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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses 
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses All spots in Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 11 are reserved, which means when you select your parking, you select your exact, numbered spot.
The "to be eligible" clause is due to the fact that everything is based on one's Hokie Club priority. Said another way, just because someone donates $2500 doesn't mean they are guaranteed a spot in a reserved lot, just that they have a chance to park there if its available based on their priority ranking. For example (and I'm making these numbers up), let's say there are 2,000 parking spots in reserved lots and someone is a Golden Hokie with priority ranking of 2,500. That person is eligible to pick a parking spot in a reserved lot if one is still available when it's their turn to select, but based on their priority in this example, the odds of there being a spot still unclaimed is low since there are 500 more people ahead of them than the # of reserved spots.
Probably, never thought about it to be honest.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses In the Donor Guide page 20 or 23.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses I've been pretty swamped and haven't been able to review all the materials in full detail yet. I did see a reference to a planned 2020 reseating- did it mention it was going to be on 3-year cycles? Or did you see/hear that elsewhere?
Haha, fair enough! Gotta get out to more Tech Talk Live! :)
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses How long should Whit and Co have waited to get numbers up and still fall short in the budget? There is the issue, VT needs more members long term but we also need money NOW.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses Depends what kind of engineering you want to do.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses Not according to the Donor Guide, Level
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parking spots are reserved. Level
B
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are first come first pick of spot in lot each game.
And that's why you don't base suspensions off whether an injury occurred or not. What a stupid concept.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses So Whit was quoted as saying the system in the past was "transactional" and basically donating was a way to get tickets. He wants to make the system more "philanthropic" to attract more donors and bigger money for the betterment of the entire athletics department. Yet, the plan they roll out aims to increase donations by charging more for football/basketball seats. I thought fundraising was supposed to be more aimed at philanthropy now, not centered around tickets. Why don't we just reach out to huge corporations and other investors for some big time cash? Let's just call a spade a spade and go ahead and realize college football has become the farm league for the NFL. Why not get the NFL to invest in "big boy" college football? Go all in and have a partnership for a developmental league. The NCAA has basically become "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" where everything's made up and the points don't matter, so if this is the direction college football is headed, I say let's just go all in.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses To be eligible. Reserved a slot, but numbers won't be assigned.
I suspect this is a point that will be addressed head on in the next episode or very soon thereafter.
In fact, its possibly the lynchpin for why Jon Snow had to die at all in the narrative. We already know that a person being resurrected has nothing to do with them being prophesized or a Targaryen (Beric Dondarian and *cough cough* Lady Stoneheart).
So there is some other reason to have to kill him and bring him back so expediently.
As for the traitors, I suspect he won't have the authority to do anything. If his watch has in fact ended, then he is no longer the Lord Commander. So he may recognize the reasons they did it as legitimate (letting the Wildlings through the Wall), but perhaps the people that support him will still want to off them, Thorne in particular.
so next question is whats he going to do to the traitors?
Shitty part of it being only one game is that it was announced today that MoJo missed practice today and will likely be a game time decision tomorrow. Apparently now being evaluated for concussion protocol. They based the suspension off the fact that MoJo came back and played, but now it appears he may miss at least one game and who knows beyond that.
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# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes Ok, fine, I'll stop.............when team cake finally acknowledges the supremacy of all things pie
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses There will already be another 2-4 million shortfall for the 2016 season so they should wait till the shortfall totals 15-20 million over 5 years? That is not doable.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses But then there's this side of the issue.
Don't Get it-> people want us to play & recruit like the big boys but fuss when HokieClub change is announced.— HokieInFL (@HokieinFL28) May 3, 2016
Talk about the Clemson Model. They have those 8-12 recruiting coordinators because of the donors and $ brought in. That's Big Boy Football— HokieInFL (@HokieinFL28) May 3, 2016
If we want to play Big Boy football things need to change. Yeah it might be rocky at the beginning but the overall benefit if/when people start donating more/donating to begin with is HUGE. Whit seems to be working to make the Hokie Club more involved/easier to deal with.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses Look, I believe the majority on here agree that the system is outdated and needs to be changed. It's just that the timing that they're attempting to implement it is...well, it sucks. I think a lot (who knows, perhaps even most) believe they should wait till Fuente starts improving in the W column and just let it snowball from there. I hope this decision won't backfire on the HC and morph into a situation that resembles PSU. From my (very limited) perspective, this seems like a massive gamble that Fuente is going to achieve a more successful season than the previous 2. It's on him and the team to deliver to get the landslide rolling.
The only question I have is did they say "And now his watch has ended"? I don't remember them saying that, did they? Can his watch technically end before that's said. The popular theory is that he's been relieved, but it could be a sticking point moving forward.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses I'm not ignoring it, what other options are there? The current model is outdated by 10 plus years. VT is one of the last basketball or football programs to do this. The gap between money coming in and money needed was only getting bigger.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses It's almost like certain folks >cough< hokiefireman >cough< are completely or purposefully overlooking/ignoring this.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses You can add me to the list of examples that support this. I started donating a couple of years ago at the $250 level and have bought 4 season tickets in what will become a $350/ticket level. My thought back then was buy low and get tickets that I could keep until the program picks up in a few years. Now that my donation is going to increase almost 6x, I guess I'll just have to get seats that aren't as close. I'm not complaining, I just feel like there must be many in my boat, especially considering that we haven't sold out lately. The demand just isn't there. Unless we do much better in the coming years I could totally see a PSU situation as others have mentioned. Hope that doesn't happen!
As I said on another thread, I am disappointed. It was the part of the experience my kids talked about long after the spring game, and they were very proud of the autographed shirts, footballs and jerseys accumulated over the years. To me part of what makes VT special is the family atmosphere, where all Hokies are family, and this was a very small part of what makes it that way. I want to win at football, and am okay if it run like a family business to win more instead of like the IVY League, but am not in favor of running it like a foreign corporation just to win more. You want fair weather fans, win and they will come. You want loyal fans, treat them like you need them. This is not a big deal to me, but that is why I am not in favor of it.
With the loss of three lots in last 4 years parking level B and C are finding parking passes even harder to get.