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I don't think the bylaws have been changed. The election of Rocovich to rector was also treated as a temporary suspension of the term limits, but otherwise the term limits are still in place.

also that moving to change longstanding BOV bylaws on term limits isn't in tech's best interests

The article with his rebuttal information linked above states that no one wanted the Rector position and he offered/wanted to do it again. Clearly the BoV saw the need to change the bylaws to support that. I don't know how factual that article is, but the above statement - which seems directed at Roc - is not what happened according to that article. based on that article the bylaws change was joint by the entire BoV (vote was 11-2 with one abstention).

It's a rumor I've seen pop up in multiple places, both online and in the office. But like VTGuitarMan says, the only people who really know likely have NDAs.

Adding some folks to a committee doesn't mean they weren't fast tracking things and skipping steps. Also, regardless of who's on the search committee, if they push the vote to before new members are officially added, they still wouldn't get a vote in the actual decision, right? Not sure it's in conflict at all.

Carini wins 15-4 to advance too the quarterfinals

Likely no one outside of a few people under NDAs would even know the identities of any potential candidates or people who have been encouraged to apply...

Adding the governor's selected members does not eliminate all the problems that were going on behind the scenes.

"Good thing politicians are so pure especially when money is involved, it's inconceivable that something ill could come from this!"

Not sure where you live, but if you want to feel better about your state, just come up to NJ for a while and see what real corruption is like! Read The Jersey Sting to get a feel for it.

https://www.amazon.com/Jersey-Sting-Crooked-Money-Laundering-Informant/d...

There are a handful of Youngkin appointees whose terms are up on 6/30 so the goal was to have them around to elect Sand's replacement before they were replaced by Spanberger appointees.

Because their replacements sure as hell were not going to vote for Youngkin to be hired as university president.

If that rumor is true, then Rocovich was right to be fired. And that's not a political statement, either. He has no university leadership experience, which is exactly what Virginia Tech needs right now, strong university leadership.

As usual, LA knows what's up. A massive shitstorm was coming.

Was hoping someone else would say it so I didn't have to but here it is.

Roc was making multiple unilateral decisions without going through the proper processes/procedures that are required of both him as the Rector and of the BOV in general. Worked out great as it related to the athletics side, but that is not his only job in his position.

The final straw was that he was attempting to skirt standard procedure for electing a new university president in an attempt to have one appointed before July 1st. There are a handful of Youngkin appointees whose terms are up on 6/30 so the goal was to have them around to elect Sand's replacement before they were replaced by Spanberger appointees. The only way to make that happen in time was to skip several steps that the state requires of its universities. It was a clear violation of his roles and responsibilities. From my understanding, it is almost impossible to make a hire like this in under 4 months and he was trying to do it in less than 3.

There was also a lot of pressure from other BOV members on both sides of the political aisle who did not like how the Sands retirement was handled (Roc expedited that as well) and how much power Roc believed that he had. There were several who were threatening to step down if action wasn't taken.

Obviously I am not naive enough to say that there wasn't some part of political motivation here but anyone who is saying this is just Spanberger trying to replace a Youngkin guy with her own apointee is way off base.