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agreed, it's a shrewd maneuver and we weren't in the negotiations. I think this discussion stems from the overall hiring climate, and we all are thinking ahead on how VT can protect its interest. Better to stay ahead, another one and done will be hard to swallow. Or worst, Torrian leaving, etc.
that's definitely a conflict of interest, but do you have any proof or consensus that you can find? Pretty strong accusation even if it makes logical sense.
Thats what you get when you have an overly passive fundraising body that doesn't do anything to boost membership other than put out the standard "keep your giving levels to get football tickets" that has been their mantra for the past 20 years.
We should have annual fundraising campaigns to bring in more money. We need the Hokie Club to be about more than football. Lou Merritt has REALLY dropped the ball on keeping the Hokie Club relevant as a fundraising body, and one thing Babcock desperately needs to do is ensure there is a newfound youth and energy in that group to make the Hokie Club an effective fundraising body to where we can boost salaries and renovate facilities to keep our Athletic Department competitive.
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12 years 6 months
# | Guard Adam Tarashcke returns to the Hokie Program- Per Beamerball/Andy Bitter Took a look at your profile....you're only a few yrs. older than I am. A belated welcome. And thanks for the walk-on perspective. I agree, I hope Tarashcke turns into a monster lineman.
One thing everyone should notice is that we are hiring coaches that have been fired. That partially explains the low salaries. We have no need to pay them more until they prove they are worth it to us. We aren't hiring them away from another school so we don't need to pay them more than they made last time. They get a bump in salary for making a bowl game a if they prove they are worth the investment, it will be made. While I agree that some of our other assistants deserve a raise, what justification is there for paying someone more when we hire them? I realize everyone is still nursing their wounds from Grimes being hired away from us and thinks that we should pay everyone more, but let's step back and see the whole picture. We are hiring recently unemployed people who have absolutely ZERO bargaining room for asking for a larger salary. Do we need to have more Hokie Club contributors so that we could potentially have a larger pot of money to pay our assistants? Absolutely! But there's nothing to support the idea that we should pay Searels more than $300,000 other than following the idea that "well the SEC does it so we should too."
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12 years 6 months
# | OT: LOLUVA still feels good about their lacrosse and rowing championships! Why are we so good at throwing hammers?
No UVA, that is not how you do it:
That point is correct. We already know 6 of the 12 teams in CFP bowls. I imagine that the other six would be the six highest ranked non-conference champions.
But, since the semis rotate...is a conference #2 guaranteed a spot if their normal home bowl is a semi-final? They'll probably get in on their own merits regardless.
In some ways, the CFP format is going back to the early BCS days, before they added the fifth game.
What really pisses me off about the whole thing is that Swofford didn't even TRY to create a bidding war for our 2nd and 3rd tier broadcasting rights. He gave them away for pennies on the dollar on a sweetheart deal to Raycom, where his son just happens to be on the board. Nepotism at its finest, and now its really biting us on the ass and there is NOTHING we can do.
The SEC Network on ESPN is set to make each school upwards of an additional $15m per school per year over what they have now. In comparison, the ACC makes a TOTAL of $18m per school per year. Because of the stranglehold that Raycom has on our 2nd & 3rd tier rights, which there isn't a chance in hell they're going to willingly give up to ESPN or anyone else for an ACC Network, we're looking at 2016 at the bare minimum before any kind of traction can take place in getting this thing setup. Thats a $30m head start and counting that each SEC school will have on every ACC program before we can even start to think about our own program.
Swofford did good on expansion and solidifying the conference, but the TV deals are an unmitigated failure. By giving the sweetheart deal to his son's company to keep the money in the family, he royally bent over every ACC institution long term to the point where now we're not competing at anything close to an even field with the rest of the market, and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
Where do we see that Grimes will make twice that? Everyone quotes the $500,000 that Greg Studrawa was making at LSU, but that salary includes the duties of an Offensive Coordinator. He was making $300,000 before Steve Kragthorpe stepped down as OC and Studrawa took over his responsibilities.
