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# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes Till they got it right!!
People say they want a massive change, but they are flipping out over a 1/4 of an inch extension of the collar, at most, typeface change, and the consolidation of the color schemes and branding usage.
Preach it, brother jobus!
I've been a part of 2 massive overhauls to the uniform. When we went to the 2004-2007 uniform, people hated it to begin with, but then we won a lot, and people quickly loved them, and many consider it to be a true classic. Then we made a HUGE change to the 2008-2009 uniform and people (especially on TSL) flipped a shit about how ugly they were. Once again, we started winning and people loved them.
Funny thing is, when the throwbacks were worn in 2009, and then went full time in 2010, people loved them. Then we started losing. Then we lost almost as many as we won. Now they're universally hated.
Winning cures everything.
which also was a helping hand into the huge issue we're having now with the Hokie Club and being so far behind in terms of athletic $
Yes. I didnt even realize how similar they were until I saw the 2015 launch of the new jerseys and didnt realize it was 2015 until I looked at the schedule on the bottom.
People say they want a massive change, but they are flipping out over a 1/4 of an inch extension of the collar, at most, typeface change, and the consolidation of the color schemes and branding usage.
I dont know if it was the way it was hyped that just let people down, I dont know, but theyre virtually the exact same jerseys for the last 5-6 seasons.
Oh gosh, I hope it comes down between us and FSU or Tenn /s
Yeah - I googled it later and learned it was quite common.
My only question is how do fielder know they are on the warning track? Is it softer or something?
And it wasn't just them that complained. TSL went into full 'wtf' meltdown mode when they were released. They were embraced by the student body and young alumni, but unfortunately they were released right in the heart of the timeframe our Athletic Dept couldn't have possibly cared less about what they thought. It was all about appeasing the big money donors back then (I'm sure many of which had already reached Pinnacle Status and stopped giving)....
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses Until this year there was a wall between the Hokie Club and the VT Alumni association.
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10 years 2 months
# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes Do that slide in a NY subway station now, and it would be covered in material that you just can't clean off. Better to cut them off at that point.
Waahh, I'm old and rich and don't like these new fangled jerseys or the forward pass.
I thought these jerseys were great. We got those and they had the futuristic number font going on and were very cutting edge, and then after two years we went retro. Complete 180. I never understood that. We also started sucking after Danny Coale caught that ball, so we had 2 good seasons in striped jerseys.
I feel like now that we trashed those futuristic themed jerseys after 2 years we can't go back to anything similar, so now we've got space numbers and retro stripes.
There was A LOT of pushback from the upper level donors about this uniform. Many thought we had ventured too far away from the 'VT' look they were used to, so we quickly abandoned it.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses Put it this way, you took a totally random and arbitrary factoid and used it for the sake of argument. Why would I like the VT Athletic Department facebook page? Among alumni, I see a group of people extremely proud of their school. Every time I mention that I went to Tech I get the same response, "People just seem to really love it there. They never stop talking about it". The pride and the interest is there, the engagement isn't. Part of that is winning. A lot of it has to be awareness and proactive steps from the Hokie Club.
"Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come."
Yeah, Jon definitely died. I'd say his watch has ended. Shit's gonna get real.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses This is true. I graduated in 2014 and started donating the minimum to be in Hokie Club, but I was never called or emailed to do this. Meanwhile, Pamplin calls me just about every 3 months asking for money. I'm sure if VT alumni were called up and asked for a Hokie Club donation at least some would be willing to give $100
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses I probably could have stated this better, but my larger point was that while pay is certainly good in those fields and there's no shortage of well off alumni, it doesn't necessarily lead to the huge outliers that traditionally have funded athletic programs. The kind of people kicking in $100,000 to put their name on stuff or to show off. It also doesn't lead to a whole lot of people getting season tickets every year for appearances or for schmoozing purposes. Engineers make good money for a lifetime, but they typically get capped off eventually and typically never reach the "throwing around money for influence" level.
I'll readily admit this was probably my most anecdotal and least articulated point though, so I see what you're getting at.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses Exactly my point. We really need to increase that number.
Hopefully there will be a lot of emphasis on increasing that 10k number, as well. How many alumni don't give simply because no one's ever asked them to?
A heckuva lot I would think. The problem isn't a lack of interest, it's a lack of engagement.
they really think the Pats have what it takes to win the SB?
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10 years 2 months
# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes Excellent article - Thanks for sharing. But man, Bill was spot on about the 'pressure' from the Paterno People.
I don't know if there is another sports coaching figure that had the 'cult' following than Paterno, and Penn State fans/insiders could never see it...
Credit to our althetic department staff, university leadership, and coaching staff for creating a Virginia Tech culture, not a culture.
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# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes We're going to build a VT logo in Charlottesville... It will be the BEST VT logo ever built. And we're gonna make UVA pay for it
and build it.
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Can't imagine Wahoos building the best VT logo (or anything else) ever built.
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# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes More realistic representation of today's daily transit.
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# | Virginia Tech Overhauls Hokie Club to Boost Donations, Meet Growing Scholarship Expenses My main problem with this model, I think, is that while it's what works for the most successful schools, it doesn't seem tailored to what Virginia Tech really is. The upper crust at those blue bloods are doctors and lawyers and politicians. Our upper crust is engineers and scientists and in agriculture.
Engineering/tech jobs are some of the highest paying jobs in the country. Payscales for professional engineers/scientists (especially with graduate degrees) are not disparate to lawyers or doctors, they can actually be pretty close. For large majority of our fan base I am sure they are pretty well off.
Also most alumni are more involved/supportive of their undergrad alma mater so I think the fact that tech doesn't have a med school or law school is somewhat irrelevant as a lot of Hokies still continue on to become doctors and lawyers.
I do agree that they need to get more people involved at lower amounts though.
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10 years 2 months
# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes We own the stadium, might as well put up a wall around it.
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# | Justin Fuente Reflects on His First Spring in Blacksburg Trying to Fill Beamer-Sized Shoes I have to admit, I am actually incredibly impressed with that slide. I wonder how many tries that took.
I'd bet good money Kaaya goes top 5. Also, here's one with Ford going to Panthers, from a site that likely put a lot more thought into it than cbs as well.
http://walterfootball.com/draft2017_1.php
30. Panthers
Issaiah Ford, WR, Virginia Tech: This is not a case of the Panthers chasing a position, as they've proven that they'll take the top prospect on their board. However, Isaiah Ford is the best player available, and he does make sense, as Carolina could use another wideout.