Speculation abounds regarding the going rates for power-conference starters in football and men's basketball, plus each school's NIL war chest, but while Young declined to reveal numbers, his answer was firm when asked whether his program lags in NIL resources.
"Not any longer," he said.
So this is a recent development? Donors upped the ante?
"Not any longer," he repeated. "What we developed and what we put together to represent Virginia Tech basketball will be on me and us on coaches. We have all the resources we need to compete."
This was a great interview and its worth the entire read: https://richmond.com/sports/college/basketball/mike-young-offseason-attr.... I have to commend Young on not passing the buck (no pun intended) and the future of Hokies hoops seems promising.
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Interesting read, Young is absolutely a stand-up guy, yet I still find myself skeptical that:
(a) VT really has competitive resources in basketball
(b) Young has the answers in the Pay for Play era
Even if we have dedicated more resources to MBB, so has everyone else and the belief is that we were already near bottom of ACC, so imagine how far we are behind any P2 Program.
Also, the quote about having "alot of number 10's" was telling to me. Players like Catoor are a needle in a haystack now. But I think that's also where CMY would thrive--multi-year guys who can develop. Ultimately, I can't shake the feeling that VT hired a solid developmental coach right at the time that College sports shifted to the Pay-for-Play, money-chasing wasteland that we have now. Feels like a square peg, round hole scenario.
Also, Young more or less rules out Pedulla coming back...
What I'd really like to see in the new landscape of college sports is some transparency. It might require legislation, maybe even nationally, but without that we're going to keep wallowing in a murky cesspool.
While I'm asking for things I can't have, I'd also like to see multi-year contracts and a salary cap.
It will require an anti-trust exemption for the NCAA.
You have a lot more faith in the NCAA than I do, but I understand what you're saying.
I have zero faith in the NCAA. I'm just saying that if the NCAA tries to legislate NIL transparency without an anti-trust exemption, they will get sued into oblivion.
Salary cap is what we had pre-NIL and it didn't work, what makes you think it would work post-NIL?
The way I see multi-year contracts working is if there are buyouts clauses. Oklahoma, you want Sean Pedulla? Great, give us 500k and we'll let him out of his contract.
Nice to see the accountability from CMY here.
I mean I'm glad he's saying this, but the truth of it will be borne out over time.
I appreciate him trying to take the onus but unless it just changed I find it hard to believe. Strikes me as a "I am the captain, this is my ship" ship is floating in an acid bath rather than water.
If they land a P6 Portal forward and either Leach or Miller maybe it changes my view.
They say the proof is in the pudding.
So good luck!
Yeah, that's what the pudding industry wants you to think.
You gotta watch out for Big Pudding and their corrupt antics.
Those bastards covered up for Bill Cosby for years.....
well now I am craving pudding, so you guys must be working for big pudding!
Big puddin might be my next band name.
Ehh, too close to the Full House kid "punk" band name of Human Pudding, that went on before Stephanie's all girl band that covered Ace of Base.
Eh, in the world of band names, all you have to be is a letter different. See the Byrds and the Birds.
There is already a band named Big Sugar (Goodbye Train is a solid song). I'd think of it as being closer to them than the full house band.
I was just joking and weirdly flexing my knowledge of obscure Full House trivia.
Disappointed he did not address the 3 assistants vs 5 allowed.
Be careful saying that Mike. If you have all the resources, then team success is a matter of personnel performance.
It's a company line fed to him and Pry from Whit. Nothing more. Pry has said it multiple times too. It's the company message right now
i had the same thought. I don't buy the line. I think it's B.S. VT doesn't have the resources to compete at the level the fans expect. We just don't. That's the reality. #thanksACC. Maybe saying it over and over is an attempt to "speak it into existence" but without a solid invitation to the big-boy's table VT just isn't in that realm...or anywhere near it, to be frank.