Seven months into the job, Roth followed his boss David Braine who left Marshall to be the athletic director for the Virginia Tech Hokies.
Roth also served as host of the Hokie Hotline, a weekly radio show featuring Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer and basketball coaches Frankie Allen, Bill Foster, Bobby Hussey, Ricky Stokes, Seth Greenberg, James Johnson and Buzz Williams.
Roth's signature broadcast opening, marking the transition from pregame to game program, greeted viewers with the phrase "From the Blue Waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the Hills of Tennessee, the Virginia Tech Hokies are on the air.
"[4] On April 8, 2022, it was announced Roth would return as the Voice of Hokies Football, following the departure of his successor Jon Laaser.
[10] According to a June 2, 2016 article by David Teel of the Daily Press, Roth will be returning to his East Coast roots, "remain[ing] on the air and with IMG College, developing new, nationally oriented programming from the company's Winston-Salem, N.C., headquarters".
He has been teamed with a variety of analysts including Mike Golic, Jr., John Congemi, Ray Bentley, Dustin Fox, and Barrett Jones.
[citation needed] Roth basketball play-by-play duties include assignments for CBS Sports Network and Westwood One Radio.
Roth was inducted into the Commonwealth's Hall of Fame on the same night as Tech all-America defensive end and Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl Champion Cornell Brown.
In August 2014, Roth was inducted into the WAER Hall of Fame along with Sean McDonough, Syracuse University's noncommercial radio station, where he began his sports broadcasting career as a student.
Roth refers to Virginia Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor and long-time analyst Mike Burnop.
During Tennessee-native Malcolm Perry's 213 yard rushing performance in Navy's win over Kansas State in the 2019 Liberty Bowl game in Memphis.