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Cassell Coliseum is a study in a wasted revenue opportunity in the NRV.

We desperately need a multi-purpose facility at Virginia Tech. Badly. We need a venue that will attract shows and concerts year round to bring in additional revenue to our athletic dept to offset the costs of operating the building, because, to be quite frank, we don't bring in nearly enough fans on an annual basis for basketball to make anything else feasible.

And Cassell doesn't have any bad seats? I beg to differ. Those corner seats are cramped and they are bad. Sat in there numerous times when I was a student and I hated it. Yes, the rest of the seats are good, but once again... wasted revenue streams. Why? Absolutely no way to put in corporate suites, and the corporate suites are the ones that make you bank in owning a facility. And for those of us who constantly complain that we need students ringing the court.... Have you ever tried to sit behind someone who stands all game long in Cassell? You can't do it and still see the game. So you're gonna try to tell me that we should ring Cassell with standing students directly in front of the bigtime donors who generally are the elder alumni who, in most cases, physically cannot stand for an entire game. And before you suggest sinking the court and the first few rows, consider how much the court is already sunk on the baselines.

Cassell needs to be replaced. Its an outdated arena that eliminates potential revenue opportunities in the NRV. At this point, we should already be considering a 10-15 year plan to develop, build, and open a new facility for VT athletics. We're not Duke. They're able to keep Cameron around because they're DUKE, the name of the school is plenty to sell to a recruit, and they have had numerous historically great players playing on that court, so the aura and mystique of the place sells itself. Cameron has every bit the historical importance to its sport that Fenway, Wrigley, or Yankee Stadium has/had on baseball. Comparing Cameron to Cassell would be like trying to put one of those 3 places on the same level as say, Veterans Stadium.

My hope is wanting to play in the Battle @ Bristol keeps him and Facyson around.

I'm not opposed to keeping Cassell the same. I'm not opposed to some subtle upgrades. I wouldn't even mind a pretty massive overhaul...as long as it's done right. That's the key right there, it needs to be done right. If we have the same guy who picks our football Uni's in charge of renovations to Cassell, I'd rather it just stay the same.

And my dream is already dead.

I hate that title of the article. Fuck you, this the DBU. Every DB in the country seriously considered VT if we offer.

Good luck to our mat Hokies!
The wrestling program was almost ended a few years ago and was turned around by the right coach and with the right mentality. Their continued success is well-deserved; almost nothing exemplifies a Hokie more than a well-trained, scrappy wrestler performing above expectations (except for maybe a well-trained, scrappy soldier performing above expectations.)

Go Hokies!

Just hearing the words "open the checkbook"

I'm pretty sure that floor has been redone at least 3 times in the last 6 years.

Its all in how they negotiate their buyout. JJ is getting $800K over three years but could be less depending on what job he gets next and when. The new school isn't on the hook for anything necessarily, although they might try to negotiate a lower rate while the person still gets paid by their old school but that again is how they negotiate their new contract.

Isaiah Ford is keeping us in this one along with Victor Alexander

This article has him at $3.16 M/year thru 2020. Anyone know how the contracts work when you're fired - is it like football where the team that hires a recently fired coach only has to pay them a portion of their salary (i.e. Loeffler made $150k from VT last year and a lot more from Auburn)?