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At the end of February, I'll be doing my annual "Church Guys" golf trip at the Legends in Myrtle that my Father-in-Law recruited me into about 12 years ago. Luckily I'll be bringing a buddy so I'm not the only person under 50 to keep things fresh. Drinking a 750ml of bourbon in 18 holes was proving to be a task when I had to do it solo.
i am sure a lot of us have worked some insane hours, and had some difficult times at work...but i am not sure i have ever seen someone so beaten down from their job as whit was in that presser
Headed back to Pinehurst in March for 3 nights. Planning to play Tobacco Road (new to me), Pine Needles or Mid Pines (both new to me), no 5 (new to me), Cradle, and no 3.
We're renting a condo across the street from the Cradle the first two nights and then staying on property the last night. Not sure that plan makes total since based on the Pinehurst tracks we booked, but the guy booking wants a night on property. Any suggestions on where to eat off property?
Also, the guy went for guaranteed tee times at 5 and 3 instead of Cradle, so we still have to call ahead to try and get on for Saturday afternoon. He said we can call 7 days out instead of day before. Has anyone done this? Do we have a shot at getting on the Cradle on 3/14?
Nice, the last two times I've come up, most of Blacksburg was closed due to Winter Break, but I'll be checking them out next time I'm up for a basketball game.
Just looking forward to getting out there after having my first kid in September
Reasonable conclusions.
It does kind of suck that the only people who will ever really know what went down there are the ones in the room when it happened.
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I'll go out on a limb and say they all are from the same cloth. If you know a Bammer grad...they are very similar.
The only restriction on those things in our HOA is no chain link fences within 50' of the property line for "looks". Any of those other things are no permission, no faults. It isn't bad.
But are they big time boosters with no ethics as well?
If anything I think the last 15 years have shown that anyone who comes in wish that innovative mindset would have been completely bulldozed and shut down by an executive management and board who didn't care to do what was necessary to remain relevant. I think Whit's consistent behind the scenes messaging while things cratered is a big reason why we are now operating like the school we should have been. I get the feeling the presser in 2020 was to fire Fuente, and behind the scenes whoever forced that to not happen lost all leverage when Pry's years turned into the dumpster fire it was.
I genuinely think those above Whit thought we were a unicorn that could always win on a shoestring budget allowing the school to hoard insane amounts of money over the last 20 years.
When Fu was hired, there were promises of staff increases for recruiting that never happened. That was the basis of Fu's threat to leave.
UVA at home on Sunday is a must-win
if we want to make the NCAA tournament
FTFY.
Nothing will change until the money stops. Its to profitable in its current state. Coaches put up with it because they're paid insane amounts of money. Everyone is getting paid off to make this happen.
UVA at home on Sunday is a must-win if we want to make the NCAA tournament, especially with ND, NC State and the California road trip on the horizon.
Hopefully this will be a conference game by that time.
Here I was ready with my "looks like 'cock's back on the menu, boys" gif.
He's not an innovator or an outside-the-box thinker or a creative; he's gonna work within the existing apparatus to get stuff done. But he's always going to be limited by the apparatus.
Funny enough this kind of supports why Whit isn't a good fit for VT in 2026. It's going to take creativity and innovation to keep us afloat in the constant arms race, at least if and until we can get a reliable stream of money coming in. It was a major coup getting JMFF here and I think he will help out immeasurably with the money part, but I'm not sure anyone's giving Whit the lion's share of credit for the hire, nor should they.
edit: welp. just read LA's comment.
I was skeptical of the funding when I first heard about it. The university has, by design, staked out a conservative financial position. The money used for the athletics investment largely came from interest earnings on VT Foundation dollars that normally would have simply been reinvested to grow the endowment and continue to demonstrate a robust financial situation. To invest those funds in Athletics required BOV approval, which we finally got when the rector tasked the working committee with the job.
This thread started before the first COVID case in America
Oh I don't think it takes much to figure out the board kneecapped his plans to fire Fuente and forced him to eat the shit sandwich in the presser. That whole "those people don't give enough for their opinions to matter" absolutely looks like him taking something someone who forced his hand said to him while forcing him to still have the presser.
Holy thread resurrection!
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What's that Rascal Flatt's song: "God bless the broken road, that lead me straight to you..."?
We had two coaching hires that didn't pan out, BUT, without them we don't land on Franklin.
If Franklin does what we all hope/think/want him to do with our football program, will it have been worth a decade of mediocrity. IMO, yes.
All I am hoping for is that now that my girls are old enough to ask/want to watch Hokie sports and start going to games, that they get a good product on the field so they become engrained with how football felt when I was in school. They will never know about our 10 years of misery and will hopefully be hooked when they see me getting more and more invested. Selfishly, being bad for those 10 years allowed me to do so much more with them on the weekends and invest my time in them doing fun fall activities since I had checked out most Saturdays. But with that season of life have passing and they being a bit older, it's time to teach them tailgating for big games with a reinvigorated Blacksburg.