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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 Ah I see the college consulted with local bar owners and liquor stores to enable another drinking night.
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)
No idea of drinks this weekend...might loos for something in the Oktoberfest realm...who knows. Meh.
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Congrats to the 4 tied this past week:
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9 months 2 weeks
# | GIFTORY: Frame-by-Frame Highlight Reel of Virginia Tech's 23-21 Win Over NC State Join The Key Player's Club to read comments posted in exclusive content and its members only forum.
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They are language models trained on internet sources to formulate narrative responses based on quickly collating text within it's trained model to guess what is the most appropriate response, one word or phrase at a time.
I think this is a lot of the beef because it often goes to a BS source and the response is factually wrong. The other beef is how it is misused to create false information...fake photos and/or speech. I can see libel laws being revisited to increase the ability of targets/victims to obtain relief.
Thanks for the response. I definitely won't be fooled again, but nice to know how to get at what I wanted to get at. We weren't interested in highlights or condensed game, but a full game replay. Definitely learned a lesson and it has been kind of fun hearing from the community on the issue. Having never played one of the games so many of y'all have and do play, I didn't have a feel for such things, but it was a short term problem regardless of how baffling it was to me for a while.
So, since I have the same problem with CW as last week, I'll be looking for that replay again this weekend. Thanks for telling me how.
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If we lose, I will know exactly why.
Then, perhaps we can exorcise this creamsicle demon for all time.
First, reading this page has entertained me. Your experience is all of us trying to learn and keep up with technology. And if we haven't already been there in some capacity, we'll be there eventually.
Second, to improve your future YouTube search results, you should follow the ACC Digital Network: www.youtube.com/@ACCDigitalNetwork
The ACC DN will cut up each ACC game into a game highlight video (usually 7-10 mins), a condensed game (about 20 to 30 mins), a full game replay, and several player highlight videos. I'll note the upload of the full game replay is often delayed by 24-48 hours. The highlights and condensed game are usually up within an hour or two after the game ends (sometimes within 20 mins).
To find what you want to watch, you can either go to your subscriptions (and scroll through the videos uploaded on the ACC DN page) or just use the search within YouTube. By subscribing to ACC DN, your top results will more likely be the REAL game content. YouTube's search algorithm will promote videos from channels to which you're subscribed.
And to ensure it is the video you with REAL game content, look for the ACC DN logo on the bottom left of the video. Here is a screenshot example of the VT v. NCSU condensed game:
Good luck my friend! Go Hokies!
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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 The college I graduated from just didn't do Friday classes at all. They found that the imbalance of 2 day classes vs 3 day classes was just frustrating for professors and students so Fridays were for office hours, studio space, labs, etc. All classes met twice a week, either MW or TuTh.
We didn't even have a football team.
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AI sucks, it has limited uses and shouldn't be trusted to make any sort of critical decisions
My guess by "AI" here you mean language models trained on unreliable sources yield unreliable decisions that would be hazardous to make critical decisions.
There are many AI tools that can dramatically improve critical decision-making. For example, there are AI-based diagnostics that can determine whether a cancer patient can respond better to a certain cancer treatments. The AI models are trained to predict outcomes (such as likelihood of survival) based on various inputs (mostly cancer-related genetics). Doctors certainly can improve the outcomes of patient lives and increase the number of patients that beat cancer by using well-trained, FDA-scrutinized AI tools. And there are so many other fields in which AI tools can be used to make much better decisions than humans because the machine can handle the data and identify signatures of signals that a human cannot process. Are any of these tools perfect? No. Should any of these tools be used a solitary source without human oversight? No. But AI tools can certainly improve critical decision-making and improve humanity.
(Not meaning to call you out, but I often see people conflating Chat-GPT-like AI tools with AI in totality. These tools (Gemini, Deep-Seek, Chat-GPT, etc.) are one rather specific AI-tool. They are language models trained on internet sources to formulate narrative responses based on quickly collating text within it's trained model to guess what is the most appropriate response, one word or phrase at a time. This is inherently as reliable as the collated internet sources used, the scrutiny that is placed on the guessing of what to put into the response, and whether the prompt can be effectively answered by the content within the training data.)
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I definitely think VT faculty need to get in a better pay bracket. I can only imagine the budgeting goals that VT needs to consider. It's interesting on your data about the lack of correlation between athletics and student "quality". Part of that has to be that standards to get in are too low and I would argue, and have argued with data on here, that athletics is what nationalized VT which dramatically increased the academic quality and budgets. Those days however are far gone IMO.
Personally I think the issue is that academics and athletics, particularly football, are being read on the same budget. College football is a business now, not a amateur sport. It should be wholly separated from the business of the university and pay royalty back to the university. So while I hear you on the admins short turnaround to raise a bucket load of money, it may not be possible for academics especially when I feel facilities largely outweigh faculty needs when it comes to raising money from boosters etc.
I think there should be alternatives available to faculty that help them with overall living costs. I have no idea how it works but 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.. like a google/apple campus. Maybe there should be a Faculty Center for all of these things. I would also be all for faculty getting a commission on research grants. I know that grants pay (or partially pay) for the work on the project but I think a straight 10% to your pocket is more than fair and incentives performance that helps VT raise more money with boosters who again are likely less inclined to fund faculty raises and more inclined to put money into facilities and research.
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9 months 2 weeks
# | Hokies unveil a new NMA helmet for Homecoming / 🟠Orange Effect🟠 I like the uniform. I think the helmet, especially with visor really pops. but for the LOVE OF GOD WHY ARE WE WEARING AWAY COLORS TO A HOME GAME!
This is a wonderful away jersey. Fucking wear orange and maroon at home. Stop the dumbassery.
Considering over half my wrong guesses have been off by half a point.... I hate these spreads
I don't care anymore. Just win
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.
What matters is paying for talent. Yes, good coaches, good facilities, but most importantly talent. I've followed this pretty closely but feels like I'm missing something big here. And I likely did miss it somewhere, but it's definitely not jumping out at me either.
Will this money be used to pay players?
With the House v. NCAA settlement, schools will be able to share up to ~$20M+ annually with athletes starting July 2025, but it's still optional and capped. I've seen Whit mention this in past, but what does it really mean? Scholarships, cost-of-attendance, and NIL are one thing, but the direct revenue-sharing piece is new and separate.
How much will go all in from NIL and rev share to players? Is that competitive with rest of ACC or did we just pay for a bunch more coaches and a GM?
Maybe they want to keep the total number opaque, but it's hard to really distill how much impact this money will have and thus my expectations will remain low until we land a stellar class/portal haul.
Curious what folks who follow the AD/board side more closely think.
Is there any public indication yet on our strategy here?
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The revenue sharing is entirely separate, and was decided by the House vs. NCAA collection of lawsuits. The result was that institutions could allocate up to $20.5M in university funds (note: in Virginia, that means core institutional funds, not auxiliary funds from Athletics) to revenue sharing with athletes. The budget increase mentioned here is distinct from that money. VT has already allocated $20.5M for the revenue share, they worked out the details of that last year. It's an attempt to level the playing field in terms of payments to players (on top of their scholarships and cost of living). Starting next year, NIL deals all have to be vetted by Deloitte to be approved, anything over $600 has to be evaluated for fair market value, so that it prevents collectives from dumping millions into a player for doing some trivial task.