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As much as it would definitely devolve into numerous CG violations a blind eye to it and a Hatin' On Spanberger thread does seem like a good use of the offseason.
i am also very excited! i am taking my son (9) down to atlanta for czechia-south africa. got a saturday planned with some families from my son's soccer team coming over to watch the games, gonna smoke a couple pork butts, some jalapeno poppers, etc... maybe a few drinks ;-) US games work well with my work schedule. and my son is really looking forward to it, so it will be fun to watch some games with him.
i hope you are right about our chances :-)
Agreed. Building a strong TE class
I'm gonna be watching most of it. Want to make a separate thread or just keep it here?
I would encourage folks to communicate their thoughts on the removal of Rector Rocovich from the VT BOV to @GovernorVA via https://t.co/cptG9yViLd— Adam Boitnott (@Boitnott) May 28, 2026
editing to say: I simply emailed saying that the letter included some heavy sounding allegations and that students and alumni should be informed as to what he has done that violated these codes of ethics
Crazy all the nosebleeds guys keep getting on these campuses. Soft.
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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.
Worse case scenario is that the money gets clawed back, Franklin leaves, and we welcome our new conference rivals JMU in 2030
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# | BoV to vote on June 1st regarding creation of Hokie Ventures LLC, a for profit arm within the Athletic Dept How screwed is this now that Rocovich has been removed? 👀🙃
***Editing to say: I wasn't aware that the idea now was for it to move from an LLC to being nonprofit based.
I guess spanberger can get her new president appointed and they fill the mens restrooms with tampons just as uva has done.
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Just happened. The two sides will come out on the political bandwidth
Apparently it also is changing the entire discussion on Hokies Ventures. Seems straight forward a political ploy so wont delve farther into that here.
More spanberger nonsense fucking over swva
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I am finding it pretty difficult to look up much on this topic. Seems it would have a little more coverage on the interwebs.
yep. it's a big problem. I believe the talent is there for the US to be an elite soccer playing nation. But we don't care enough and we don't adequately support the true talent. Instead, we make good soccer training inaccessible to the masses. Only the elites have access to the best facilities and resources. We're not making professional soccer players out of our most talented players. We're making "professional" soccer players out of the most athletic rich kids we can extract dollars from.
The BOV is highly political. Lets wait and see if anything actually comes out. Probably just politics.
This is massive for football. The Governor may end up killing VT athletics.
unreal. we can never fail to be disappointed if this is indeed a ridiculous snafu. sabotage competition that is not in the interest of bow-tie, wine drinking, charcuterie board tailgaters.
Assuming it was because the new 'no term limits.' Also wonder if it would put Mehul in this position.
I'd suggest waiting to see if we ever find out what the Code of Ethics violation was if there in fact was one
Would this fall under FOIA?
She wants to make room for a new appointment? But yeah, another reason for me not to like Spanberger.
They literally were changing the rules so he could stay on as Rector and help pick the next University.
Did I miss something? What did he do?
Spanberger's removal letter states "Your conduct has violated the Code of Conduct for Commonwealth Appointees to Boards, Authorities, & Commissions, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors' Code of Ethics, and the governing statutes requiring board members to act in accordance with the best interests of Virginia Tech.
I can't say I am horribly offended by not playing Duke in BB this coming year. Well until we beat them in the ACC Tourney.
I see this all the time in Atlanta. The youth leagues that filter into the academies are lacking talent. If you have the $$ your kid has a spot.
Structurally, the US just isn't built for elite soccer. The system is bass ackwards. With pay-for-play, you weed out a tremendous amount of talent as well as, to your point, alienate a lot of players and crush interest in the sport.
With pay-for-play, you don't get your most talented players. You get your wealthiest players. That's how you end up with guys like Pulisic. He's not really that good but he's the best we've got. Meanwhile, entire squads in Europe are built with players that would eat Pulisic's lunch 9 times out of 10.
The US is a sleeping giant. We could be absolutely dominant in soccer if we really wanted to be (just look at just about every other sport). But we just don't want to be. We don't care. And, unfortunately, I don't see that changing any time soon. So what ends up happening is that American soccer fans watch the world cup and root for two or three teams. The US (even though they know the team won't go far) and then which ever European team they feel some roots to via ancestry. And all of those teams, Norway, Sweden, England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, etc. are always going to be better teams than the US. They don't have the talent pool the US has but they care more and they're structured more intentionally for breeding and funneling soccer talent into academies where the most talented players get paired up with the best coaching and resources.
The US would need huge cultural and structural shifts to ever compete on the world stage. Could it happen? Sure. Is it likely? No, not in my opinion.
Think it can stay here. Wrestling threads dont get enough traction to need a new one