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Seems like a very odd move on the surface.
Maybe with his remaining eligibility he is betting on having a huge year in the Big South and then having a choice of P4 landing spots next year?
Basically what I said when reading it
Was Assistant Head Coach at WVU. Also there was apparently some behind the scenes issues at Illinois amongst all of Underwoods staff. There was something that happened that led to Frazier leaving and top recruit Jase Butler requesting release from his letter of intent. Sounded like Underwood chasing guards that would have made Butler sit as a freshman didn't sit right with Frazier or Butler.
Two players followed him from Illinois to WVU and both are in the portal from WVU.
WTF?
OK that beats my mom who had 1st kid in Feb '56, next Feb '57, miscarriage, 3rd in July '58, miscarriage, twins in Aug 61, 2 miscarriages, me in '65, miscarriage in '67, youngest sis in '72. She also did cloth diapers for all of us. Said that oldest was watching her fold diaper-cloths when he was about 18-22 months old, and said "why are there two different sizes"? mom aid 'because you and your brother are not the same size"; he pondered a moment and said " would it be easier for you if I stopped wearing diapers?"; she said yes it would and he stopped that day!
Mom was basically pregnant (nearly) continuously from 1955-1967.
My ex and I had first kid together one year from wedding day; she had a pregnancy test at her 6 week checkup; wasn't then but was 4 weeks later and 2nd kid born ten days shy of a year from sis(Irish twins). Wife had her tubes tied after his birth or we would've followed in my parents footsteps I'm sure.
Daughter had 1st kid March 2020, 2nd May 2021, 3rd May 2022, 4th August 2023. Clearly fertility appears hereditary!
Whew. I thought it was going to be something like, "Let me dig up your crabs".
My personal favorite would definitely be the week in Jackson Hole. Awesome area. On a more affordable note, volleyball practice (for me) or the swim practices (for my daughter) would be interesting. Wish she had liked VT more when we visited. Was too big and spread out for her. She liked smaller places like Wake Forest the most when we did initial school visits last summer.
For what it's worth, my biggest regret in life - and it will almost certainly be my biggest regret until the day I die - is not being able to have a second child. Wife and I met fairly late, and a second wasn't in the cards. It was hard enough to have the first.
May you and your wife enjoy them always.
Two in diapers isn't bad. I had a co-worker whose wife had twins, a year later she had twins, and a year later she had triplets. 7 under 3... Yikes.
Either some or all.
Well, surprises happen... And two kids in diapers wasn't that bad. And the first was out of diapers before the third arrived.
Dude. You knew what having two kids in diapers was like, and elected to have another one?!?
#justdoit #texas4life
Two things to keep in mind about Buzz. He is a HUGE ride or die Nike guy. It's a big reason Whit couldn't entertain anything else- might lose Buzz Williams ride or die Nike... He's also a huge Texas guy, and will certainly coach in texas as his dream job. No fucking way he would coach at Maryland at an Under Armour Program. lololololol.
Going to need his recruiting chops, especially with Buzz Williams headed to UMD.
I will only believe he is serious about athletics when I see it.
IMO it doesn't matter if he is serious or not, in a vacuum. He needs to be serious AND have the wherewithal to allocate resources correctly, fire/hire the important staff, set realistic (but lofty goals/expectations), spend every free moment championing athletics fundraising, etc.
For me personally, I do not see those attributes in either Whit or Tim (with respect to athletics). And I think that is a very large contributor to why we are in the up-shit-creek situation we find ourselves in.
This will continue until people stop watching college football and basketball on TV. Not a moment before then. If fans stop watching and attending games, the machine will be fixed. The UFL will be dead after this year because the stands are empty and nobody attends the games. The machine will be unregulated free for all as long as the playoff breaks TV ratings records and march madness is still march madness. Fans tuned out MLB because games were 6 hours. It wasn't until the fans stopped watching did MLB do anything to address it. The NFL playing regular season games in terrorist countries soon will backfire because of the fans- nothing else. As long as roll tide is more important than religion and family, the machine gets fed.
Yes,
Criticism of Whit for not hiring a head of Hokie Club, who has experience fundraising at a big-time program
Can someone how the Hokie Club doesn't have someone running it with fundraising experience? I mean that just seems like incredibly bad business with an obvious solution.
I think it would be interesting if the conferences or whatever mega conglomerate comes out in the next few years, cuts the players in directly on revenue sharing but put in a clause that the accrual rate is greater the longer you stay at a particular school.
None of this really matters until contracts though. Anything and everything will be sued into oblivion in the meantime.
No - in the American Baller Industrial Complex- the best players go to the schools with the lazy rivers, because- entitlement- so schools HAD to build them if you wanted Johnny 40 yard dash- he was only going to commit to a school with a huge locker room, etc. Its a machine. Feed it.
Schools could level the playing field if they would just go ahead and consider the players employees and put them under contracts. But as long as they keep the facade of the "student athlete," I have little sympathy for the broken and stupid system we currently have that they walked us toward. Schools blowing donor money on lazy rivers and put put courses, helmets with A/C in them, etc.
Powell would be a good addition. Very athletic guard with an outside shot.