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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend 
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For those interested.......Billion-dollar Ball (by Gilbert Gaul) is a really good book that delves into these issues and it really is pretty fascinating/bizarre to see the changes or lack thereof in big time college sports and how it has become a farm system essentially.
I had a similar experience. The only JR my RA ever gave out was when a tackled his door into the hallway (it was off it's hinges for beer pong use) while hammered. Our RA was literally having a conversation about 10 feet away with the RD. Really he didn't have a choice or he wouldn't have given it still.
Heck on our hall everybody literally use to sit around in the hallway and drink in the evenings/at night. When our RA or police officers would come through everyone would just put their drinks behind their backs. It was pretty obvious what was going on but our RA and the officers that would come through every once in a while couldn't care less.
Seems like a pretty harsh reaction to a kid you don't even know having a vindictive wife beating stepfather hack his social media and cost him literally millions of dollars...
NFL players have a union because they have the bargaining power to do so. Due to a salary cap, they are paid far less than their true market value. If there was no union the owners would behave even worse than they do today.
Just because they make significantly more than most of us "minor folks" doesn't mean they don't deserve every penny.
Of course the SEC has money for camps. But their locations make satellite camps unnecessary. They're surrounded by the best talent in the country. The rule change hurts the SEC by loosening their stranglehold on the fertile recruiting grounds they inhabit.
It's minor league football and the schools are the sponsors. Just call them the Blacksburg Hokies sponsored by Virginia Tech, lease them the stadium and facilities, offer an educational avenue for any players who want to work on their degrees while they are playing minor league football and call it a day.
All of the expenses of running a major college football program...coaches, recruiting, staff...is born by the minor league affiliate. The facilities is what VT has that the minor league's don't, so you need to set your lease rate high enough to fund the non-rev programs.
The model is so out-dated. There was a discussion I heard recently about paying players and someone said "this is the same model that was used before Nike and ESPN existed." That really hit me that we need to rethink the entire thing. The student-athlete model is all well and good if there is no revenue associated with the sports, as it is with 99% of college athletes. But when you are part of a team bringing in millions to fund the rest of the college's sports, to represent the brand of the college to the world, you can start to see where the players and coaches feel they are above the laws that are so outdated.
I'm sure Nick didn't know. I'm sure Nick didn't know. I'm sure Nick didn't know. Say it three times and it must be true.
Yeah but the tide goes in and the tide goes out. No one can explain that.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend oh oh I see. I sure hope Alum07 doesn't raise a child outside of VA that becomes a high caliber athlete. That'll be a hell of a moral conundrum.
During my freshman year (95-96) there was a guy a few rooms down the hall from me who set up his own filesharing ftp site just for sharing music and the like with a few friends. (This was before Napster, Limewire and the like) As more and more people found out about it, everybody was uploading and downloading music, video games and the like. Then one night he got a visit from the head of the Computer Science department warning him that something like 20% of the web traffic in the entire university was going through Miles Hall and the FBI was allegedly on route to investigate. If he didn't want to go to jail, he had a few hours at most to destroy everything. That put quite a scare into him and he shut it all down. Somehow I don't think he ever faced any sort of discipline.
I think the biggest question is why is this kid dealing with parents who are literally struggling to keep the lights on while he's on the field literally making millions in revenue for the university and getting nothing in return?
Oh, ok... so he took some money. And what is the result if he didn't? His mother has the power cut off to her home? How are we even in a situation where we're literally criticizing a coach for giving a kid enough money to keep the lights on for his mother's house? Yeah, not going to lie, if I knew a kid on our team was dealing with shit like that at home, I would sure hope our coaches would have the moral fiber help them out, damn the rules.
And you can make whatever "what if" scenario you want about what the money is really for, but its really not that far out of the question that situations like this arise annually for kids at every program in the country, and yet helping them out, despite what they bring to the school, is explicitly forbidden by the NCAA. And that is the problem.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend 
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend That's only because all recruits in VA owe us a first right of refusual.
I INVOKE THE RIGHT OF PRIMA NOCTA
Wait, wat?
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend no, no, no, the impression i'm getting is:
if you can help us win a Natty or ACC championship, I care about my tax dollars being used on you, if not you are free to leave the state.
i could be wrong but i'm not sure
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend This is so wrong on so many levels.
I remember a poster hung in the halls of Eggelston saying "Virginia Tech has a two... or three strike policy on drugs"
wut
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend I came to VT from NC, I guess I'm a bad person and I should've gone to UNC or NCSU...
I doubt GMs care at all about NCAA violations like asking for money. I don't think GMs care too much about cannabis use while you are in college, as long as you corral it better than Josh Gordon or Johnny Manziel once you get to the pros.
You're probably correct that these issues are not a huge deal to most NFL GM's, but I suspect that they care a great deal about such instances becoming publicized. The NFL cares a great deal about bad publicity, and you can be sure that if Mr. Tunsil gets in any sort of trouble as a Dolphin, no matter how minor, the front office will get a lot of backlash about drafting a guy with such 'character issues'.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend This is literally the dumbest thing I've read regarding in-state recruiting
It doesn't matter what the electricity rate is. It could easily be a 3 month combined bill that she had put off because she couldn't afford it and so they told her that either she pay or her power is being cut off and the debt is being sent to collections. There are a number of scenarios that could make it a one month bill or a multi-month bill, but that's not the point. The point is that Tunsil admitted to taking money from someone, whether it is a coach or a booster. The amount just makes the story worse, but taking a dollar is still a violation.
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# | ODU to Host Penn State, Maryland and Michigan in June; Coach Wilder Said He Would Call Coaches Fuente and Mendenhall to Attend why do you assume that people have to play for a place that they associate as being in their local community? these are 17-18 year old kids who are trying to be as comfortable as they can while preparing to hopefully go pro. The whole point of college is to get an education (what kind varies for each person) and to grow as a person. Some people think going out of state is the best situation for them personally. Are you seriously going to hold that against teenager?
Also, I didn't accept a job where I grew up, does that make me a bad person for not contributing to my local economy since I used local tax dollars to graduate high school?
At a certain point we're going to have to give up the cloak and dagger bullshit and reclassify revenue generating collegiate sports for what they are. A professional developmental league. Give these kids a damn salary, let them jump to the major league immediately if they are talented enough to do so, and just be done with this shit. They're already getting paid ($10 on the table now says at least some of our kids are getting paid) so just remove all the bullshit and make it official. The NCAA already doesn't give a shit, if it did, Miami and UNC would have been shut down long ago, so just make what is already official behind the scenes official in the public's eye.
I had a friend who had the same thing happened to him. The funny thing is that what he did wasn't really illegal since he downloaded a resident evil ROM for an emulator for a game he had in his dorm but his PS2 was out of commission. He tried to explain it and even proved it wasn't illegal to download a backup if you already own it and they still made him take that stupid piracy course. I think he also had to pay to take it.
Anyway the key to not getting caught is to change the down/up ports and not have more than 600 MB upstream traffic in a day as that triggers them to monitor you for a while. But that was for Torrents which is all we used when I was in school I'm sure Kazaa, Limewire, and the like were a lot easier to get caught with.
Coleman couldn't find an open hole
Must resist......
Finally, someone gets it! Great job, Coach Wilder. Almost makes me feel bad about the beatdowns Coach Fu and company will be laying upon you in the coming years. Almost.