 (Clough maintained his home in Blacksburg after he left the university).The third ACC university that was likely supportive of the Hokies to the point of vetoing a bid to Miami, Boston College, and Syracuse was Wake Forest University The school is geographically closest to Blacksburg (in Winston-Salem, NC), but as a small private school had little in common with Tech.However, several academic relationships were forged after the 1999 Tech/ACC negotiations.