Once a promising prospect at Virginia Tech, Branden Ore is now getting his life back on track in West Virginia.

WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. — Finding Branden Ore isn’t easy. He likes it that way.

Locating the former Virginia Tech star requires a winding detour off Interstate 70, along Pennsylvania Route 844 to the twisting lanes of West Virginia Route 88, up and down mountains, through endless farmland, past cow pastures and trailer homes and grain silos.

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Sean Glennon calls the loss to Miami “demoralizing.”

MIAMI — After facing some fast-brewing Hurricanes, Virginia Tech’s football team took the evacuation route out of here early Friday morning.

Upon their safe arrival home, the task now for the Tech coaches and players now is assessing the severe damage of Thursday night’s 16-14 loss to Miami at Dolphin Stadium.

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MIAMI — Multiple media sources in South Carolina reported Thursday that Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster will meet with Clemson athletics director Terry Don Phillips about the Tigers’ coaching post this weekend.

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The Hokies spend most of the night in a rut and see their hopes of reaching the ACC title game diminish.

MIAMI — Help.

Virginia Tech’s football team will need some now to get where it wants to go this season.

With its offense going into the tank for most of the second half, the Hokies saw their hopes for a third Coastal Division title in four years dimmed after a 16-14 loss to Miami in front of 46,838 fans at Dolphin Stadium.

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