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Its not unrealistic if the Hokie Club actually does what it should be doing and hopefully what Babcock can get them doing. The lower the current number of members means there are that many more potential members out there that haven't yet begun to contribute.
In all fairness, Manny Atkins Allan Chaney had to go elsewhere. VT doctors said they would never permit him to play due to his medical condition.
*Edited to fix name
Yes, my fault. With the number of transfers we've had over the last 4 years, many run together.
ESPN actually owns our first, second and third tier rights for all sports. It is an all inclusive deal. ESPN then made a second deal to option some of those games to other broadcast companies.
http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/dollars/post/_/id/705/college-tv-rights...
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First-, second- and third-tier rights: $3.6 billion, ESPN, 15 years through 2026-27
Per-year average: $240 million
Per-school, per-year average: $17.1 million
This occurred with the renegotiation after the inclusion of Syracuse, Pitt, and Louisville.
That's not the point. I'm not trying to defend the guy, he needed to go. But he was able to get some real talent to come here. He got those players to come here, once they got here he was a d-bag and not a good coach at all. But it seemed like his strategy was just to sign as many good players as he could and then see who stuck. It's a jerk move because it can ruin a guy's future, but it definitely worked. Once he got the players here he didn't care about them. And the fans, well we were egging him on during a lot of those NCAA snub rants.
I believe you are referring to Allan Chaney
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# | Northwestern Football Players Take Steps to Be Represented by Union ....and the NCAA and Bowl Games are non profit organizations.
I have no idea, but it seems like speed is a tricky thing to compare across the board. VT's 40 times are still hand-timed and not all that accurate. We always have a bunch of supposedly sub 4.4 guys who end up running 4.5-4.6 at the combine. And I'm still trying to figure out how quite a few guys I ran track with in high school were posting 100m times faster substantially faster than what David Wilson was running in college.
But the NCAA can make 6 Billion dollars off of so called "amateur" athletes. The only difference between lets say NBA and College Basketball is.. the players get paid in the NBA.
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Looks like we're trying hard to keep Harrison...FYI - Lakeland, Florida is where's he's from.
We are talking about 2,000 people on average for 15 games. Half of those games are on either a Friday or Saturday typically. This season I believe it was seven home games on Friday or Saturday, so manage to get 4,000 extra for those games and its a wash. Even as small as Blacksburg and Christiansburg are, that's not an overly large number of people. Even if the administration just convinces 10% of the student body to come out to games, that's enough to balance out the difference. I am surprised that they haven't built the men's basketball tickets into the Athletic fee and upped the cost of that to $250-$300 a student so they get their money regardless of whether the students show up or not.
I would expect Babcock will look to make the student body a much more invested part in these programs. If students could get in with just showing their ID because they tickets were part of their athletic fee than you would have a much fuller house on a regular basis.
So popular Hank Thorns, Tyrone Garland, Manny Atkins, Ben Boggs all decided to take their talents elsewhere after playing for him.
Or better yet, when that scholarship is pulled and that player says, "fine, I'll go play for these guys instead because they will give me a scholarship" the player then has to forfeit a year of eligibility. Talk about adding insult to injury.
His last season, he wasn't popular with fans. I'll stand by that til I die.
Those unseen levels of recruiting amounted to a guy he couldn't use properly and left, a guy who was trying to beg, borrow and steal his way out of his loi to go to a big boy school and 3 guys he either couldn't coach up or were overrated that he couldn't properly evaluate.
Unions are for employees...
He also wasn't popular with players once they actually were on the roster, and wasn't popular with his assistants.
a Non profit company where is that money going to?
Expenses. Meaning lining someone's pocket, usually.
I don't know enough on this, but at the very least the NCAA should be plugging that money back into the schools so that they can plug it back into the sports that are making (or not making) the money.
This is an interesting issue and I think the big issue is just what you said, the NCAA is making BILLIONS off of this and the kids producing the product are getting nothing. Let's not even get started with the Bowls and what their president's are making...
