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Ollie Gordon and OK St beg to differ.

And let's not act like NIL has anything to do with name, image, and likeness or marketability. It's just pay to play

(I typed that before reading your second sentence)

This year AI will generate images of my winners. You get some strange results when you type in some image requests and I learned you cannot use phrases like "a long horn beating a buckeye" because AI will not generate images of violence...

EDIT: Well so much for that. The images were there when I first posted, but now they seem to be gone, I guess AI doesn't want to share their work.

I would think a DWI would be a significant hit to the marketability of your name, image, and likeness. Now if we are in a pay for play scheme, probably not so.

Saw one comment on twitter that I agree with. An infraction like a DUI/DWI, or other arrests should result in forfeited NIL, at least a hefty percentage. These kids want to earn money like the pros - teach 'em they gotta be on the field to make that money

As a big tennis fan. It really sucks to see how mid our tennis team has been. That said the biggest expense for Tennis is facilities, but VT has some of the best Tennis facilities in the NRV. I don't know if they host USTA Jr tournaments, but they absolutely should.

My uninformed guess is that the men's team gets cut and the women's team sticks around for title IX purposes/so the facilities aren't a sunk cost

Personally, I think cutting dive/swim could happen; we don't have facilities on campus if I recall correctly.

The interesting thing about all the sports you mentioned is that they tend to be played by pretty affluent families who may not need a college scholarship. Obviously there are other cost associated with running a team, so I'm not sure how that factor is in, especially in a post House settlement era.

It's definitely a shitty conversation to have. I would add track & field to the keep list. Haven't we had olympians?

Seems we are rarely competitive in swimming/diving, golf, or tennis. Those could be candidates for first cut. Keep either women's lacrosse or volleyball if needed for Title 9 and drop the other.

I mean I'm glad we get them at full strength. He's going to make them much harder to defend as he should be consistent on the ground and yes he's old.

Also we would have never gotten this waiver to go through.

Reassessment after the Woodson news: this is horseshit and I wish he wasn't playing.

well a BIG swing would to be cut everything now except for handful of sports. Maximize budget in those sports to be competitive and hopefully establish championship traditions in some, if not all.

football, bball, base/softball, soccer, wrestling, women's volleyball and ... maybe tennis? not sure. up for debate, and obvious needs to be balanced with Title IX.

Anyway, point is, the dynamic of collegiate sports has changed from being an extension of amateur sports to being a business model that must grow to stay competitive. In any business, you dont try to be good at everything. you try to be great at a few things. Great drives expansion. Good stagnates.

It's shitty. Lots of sports get cut but winning championships drives revenue which can then spur adding additional sports one by one down the road. It would be a monumental game changer though for the sports that are focused on.

I did pick up an antenna. The first antenna I bought didn't get any of the VHF channels. The second antenna was able to get the VHF but it wasn't working great with UHF channels. I put an LTE filter on the second antenna and now Im getting the VHF and UHF channels now with clarity. The total cost about $35.

I don't know that I have a reason to resume YTTV.

There is a video some where on how to play cover 4 in CFB 25 and its based on Sabans defense and you basically pick a safety and read one guy and you then have either your assignment or a free player to wreck havoc. My first gane on hiesman playing it I only allowed 1 TD and that was 100% I didn't make the right read.

If you don't want to go find that video then just remember to make cover 2 look like cover 3 and vice versa. It really messes with the computer

VT was a top engineering school and option for an engineering/architecture/construction/wildlife degree prior to the bowl streak.

amen...decades before the bowl streak

my wildlife degree served me extremely well. iirc, we traded 1/2 back and forth with Cornell for many years.

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