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at least this isn't that orange digital camo crap
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Don't forget designating 10 of our 85 scholarships to RBs. That is unforgivable.
"TV viewership will be key to revenue sharing, with 60% equally split and the remaining 40% based on viewership. The model weights 75% based on football and 25% based on men's basketball." The ACC's tombstone. IT was a good run, but your conference is officially dead when you do this.
they just moved them to week 2. I think i see two games worth watching next week.
Adding a medical school a decade or so ago was a necessary first step. The other aspects have only been a real focus in the past 5 years or so. Rumor has it we have their attention. I'll leave it there...the first rule of AAU is you don't talk about AAU.
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I really appreciate the insight, thanks for putting this together.
He had atleast 8 hip thrusts when I believe 3 is the limit/s
VT wouldn't be VT without the football team
This is a loaded quote. VT was a top engineering school and option for an engineering/architecture/construction/wildlife degree prior to the bowl streak.
Post 1999 title run, true, the applications increased...but does that also affect the donations? The increase in applications was over the football team; not because they wanted to play for VT. And they applied because the team was in the National Title game. So why should they have to donate when the team IS successful already. Then when the team fall off a little bit and wasn't do as well...do those that applied/attended because of the football team become apathetic quicker and on a steeper curve? Do they have school pride and donate back OR do they only fly the flag when the team is doing well?
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There will always been part of the university that hates athletics, it exists everywhere, no matter how big or small the athletics department.
I personally think its a shame we ditched the candy orange lids.
That helmet (without a stripe), the white script Hokies helmet and the current maroon would give us 3 excellent looks to rotate for any game.
ehhh.... that celebration went on for a while, and longer than it needed to. If he had just made his celebration, slapped hands with his teammates, and returned to the LOS he would have been fine. Instead he lingered and kept dancing and got the attention of the ref in the process. Dumb penalty, but probably the right call.
VT wouldn't be VT without the football team. We went through accelerated growth over the last 25 or so years stemming from the fact that applications doubled overnight when the 1999 team went to the title game. It put the school on the map nationally and pulled in more interest than we ever had before. The quality of student being admitted increased, fundraising increased, and they were able to increase tuition because of this increased demand that helped pay for the campus essentially being modernized over the last quarter century.
But you are right, the animosity absolutely exists. There's open resentment that the football team was a draw when it was good. Professors would go out of their way to punish students who were fans by having tests or quizzes on Thursday afternoon of a gameday and other punitive issues for students on Fridays. It was always curious to me how the events that should have been treated as a one-off campus celebration ended up allowing the academic side to flaunt its own toxicity.
Wow, incredible insight here. THANK YOU for this!
why the hell not... All-maroon everything has lost (or never had) the luster... lets just go nuclear and go with all-orange-everything for the season.
Everyone in the building was doing the best they could with the knowledge and resources they had.
I think the more accurate synopsis would be that everyone was working hard to do what they thought was the best thing for the program, but often that work wasn't in the same direction.
To add to your last paragraph, I have heard LOTS of times from current employees, who like/love VT football, something along the lines of "VT already doesn't pay me enough for my job...why should I give even more money back to them?" Many others have the opinion that VT football is this huge, evil entity that is sucking resources away from the university, when in fact it is a very symbiotic relationship.
I'd be curious what polls would show for university/athletics sentiments in relation to our peer ACC schools.
That last part is a really big point.
Fuente will always have been the majority of the blame. Refusal to move on from Cornelson; lack of interaction with alumni (that 99 team has college age kids!), recruiting schools, fans, etc; and general attitude are never going to get him less than majority of the fault.
That and it helps I have/had a source inside the athletics department.
I'm with you. I'm sure the athletic department could have been more helpful to JF, but he demonstrated a number of times that he wasn't some top coach (icing the kicker vs liberty, starting ryan willis over hooker in 2019, started burmeister over hooker in 2020, making almost no offensive staff changes as the offense was unimpressive after the 2016 season, etc)
So - I just started playing CFB 25 (Late to the game I know, but my son just got an Xbox this summer)
I'm really hoping that with CFB 26 they have fixed the difficulty jump when you go from Freshman to Varsity. Playing at the Freshman level, I'm beating teams 90-0, and the next level up on Varsity, I can't stop freaking ODU from running the score up on me.
Just not fun on either difficulty.