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No, they didn't earn that money. They just decided that they were going to come out on top, period. To the point they were willing to sell out the sport in order to "win" it. It's a strong temptation to secure the future when you're ahead by rigging the game in your favor.
Thank you very much, Lt.
Babcock started in January 2014. Contract extension under him was done in July 2014.
Original contract goes back to 2007. Contract was extended in July 2014 to 2022. At this time it was 45th out of 50 that Will Stewart at TSL had the details on. At around the time Hokies agreed to extension in 2014 that pays just under $4M annually between equipment/cash combined, UCLA struck a deal with Nike for $18.7M annually.
Contract was extended by 5 years in 2022 but seems like both sides have an opt out annually. Doesn't appear the amount has increased in the last 8 years.
How soon after the new AD got in office did the old deal expire?
I have a hard time believing this is true. And if it is true, I have to put that on the AD too. Under Armour, adidas, Jordan brand, whatever. Somebody needs to be selling our fan base and our brand to those guys.
Nike isn't some mom and pop shop. They choose to sponsor us not because they have to, and not because somebody has to, but because they get something out of it.
The AD not only needs to sell our brand to potential season ticket holders and donors, but to corporate and apparel sponsors as well.
If there's only one apparel deal on the table, that's a failure too.
Until this years NHL Finals....7 game series shouldn't take 3 1/2 weeks. If it goes to 7, it's on June 20th
The top players in the NBA are so freaking athletic that they get away with so many rule violations because the refs cant see what they are doing which i think hurts the product where as the top athletes in hockey are still slowed by skates and a stick so it makes for a way better viewing expirence for me.
So if you look at overall (not just football) VT's revenue from ticket sales is about the same percentage of revenue as the rest of the ACC. We have the sane funding profile of the ACC as a whole. So while we are awesome at football, we suck elsewhere it seems.
maybe it's finally time to build the North Endzone to stretch almost to the East and West. Build it back over the road (but leaving access for emergency vehicles under) and right up to or even encroach a little on the practice field. There is the Beamer barn now, football team has plenty of space, give the students a bigger North Endzone and sell more seats in the East.
yeah, me too!
I would argue that the NHL and MLB have the best professional playoff system/product. Even with the personally disliked Best of 3 opening round the MLB has.
Playoff hockey though is light-years more entertaining than playoff NBA.
Well they're children remember, so that 28 year old, multiple transfer player shouldn't be punished for going to school.
Say what you will, but the SEC earned that ESPN money. SEC teams invested more in recruiting athletes, hiring coaches, and engaging fans than teams of any other league. I agree with DC's stance that it's silly that we live in a society where grown adults would rather throw money at college kids playing an 'amateur' sport than our civil servants, our schools, our healthcare, etc. But I don't blame ESPN for offering the SEC that deal, nor do I blame the SEC for accepting it.
We're only 2(?) years removed from Jim Phillips - a person hired by the presidents of ACC schools - opening ACC media days talking about student athletes, and NIL isn't think, blah blah blah. At least two thirds of ACC schools weren't/aren't interested in playing the same sport that the SEC is.
You are forgetting that we were ranked earlier this year. Our issue is depth, specifically in the bullpen. We fix that and we're a super regional team.
Sadly, there was no competitor to Nike at the renewal. It was take their offer or nothing.
Why everyone who reads John Grisham needs to switch to my favorite author, Dean Koontz. Much better writer.
Actually, I have nothing against Grisham's writing. But Koontz is still better and doesn't donate to UVA.
Yes, and he negotiates from a documented position of weakness "Our Nike deal is beyond dollars". puke. how would we survive? Kanas hoops, MD hoops, ND, Wisky, etc, etc all do much better than we do without Nike.
Not sure why this got down votes. This should be a major evaluation point. It goes directly to the budget vs revenue per seat conversation. This is some of that external to game day revenue the Hokies are missing out on annually.
Helps that they have a single dedicated donor that basically funds the majority of their expenses in John Grisham, in addition to the Harrison family $55M donation to create the Harrison Family Olympic Sports Center.
Let's not forget the extra $45M annually added to their budgets thanks to E$PN. Jumping to the $EC was a no Brainerd at that point.
So UVA baseball invested in a top coach? wow, maybe they will win in that sport consistently.
The best playoff in the United States by far exists in the college game. It's called march madness. One and done, win or go home. A true playoff that includes all conferences and grips an entire nation for a month. That beats Mahomes having to win 2 home playoff games in 10 degree weather after a week off. It beats the fixed NBA- where you have 30 point swings in "playoff games". In football you had conference greed and ND dictating the model. They had FCS playoffs for decades. Nobody was worried about concussions or missed class time at that level. You didn't have it at the top level because the SEC wanted a lions share of the playoff and bowl money- so access was going to shut out the Big East, WAC, etc. It was always going to be that way with money as the driver. In a 16 team playoff with all conference champions, the SECs bid are limited. In the bowl system, they got their money for 12 teams, etc. No different than the last time march madness expanded to 68. Why? because conferences split and auto bids were added. So instead of not taking 14 SEC teams and leaving it at 64, coaches lobbied for 68 because scum like Beoheim made a career by "making the dance" 40 straight years. He wanted those at large spots to not go away. Also any model in football had to include a one-off school that hasn't won anything significant in 30 years - because. That throws a wrench in things. At top level football, the SEC and B1G will die before they give up more of the pie.
Virginia dealt Duke a second blow. Eliminated from their Super Regional, Virginia took the Duke head coach today to replace O'Connor
I really like the tone of the bass on this one.
that's kind of you - my complaint, more than anything, has to do with the actual game coverage, though. It's not just "oh I hate MSM blah blah blah" it's more of "I can't even enjoy watching the game my team is playing because the network clearly has the C or D team covering it"