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I agree with the thesis, but the article was pretty poorly written/supported.
That said, this excerpt hit the nail on the MF head:
In 2018, Virginia Tech ranked 6th out 8 public ACC schools in sports administration expenditures and when Justin Fuente arrived, they had five total recruiting and operations staffers...
...When Fuente attempted even the mildest of reforms or reorganization, he was met with pushback and civil servant mindsets.
The 'civil servant mindset' comment hits so hard. VT has been stuck in 'friend zone' with big boy college football, afraid to truly compete, afraid that we'll come off too aggressive, afraid to take a stance and commit. We didn't go down swinging, we just stared at the pitches hoping they wouldn't be strikes. We played not to lose instead of playing to win. Pick your analogy.
Yeah beamer might should be elevated to top 5 coach all time. How he won so consistently is a miracle.
The absolute lack of ANYBODY in the athletic deperstment to have ANY level of foresight of what happens after Beamer for 25+ years is the EPITOME of small time thinking. I get absolutely disgusted thinking about it.
We the fans are not small timer quality. We deserve an honest attemp at big time football by somebody in the athletic department.
Fire everybody from whit to the janitors and start over. Or just shutter the place bulldoze lane and build a dorm.
While that article didn't really have anything groundbreaking it still makes me mad at what an opportunity this place has squandered. Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic. Mr Bob at the local oil change station would have more ambition than the VT AD the last 30 years.
coach after Frank was going to lose because 1) we weren't going to hire another top 10 coach, 2) the program wasn't built for anything less.
There are a lot of people in the media who believe that Frank Beamer won in spite of coaching at Virginia Tech. Bud Elliott - who I think is one of the smartest people in the industry - has repeatedly said that the notion Virginia Tech can win a national title is misguided, and that our ceiling is top 15/20 with adequate funding.
10 years ago I thought this take was somewhere between pessimistic and incredibly stupid. Now... not so much.
Beamer is a top 10 all time coach. He won 66.2% of his games at VT. The only other coach in the top 10 to have a winning percentage below .700 is Mack Brown and he would 75% of his games at Texas. He made up for his time at UNC and Tulane with winning a lot.
It took Frank almost leaving to a basketball school to get him paid.
I've said this before, and coach after Frank was going to lose because 1) we weren't going to hire another top 10 coach, 2) the program wasn't built for anything less. We had an entire recruiting department leave us during the Fuente era, it was one way over worked guy. Our social media was a joke. We adhered to all the rules no one else was. The big teams had analysts that were legit coaches. Even UVA hired a coach with like 25 years exp as a grad assistant. It was blantent and no one cared.
Now we sit at the bottom of the ACC in coaches pay even though we said we wanted to be in the top of the ACC 4 years ago. We pay roughly the same as UVA, which is depressing. The only reason UVA isn't a better job than VT is they drove off the only good coach they've had in the last quarter century (and VT actually has fans).
I just assume everyone in our Athletic department is Brent Norwark wanna bes: ""I then inherited the family business and in just 18 years, I grew Norwalk Materials from a $90 million company to a $94 million company"
Me Too.
Dammit!
Dang i snost and lost
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So does my 14 yr old self.
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Also just because nobody is forcing you to buy a widget doesn't mean it's not a widget monopoly.
Why does the NFL have an antitrust exemption if the USFL, Spring League, Arena Football, CFL etc exist?
Why does the MLB have an antitrust exemption if you could just go play in an independent league or in South America or Japan?
Why does MLS have one? It's not even the premiere soccer league in the world. Or even in the top 5.
Turns out foreign alternatives don't matter in terms of what domestic law considers an antitrust matter. It also turns out you can still be considered a "monopoly" when you aren't literally the only single option, so long as the market share is such that you're anticompetitive. (If my company purchased our biggest competitor, we'd by no means be the only option on our industry, but antitrust would be invoked so fast because of how dominant the market position would be).
Also just to be nitpicky: d-league was not an option for Kris Jenkins coming out of high school due to eligibility rules.
How is the NCAA a monopoly, there are other places to play basketball such as the NAIA, NJCAA, the G-League (names D-league when he started college) and a number of European leagues.
NCAA rankings have them at #19! And 13 loss Georgia at #21. And 16 loss Auburn at #15 FFS.....Complete fucking joke.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a monopoly is
Nothing beats those cheap beers in the plastic cups and just crushing the pimento cheese on whatever white bread it was. Hardly a line on practice round days.
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# | Kris Jenkins sues NCAA and every major conference for NIL backpay No he opted out of that settlement in favor of his own suit.
I had a great time at the Broad Street Run a few years ago - thanks to volunteers like you!
Wouldn't the House vs NCAA settlement preclude a lawsuit like this?
LMFAO you really types that Kris Jenkins was forced to play basketball for villanova. lolololol. Fucking Horseshit- he wasn't forced to do a fucking thing. He could have chosen literally a million other careers, etc. or as I said- gone pro in europe. TO pretend that these kids dont compete all their lives for a scholarship you say is worthless and illegal is a fucking joke. It's more competitive than most things- but nah they are forced to play college hoops. laughable on every single level.
Saw him getting a coffee in the village in Pinehurst the day after he missed the cut at the US Open. Guy was shooting the shit with his family and swing coach and mimed a couple of half swings trying to debrief what went wrong, laughing about it. Would love to see him do well this week too. He seems to always be in it on Thursday at Augusta
Just saw that the High Point coach Alan Huss is leaving to become the coach-in-waiting at Creighton where he played. Wonder if Jaydon will stick with his commitment? https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/high-point/high-point-university-basketball-coach-alan-huss-leaves-after-leading-team-to-historic-ncaa-tournament-entry/amp/
Yeah, winning works for me.
Nailed it.
We need to adopt the mentality that we're the best funded mid-major in college football. Need to be innovative across the board to compete. Can't be Goliah playing like Goliah.