For example, coaches' boxes have been constructed but are significantly farther from the field than usual. Fences of the speedway have had to be cut down in order for teams to walk to their locker rooms. The design and locations of each team's locker room has been organized for some time.
"But you have to take into account that, really for the most part, we're in a tire shop," Bartelstein said. "We have to transform that into a locker room, a training room, showers, bathrooms that are actually usable for a football game."
I had not thought about these things having an effect on the game management and playing calling.
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You undersold this. It was a great article in USAToday about Bartelstein and really the breakneck speed at which the business of college football is expanding. Hiring people specialized to the administrative roles has to be better for the schools than moving an old coach or AD into the role as a wind down to retirement, but all of these specialized jobs don't exist if there isn't a financial reason to have them. I see both sides of the proverbial coin here: extra administrative roles are hired to make life easier on the student athletes while allowing the school to increase the efficiency in its largest profit center and simultaneously point to the costs of the business as reason there isn't enough to go around to the players.
And look at Alabama, they pay their head coach $5M a year and still have to hire 21 administrative people around him?! I guess $5M isn't enough to do your own film study like all of the other coaches in the business.
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One of my friends is the Dir of Ops at Furman University and it seems like a really, really cool job. I'm sure it's high stress at times and a tremendous amount of responsibility, but lots of people are built to thrive in that pressure.
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If this was the exact same, you must have time travelled forward, because much of it couldn't have been true at the time (particularly the first 3 or 4 paragraphs that are about the "stadium" that didn't exist when she was hired).
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If adding three paragraphs about battle of bristol and then regurgitating the rest of the information as if it was new is the standard of journalism you're used to then sure:
RT writes about VT because it's a local paper and that's hometown news. So what seems "regurgitated" to us and locals of the NRV is actually news to the national audience of USA Today, who don't follow the ins and outs of VT hiring.
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I had not thought about these things having an effect on the game management and playing calling.
Yeah, it's going to be quite interesting and the outcome may very well depend on how each coaching staff adapts.
You undersold this. It was a great article in USAToday about Bartelstein and really the breakneck speed at which the business of college football is expanding. Hiring people specialized to the administrative roles has to be better for the schools than moving an old coach or AD into the role as a wind down to retirement, but all of these specialized jobs don't exist if there isn't a financial reason to have them. I see both sides of the proverbial coin here: extra administrative roles are hired to make life easier on the student athletes while allowing the school to increase the efficiency in its largest profit center and simultaneously point to the costs of the business as reason there isn't enough to go around to the players.
And look at Alabama, they pay their head coach $5M a year and still have to hire 21 administrative people around him?! I guess $5M isn't enough to do your own film study like all of the other coaches in the business.
Pour one for Danielle !!!!
Did she die?
oh no she's just a BOSS...
I'd love to have a job like that. I wonder if they're hiring in that department?
(it'd also get me back to Blacksburg).
One of my friends is the Dir of Ops at Furman University and it seems like a really, really cool job. I'm sure it's high stress at times and a tremendous amount of responsibility, but lots of people are built to thrive in that pressure.
Interesting article and glad she's a part of VT.
No offense to OP, but i'm VERY sure I read this exact same article not too long after she was hired. USAToday just recycling articles?
If this was the exact same, you must have time travelled forward, because much of it couldn't have been true at the time (particularly the first 3 or 4 paragraphs that are about the "stadium" that didn't exist when she was hired).
If adding three paragraphs about battle of bristol and then regurgitating the rest of the information as if it was new is the standard of journalism you're used to then sure:
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RT writes about VT because it's a local paper and that's hometown news. So what seems "regurgitated" to us and locals of the NRV is actually news to the national audience of USA Today, who don't follow the ins and outs of VT hiring.
I guess that's fair.