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True...you never know. But the odds are pretty long that Clark develops into a sharpshooter like Green. Even as a frosh, Green had a more natural shooter's stroke...he just couldn't make them.

Concessions bring income, and the VT food service-to-games is a great idea, as long as it doesn't affect service to the students.

Good points. I agree with the sentiment. For people like myself, this is pricing us out of the football realm and into the couch/HD tv realm.

There are numerous examples of major college football teams that throw money in large sums at their programs with little return on that investment. Tennessee seems to come to mind.

This system will put more stress and pressure on HC members (to pay more of the burden) and the coaching staff (win now, win big). We may have a new, hip system, but we will also adopt the problems of those bigger, better programs that are mediocre every year and have irrational fanbases.

I guess I misread or completely misunderstood some of the parking. Looks like the $2500 amount for A is not in addition to your per seat. Man this gets deep lol.

And am I reading this right, but most of the per seat donation is for capital improvements and not the actual scholarship money?

Could be wearing anthracite uniforms for the Notre Dame game

I'm with Luke, it ruined the show for me

And Jalen is from Richmond. Shaka was king there when he was at VCU. Looks like Jalen is looking there too, I feel like he'll end up either at Texas and VCU.

When I go to games, I buy food/drinks... every single time. It's part of the experience for me, whether I'm taking in a minor league game, watching VT football, bowl games, etc... I would be absolutely ecstatic to have West End or Owens themed stands to go to (though, admittedly, I'm not on the east coast anymore and haven't made it to a game in ages...)

I was thinking of the NCAA, not the ACC, but forgot how backwards the "national collegiate athletic association" is in their priorities.

I definitely don't think our fanbase is a fair weather one, but I think the seeds of cynicism for the program were sown years ago. Fair or not, VT graduated to big boy football status very rapidly in the 90s-early 2000s. Fans came to expect us being able to compete at the highest level. When Beamer failed to properly address a worsening and increasingly anemic offense for YEARS by not making the tough decisions and parting ways with some friends, I think that started the 'wait and see' stagnation that we are seeing with fundraising. Other big boy programs fix problems very quickly to stay ahead of the curve; we didn't see this under the old guard. In sum, I think a lot of donors got tired of being asked to fork out more while it was obvious we were not adhering to our own set standards. In a word - stagnation. We need to break the fanbase out of the lull, and the best way is through seeing progress.

Television Blackouts are the fucking worst.