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I seem to remember Ellway getting drafted by Baltimore and he refused to go there.
Draft is refusable.
But that's too far in the weeds.
The money makes all the difference.
Adjust front office from draft and retention to recruitment and retention. Personnel management. Take the load completely off the coaches and use them as marketing and give them the assistance of a closer.
Combine with subsections for Bball and a couple other major teams at the school.
Ahh gotcha
Drones is a pretty good FCS level QB.
The law does not specifically cap Athletic fees but says that if you increase Fees to be used for Athletics...you must match that money with contributions to non-Athletic funds.
I.e. if you're going to make general student Bob pay $500 more so you can buy a MLB, you have to somehow prove that you are creating $500 of value for Bob somewhere other in the University.
Which seems reasonable and logical if you are either a student paying for college or a parent paying for their child's education.
Now, I think there is a very strong argument to be made that having such a large discrepancy between VT/UVa and JMU for instance is illogical and not in the spirit of the bill---i.e. the finacial burden is just as strong or harmful on a JMU student as anyone else. It also doesn't help that the Legislator who supported this provision was a JMU Grad.
Edit: Also, to note, this isn't just a Virginia state issue. Louisiana has (or had) similar statutes which is why there are dorm rooms (no longer used) within the facade of Tiger Stadium at LSU. They used money largely to expand the Stadium but built some token student housing to get around the legal requirements Can't find that there was a definite law but money that was meant for dorms was clearly used "very creatively" to expand the football stadium.
This is the best VT performance we've seen since... the back half of the 2023 season? Probably since the 2023 UVA game?
Love Dave Clawson, he's a great coach. But I'm pretty sure he left due to NIL/the portal. But maybe if we have a GM managing those aspects more he would be open to coming back.
Downside is though he's not currently coaching so no transfers to bring in right off the bat.
I'm starting to wonder if Dabo might be a possibility too.
True, but the ACC doesn't have those SEC and B10 TV contracts, and VT still needs the money to be competitive.
(This is what I mean by pay to play). VT didn't deal the cards. It's doing it's best with the ones they were dealt.
Man, I think at most 4 of those guys (Campbell, Klieman, Burt, Mullen) would be remotely open to VT.
How would you feel about Dave Clawson?
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# | Virginia Tech vs Wofford Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread Clear as day. Threw it 1-yard back.
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# | Virginia Tech vs Wofford Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread Not a forward pass.
This is the price of having a good football team in a pay to play world. We're not going to have a good football team and it not cost the students and fans anything.
The issue isn't the pay for play - it's that every B10 and SEC school is has twice the TV revenue as VT. If that was 'fixed', then VT is a unanimous top 30 job instead of a consensus top 50 job
Have any of the coaches told Drones that it's ok to move up in the pocket?
That's funny.
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# | Virginia Tech vs Wofford Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread And they have 62 yds of offense.
Pretty sure the board said that maxing out student fees would get us an extra $34m over multiple years?
I'm sure that will be a part of it, but that's not getting us all of the $50m.
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# | Virginia Tech vs Wofford Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread Drones still in. Mind boggling.
When you see a former classmate throwing a pretty ball back on the field you at least get a moment of joy from this game.
Cliff Anders, former cadet/Hokies Long Snapper was the one congratulated on his arm for throwing the FG ball back on the field.
I can kinda see at your Bluest Blooded programs, but for the other 115 FBS programs, I think it's so different.
- As long as 18-23 year olds are stupid, and teams are made up of predominantly 18-23 year olds, baby sitting and diagnosing 'character' will be a big part of any GM/player personnel position
- In college, there's just wayyy more people to scout, and way more risks have to be taken. There are about 2,240 active NFL players in any given year. There's about 2000 3-star recruits each year. Then there's the portal... The scale is wild.
- There is no draft in college; you have to convince players to come to you - that completely changes things as well.
Here's a really good pod about how to 'money ball' in college football. Basically you pick positions (based on scheme, location, access, NIL, etc) that you are going to spend on, and you pick positions where you try to out-scout people.
It is most probably a combination of student fees, a large donor or 3 and corporate sponsorship.
If we somehow shake the couch cushions and the Board snaps their fingers and comes up with that much money like that, wow what a horrible look for Babcock and Sands.
Doesn't VA have legislation specifically preventing both UVA and Tech from this? I thought max of 20% AD budget could be from student fees. That's not vast majority.
The foundation of Whit's Slideshow was using increased student fees to fund athletics.
So either the board is going to approve increasing student fees or we've suddenly found a $50 million angel investor.
I'll leave it for you to decide what's more likely.
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# | Virginia Tech vs Wofford Game Time, TV Info, and Open Thread Based on what I've seen from our starters, that may be considered running up the score.
Up three scores, please get the second team players in for the game experience
But if you increase the budget from $122M to $200M that's $15.6M more they can get from fees assuming they were already getting maximum amount from $122M.
Have seen $144M thrown out too so that would be $11.2M more they could get assuming they already were charging $28.8M against the $144M.