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yup -- that's exactly it
My initial instinct was to make a joke about him being too highly-rated for CMY to play him as a freshman...
All of that aside, it's awesome to see that Frazier is already paying dividends.
He should have cancelled the presser if this is what happened. Everyone would have picked up on why.
Their new arena really shows how old Cassell is. https://www.highpoint.edu/arena/
This is where I am at. I've watched the least amount of sports the last year by a large margin. It's just hard to justify spending time for players I don't really "know" and a mediocre product. And the whole enshitification of football by ESPN pushing for a power two has really turned me off.
I agree with you completely, but this likely wasn't a Whit decision; it was likely something he got overruled on.
LMFAO- the weakest ven diagram in the world is the very top baller - Derrick Queen, Any of Calipari's guys and "want to get a college degree legitimately" - lolololololol
Churchill Downs experience is eye opening for what you get.
Have you been talking woth Josh Rosen? He had a very similar idea that required graduation to get the money and this was before NIL was allowed.
As everyone on here knows, it cost us much more than that keeping him around. Penny wise, pound foolish. The idea that the football coach at VT is just another school "employee" is also a joke, and 1979 thinking. Fuente made 3.5 million per year... not 185K as a tenured professor. It is NEVER the same.
I too hold this belief. They had just announced that University staff were getting paycuts because of COVID issues. There's no way they wanted to face the backlash from announcing, "we cannot afford to pay our employees, but we can afford this multimillion dollar payout for a football coach and the multimillion dollar salary for a new football coach."
Few things are bigger in life than a major college basketball coaches ego. These guys think they are more powerful than the Governor. Williard wanted to be at a hoops first school. Period.
And Willard left because he couldn't get everything he wanted too.
Maryland isn't the recruiting powerhouse they should be, given the amount of talent in the DC-Bmore corridor. I'm not sure that changes any at all with Buzz luring them in.
Fortunately Buzz and Young usually don't fish in the same water in terms of type of player. Buzz runs a different system and recruits more position-less guys. Buzz would have never recruited a Wessler for example- doesn't need a post guy in that vein.
Bungling major decisions like this one - "optics"- another thing that has nothing to do with winning is why we are 6-6 every year for a decade. We used to mock UVA's "7 win" streak. lol. I'd like to win 7 now. And make the NCAAs in hoops. Too much to ask I know. Louisville hoops wanted to be good again. They didn't give a fuck about optics when they fired an alum coach and brought a new team in 1 offseason. 1 example
Well, I watched the fewest minutes of VT basketball that I have in 20 years. I watched approximately 5 minutes of NCAA tourney basketball; fewest in my lifetime. I imagine there are others like me.
Seems like Buzz's whole gimmick should provide at least some ammo to use against him on the recruiting trail
At any other P4 school concerned with winning as opposed to EBITDA and cash flow, Whit would have been long fired. I would have fired him after he told Dresser to take his offer or leave it- gave him an hour to sign it, etc. I won't mention his bumbling of the major sports and re-upping the worst apparel deal in the P4
The guy is a walking media fumble ever since the 2020 Fuente interview, which I could over look if there were rev sports results but the fact that we're treading water -> drowning as the division between haves and have nots quickly accelerates makes me question what he's done to deserve this long to wreck the ship in the first place.
Exactly how I looked at it the first time I read what he said. Worst part of it, he didn't have to say it. If he hadn't told the reporters, no one would have known.
Opened his mouth, left no doubt.
Young may have a lot more internal leverage; certainly credibility; than his boss right now.
The made for the fans video was just that. But the post-game interview following the Cal loss was pretty raw..."a lot was missing"; "we've got to get more talented, and we're going to...quick"; "I'm not living through that again".
At a minimum, Young knew about the increased budget distribution. I'd be shocked if they hadn't had discussions with Frazier's agent before Webster left; maybe before the end of the season; certainly when the first DeVries rumor surfaced.
Here is a DeVries' quote re: the Indiana job. "Yeah, obviously the process is the process....I know how it plays out... they were very respectful of making sure that my focus continued to be on our team and certainly appreciated that."
Can't imagine Frazier/Young didn't know where the WVU situation was headed before the end of the season.
Meh, my belief until I hear otherwise is that firing Fuente was finalized, and then the BoV/Sands nixed it/changed their mind due to covid optics
At that point, I don't know what you can do. That's a lose/lose situation.
Weights weigh the same....
Didn't have that on my bingo card, but I could see him leaning towards a religiously-affiliated school as a Christian. He must have got a decent NIL bag too.