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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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UVA SUCKS.
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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 Amy does not seem happy about this.
MEH. 😕
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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 often do you see athletics send out a link to watch a BoV meeting, at any school?
As a fellow (new) NNKer, I'd love to sit down with you sometime and hear what else the grapevine has to say!
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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 Agree on all points. VT has made unbelievable strides on the academic side in the last 10-15 years while athletics has been dying a slow death. I think it's foolhardy for faculty to assume that the applications in interest in VT has been solely due to academic reputation. I know for many, many VT students, alumni, and family, football has been an enormous part of that interest and bond. If it's just about purely academics, many probably would have gone elsewhere or to a smaller school. Athletics is part of the experience for a large state university. Why on earth when all big peer P4 type public universities are embracing the new model of athletics would we kick and scream and run the other way? Insanity.
Also when student debt is at an all-time high and the job market and future outlook for college-level jobs is what it currently is, I have a hard time feeling sympathy for an education system overall that has been taking more and more for the last 30-40 years (more buildings, more pay, more funding, etc) and much of that coming from student debt. Reinvest something in athletics and give something back to the student experience for once.
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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 All time egg on face moment if this doesn't pass, just sayin....
Tune in this morning for the livestream of Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors meeting.🕤 9:30 a.m. ET🎥 https://t.co/CkIhDI6VAL pic.twitter.com/SUfMWpvtVY— HokieSports (@hokiesports) September 30, 2025
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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 all of the direct and indirect contributions I've made to VT since graduating in 1977 are related to academics. But my regular connection to VT is thru athletics. I'd be shocked if I'm the lone ranger on this.
academics are more than intelligent enough to understand the potential value in upping our athletic profile. there is no magic
but mostly, thank you SO much for keeping us informed. being the messenger is no fun. good luck this morning!
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UVA SUCKS.
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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 Meeting starts at 9:30 today. I imagine the meeting will be 30-60 minutes.
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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 Meeting will start at 9:30 AM, I expect it will probably wrap by 10:00 AM. Follow the livestream at https://bov.vt.edu/
MEH. 😕
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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 When is the vote? I require this knowledge.
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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 With all due respect, the Athletic Department has been critically underfunded for going on 10-15 years now. I understand faculty being worried there might be tensions for academics going forward, but for athletics we haven't even approached competitive for a decade. This isn't about magically finding money to give to sports, its pulling up a department that was on its deathbed in order to make sure it doesn't flatline, which would cost the school far more money academically than the investment its going to take now.
And quite frankly, after watching the school grow like it has over the past 20 years with a constant flow of new buildings and renovations to pump up the academic side, it rings hollow to hear worries that the money won't be there going forward. Maybe if the root cause is about salaries, then the discussion should be about curtailing the constant influx of new facilities and instead taking care of the staff the school has.
Hoping that Snitker decides to retire, and we hire Skip Schumacher.
Mantiply with the Diamondbacks, two (?) years ago.
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I've been living in a new city for about five months now and finally have gotten around to visiting some of the outdoor spaces, taking in the views, enjoying the wildlife. Unfortunately, after cataloging the local creatures by size, I was asked to leave.
Apparently, they don't like me critter sizing.
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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 a faculty member, I wonder if we endanger our mission by trying to gamble on the uncertain landscape of athletics.
Yep - this right here. How good is your crystal ball?
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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 This is the main point. Faculty are under unprecedented pressure to produce (worse by the year, particularly in the uncertain funding climate) and we're told to "spend conservatively" by our deans in case grants get canceled. There are talks of hiring freezes in the coming year. And yet, magically, we have tens of millions of dollars for athletics. This is the source of the friction right 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 Most rankings that are published are meaningless, it's all PR. If you compare us against "elite" institutions in quantitative metrics (which don't tell the whole story), we are a solid but not amazing university. Moving up, but not where we want to be.
The faculty we have are plenty talented. There's a lot to love about Virginia Tech, as we all know. We do have a problem with retention (the upper admin denies this, but the rank-and-file faculty continually see talented colleagues leave). We don't offer competitive counter-offers for salary or other resources. So top talent gets easily poached. We continue to do great things, doing more with less, but the stress lines are revealing themselves by the day.
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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 The other issue is faculty salaries. VT faculty are not paid particularly well.
Pretty wild that we've shot up the college rankings over the last 5-10 years, despite paying faculty mid salaries (and presumably attracting less talented individuals as a result).
Says a lot about the state of higher ed that faculty doesn't really matter
Not saying I'm ready to keep him after the way the Vandy and ODU games went, but I am interested in watching CSS's defense the rest of this season now that he's untethered from Pry.
If he can make his system work against an ACC schedule with all those young players, then he might just have some secret sauce.
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just sounds like every other meeting/presentation i've ever sat in. I wouldn't read too much into it