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10 years 2 months
# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses #1 will happen at some point (at least in HC sections) but there are some issues that will need to be worked out related to cell service/wifi before it can be implemented.
#2 Overall, I like this idea (as mentioned in my other comments) but would need to work out some of the details. For example, would VT Dining pay the athletic department for the rights to the stands they are operating in order to replace the lost revenue of removing the outside vendor? I don't think there is probably anything insurmountable here; there are just some details I'm curious about and don't have insight into.
I'm guessing nobody should even get started on the Wizards.
There are a lot of parallels in recruiting commitments and a professionals commitment to their job. A lot of people are very committed to their employer, maybe it is a personal connection or they love the work or the people. It would take a lot to make them leave. They aren't usually out there looking for new jobs, so they don't have a lot of opportunity to jump. A lot of people will stay on until the employer does something to drive them away, like a change in management.
Then there are people who are always open to moving. Maybe some move too much, don't really need that big of a change to make a move. But some will move when the work or compensation or impact on family is such that it makes sense to move. I've done that last one a few times, it feels justified to me but that justification was likely not appreciated by my former employers.
Maybe this is generational. You don't hear about people staying for 30+ years anymore. But I have some people at my current place of employment who have been here 20+. Maybe there is just more opportunity to look around now that you aren't limited to the ads in the Sunday paper.
One final parallel is not leaving your employer in the lurch. Same for recruits. A kid can leave if something better comes along and I'm usually more disappointed in our coaches or our program for not fulfilling his needs than mad at the kid. But if a kid dumps us on NSD eve, that's just low-down-dirty stuff.
Recruiting and job-hopping, there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
Frost will get it to work I think. So much underrated talent in FL and GA.
Not to mention he has Oregon roots, should be fun to watch this year.
I'm starting to lean hard that way. My family has given up on the Skins. We relinquished our season tickets after 55 years a season ago. I've always been a Caps fan and have really ramped that up the past 8 or 9 years. That being said, it may be time to let go of that too. At least the Redskins don't get my hopes up every regular season by making the playoffs. The Caps just don't have the "it" factor to win when it matters. Up next, the Nationals will break DC fans' hearts again.
In some ways these kids are forced to commit a year in advance. Unless you are top end talent, I guarantee ther eis some language used in these conversations that they might need to commit or that spot won't be there down the road.
There are many many adults that make bad/premmature decisions in those types of conditions, let alone 17/18 year old kids
I think the bigger issue last year was putting the game at 8 pm on NYE. That was the only good thing about Michigan State just rolling over, it made the game go quicker and end well before midnight.
I'm not sure how much of difference one hour will make... My new years celebrations typically start by 9 or 10.
As was said after the last round of playoffs, it will be a while before we really have enough data to determine whether or not NYE playoff games are a good thing.
I agree, it will take a few years determine. I'm just salty because I tend to do not-CFB-things on NYE. If there's two CFP games on NYE I wind up missing at least half of one (best case, when NYE is on a Saturday) or both games all together (when NYE is not on a weekend and I have to work).
PS UCF got updated uniforms too... more anthracite grey color scheme Nike uses. -> UCF
What you've been waiting for: an unlimited possibility of uniform combinations. https://t.co/f6TV9Cq9b4 https://t.co/c7uqpIOJPr— UCF Football (@UCF_Football) May 5, 2016
Really Hope VT gets hooked up like this.
I like those. They'll look slick while losing all of their games.
Joking aside, some of the friends I made while living in Oviedo were all diehard UCF football fans and it was hard to watch them suffer last year.
Cardale Jones
Spot on.
Exactly. I understand that coaches rely on locking down commitments the same way any sales person/consultant relies on those types of deals to help make a living.
But a school/coach missing out on a player after getting a "Yes" a year out still leaves the school in the position to get another person they may like just as much.
As for a kid, and we have heard some horror stories the last few years, you shut down your recruitment, don't develop ties with any other schools, all because you are committed to the school you want...and then *poof*...Sorry it was actually a scholarship we didn't have.
Talk about screwing a kid.
theres strong... and then there is TEXAS strong
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10 years 2 months
# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses There are two main things that we need to do with food in the stadium:
1) No one has to go to a concession stand ever again. Let's have food people in every section so people can place orders and pay for their food from their seat, and then the food is made under the stands and runners deliver the food to the seat they're in. Beer could work this way, too. Track your order with your smartphone with one of those ETA timers that Dominos has on their website.
2) Bring the campus food to the masses. It's already so good. No need to make a special menu or anything.
We love gifs
Agree with you on that one.
If Quin never makes it to a bowl in his career at LOLUVA, I'll personally pay for a game ticket so he can go to a bowl. A guy that good deserves to see at least one in his life, even if he didn't make the best decision on his college destination.
So was Denard Robinson
But then so was CJ Brown or whoever played at MD that one time
But then so were all those GT QBs
But then there was the JMU guy
But...
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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10 years 2 months
# | Jalen Hudson Leaving the Hokies After Two Seasons with Buzz Williams Sorry, thought he was one of the group that had recently reclassified to 2016. There has been about 15 players that just did that in the last two weeks. No worries if we get all three then.
For the life of me, I do not understand people that get angry at recruits for "decommitting".
It's a VERBAL commitment. It's like me telling my realtor that I'm going to buy a house. Guess what, nothing matters until I've signed the closing papers.
These guys get the shaft from virtually every single angle as a student athlete. This is the one time where the kid holds the power, and people are horrified when they use it.
Love the NYE games, hope they keep them.
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10 years 2 months
# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses Though it may be controversial, this tells me VT is serious
about the athletic department being successful.
In some ways, it seems fair.
#choppingwood?
The irony of comparing college athletes to employees and demanding their loyalty when they are not compensated