Still better than #LOLUVa
Javon isn't known for blazing speed. He wouldn't be the fastest on the team. Espn has him running a 4.6 and other sites like 247 have him rated a 6 for speed out of a scale of 1-10. He is a dynamic player but its not always about speed. He has the make up to be a sensational WR and I hope he stays in blacksburg
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It just sucks that they have no real recourse and coaches can pretty-much do what they want to make the schollie #s work. This is their future.
As a Div 1 athlete myself I would like to tell you that about 60% of these statements above are very false.
Yes we get a "Free Education" but the NCAA makes about $6 billion annually just on Basketball alone. Off of our talent and our names. What did they do for me. Nothing at all, the school paid for my education not the NCAA. I think many people don't understand the point. We don't want the school to pay us we want the NCAA to pay us since they're the ones making money. Yes schools make $ off of tickets and merchandise but that $ goes to the school to upgrade and pay for other sports that don't do well financially.
My idea/thought process is just look at NCAA alone they make so much money but yet the athlete can't even get $50 for signing an autograph but "Our Jersey" sells for $80 on NCAA.com a supposedly non profit organization
Here's some numbers to back that up.
"The typical college football player will owe $3,222 when he's finished with school, not counting loans."
"A scholarship doesn't equal cash in a player's pocket. Even with any type of scholarship, college athletes are typically dead broke. But how much do the top NCAA executives make? About $1 million per year."
"Recently, the NCAA and CBS signed a $10.8 billion television agreement over 14 years. The NCAA is also considered a non-profit company." haha a Non profit company where is that money going to?
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12 years 6 months
# | Northwestern Football Players Take Steps to Be Represented by Union Tell that to the student athletes that:
1) Are now the only adult in their household and support siblings financially
2) Have a family to support of their own
3) Cannot afford the basic amenities/costs of school because they are playing the sport but are not on scholarship but are still banned from having a job per NCAA guidelines as an athlete of more than I think 10 hours a week.
Are 1 or 2 the norm, no. Should they have the ability to petition for an exception yes. Case #3 are the norm though in many athletic programs all across the country, especially in sports other than football and basketball.
The biggest aspect of this case is medical protection not just now but into the future. We are seeing the current negotiations between players, former players and the NFL over dementia, Alzheimer's, PTSD, concussion, and other debilitating injuries that effect these folks for the rest of their lives. Only about 3% of college football players go on to the NFL, but many of them suffer from the same effects later in life as these NFL athletes and they have no recourse of compensation from the NCAA. This union would allow the athletes legal representation acknowledged by the federal government. This union would also be used in cases like Grambling State, where they are dealing with mold growing in their locker rooms and on their equipment, staph infections running rampant in their medical treatment and other such issues.
i think attendance at the basketball games for alumni and non-students that dont live in the immediate area is something thats going to be hard to change. i live over 2.5 hours away from blacksburg and cant justify spending the money and driving up for a basketball game on a tuesday night or weekday. as much as i want to support our basketball team the last time i went to a game was my senior year the 2007-2008 season. its so much easier to watch on tv at home. my fiance is in grad school at unc and when your school is in a heavily populated area like chapel hill you can get a crowd for a weekday game.
i think our new ad and whoever our basketball coach is or becomes is going to have a tough task in getting attendance up. wins will help but i think that unless we become a top basketball program were going to struggle in attendance on weekdays.
Companies make billions off unpaid interns every year. At least with being a college athlete you're compensated (in most cases) very well for what you provide.
And you ARE getting paid in college basketball. Your payment is going right back to the university to cover all your expenses while you are there, including the payments to get an education at an institution that, in more times than not, you have absolutely no business being associated with, which, for the 97% who don't end up a professional athlete, allows you to graduate debt free holding a diploma from a school you only attended because of your athletic ability, while having far more career opportunities open up because of that diploma from the more prestigious school.
In the NBA, your only compensation is a paycheck. In college basketball, the compensation might not necessarily be as high dollar-wise, but, should you choose to make good on everything offered to you, can be far more all-encompassing and rewarding long-term.