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Son: I'm going to go out and bring home a pizza.
My wife: No, the storm has made the roads too treacherous. You could crash and die. Let your father go get it.
My problem here as we have seen the massive influx of funding is this
As of late 2025, Virginia Tech's athletic department budget has ranked near the bottom of the ACC (14th out of roughly 17-18 teams), operating around $122 million. However, the school is implementing a massive "Invest to Win" plan, increasing the budget to $190.1 million for the 2026 fiscal year.
If that's accurate and Whit really was financially handcuffed, we have no way of knowing how our overall results stack up because of money more than anything Whit did. If I had to guess on our sports results, we have outperformed 14th in ACC Standings in most sports.
Add the TEs to that.
When VT plays at SECU (Byrd) Stadium, it's NOT a home game for the Terps.
I know it's a road game in the sense that travel is involved, but having heard Kirshner talk about the vibes around the UMD fandom (especially when retaining locksley) combined with the number of VT alums in the DMV area, that could very well feel like a home game for us.
I have (am) first hand knowledge it was the later.
The only Friday that REALLY sucks is the Black Friday games.
All the Hokies with kids playing high school ball would like a word.
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There's also this:
Provide a clear, sensible and descriptive title for your post. "Tyrod Taylor..." is not a clear descriptive title. "Tyrod Taylor to Play Entire Preseason Game" is.
and this:
Don't post threads with the sole purpose of riling people up. For instance, "ESPN just said ______ about us - they suck!", "Bleacher Report sucks!", etc. are not worthy of topics \ threads.
I fault Whit for not following thru on the initial staffing promises to Fu and roadblocking/hamstringing the hires, especially Odom, that Fu wanted to make.
Fu didn't do himself any favors on the recruiting front but at no point did Whit lay down the law on recruiting the state or running Corny out the door. Whit should have found the money for Odom and Fu definitely should have taken the Baylor job.
Not to intrude on throwing shade at Whit but did we just bypass the CGs of not posting paywall articles by not providing the link but making a thread to discuss it or not discuss it?
Yeap... What we've seen is basically:
- Fundraising essentially flatlined (relative to the rest of the sport) for 15 years
- 'Main campus' starts leading the fundraising efforts
- Within less than a month, $25m(?) is given to athletics
Either Whit was really bad at fundraising or there were other blockers elsewhere in the org/fundraising pipeline. I have to believe it's the latter.
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Suffolk is getting more than Loudoun.
I can see maybe in drill situation performing well. But even when protected with no pressure he had trouble with reads and over/under threw way too often.
I got roped into being the HOA Vice President a year or so ago. It is about as lax an HOA as exists. There are only 80 or so properties in the HOA. Our yearly fees are $150 a year and that pays for mowing the common areas, an annual picnic for all HOA members, and some minor maintenance on the horse/walking trails through the neighborhood. We have an architectural board to just make sure houses sizes meet the minimum requirements and the animal barns aren't constructed too near the neighbors.
No doubt, and I do remind myself this as I review this season's performance thus far. In the words of CMY, "i've got a lot better players" and "I agree, we should be better than 5-4 right now".
I don't get what's wrong with that. Almost every time I poop, it's in the house..