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Side note - spent some time researching these people, and I'm pretty impressed that there seems to be a lot of career diversity amongst them. A couple high school educators, a couple people in talent acquisition/career advancement, a couple people from the NRV (a lawyer and real estate developer), a handful of execs... I had much lower expectations lol
Hey now! I resemble that remark!!!
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11 months 2 weeks
# | Whit Babcock presentation on future of VT athletics to BOV I was hoping for some contact info to send some emails expressing our concerns and wishes, but looks like all you get is P. O. boxes to snail mail.
EDIT: VT people search had them all, hopefully they actually look at their VT email.
Be nice, these are people with Tech's best interest in mind (hopefully).
John Rocovich -Rector - jrocovic@vt.edu
Sandy Davis - dsandra22@vt.edu
Rosa Atkins - ratkins@vt.edu
Edward Baine - ehbaine@vt.edu
Nancy Dye - ndye@vt.edu
Theodore Hanson - tedh@vt.edu
William Holtzman - willih2@vt.edu
Starlette Johnson - starlette@vt.edu
Ryan McCarthy - ryandm24@vt.edu
Jim Miller - jmiller9@vt.edu
Robert Moser - rmose@vt.edu
James Pearson - jpearson1987@vt.edu
Margaret Ann Smith - margaretannsmith@vt.edu
Jeanne Stosser - jeanne13@vt.edu
Heard. Stadium forest should never have been an issue. Zero chance a couple of trees (in an area rich with trees) would have stopped Oregon or pick your other school from building something.
Frank didn't do us a disservice, we did it to him, even if he didn't want the money, we should have been investing like we had a bigger budget
Fuente walked in the door and was paid almost 2x Frank. Doesn't matter how good of a hire we would have made there are very few coaches worth twice Frank.
Frank gave us a big fucking discount. So did Bud. So did Wiles. So did Torrian.
I think it's a bit ridiculous to suggest that Frank did a disservice by not price gouging us, but I do think his willingness to give us a significant hometown discount had a lasting, cultural impact on the way that the Virginia Tech administration, boosters, and fans view the sport.
Shane likes em extra sloppy
Which was ridiculous because Fuente walked in the door and was paid almost 2x Frank. Doesn't matter how good of a hire we would have made there are very few coaches worth twice Frank.
Also thr 2009-2011 recruiting showed we were losing it too, it took until about 2013 to really see it but thats still 12 years ago.
This is what I imagine retired boomers are doing grilling and chilling on their back decks on Sundays.
Man him, Joel Caleb, and Drew Harris could have been all stars.
Shane brings chicken to Thanksgiving.
He's third. They have Etienne and Bigsby returning. Etienne only played the first series and Bigsby played one or two. Tuten played more than any other back. Jags are excited about him but the question right now is pass blocking. They have nothing behind Lawrence at QB...Mullens is supposed to be the primary backup and he was awful last night...Steelers muffed 3 picks. Henigan, the undrafted rookie looked better.
Just going off the box score, he was the most versatile RB for the Jags. Same stats as Tank except Tuten had a TD and his long was 8 yds, Tank's long was 7 yds. Tuten also had 2 receptions in the game, Etienne was the only other RB to have a reception with 1.
Seems to me he had a good game for his first NFL game. Hope to see him get more playing time.
Guess my only thought was Tuten was in the game, which would indicate he is third or fourth on the depth chart. Guess his injury time may be part of it. Thought he might have been top two based on all the articles out of Jags camp.
If you need a reference point that backs this up you need to go back to the difference in freshman applications for the '98-99 school year and compare it to what happened next. The football team served as a massive advertisement campaign and that year I think we saw at least a 2x increase in student applications.
This was needed 20 years ago, in hindsight. We should have woken up as an athletics department not even after the move to the ACC ink was drying, but BEFORE. We needed to recognize what we were asking for and the commitment to keep us and the conference relevant. Instead we continued to do what we do until it was too late.
Halfway into the video before I saw anyone i recognized 😅
It's very frustrating because I remember back around 10-15 years ago anyone who suggested we needed to be investing more into the program was ridiculed and mocked for not being happy with how good things were at the time.
We got so complacent and we may never recover. We have always wanted to be a small time regional school and made damn well sure we are going to stay there in the long term. If it all collapses and we are left out of expansion going forward we only have ourselves to blame and we absolutely deserve it.
This terrible leadership from the BoV down just makes it that much easier for me to complete mentally divest from being emotionally invested in the school anymore, and more willing to send my kids to any of the in state NC schools.
Add in transportation to and from the game. Add a friday/ Saturday fight from dulles or Reagan and Charlotte into bburg. WVU normally charters flights for bowl games and it works out to be a great deal when you account for time involved.
EDIT: I can charter a 160 seat plan for $110 per hour per seat. That's less than $400 for the trip to bburg and back
Workaround: make the student athletics fee exorbitant, but only for cadets on ROTC scholarships. Scholarships cover tuition AND fees. Adopt the Academy model of making your athletic budget the taxpayers problem.
At the risk of being too repetitive...this just seemed appropriate.
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11 months 2 weeks
# | Whit Babcock presentation on future of VT athletics to BOV Seems like a great presentation, that should have been made 4 or 5 years ago...
Gotta get that nice salary and sweet, sweet retirement.
Love the work on offense! But watching that gives me pause about our Defense...
Hard disagree. VT had/has land other than the old growth forest for expansion. It just wasn't easy.