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I think the severance is mostly earned by being a public scapegoat 🤷
comment of the thread right here.
plus 2020 was that whole pandemic thing which canceled the spring game and what was gearing up to be perhaps the biggest recruiting weekend in program history for the 2021 class. There is a nonzero chance the hindsight takeaway is "Man, Fuente pulling all those overlooked Texas kids to VT was genius" instead of "lol TX2VT" but boy oh boy did all the eggs go into that basket
Is this project Heth, by chance?
Make it so.
well we had a chance to beat Duke last year... but their receivers were running free uncovered early, and then we couldn't close late which Pry has no clue how to do. Maybe next time.
Since the start of 2022, Duke has more P5 wins (17) than UVA and VT combined (16).
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Some interesting college football numbers...that unfortunately include the Hokies. The FSU and Florida numbers though.... 🔥 🔥 🔥
Some interesting W-L stats...Alabama is 4-4 in its last 8 games vs. FBS opponentsWisconsin is 4-16 in its last 20 vs. winning P5 teamsFSU is 17-13 in its last 30 games vs. P5 -- and that includes a 16-game winning streak.USC is 12-12 in its last 24 games vs. P5Auburn is...— 💫🅰️♈️🆔 (@ADavidHaleJoint) April 16, 2025
Since the tweet cut it off
Some interesting W-L stats...
Alabama is 4-4 in its last 8 games vs. FBS opponents
Wisconsin is 4-16 in its last 20 vs. winning P5 teams
FSU is 17-13 in its last 30 games vs. P5 -- and that includes a 16-game winning streak.
USC is 12-12 in its last 24 games vs. P5
Auburn is 11-26 vs. P5 since start of 2021. Only Vandy is worse in SEC.
Oklahoma is 5-9 in its last 14 vs. P5
Florida is 6-21 in its last 27 games away from home
VT is 3-15 in 1-score games since start of 2021 (and 1-12 since '22)
Okla St is 5-6 in its last 11 vs. P5 teams who finished with a *losing* record
Clemson has 11 losses since start of 2022; had 10 from 2015-2021
K-State has as many P5 wins in last 3 years as Alabama (23)
Since the start of 2022, Duke has more P5 wins (17) than UVA and VT combined (16).
Kentucky is 4-12 in its last 16 home games vs. P5.
Texas A&M is 3-11 vs P5 after Nov. 1 since 2021.
Colorado is 2-9 vs. winning P5 teams under Deion.
Ole Miss is 32-0 when scoring 28+ points under Kiffin and 7-13 when it doesn't
Nah, in the private sector if you don't perform or nobody can figure out what you do, you are fired. Private sector employees aren't asked for stupid tasks lists because there is much more insight and scrutiny on performance as a general practice/impact to the business. Are there shit bag lazy private employees? yep. Are they easier to fire? yep.
If minimizing the federal debt was ever a consideration here, they wouldn't have just blanket laid off all CDC cruise ship inspectors whose entire salaries are paid for by the cruise industry
Explaining why CEO's are high paid has nothing to fucking do with pay for play masked as real endorsement money. NOTHING. But "gotcha" away
Federal employee salaries make up 4.3 % of the federal budget. If you want to minimize the federal debt, that's not even the fourth place to look to cut costs.
In terms of federal employees having to submit the "5 accomplishments" every week - it's a complete waste of taxpayer money. We're making people waste time trying to justify their employment to an entity that will probably never read it - or it will be fed into some poorly trained AI to sift through it all. And even if they do, how does someone from OPM (or DOGE I guess) evaluate that a scientist at NOAA is doing their job? Or an analyst for Department of Commerce? It isn't meant as a check that people are spending their time effectively, it's just a tactic to make federal employees stressed and want to quit.
In the private sector, do people have to prove their work load to anyone outside of their direct report? Not really. Not even to shareholders for a public company get that sort of detail. Because they probably don't have the knowledge or understanding to make the appropriate judgement regarding the effectiveness and quality of the work.
Don't mind me, just copying this to notepad to use as a TKP copypasta during your daily NIL rants
So who is the starter post 25? Pop Watson? Someone not here?
News: in a free market/capitalist economy people are going to make more than you do. For thousands of reasons. It's a ridiculous argument. My boss makes more than me. Fucking shock.
Still can't figure out why it's still up at really can't figure out why its in the football forum.
Which is interesting because small and shifty fits what Montgomery wants to do maybe better than Bowen's offense imo
Are you a math guy?
They earn more money than everyone else sure, they don't earn THAT much more money. It's not a binary that they make 1:1 what the average employee does or 1000+ times as much. There are plenty of other reasonable numbers in between.
I'd say 8-15 times what the average employee makes, could make sense as far as what's being earned. 500-1000x is beyond excessive, it's absurd
"Instead of low ranking federal workers, I'd rather see CEOs send out a list of their weekly tasks to justify their $100M+/year salaries"
Why not both?
I'm largely in agreement that many - not all, but many - CEOs get absurd salaries and that the golden parachutes for the CEOs (and the former VT coach who shall not be named) who sucked so badly that you just wanted them to go away are totally absurd. But given the size of the government and how far we are in debt, I don't see it as asking too much to know that government departments and people who work there do something useful to justify their salary and benefits too. If someone does good and important work, should be easy to articulate.
No, I understand supply/demand. Dumb, failing CEO's don't make those salaries. Successful ones that make the top companies in the world profitable and growing, do. Not everyone can work for uncle sam or in a commune. The worlds economy outside of those 2 things runs on multi billion dollar companies, innovation and job creation. The CEO's that fail or suck don't make 300x the mail room guy. The ones that run apple, verizon, Rogers, etc. do. It's not that hard.
If we can get him and Terry that is absolutely huge. Makes up for our most recent recruiting misses
And another one
Officially in the transfer portal. Thank you WVU! pic.twitter.com/Yseiw0mR6n— Gavin Crawford (@_GavinCrawford) April 16, 2025
Wait, now you're arguing in favor of Nickel getting $500k? Be consistent, man.
"Federal employee salaries make up 4.3 % of the federal budget. If you want to minimize the federal debt, that's not even the fourth place to look to cut costs."
So, if someone is not doing anything useful, we should just keep paying them because it is only a small portion of things? The price of 500 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies is minimal compared to the total cost of things, yet people (including me) do not like how much they are paid.
"In the private sector, do people have to prove their work load to anyone outside of their direct report?"
Uh, yeah, we do.
"In terms of federal employees having to submit the "5 accomplishments" every week - it's a complete waste of taxpayer money. We're making people waste time trying to justify their employment to an entity that will probably never read it"
Every week is excessive. They are not going to keep getting it every week. But I had to do something like that as a graduate student every quarter and it did not kill me.
Why are government workers held in such high regard by so many people? Some do important jobs. Some do not. Some do a good job. Some do not. Let's get rid of the ones that do not do anything useful and/or do a bad job and keep the ones that do. Or transfer the ones that do a good job to more important areas.