There is no consensus that his salary was then reduced after the hiring of Cam Cameron, but I am guessing that Grimes will make $300,000 at LSU
Edit: turns out that Studrawa got to keep the $500,000 salary, but was not eligible for a raise.
Very true. It still blows my mind how Hokie Club has less than 10k memebers...
Yes, True.
We should already have 20k+ members.
I think we need to start a support group, we can call it "waiting for the next bottle of lightning." Not to be a downer, but I feel like we have totally lost our momentum from Vick and '99, and that we have not taken that next step and are being left behind by those that have. Our salaries are going to be less and less competitive every passing year and that is just going to aggravate things as we try and grow our revenue unless we get another Neo-like recruit. We can't rely on staff loyalty anymore going forward I am afraid. It was a great run but times are changing and they have finally reached Blacksburg.
Don't forget the key phrase...."He has a high motor."
$1,000,000 divided by $100 would mean that Babcock needs to get 10,000 new Hokie Club members at the minimum level.
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12 years 6 months
# | OT: LOLUVA still feels good about their lacrosse and rowing championships! Thank you for pointing this out! It will be used.
Regardless of the TV deal, all current members of the ACC, sans Maryland but including Louisville have turned over their media rights to the ACC until 2027 so even if we wanted to pay the $50 mil to go elsewhere our media rights would stay here.
I never understood why people took pewee football/little league/ect too seriously. Aside from you, your kids, his teammates and their parents, no one gives a crap about how that team does. It's like how no one cares about your fantasy football team.
Demand accountability from Greensboro and from VT management. Join Maryland in the suit against the ACC. Renegotiate the TV deal. Sue the TV deal provider depending on what comes out in the Md suit. There are other options.
So we need about $1M more for Assistants.
Bud Foster: $556,500* -- Bump to $1,000,000 after annuity
Bryan Stinespring: $318,000 -- Bump to $325,000
Charley Wiles: $291,500 -- Bump to $325,000
Stacy Searels: $265,000 -- Bump to $350,000
Torrian Gray: $243,800 -- Bump to $325,000
Shane Beamer: $238,500 -- Bump to $250,000
Cornell Brown: $238,500 -- Bump to $250,000
Scot Loeffler: $159,000** -- Bump to $400,000
Aaron Moorehead: $159,000 -- Bump to $250,000
We have a shi**y deal. How long does the deal run for. How long til we can get decent economics out of our TV deal?
Its the only thing that is relevant.
Want to help change low assistance coaching salaries?
Donate to Hokie Club.
So, curtain number one is losing all TV rights, curtain number two which is no longer available is $50M.
I HAVE TO ASK, WTF WAS BEHIND CURTAIN NUMBER THREE, ALEX!!!
Talk about Hobson's choice. How did we end up here?
That's a fact, Jack!
I find it very interesting that people in and around the program are surprised that attendance has bottomed out after the firing of a popular head coach that was always in the media with a guy who had never been the head of a program at any level throughout his coaching career. They aren't good offensively, they are horrid defensively, and there is little hope of future success while watching the team play on the court.
As much good as Weaver did with the Virginia Tech athletic department, I am probably going to remember the most about him the absolute disaster that came about the bungling of the Greenberg firing. From the timing to the ridiculously unprofessional nature of the press conference, it just left a bad taste in the mouths of the entire fanbase, and then the 'down the hall' hiring that became a staple of his late career hiring trends just capped it off.
I recall the Stokes days when we would lose to the likes of EA Sports in exhibition games in Cassell to start the year and remember telling myself that there is absolutely no reason a major school should ever be playing at a level that horrid. I find it absolutely incomprehensible that we're right back to that level only 10 years later, ESPECIALLY knowing we're now playing in the ACC.
Babcock has a very important hire coming in the near future for him in regards to basketball. This program desperately needs a reset button. As we saw with Greenberg, with the right hire a basketball program can turn around quickly. At the very least, the Athletic Department needs to show us that they at the very least are TRYING to make things better instead of treating the program as a distraction from the football season.