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if we go the SEC and get better funding that we can use for facilities upgrades to recruit better players and pay better coaches we will be a better football team than we are now. Even if we go 2-6 in the SEC we'll still likely win 3 or 4 of our non-con games and finish 6-6 which is what we've been doing for the last 15 years for the most part. It would be "status quo" in terms of overall record and results but the floor of the program would be elevated substantially and with a couple of great hires and a handful of good recruits we might even be able to go 8-4 every few years. Maybe once a decade we'll win 10+ games.
I have serious doubts whether VT will even come close to winning 9 games at any point between now and 2035. We haven't won 9 games since 2017 and we're not showing any signs of turning that around any time soon. We struggle to beat the likes of ODU and Liberty, for crying out loud. JMU would absolutely mash us right now. If we were in the SEC that wouldn't happen. Even if we're the SEC's punching bag, we'd still be better than most teams not in the P2 in pretty short order. I'll take a 4-0 non con record and a 2-6 SEC record (at worst) most years with the occasional season where we manage to win 4 to 6 SEC games and finish near 9 or 10 wins. If we stay put in the dead and dying ACC we're just going to keep turning in 5 and 6 win seasons with 3 or 4 non-con losses and a handful of wins against similarly crappy ACC teams (BC, UVA, Duke, Cuse, GT, Pitt, etc.)
SEC money also pays for a whole hell of a lot of other things.
With SEC money we actually might have been able to legitimately challenge for a wrestling, softball or baseball natty by now, and at least with softball and baseball have been able to sustain the momentum we were building. And in both men's and women's basketball we'd very likely be a part of their current ramping up to prominence. And might have been able to keep Kenny Brooks and Buzz Williams longer than we did.
No one middle of the pack SEC has title aspirations in football, Kentucky auto renews it coach at 7-5.
Im not sure we'd get a lot better players for football either. Players arent going to Miss State or Mizzou instead of VT, we are losing recruits to Clemson, PSU, OSU, Bama, FSU, Georgia. That's a different level than VT has every really been. In the SEC we'd still lose players to those schools. Im not saying we wouldn't improve our roster but we aren't pulling 5* recruits anytime soon and I'm not sure we'd pull in many more 4* cause they're already going to higher tier football teams.
So...they beat us and went 3-5 in the $EC. Therefore, we would have gone 2-6, or 1-7, or got skunked. You think things are bad at 4-4...wait til we go 2-6 for 3 straight seasons. That's BETTER?!
Vandy out coached us, having better athletes doesn't fix that game.
Vandy had Pavia (new mexico's QB) and Jerry Kill. They are impossible to beat.
Baller Industrial Complex. Players are entitled to millions. Need to pay for that somehow
Was this in Whit's slide deck?
He really should have something named after him as much as he's saved football players' bacon.
At least it's CAT. I won't complain cuz that's beneficial for my wife's job.
Doesn't Carilion have naming rights to our basketball court? Isn't that basically the same thing?
More likely to be Jimmy Turk
Biscuit hash marks?
absolutely 1000% it is. Case in point - Vandy beat us last year. They are a bottom third SEC team and we went 4-4 in the ACC
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You can eliminate extraneous expenditures until you're on more stable footing. And by that I mean eliminating as many non-revs as it takes.
Give me bacon endzones
Bacon strips marking the yard indicators on the field.
Based on how desperate our athletics department is for money, we'll be adding Smithfield bacon ads to Worsham Field soon.
Ehh, this is not much different that teams selling field naming rights and having Pepsi Field at Tiger Stadium or something.
A lot of BOV business gets done behind closed doors - not in an illegal sense at all, but the structure and content of a BOV meeting is highly choreographed. The outcomes are usually known. An administrator once told me "the open meeting is theater, everything has already been discussed."
Through my job, I have the great pleasure of working with local elected/appointed boards and frequently attend public meetings. What you're describing is my default assumption for any public board meeting. The outcome is almost always pre-determined.
1 and 2 are insanely difficult to do. Can't just double revenue lol.
bubbles are gonna start popping