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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 just remember how completely resentful the professors of your Thurs and Friday classes were the week of a Thursday Night home game that there was something going on that day.
I had to have been lucky or just didn't pay attention because somehow I never saw that. Seemed like all of my classes were pretty flexible with the football schedule (but I was also a business major so maybe that has something to do with it 🤷♂️)
I hope that coming out of this Sands makes an initiative to break down that animosity to find a balance where academia isn't looking to kneecap athletics at a moments notice.
I cannot agree with this more. At this point it sounds like it's a cultural cycle that needs to be broken. I sincerely believe successful sports programs is the tide that raises all ships.
I would hazard a guess that all of the finalists had resumes that were similar in quality. If we get somebody with the wealth of experience that Jeff King has, whether it's Jeff King or not, I'll be thrilled.
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 ah, welcome to higher education!
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 Always made me shake my head that the recent rebrand and the shelving of the old school VT logo was to create a stronger brand.... Only for the academic side of the university to completely undermine it with a cheap dollar store knockoff of the athletics logo.
Just consolidate the two and be done with it. We don't need a university logo and an athletics logo. Stick with the athletics logo, it's what everyone already associates with the school anyway.
Kerry Carpenter went 1 for 4, scoring a run, for DET in their win against CLE.
Nic Enright was activated from the 15-day IL two days ago, but is not on the DS roster for CLE.
Looks like that's it for Hokies in the MLB playoffs.
Good I'm hoping we get a guy who knows college ball. There's zero evidence these NFL types will work in college.
Now if we want to add some successful NFL guys as a different perspective I'm all for it, but they can't be the guy
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 How are you at all surprised about the animosity between academics and athletics? For those of us who were students, just remember how completely resentful the professors of your Thurs and Friday classes were the week of a Thursday Night home game that there was something going on that day. Academically they openly resent that athletics is a part of the college experience and look to get back at those who embrace it.
I hope that coming out of this Sands makes an initiative to break down that animosity to find a balance where academia isn't looking to kneecap athletics at a moments notice. Students shouldn't be punished for going to a football game that ends at 11pm by having a surprise exam at 8am the next day. That kind of crap needed to stop years ago.
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 That is extremely disheartening. What's the phrase? A house divided cannot stand?
I feel somewhat vindicated in questioning this now
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 As someone whose dad and stepdad were both faculty and whose mom also worked at Tech for years...there is definitely a nonzero amount of animosity there, yes
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 Seriously. This is something I never understood.
Particularly as the entire point of the athletics program should be to enhance the profile of the school.
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 I've never understood us having a separate logo. The M at Michigan is iconic, the O at Ohio State, the SC at Southern Cal, the A at Bama, the U at Miami. On and on. Now I can understand having a word mark used for official university documents and correspondence that isn't just the logo. But why have two versions of the same logo, and one just looks way worse and has a curvy V?
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 I'll admit to never having been interested enough to look for one.
That said, if they livestreamed it, seems like there would be an online video available after the fact.
Just another rumor post titled as actual news.. Can't wait for several of these per day until we hire a coach.
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# | VT BoV Approves increase of athletics budget by $47.1m this year, growing to a total budget of $212m in 2029 What I'm surprised to find out about (CAVEAT: I know nothing, this is all Twitter conjecture) is the apparent infighting between the academic and athletic sides of the university. Hence why there is a separate academic logo. There's a thread with Dwight Vick talking about it.
GuitarMan is it as bad as people make it out to be?
Awesome - thanks for the information.
And thank you for your insight throughout this process and for your commitment to making VT a better university. Your effort is very evident and much appreciated.
My understanding at this point is that the "front office" item is not "we're going to build offices" but for personnel. I'm sure there will be some internal renovations that are done to reconfigure space and make appropriate office and work areas, but it's not like it's going to get dumped into an office facility.
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Given the new "front office", how much of this funding will go into actual buildings and infrastructure? With the cost of construction being crushed by inflation in the last half decade, I think we need to pump the breaks on the constant large-scale renovations and new construction if possible. That money just doesn't spread very far and I'd rather see it go into hiring competent operations and administrative personnel.
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# | 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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When it comes to the university as a whole, academics and athletics should be synergistic with each other. Athletics is the facade that advertises the school. It gets the name of the school out there to the masses and puts it on the radar of potential students and professors.
Academia is the primary beneficiary of athletics doing well. They get better students, they end up getting more engaged alumni willing to donate, and the overall campus culture ends up doing well. With the school having a higher profile, you're going to be able to attract better talking conferences and concerts that will put money into academia. And part of that needs to be allowing students across the board to partake in large scale campus events, like football and basketball games, without worry their academic schedule will be impacted. Personally, I think the Thursday and Friday of a Thursday Night game should be campus holidays. During home basketball games, classes should be blacked out from a half hour before a game starts to a half hour after.
There just needs to be a better solution here that works for everyone. Stop fighting each other and figure out something where everyone can end up happy.