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You may not donate just because it is tax deductible but, that it is deductible makes it less expensive to donate and validates the donation. And believe me, when I'm in my accountants office angry at how much money I have to stroke to that IRS type thing, I get some bit of satisfaction at the line that shows how much of my cash I have given charitably.
If it wasn't tax deductible, I'd have more problems with making the donation, it's a mental thing. Now that my wife and I are stable in our economic situation we actively search for worthy causes and without doing oodles of research on various organizations, knowing one holds or does not hold a proper 501 charity designation is the start of the weeding out process.
In short, that it is 80% deductible allows me to remind myself I'm not paying $1600 per year for 4 seats at 6 football games, some of which are only excuses to tailgate until 11:00 AM so I can make it in for kickoff.
So sounds like we have to pony up $ for our / or an OL coach or find a very mobile QB and NFL capable RB in short order.
Kinda a no brainer. Spend the money!!! There are probably still some TARP or stimulus funds available.
Alternatively we could sends gifts to LSU with Grimey. If we could dismantle their athletic department before we get overrun, we might get the QB and RB we're gonna need. And in a perfectly executed assault we can get Grimey and a few Helens back to Blacksburg.
We would still need an OL coach
are you implying that at some point you would rather be kicked in the nuts than be offered money? Like, 50k is acceptable but for only $100 dollars you'd take the kick?
Amazing. Seems that they put the big pay out together and the media rights thing on the basis of an agreement where they got everyone together and all signed a deal that said we'll figure out what the exit fees look like later, but we'll sign this agreement now.
I am no lawyer but I have no idea how that constitutes a like exchange which I though you needed for an agreement. And then the magnitudes involved seem to bear no relation to something exchanged. I hereby promise to F myself if we don't stay together. Fing myself is pretty huge in magnitude but what do I get in exchange? Evidently a sh***y deal in relation to the B1G and SEC going deals.
Anyone having anything to do with that agreement should be waterboarded and worse then after they've publicly pronounced their grievous individual errors / or testified how they were bribed by Tarheels... fired.
We got nothing in exchange for saying we would chop off an arm and a leg if we decide to leave for greener pastures. Its absolutely beyond belief to me how someone would let this happen. I also don't think taxpayers who might be on the hook for this crap would have to pay because there are rules as to who can commit a public institution to what magnitude of liability. UGGGGH... pi**es me off.
It is, but if your tax bracket gets too high you really are only taking home around $50k of that. That being said, $50k is better than a kick in the nuts.
Yeah the way the schedule worked out made me think that E$PN and the ACC had already made their schedule thinking that VT would take its usual complement of Thursday night games and then we said No thanks.
I know for me, if I could make $100K more/year (or more!)..........yeah, I would uproot my family. That's a $#!T ton of money to ME.
That said, I don't have kids, so maybe my tune would be different if that was the case.
false, some college football games air on Tuesday evenings. ...nothing to write home about, but it's football.
I wonder how much of that may be due to hid health problems and he wouldn't have been able to support it properly. I also wonder if that was part of the reason for the noon kickoffs. Some of it not, of course, but some of it could be.
I understand they put in the request for 2 Thursday night games this next season, 1 home and 1 away.
This year would have been a good one for 2 Thursday night games as we had 2 bye weeks.
That's correct. Weaver requested we not even be considered due to the constraints it puts on the campus and academics, along with other logistical challenges of a weeknight event. One of the most disappointing moments of my year as I count some of our Thursday night games as some of my favorite and most exciting memories of Hokie football.
I think this accurately describes what's going on here.
C'mon Terps, just get your buddies from the B1G and Under Armour to fork up.
Are we allowed to official hate LSU now?
It must be money. (Or it could be the Cajun cooking.)
It can't be that Baton Rouge is a better place to raise kids than Blacksburg.
The COL of SWVA is a lot lower than just about anywhere with a major school.
He turned down Texas and that stack of cash, maybe we can keep him.
I hope so.
"So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life."
They went one step further now beyond the payout to keep schools in place. All ACC schools sans Maryland (Including Louisville) have signed over their media rights to the ACC through the 2027 season, so even if they leave, their new conference wouldn't have the right to broadcast their games, effectively removing the incentive to come get the teams in the first place.
UNC this year is something of a dichotomy, they are 3-1 against ranked teams and dreadful against everyone else. It is nice to see them suffer a bit especially when they escaped basically unscathed from the academic scandal.
Being in the military:
Having to part with my beard every Monday before work
This.
Its Carolina that noone likes and if they can find a legal strategy around the payout we'll see at least a couple other schools bolt this Carolina based league.
If we (the ACC) had television revenue worth a damn, the ACC wouldn't be in such a weak position.
Nice to see the arse clowns getting it handed to them in hoops on tobacco road. They have demolished the ACC competitiveness in basketball and set it back in football. We need some anti statues that we can all spit, throw feces, fruit and such on. Make it a part of the walk.
What? You didn't already?