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I'm watching Carter Stallard and I'm gobsmack that this kid is 18. unbelievable. Ferg is going to make this guy a man mountain. if he can be half an asshole as jake grove....
I don't think coaches are more valuable now as you mention OSU. It has a rabid fan base, and I believe the highest merchandise revenue streams. They loat money chasing a title, they could spent a lot less to still not win the big 10 and make the playoffs. If they wanted profit we'll shot Donald Sterling ram the most profitable NBA team for years, youndont need to win to be profitable. an OSu could hire Brent Pry as the coach and everyone would be pissed and still sell out the games and watch on TV. They'd still sell lots of anOSU gear. The coaches don't matter, the players don't matter, the school is what people cheer. Look at Dabo, he is still the same coach that won 2 titles, no active coach has more, and his pay has platued, but Clemsons revenue has substantial increased in the past 3 years, growing by over 60%. They aren't winning like they were but they're making lots of money.
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Both Diamond teams made Sportscenter this weekend. Ladies for the triple play.
Sam Tackett for this robbery.
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This. Potential NIL will be in hundreds of thousands jumping to new school. Rookie WNBA is $75K.
She'll make more money in college than WNBA on a team where she can be the star, not second fiddle to Hidalgo. Not surprised.
The tv deal isn't sufficient to cover it. They literally just went up on student athletics fees significantly in order to pay for a big chunk of it. Awful.
I mean, ostensibly the rev share is coming from TV money deals and other places, right? You wouldn't expect that to all have to come directly from Hokie club.
There will be an operational shift - less money will be spent on facilities and coaching salaries as that money gets shifted to players
Highly doubt it. The arms race isn't ending. Texas Tech just built a $200+ million football facility which broke ground in 2022--firmly during the NIL era
https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2025/03/05/look-texas-tech-s-$242-million-football-facilities-open-today
Coaches are even more valuable now than ever. A new coach with unlimited transfer portal can literally turn around a Program in a year...whether that can be sustained is a different question.
Again, I would love for anyone to provide any substantiated evidence that more than a handful of programs have $20mil lying around year on year. Just 2 months ago Bjork put out that OSU's AD lost money last year. If they aren't making money who is???
The truth is, the people that will pay for NIL will be the fans and the Students--we just had the thread a couple of weeks ago about VT unloading a new $200 fee on enrollees. This will continue and escalate until the system implodes. Then we can all sit back and admire all the progress we made.
Media conglomerates were never and are never going to willfully profit share with 18 year-olds....particularly when they know that the vast majority of them don't actually make them a cent of profit.
Olivia Miles from ND has decided to forgoe the WNBA draft for the transfer portal. yikes.
We needed those conference wins
Preach. I live in Atlanta with 3 kids under 4. Wife and I both work full time. Haven't gotten to Blacksburg since 2017.
I give a small amount. Enough to get some free socks and stuff. I get my priority points mailer and it goes straight in the trash because it doesn't matter.
Would spend more if there were better incentives for me.
Hell of a week for the softball team!
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Also, I think the ultimate fallacy of this entire charade of "NIL" is the idea that average programs are money-making machines that have a spare $20mil lying around to distribute. Do they have lots of revenue? Sure...profit is a different matter entirely.
Yea, but a lot of that revenue has historically been spent in frivolous ways (Locker rooms, over the top weight rooms, lazy rivers, etc) so Athletic Departments could continue to be 'non-profit' entities.
There will be an operational shift - less money will be spent on facilities and coaching salaries as that money gets shifted to players.
I am 6 hrs away with 2 young kids, there is no value is season tickets to me. Have some other rewards structure, like every 5 years of consecutive giving your send me a signed jersey or something. Offer it like a 5 year year of service award, send 10 options of stuff or experiences. When the team travels, host a pregame reception for Hokie Club members with 5+ years of consecutive giving.
Provide ANY reason for the entirety of Hokies outside the state to stay with the Hokie Club. Its the age of NIL, you mean to tell me the HC can't have a signing/meet and greet with local legends of the DMV in DC somewhere during the summer? A mix of current and former players living in the DC area and local Hokie Club members of a level above entry? Solve the alumni player relations issue by letting them feel some glory days love with people asking for pictures and autographs again? Do the same in Charlotte or wherever the Hokie population hubs are?
13-0 baby! Yeah.
sooooo... what I'm hearing is enjoy the Hokie baseball and softball season because these are going to be the most enjoyable O&M sports we see until wrestling starts back up.
Tragedy would have been watching Rice play for Buzz
comedy
or tragedy?
Rodney Rice in the portal again...comedy
14 of 16 were in the tournament
We are worse at RB, WR, DL, and DB than last year. RB and DL is most likely a huge drop off.
Siefkes can't do much worse than Marve. Bowen had his moments, Montgomery should be more consistent atleast. But that's a lot to overcome and we still have Pry as HC so I'm going 4-8 for me, if something comes together then I'll be surprised but as long as we are measured on football and not HC media engagement I'm not too keen on our team.
Sands is getting much more involved in athletics
Insert "Am I taking crazy pills now!" gif
This year part of rev share is coming from the University, so I would just like to see athletic's funding doing a little better. What really needs to happen is football and bball need to win games. That would solve a lot of problems.