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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia 
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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia 
Gene Chizik changes lanes in the tunnel
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal Looking at this guys other tweets and I'm thinking he wants to throw something out there and if by the smallest of margins he is right will look like a genius with the right connections and #sauces.
I feel you... I do. I don't know whether to be excited or sad.
I was hoping for some secret back route. Ok well I'm sure I'll pass you at some point on the drive, we are leaving Greensboro about 6 am.
And now I'm crying at work (just like I did a few Mondays ago during the press conference)
I always take this route: https://goo.gl/maps/K9PvPEbTfEp
STOP.
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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia A $69 Million Business
Nice.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal There are literally 3 people who have put Herman and South Carolina together on a tweet today. The person who 'broke' the story, one making a joke, and another SEC guy spamming everyone at ESPN with the "what do you think of this hire".
Doesn't appear to be real to me. Could be wrong, but this has all the makings of a fake story.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal We're not going to get a good coach that cheap. It's possible, but I've heard Tech is willing to pay 3.5 to 4 million.
.@NAVYCoachKen, @CoachTomHerman & @CoachMattRhule up for George Munger Coach of the Year Award #AmericanRising https://t.co/vjFadqpgXv— American Football (@American_FB) November 20, 2015
It makes more sense that it would be "pl-sy" (pl is the pronunciation of pal)
EDIT: I added in one of those weird ae combo letters you see in pronunciation guides but apparently it didn't post. Just imagine there's one of them in there between the "p" and the "l"
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# | Virginia Tech Coaching Mega-Board 1.5: Justin Fuente and Larry Fedora We just ended daylight savings time. This is "normal time." I think what you should campaign on is "keep daylight savings time year-round."
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal Sadly, Bleacher Report has gained some ground after getting bought by Turner and CNN using them as their Sports news source.
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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia I would have attended even without Beamer.
I know that, because I did.
I don't think there's any question that he did a lot for VT football and the university as a whole, but I think making claims like "VT would have been more like a JMU" or "None of us would be VT fans" (as was stated on another thread in this forum) are a little exaggerated, and aren't necessary.
I don't doubt that some people make their choice of university based on sports profiles, or that some are influenced by it. I also don't doubt the "Flutie effect", or in this case the "Beamer effect". A raised profile because of sports is a positive thing.
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# | Hokies Set to Face Tar Heels' Dynamic Offense and Bend But Don't Break Defense We pay Buzz $2.5M in a sport that hasn't produced net income in years. Beamer makes $2.7M (I believe). To be competitive on the current FBS football coaching level, it is very reasonable to think that Whit will be looking in the $3.5-4M range. I'm not privy to the finances, but that number is justifiable.
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# | Houston is serious about keeping Herman, Board approves $3 million salary proposal umn.....Herman spent 10 years coaching in Texas at five different colleges he had plenty of ties
Mone started when I was driving last night at 5:05pm and it was pitch black out. Fireman for president and END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
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# | Techonomics: How Frank Beamer's Football Program Fuels Southwestern Virginia I think what needs to be recognized is that without Beamer, there would likely be no ACC for us. Hell, we may not have gotten into the Big East even. But the amount of ACC money that fuels and funds University research and partnerships is huge. Beamer built VT Football and that in turn increased the profile of the University as a whole. It's hard to say whether the University would have top programs in Engineering, Architecture, rising programs in Business, and other major research funding without what Beamer did. Without all that, we likely would have been a marginal step up from JMU. It may not be true to say that none of us would be VT fans without him, but many of us may not have known of VT or considered it as a destination. I know you are an older alumni, but the growth since Beamer is significant.
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# | Michael Brewer Writes About What It's Like to Play for Frank Beamer This is correct. It's Beamer's way of saying "pal." Not sure where it comes from, but it is what it is.
The Beamers circa 1987
#ThanksFrank pic.twitter.com/RfvHJAYOTj— #ThanksFrank (@VT_Football) November 20, 2015
It's probably a little different hiring a coordinator into a head coaching job than hiring someone who's already a head coach.
Just for context, the timeline last year:
-December 6 - B1G championship game, Houston's final game
-December 8 - Houston coach fired
-December 15 - Herman hired at Houston
-January 1 - Sugar Bowl
-January 2 - Armed Forces Bowl (Houston vs. Pitt) w/ interim coach
-January 12 - National Championship
I think a lot of people who have no interest in football like to claim that football has no effect on the university because it has no effect on them personally.