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I have not heard this before, nor have I seen any data suggesting that the AD sends funding back to the university.
I have heard (from... at best mildly reliable #sauces) that the academic side of campus gets 'first pass' at asking for donations, and that it's frowned upon if athletics target a new donor (especially bigger ones) before academics takes a crack. Maybe guitarman can let us know if there's any truth to this.
I think he meant "At This Moment."
Neither here nor there, but last Easter I was wearing a Hokie shirt to a church Easter egg hunt and discovered that Patrick Wessler's uncle goes to my church and sometimes Patrick attends during holiday breaks. I just thought that was a cool connection, and he's got a great family.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL Agreed.
A facility fee to use Gym, Athletic fields ect isn't unreasonable, clearly those things cost money to both build and maintain. And they benefit the University population as a whole.
There should then be a separate "Athletic Dept. fee" to deal with Student Tickets and whatever slush fund the Athletic Department is going to maintain to help lease Luxury cars for underprivileged, exploited athletes. That should be 100% Optional by law.
Problem is, the athletic department already knows that the vast majority of people would opt out so the University instead mandates it as a part of school attendance which is where actual exploitation is occurring.
I think MJ collins- who is better than young- is their floor ATM.
MJ is at Vandy, not aTm
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We were 0-6 against the Q1 and 4-10 against Q2. Our best win was 90th net ranked Florida State. 7 of our wins came against teams ranked 225 or worse in the net. We were a horrid team this season. Horrid. If the ACC was "the acc" this team would have had 3 conference wins at best - only if Miami was historically bad like they were this year. In any normal ACC season, UVA and Cuse are not likely to be plus 100 net teams for example. This team was terrible. Every player can be upgraded from in the portal- including lawal.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL "The fact that the people who are most clearly not making revenue from College athletics are going to end up footing the bill is literally the least surprising part of this insanity" correct- nowehere else in the world do season ticket holders, superfans, go AC milan fans pay for both tickets and have to fund overltey- player salaries. Nowhere. In the NFL- Nike pays Micah Parsons for commercials- not Dallas Cowboys fans. In soccer Miami fans don't have to pool money together to pay Messi's checks. Only in american college athletics.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL I'm all for there being a facility fee to support having fitness centers and rec sports, but it should be separate from a "paying football players" bucket of money that has student tickets. Just charge more for tickets and if your answer is "well student loans can't cover football tickets" .... you have your answer of if you should have ever been laundering the student loans for it.
I disagree. Flashes do get wins. During the middle period of the season where we were getting wins, it was through different players putting together flashes at different times and CMY riding the hot flash. Jayden flashed to over 20 points in some critical games that got us close wins.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL My point had absolutely nothing to do with athletics facilities. But you are 100% correct...VT will never be competitive in that arms race. Both because we could never afford it and because we have a massive real estate crunch that prohibits it.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL Lol...the TV Networks were Never going to Revenue Share with 18-24 year olds who average 3.0 ppg or have 8 tackles for their career.
The fact that the people who are most clearly not making revenue from College athletics are going to end up footing the bill is literally the least surprising part of this insanity.
Whether or not VT is above or below the average for Athletic fees is irrelevant to the point here. Johnny Taxpayer (who is already paying to keep VT, UVa, JMU, ect running) is now being forced to subsidize helping them buy Football and Basketball players whether they have any interest or engagement with Athletics or not.
Athletic fees should be 100% Optional by Law. If you choose "No"-- you get no tickets, no access to School athletic facilities, Gym, ect. But to give no option and then be allowed to utilize their money in ways that in no way whatsoever can be construed to benefit them is completely unscrupulous.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL In terms of athletic facilities... the moment we break ground on any new ones- Clemson and UNC build one better/bigger, etc. You will NEVER keep up.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL Those buildings are nice, but expensive.
The amount of money that VT wastes on spaces in new buildings that "look cool", but provide absolutely zero use for educating the student or helping the faculty/staff get their job done is insane. Also insane is the amount of money they blow away renovating offices 10x over because person A leaves, their replacement person B doesn't like the furniture/layout, person B leaves for a better job in a year, person C needs a different office layout, then the dean decides that office should be relegated to a different department who needs yet another layout [facepalm]. Yet there are legitimate, hard-working employees who have to work using a 20-year old chair on a 10-year old laptop because their department's budget is thin.
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL UVA athletic fee is $763 for this school year. Total fees for UVA is $3,630
VT charges $218.50 with total fees around $1600 (it's not nicely added for me like UVAs)
Now this is a huge contrast with some of the surrounding states, WVU fees are $700, UMd's are <$900 and UNC is just about $1000. Only the VA schools had their fees broken out. Some of the ither states do have additional fees depending on your major.
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FROSTY IS A BEAR
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL As someone who spent more years inside of the Education-Industrial Complex than I care to admit to, you are totally right. At some point in time, the house of cards has to collapse under its own weight. We may be getting close.
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL For the 2024-2025 academic year, James Madison University (JMU) students pay a mandatory comprehensive fee of $2,908 per semester, with a significant portion, $2,388, allocated to support intercollegiate athletics.
Looks like it's way more now than last I saw. That's $19,104 in athletic fees over 8 semesters. (Imagine taking $20k in debt and not even attending one athletic event)
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL No wonder. It took VT from 1873-1993 to be consistently competitive in college football division 1. It took JMU roughly 10 minutes.
RAIL EXPERT
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# | BOV set to approve plans to increase Student Fees nearly $200 to help pay for NIL Last I checked it's costing a JMU student almost $12K to graduate in four years in athletic fees.
You've got to be shitting me.
I must say, your way with words is truly beautiful and I really needed this today for a dose of reality and a chuckle. I don't always agree with your takes, but I admire your honest opinions. This take however, I completely agree with. I hope my post here comes across as the compliment I mean it to be!