According to Jeff Goodman, much needed good news for the basketball program
Virginia Tech coach Mike Young is expected to return next season, with an increased NIL package, source told @TheFieldOf68. Young made the NCAA tourney in 2021 and 2022, the NIT the last two years and is 13-16 this season. Young will have more NIL resources next season to get...— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 3, 2025
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Gooooood
Hope it's enough to keep Lawal at a minimum
I would be honestly shocked if we were able to keep him.
TCU womens hoops literally brought an entire new roster in one off season to a likely 3 seed in the dance. We should do that with our mens team.
See Louisville MBB. No returning scholarship players, top 6 in ACC following year. Money, money, money.
Currently tied with Clemson for #2 in ACC behind Duke
Went from 8-24 to 23-6 so far.
I mean fuck, if we're getting left behind in football, might as well throw a hefty sum at basketball NIL. At least there we might be able to get some ROI.
My vote is to do it for WBB. You can buy a championship squad for a fraction of the NIL cost compared to MBB. Get us that elusive team natty.
Convince Van Lith, Beuchers to play a 7th year. Get Amoore back. Lets roll. Sue the NCAA if they try to say there are some type of eligibility rules.
Yeah, and then with the seal broken we can finally move on
I'm hoping we can keep at least Lawal and Young
Young has shown he can field a competitive team with almost an entire roster turnover.
Frankly, I don't care if any individual player comes back as long as the overall talent level is higher. And potentially overpaying for Lawal may not be the way to maximize that.
On a serious note- assuming we can get our guys back.. Lawal, Young, Hammond.... get a true legit point guard and 4/5 to replace Poteat, and this could be a tourney team. Don't need a total overhaul.
Absolutely. I know there were unusual circumstances, but I have to believe that if this team had an above average PG (Hysier Miller, or some equivalent) this team probably wins 4 or 5 more games this season. That would put us right in bubble territory.
Where we end up most years. On the bubble and then the bubble bursts.
Welp lets take this year specifically... We got dusted by Penn State, lost to St. Joes, lost at home to Jacksonville, lost to USCe. None of those teams are in the tournament PSU and USCe are god awful P4 teams. So yeah to overcome that would have taken a sweep of Duke and going 17-3 in the ACC or something similar. In conference we lost to SMU, UVA, BC- non tourney teams. Every year is different. Next year for example, if we lose 4 OOC quad 4 games, we aren't getting in unless we have 8 Q1 wins to counter it, etc.
SMU right now is in the tournament. They are 21-6 and a projected 9 seed.
I saw them first 4 out last night?
Probably different predictors, about 1000 of them these days. Have two gimme games left before ACCT so as long as they don't blow those they will be 23-6 and either #4 or #5 in ACCT.
insane to think a #4 seed in ACCT is on the bubble
Conference standings don't matter anymore with these huge conferences and unbalanced schedules. You regularly see teams seeded higher in the NCAA tournament than teams that finished above them in conference. In fact the committee has said repeatedly they don't look at conference standings an only use conference tourneys for bubble teams and lower seedings. Most recently the committee has focused on the NET- your performance in Q 1 and 2 games and for bubble teams - who did you play in the non conference? If you are strong in those 2- like Michigan State last year for example, you are in the field. If you aren't - like Clemson in 2023.. you get left out.
I thought .500 this year would be a good year based on the team that was assembled, especially once the Temple kid got tossed.
Any idea how much more? Is it double NIL plus a full assistant staff? That would get CMY am even playing field and we know he can coach above his weight class.
Sons of Saturday had a video released this am suggesting that this is likely part of that $20M in revenue sharing funds and pointed out that our peer institutions of "football first" like Clemson are planning to have ~15-20% of the 20M used for basketball. I guess that we end up in the 2-3M range based on that.
The breakdown I've typically seen is 80% football/10% men's basketball/5% women's basketball/5% other sports
Obviously, it's going to vary by institution; for example, no way Chapel Hill is only giving men's basketball 10%. Additionally, there are other schools that might have a non-rev sport that is highly supported (eg Wake Men's tennis)
The wild thing is that there's still no direction from any sort of legal authority on if title nine applies to revenue sharing, so this could all get completely blown up
Great news, excited for Mike Young. This season must've been absolute hell for him; just having to compete with your hands tied behind your back.
Without any other context or knowledge, I'm assuming that this is a signal that our boosters are coming to terms with a new reality of college sports. Great to see.
Unlimited expired Hardee's coupons.
With the closure of the Prices Fork Hardee's, I'm gravely concerned about VT's competitiveness in the NIL era moving forward.