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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept That was fast!
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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept She has appointed Ed Baine, a Virginia Tech alumnus and former Board of Visitors member to replace Rocovich. So, at least it's someone with ties to VT.
As someone who does not live in Virgina or follow the inner workings of the school, can someone tell me what made John Rocovich someone that people are upset to see being ousted? Was he a big proponent of cleaning house and bringing in Franklin? I'm assuming he was considered very good by the response to this, but I'm not up on things.
Really? We can't see the joke here?
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Which is the next question we can toss out there...
Dale's Pale Ale was the sponsor the last World Cup. This go around it's Michelob Ultra.
What are you drinking for USMNT games? Something different for other games? Something different for each US game? Something other than beer?
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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept Because this is a pure political move
And we know this because....
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WHERE’S DAVE?
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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept Because this is a pure political move, and therefore a political crony will be appointed rector and not necessarily someone who has ties to VT
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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept Well, the next Rector won't be laser focused on understanding why football is important to the Universities health.
And we know this because......
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Because I didn't say "GRRRR SPANBERGER BAD"
Yep.
Something happened behind the scenes that is very not good for this to have happened, especially with the June 1st meeting coming up and the agenda that was a part of it.
If she wanted to hit VT politically, she would have done it right away.
Probably safer to avoid jumping to conclusions
Relax. VT Football (and athletics) isn't going to collapse. John Rocovich isn't some god. He's old and he wasn't going to be around much longer anyway (term wise, not life wise). And Spanberger literally just appointed several BOV members that are pro athletics, including Mehul who has been our most outspoken and well known alum athletic supporter. Also, don't pretend that Rocovich and a couple others on the BOV weren't doing things for their own personal benefit the last couple of years (without going into a CG violation, you can dig around yourself if you want to), which may actually be related to why this is happening.
I recommended that Virginia Tech's forum should be TKP
conversely we can talk about the benefits of various foods and food adjacent items.
For sporting events I like a block of velveeta, a block of cream cheese, some rotel and a pound of sausage in the crock pot. Great for dipping tortilla chips or fritos.
I wrote to let her know my dissatifaction with how hypocritical and political this appears due to all of the drama surrounding VA college board appointments in recent years. I recommended the whole system be amended to allow a more diplomatic forum to guide the direction of these institutions and I recommended that Virginia Tech's forum should be TKP.
I gotta go walk sometime tomorrow so I might miss some matches. But I'll try to get match updates when I'm not watching
The fact that (it seems) that the plans for HV have changed from an LLC to a non-profit could be something real, and not necessarily political.
No idea why this got a downvote, as it's the most thoughtful and least CG violating post on here so far.
Can anyone who's big mad right now tell me what the rector of the BOV actually does? This dude's name got out there as part of the Franklin thing, and it seems like he did some good work there. That seems to be the ostensible reason folks are mad at this, along with preexisting opinions that fall well outside the CGs to discuss.
Looking at the entirety of what's happening right now, seems like the combination of the term limit thing, something to do with Hokie Ventures and the rush to find a new AD and President got us here. Let's wait and see what combination of those things it was before everybody loses their minds.
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept JMU will smoke us if thats the case because none of the politicos seem interested in tinkering with them
Governor sent a letter citing the BOV Code of ethics. I would say that the use of "code of ethics" specifically here says that this isn't just a political move. That letter was absolutely reviewed by her legal team and this seems to rise above the level of "I don't like this guy".
There are at least half on the BOV now that were appointed by the previous governor and they aren't being ousted.
Long story short, there is likely much more to this and saying stuff like "Spanberger hates VT" is ignorant
Definitely appreciate any updates you are able to provide.
Sounds good. I think we get 3 or 4 members on the u20 team. And i can't wait to see what a 165 pound Noah Nininger can do
Leinart was definitely a game changing QB, and as a whole that USC ream was pretty stacked but Bush was a big reason for how good they were. Defenses had to scheme around him, find ways to stop him, prevent him from getting the ball; and no one could.
Same with Chris Johnson at ECU or Fournette at L$U or WR Desmond Howard; no one could stop them (in college).
Upon further review it appears that this justification requires no further explanation and that's why it was used. The odds it was political in nature are still high.