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The hire that led to Timesland's longest currently running high school football coaching tenure came mere weeks before practice was to start that year.
David Crist was working the summer at Graves Mountain Lodge up in Syria (the one in Madison County not the Middle East) when he got word Blacksburg High needed a coach. Approaching his fifth season as an assistant coach under the hugely successful Eddie Dean at Madison County High, Crist didn't think he'd get the Blacksburg job based on his age and experience level.See the full content of this document
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Nevertheless, Crist, Virginia Tech Class of 1968, and his wife Faye had always talked about moving back to Blacksburg should they ever have the chance. The old college town was a sentimental place to them on a number of levels, one of which being they were newlyweds when he was a senior at Tech.
Anyway, David Crist said all the right things in his intervi...See the full content of this document
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