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Need some fungicide.
"Board members are like mushrooms: they live in the dark and get fed shit."
Thanks for this, interesting info & speculation.
I worry about VT being close to a dead-end job. We're not there yet, but until Whit is gone, a new AD is hired, and the BOV truly commits significantly more to athletics, I worry about the attractiveness of the role.
Even if the above is solved, the ACC is a sinking ship that is rapidly taking on water and we have no lifeboat.
Helton has drawn "interest from three other schools for head coaching jobs but chose to remain at WKU," and WKU has given him raises/extensions to match.
Speculation
I think this has to do with WKU's place in the CFB pecking order... he's probably only getting offers from schools that are a marginal step up (ie; higher level G5 programs) or high paying dead end jobs (there were rumors of Purdue before they hired Odom).
EDIT TO ADD: JMU coach Bob Chesney is making $766,500 this year. I'd say most people consider JMU to be a top G5 job? Well, Helton is making $927,180 this year. So it makes sense that he's not moving for a better G5 job.
So, it's fathomable that VT could be a big enough promotion that he'd be willing to take it, and this would be a gettable coach for VT. Think how it's similar to Kansas State hiring an FCS coach a few years ago (which until this year has been very successful).
I certainly hope that you're correct, and I know Rocovich is new(er) to the BOV, but some idiot on the BOV was literally quoted as being *surprised* by Whit's presentation. Everyone who has paid any attention to collegiate sports at all over the last 10+ years was aware of how far behind we'd fallen...how could she have been surprised!?
I hope he has the juice to make this happen, but as far as athletics are concerned, the BOV has sat on their collective hands while Whit has driven VT football into a ditch. I'll believe it when I see it.
I understand the concern.
I'd counter in that BOV chairman Rocovich is seemingly now personally involved, and our chances of success are much higher.
He has asked two other BOV members to present a plan Sept. 30 NOT on what VT should be looking at doing; but with a specific goal of $200 million budget and a new structure to athletics. Mr. Rocovich is a guy that starts with the end in sight and doesn't negotiate.
Imagine if VT does come back and fund athletics better than most of the peer institutions....
Most of the TKP discussions I've read have been more of the hope we can improve the status quo, rather what IF VT actually restructures and has the $200 million to spend. What if that happens?
As soon as someone donates the $75M $100M (factoring in inflation), I'm sure they'll get right on it.
I'm going to love this series...thanks bar!
If only there was a professionally contracted artists rendition of what a potential renovation of Cassell might look like
Man, it would be great to keep the same bones of the facility while modernizing it to current standards
If only we had some kind of indication of what that might look like
Shame, I bet we could even be able to squeeze some suite experiences into such a process as well
just make all the same pics (or opposite) as me and you'll likely do that
edit to save you the trouble - I've gone 4-1-4. So maybe don't pick the opposite of me because then you would be pretty likely to get 2 - hahaha
Came here to say the same. Similar to when we hired Pry, I expect additional investment to get us back near the competitive ballpark but that it will quickly become outdated over the next few years. Until proven otherwise.
Anyone else surprised we have made it this far into the week with only one name in the portal?
Also, what is our portal policy now that Pry is gone? Can Lovett still practice with the team? Can he play?
The vid screen is for replays. I watch the court.
I really appreciate this series as I have lost complete touch with the coaching landscape. Friends keep texting me asking who I think we will hire and I don't know the names on the list, let along anything about them.
I really want those NIL packages to be able to fully revokable in the event of opt-outs or transfers.
Section 109 for the win!
Let's see if I can break the streak of 2 - 2- 2.
TEEMING WITH INTEL
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# | The Argument for Tyson Helton to be the next VT Football Coach Good stuff. I'm looking forward to this series.
This isn't necessarily a good litmus test, but I look at a guy like this and wonder to myself: if he's such a good candidate, why is he still at WKU?
Video screens, for those who should have stayed home and watched on TV. Watch the damn game on the court .
We are very likely going to have the resources to hire with the cream of the crop around the country when the dust settles.
I'm not holding my breath for this. The delta between today and where we need to be to hire the cream of the crop is enormous. The idea that the BOV and other powers that be are going to make a complete 180 from the way that they've approached funding VT athletics for the entirety of the program's existence seems suspect at best.
This is a totally false narrative. Mullen had two top 15 and two top 10 classes at UF. He also recruited way, way above their league at MS State (many top 20-top 25 caliber classes). And in today's CFB landscape, I'm more concerned with a really strong football COACH who has the network to build an equally good COACHING staff, with a strong NIL/recruiting support staff around them.
Yeah Shane has done well recruiting, but is South Carolina actually good this year? They just got punched in the mouth as bad as we did almost by Vandy. I just feel like the Beamer last name plus SEC hype has Shane a little above his weight class in this search. I like Shane, but I think he has more to prove.
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One day, they'll either blow it all up or do a major reno, and I'll miss what it used to be.
I *love* that Cassel + Lane are right on campus, but also recognize that it has created a significant space limitation for the expansion of athletics buildings.
this is my biggest concern as well. VT and the new(?) BOV may talk a big game and up their investments in football but we're still stuck in a dead league. I don't think any program in the ACC is going to be attractive to good coaches except maybe Clemson and/or FSU since they are widely perceived to be shoe-ins to the P2 when the ACC does inevitably collapse.
That's a huge hurdle that I'm not sure the BOV can get over. Not easily, anyway. If they find a way to get VT secured access to the P2 and infuse the program with much needed resources then I'll start to believe that VT is an attractive job again. But, to be quite frank, I don't think any jobs in the ACC are good jobs for good coaches. The entire league is a dead end. UNC only got Belichick because his girlfriend is from there. I would love to be wrong, but I don't think you're going to see many good coaches coming into the ACC anytime soon.