BLACKSBURG – Andrew Motuapuaka remembers his first taste of the Virginia Tech-Virginia rivalry. It came in 2014 at Lane Stadium when he, some of his teammates and a few Virginia players engaged in a war of words at midfield shortly before kickoff.
“The ref told me to get back or he was going to throw me out of the game,” Motuapuaka recalled.
In other words, it didn’t take long for Motuapuaka, then a freshman, to understand the meaning of the Commonwealth Clash, and it hasn’t taken long for head coach Justin Fuente, who made his inaugural appearance in the game last season.