5-stars:
PG Neoklis Avdalas (247)
4-stars:
C Christian Gurdak (247)
C Antonio Dorn (247)
PF Sin'Cere Jones (247)
SF Izaiah Pasha (247)
PF Amani Hansberry (247)
SG Jaden Schutt (247)
SG Snook Peterkin (247) - Football
PF Toibu Lawal (On3 and Rivals)
SF Tyler Johnson (ESPN)
3-stars:
C Solomon Davis (247)
SG Jailen Bedford (247)
PG Ben Hammond (247)
SG Brett Freeman (On3)
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Schutt is a 4 star and Lawal is a 3 star.....
Ummmm.... OK
ooh, good catch. Lawal is a 4^
Very different roster than last season. Last year it would have been heavy on 3* or lower. Still curious how Peterkin gets worked in. Jones got a bump as I believe he was initially a 3*.
I don't think we've ever had a full two-deep that was all 4* or higher
Was wondering that as well. Do you think he redshirts since he's acclimating to both football and basketball at the collegiate level?
I wouldn't be surprised but not sure how it works with two sport athletes. If he plays in Football does that mean he can't redshirt for basketball? He isn't going to be available until December/January for basketball regardless so not sure how in sync he would be especially with Coach Youngs view on defense.
Im not sure with new roster limits, but you were allowed to red shirt both sports in the past
Mike Young must have been given some new coupons to work with this year now that Hardie's is gone.
So for those who don't know, this is the single year where there is 'no cap' (for lack of a better term) on NIL..
Collectives were operating as usually up until June 2025, then the house settlement goes into effect, and there is a $20.5m max revenue share from the school across all sports (until someone sues... we'll see how that goes).
What you're seeing is a lot of schools/programs front loading player payments with collective money, then back loading with house money.
I bet that's what we're doing now with Basketball.
If so, it would prove that you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Then why is the football roster so average?
I don't have (m)any answers, but I know that a basketball roster is still less expensive than a football roster. I think that - despite all the hype on this basketball roster - it's still 7th best incoming class (which I believe, but may be mistaken, includes transfers and recruits) in the ACC.
I also know that most schools are doing something like a 75/15/5/5 split of house money (75% to football, 15% to MBB, 5% to WBB, and 5% to other revenue sports).
If you want speculation - I wouldn't be surprised if the house money is being distributed in ^this way now, but collective money was given to basketball as a way to give them a 'soft landing' after the debacle that was last year.
Some more speculation - Whit doesn't like to throw good money after bad. Maybe Pry has been given a 'prove yourself year' before being given additional funding at the detriment of other sports, idk 🤷♂️
Basketball has to be WAY cheaper than football, there are less players just to start, but I'd bet that a million dollars can go further in hoops. In addition, we are in a conference that people want to play in and teams that gets coverage if you beat.
15% would be $3.075M so that goes a long way if focused on top 7-8 guys but 15 total. If its broken up equally every guy getting $200K. Football would be $15.375M to cover 44 to cover 2 deep at minimum but 105 total. Split evenly would be $146K.
yes, but wouldn't this also be the case everywhere? If we really opened up the coffers and funded basketball above the ACC average, I haven't heard about it
We didn't necessarily fund much above the average, especially if the class is truly 7th of 18 ACC classes (I have a hard time believing this looking at the other schools recruit lists now) but we went from being near last in funding it to at or slightly above average at a minimum which was a huge change year over year.
Sadly if we increased to league average that probably was a 8 fold increase in CMY budget.
Well that's because we haven't
Even if you assume this is just only expenses spent on operations of the team, you'd be hard pressed to tell me that VT would be significantly outspending the rest of the field when it comes to NIL when they're already underfunding operations.
So maybe Frazier and Mike Young can just flat out recruit?
Frazier is a quasi superstar recruiter. Young has that Folksy charm to seal the deal