST
They can get, they can get things happening in Lane Stadium, and, a- and The Castle.
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1:43Mike WatersHOST
You know, I've never seen a football game at Lane Stadium, but I've always enjoyed my trips to The Castle, in part because they do play Enter Sandman, even for basketball games, and I love it.
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1:54Seth GreenbergGUEST
Yeah.
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1:54Mike WatersHOST
I love it.
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1:54Seth GreenbergGUEST
Yeah, they do.
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1:55Seth GreenbergGUEST
It was hard to get, it was hard getting Boeheim into, uh, The Castle, but e- everyone else that coached at, uh, at, at Syracuse had to go there.
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2:02Seth GreenbergGUEST
[laughs] I don't think Jim ever coached a game in The Castle.
Week 3 Recap: Kiffin Humbled at Ole Miss, UVA Exposed by WVU, Hokies Squash Terps | CFB Monday
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67:48Andy BitterGUEST
And you have to spend money to make money in a situation like that.
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67:50Andy BitterGUEST
And then, you know, the elephant in the room is what to do with Castle.
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67:55speaker_0UNKNOWN
because
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67:55Andy BitterGUEST
it's just not a modern arena.
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68:15Andy BitterGUEST
I was covering UVA at the time for the Lynchburg News in advance, and that stadium still holds up.
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68:20Andy BitterGUEST
It's still an incredible arena to see basketball in, and I'm not saying Tech needs something on that level because UVA, I think, cares a bit more about basketball than Tech does.
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68:29Andy BitterGUEST
But you need something better than Castle.
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68:32Andy BitterGUEST
And, you know, when I was at Auburn, Auburn had a really old stadium, Beard Eads Memorial Coliseum, which was just an embarrassment of an arena they had down there.
Mike Rutherford Show 09-09-26
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27:12Mike RutherfordHOST
But the first conference game of the year, at Virginia Tech.
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27:16Mike RutherfordHOST
Cassell Coliseum, December 30th.
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27:18Mike RutherfordHOST
A place where we've had historically a ton of success.
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27:21Mike RutherfordHOST
I don't hate that.