It's the middle of July, which means football practice will begin in less than a month. The action gets started later this month with the ACC Media Kickoff in Greensboro, NC. Just over a week later, practice will begin.

Here's a look at the big dates of Virginia Tech's preseason.

From July 24 through 26, the media will meet with ACC coaches and players in Greensboro. The media will make their preseason predictions for the ACC, as well as select their preseason All-Conference players. Danny Coale and Eddie Whitley will represent Virginia Tech at this event. It's expected that the media will pick the Hokies to win the Coastal Division.

All players have to report to Blacksburg by August 3. That won't be a problem, since most are enrolled for the second summer session anyway. Practice will begin on August 3, and the first of two open scrimmages will be held in Lane Stadium on Saturday, August 13 at 4pm. Another open scrimmage will be held a week later at 2pm.

Fall semester will begin on August 22, the Hokies will hold a closed scrimmage on August 26, and then they will begin game week preparation for the Appalachian State Mountaineers.

TSL is very close to beginning our own preseason as well. Next week we'll have updates on recruiting targets for offense and defense, and we'll take a look back at another past Virginia Tech football game. After that, the preseason previews will begin in earnest.

We'll begin our positional previews on Monday, July 25 and continue them up through the beginning of practice. We'll be at both open scrimmages and will have reports on them, and we will also provide a weekly practice update every Wednesday.

Each Monday beginning August 8, we'll also have a Monday Thoughts article on various topics surround Tech, the ACC or college football in general. At some point in August, we'll also take a detailed look on first year starting quarterbacks under Frank Beamer, from 1993 through the present.

Here's a quick look at what our preseason content will look like before practice begins.

Once practice begins, we'll start our Monday Thoughts features, provide Wednesday practice updates, as well as a Friday Q&A each week. Tuesdays and Thursdays will be filled with other features, such as the first year starting quarterback feature that was mentioned above, closer looks at the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions, recruiting target updates, and perhaps a few other things as well.

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