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9 months 2 weeks
# | Hokies unveil a new NMA helmet for Homecoming / 🟠Orange Effect🟠 Orange Effect game?
You'll get the Samsung Ohio State-Michigan Part 2 Electric Boogaloo The Squeakquel Spring Game Scrimmage sponsored by Aramco in London's Maxi Tampon Stadium at Alibaba Field in April for TV money and you'll like it
FTFY.
Do you think this could cause Lawson to transfer?
The cognitive dissonance is astounding. "Students are the reason everything is wrong in this town! Tech is too important!" But also..."Go Hokies!" and "We need football game revenue for the town to stay economically viable."
and people wonder why our generation isn't having a ton of kids....
there's not enough support in our society and the expectations (particularly on women) to earn paychecks and care for children are unreasonable
Our parents could support a family of 5 on a single, relatively modest, 60k income with a full-time stay-at-home parent
Nowadays, in order to just keep a roof over your heads, you need BOTH parents to work full time jobs making it exponentially more difficult to raise children
We do, but it's one priority position per college, two for engineering. I lucked out when my first child was due and we got on the list ahead of the normal hiring cycle, which is when the requests typically come in. Beyond that, I believe there's a bump (because there are two main RR sites) but it's still hard to get in, even for faculty. And we get the priority access because we continue to pay them every year to do so.
And don't even get me started on child care...that's an absolute war zone around here with how little of it we have. Just cut that check yesterday for the month...ouch.
things I could get on a soap box about...
Not NMA. It looks like the "TECH" in front just above the visor is maroon.
Air Force at Navy (USNA -11.5)
⁹ Texas at Florida (Tx -6.5)
²⁴ hoo? at Louisville (UL -6.5)
¹⁶ Vanderbilt at ¹⁰ Alabama (Alabama. -10.5)
³ MiamiFla. at ¹⁸ Florida State (Mia. -4.5)
Duke at California (Duke -2.5)
Heads = Home Team
Tails = Away Traveling Team
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Put the term NIL to the side - it's confusing/misused a lot.
As of June 2025, there are 3ish compensation streams for players:
- Scholarship/Board/Cost of Living/Etc - these are your traditional, pre-2021 things.
- Revenue Share - This is also called 'House Settlement Money' - it's money directly from the Athletic Department, capped at $20.5m across the entire athletic department.
- Endorsements - I'm bucketing collective money and 'true' endorsements here. This is paying a player for doing something off the field (autograph, appearance, running a camp, coaching, etc). Everything here (that is above $600) is subject to the Deloitte Clearinghouse.
The next thing you need to realize is that there's a lot of fudging and accounting magic in numbers that are shared. For example, UNC said that they were funding their football team up over $20m, but then Richard Johnson reported that they are including scholarships and collective money in that number. Then you see Cody Campbell announcing Texas Tech's 'NIL Budget' is over $50m+ - that's a sum of Rev share, Endorsements, and scholarships. In both cases, university mouth pieces are phrasing these headlines to sound as generous as possible
So let's get to VT... My understanding is that:
- Scholarships are still paid out of the Hokie Scholarship Fund. Football is fully funded (as much as desired - I'm not sure we maxed out the 105 roster spots). I doubt most other sports are maxed out
- We were able to share the $20.5m with athletes this year, but (prior to the most recent investment) there was no guarantee that we would be able to do it next year.
- The new investment will be used for a variety of things:
- A front office for football - I'm not sure the title 'General Manager' has been said out loud since the funds were raised, but Whit called it out specifically in his presentation, and it's been implied (rumored?) that's going to be the first hire
- New fundraising staff
- Improved coaching salaries
- Rev Share for Athletes
- Facilities Improvements - but from what I've gathered/implied (which may be inaccurate) a lot of these improvements will be more fan-centric and less athlete-centric. Been a lot of talks about lighting improvements, Cassel Improvements, etc, but I might be reading too much into some things
Ok friends. I want to be excited about this. I want to believe this is the beginning of the moment we've all been waiting for, but I've been beaten down into skepticism.
Your skepticism is warranted:
- It's one thing to raise the money, but they you have to deploy it effectively. Giving bad coaches a raise doesn't fix anything.
- Being in the ACC will hurt us. It's an unstable league, and in 5 years it's very possible that VT could be in the SEC/B10, or the B12, or a neutered ACC, or even a south/eastern equivalent to what will be the new Pac12 next year.
- The arms race is will always be a thing in college sports (unless the NCAA is given an antitrust exemption that includes specific language about how schools are governed).
My feel is that this is a strong first step, but we still have a dozen steps left before we can pretend it's 2005 again.
for better or for worse, I've decided to try a new strategy this week. I'm going completely with literal coinflips for each of my picks. We'll see how that goes.
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As this thread remains near the top of the tracker, I suggest that the title be renamed to something like "Discussion: Jeff King candidate for new Tech GM". The title makes it sound like he was hired.
Can also confirm that there is even more animosity between townies and gownies than there is between faculty and athletics.
And many of those same townies will turn around and belligerently cheer on the Hokies each Saturday in fall. It was wild to grow up around
So the entire budget increase goes to admin, coaching, efforts to fund raise, etc?
Assuming this is in part to improve fundraising efforts for NIL?
And thank you for responding. I think many people see this increase and think we're rich and will compete with blue bloods overnight. But the missing part is NIL, correct? Everyone is getting the 20.5M but then there's a whole other chunk of money on top of that with NIL.
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9 months 2 weeks
# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 It was art school. Someone had to make sure the muses were easily accessible
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9 months 2 weeks
# | Hokies unveil a new NMA helmet for Homecoming / 🟠Orange Effect🟠 
Tech faculty does have preferred access to Rainbow Riders (theoretically the best child care) as they sold them the land for the second facility.
I would think faculty and family should have access to university amenties (food halls, gyms, pools, goat yoga, etc), free health care, free child care, free public transport to and from.
Keep beating that drum. These would be great. It's funny how a lot of people in the local community think that faculty already get all of these things (just spend a few minutes on Facebook and you'll see everyone griping about how every problem the town has is because of students and then how faculty are living high on the hog with all their benefits). We do have a reduced-cost "early bird" gym access plan that we can pay for, but everything else is at full cost, except the BT, which is now free for everyone.
And don't even get me started on child care...that's an absolute war zone around here with how little of it we have. Just cut that check yesterday for the month...ouch.
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