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What the hell? I thought they were all coming to VT.

It's already started.

COLUMN: So Michael Vick is a college football coach now? If he can prove himself next year at Norfolk State, the pressure to hire him at mediocre, moribund Virginia Tech is going to be crazy. Sorry, Brent Pry. https://t.co/UNxJZrxgLf via @USATODAY— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) December 18, 2024

Looks like Henderson is going to Rutgers

If the media says missouri is great and impossible to beat, they are great and impossible to beat. If ESPN says winning at Auburn is impossible and tougher than beating the 72 dolphins, it is true of course.

you can add that to the very long list of shit on netflix that I will not watch

The "Dark Kept Secret?" He skips leg days.

There is no such thing as loyalty in the workplace. None. The moment you aren't profitable or provide a value they can find on the market for cheaper, you will be let go. Companies that sell themselves to private equity or other companies KNOW that people will lose their jobs, and they do it anyway. In terms of the employee? They are only as loyal as their next mortgage payment.

I think Ferguson would be great. He's had many many years of assistant experience and is a Gentry disciple so no doubt he knows what to do to get VT back on the S&C front. But yeah, if we get through this weekend and no leaks or announcements on OL and DC, color me worried that we may go internal for those hires. Wouldn't be super upset with Davis at OL but it's an important hire and we should look at top external candidates too. If we just holler down the hall and hire Quinn as DC I'm going to be livid.

The idea of employee loyalty to employers is interesting. Is loyalty really a thing? Or was it forced? Does it have anything to do with livelihoods (owners, or employees)?

401(k)s effectively destroyed "company loyalty". Before 401(k)s, companies would pay into pension plans for employees and when they retired they would get a nice pension in retirement. But, in order to get that pension, the employee had to work with the company the whole time (this trap can easily be misconstrued as "loyalty"). Then 401(k)s came along and made it effectively cheaper for companies to provide the "benefit" of retirement financial planning for employees under the mask of giving the employees more control over their retirement funds. One of the "advantages" of 401(k)s is that they can be moved around more easily so it's easier for employees to leave companies and chase higher wages with different employers. The selling point is that 401(k)s benefit the employee when in actuality the reason almost every company offers a 401(k) matching plan INSTEAD of pensions plans is because the 401(k) is substantially cheaper for the employer. Company "loyalty" never really existed. Employees just stayed with employers because they were trapped by the pension plan benefit but it was billed as company loyalty to make the employers feel better about themselves. Without the pension plans, there's no reason for an employee to stay loyal to a company. If someone else is willing to pay them more for their services they have every right to pursue those opportunities, as they should in a free market. The employees get the benefit of owning their retirement planning, providing them the flexibility to move around for higher wages, while the employers get the benefit of spending way less money on the benefit for their employees. The downsides are that the employers subject themselves to higher rates of turnover (which, could be good or bad depending on how you look at it) and the employees need to be well advised on how to manage their money (most aren't) in order to ensure they have enough in retirement without the pension.

So were people loyal to companies for loyalty's sake? Or were they loyal to companies because the needed to be in order to get their retirement benefit? And is 'loyalty' 'dead' because people suck more than they did 60 years ago or is it 'dead' because it never really existed to begin with?

That one makes no sense, but I honestly think J Ferguson is going to get it. So no need to rush with that one if that's the case.

My personal hopes are that OL is Matt Moore from WVU and they just finished their bowl last night, so an announcement is imminent. And Dex is the DC, so we will start hearing leaks this weekend maybe even during the PSU/SMU game. But if we get through Saturday and nothing, I'm worrying.

Even the strength coach? If this is the case, it is putting us behind the chains with the portal guys.

Looks like this is actually happening now with some of the big name coaches. Seems similar to a Tom Brady type of contracts where an individual (or coach) can only take so much compensation before it takes away from the overall ability to get other good players.

Mike Norvell $4.5M https://www.on3.com/college/florida-state-seminoles/news/mike-norvell-to...

Brian Kelly $1M https://www.si.com/college-football/brian-kelly-offering-million-lsu-nil...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2024/12/17/mike-norvell-mike...