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H2okie03's picture H2okie03
| 9 months 2 weeks # | The New Athletics Budget is Approved: What Next?

Thank you for bringing clarity to the fluff.

Responses like this keep my TKP membership and Joe should pin this for everyone to read.

Back to players getting paid. My interpretation of what you said is "YES" this will help us pay players, but isn't some step level change to the "endorsement" bucket directly.

Maybe I'm just out of the loop here, but I don't think people realize this. They see comments like "our budget is going to be on par with Clemson" and think we're buying a top 10 recruiting class tomorrow.

The analogy is we've just secured budget to hire more sales people and we're hoping they increase our revenue but a lot of things have to go right for that to happen. Much of this, as you call out, will come down to who we hire and how they execute.

Chancellor Kameron's picture Chancellor Kameron
| 9 months 2 weeks # | The New Athletics Budget is Approved: What Next?

Yeah both sides of my family have been in DC and then Maryland since my great grandparents and we all just kind of stayed in the area. I want my kids to have the same relationship with their grandparents but the cost of living in Maryland is expensive in exchange for a reasonable commute into DC 5 days a week. Moving out to the Frederick area would be a pretty significant trade off for (slightly) cheaper cost of living but much longer commutes

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 9 months 2 weeks # | The New Athletics Budget is Approved: What Next?

My kids' situation sounds a lot like what you grew up with... except I can't imagine a world where any of my BILs/SILs are stay at home parents... My BIL's wife is a teacher, so maybe she stays at home when they have kids, but unlikely for the rest. I think that's a big factor.

My upbringing was more like your aunts. Parents' families both lived in Boston, but they moved to MD for work a year or two before I was born. Saw my extended family every 6-24 months. But we had other people who were part of our village.

Chancellor Kameron's picture Chancellor Kameron
| 9 months 2 weeks # | The New Athletics Budget is Approved: What Next?

Looking at your profile, we're about the same age (I would've been class of 2014 if not for doing a 5th year). I had both sets of grandparents who lived about 30 min away so I saw them a lot. Fairly regular Sunday dinners, birthdays, holidays, baseball games, etc. My mom was able to take a year off when I was born while my dad worked 2 jobs. When my mom had to go back to work, her mom watched me for a while because they lived on the way to where my mom worked. After a while my aunt who was a stay at home mom watched me until I started pre-school. I'm just one example, though, and my wife was the opposite. Her grandparents lived in Oregon and Washington state while her family moved all over the country so they saw their grandparents once a year, at most.

The difference that I have noticed for my son is that both sets of grandparents are more than willing to watch him, but they could never do full time (and our daycare doesn't offer part time). My in-laws (who are retired) live an hour and a half away and my parents live closer but still work full time because it's taking them longer to feel financially secure enough to retire. The situation like I had with my aunt could never happen these days. Both my brother and my wife's sister and their spouses all work full time jobs.

VPIhokieME's picture VPIhokieME
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| 9 months 2 weeks # | The New Athletics Budget is Approved: What Next?

yeah, I don't buy it either. I do think parenting "as a village" has largely died in the US but I don't think it was something that happened quickly over a single generation. I think we've lost the art of raising children over the course of a few generations. I only met one of my grandparents one time that I remember. I had no relationship with my grandparents and my parents had no help. My dad worked and my mom stayed at home. That's just how it was.

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 9 months 2 weeks # | The New Athletics Budget is Approved: What Next?

not take care of the grandkids like their parents did for them.

I texted about a dozen of my friends (mid 30s, all college educated, 2 first gen college students) and none of them had their grandparents around much when they were growing up. Idk where this notion that boomers had help raising kids from their parents, but I haven't seen it.

VTJ12's picture VTJ12
| 9 months 2 weeks # | The New Athletics Budget is Approved: What Next?

Ah boomers, gotta love them. Lol

But more seriously, it is a generational problem and a modern economy problem. Retirees are living longer and a lot of boomers want to travel and relax and not take care of the grandkids like their parents did for them. And for millennials it's tough finding work so they end up having to move far away from their parents, usually to more urban areas, where childcare costs are extremely expensive.

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