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hokietopher's picture hokietopher
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| 5 months 3 weeks # | Crying Irish FAM

FAM! FUCK THE DOMERS!

TIHokie's picture TIHokie
| 5 months 3 weeks # | Transfer Portal entries (non-VT) January 2026

This is a secondary or tertiary issue, but don't even get me started on how much college tuition is these days as it relates to the median household income. My son was very fortunate (he worked his a$$ off) to have obtained an internship that just about paid for his full tuition at the JMU school of business, but most of his classmates... sheesh. These kids are going into an almost insurmountable amount of debt to earn a college degree while the athletic departments of these same universities are throwing around hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the football teams relevant in the current landscape.

It all seems incredibly out of balance.

OK, rant over.

Hokiemacho's picture Hokiemacho | 5 months 3 weeks # | Hokies add Baylor edge Kamauryn Morgan - 4* transfer

It's only their best athletics program and his NIL deal was more than Morgan's. AJ Ferrari didn't get into UNC. TJ Stewart isn't wrestling because he couldn't get into NC State. Hippolito is at Oklahoma because he couldn't get into Maryland. It happens all the time in every sport.

EasyGeezie's picture EasyGeezie
CONSIDER IT DONE
| 5 months 3 weeks # | Crying Irish FAM

This team is capable of winning like this every game. The difference between the ones we lost was making almost all our FT's and not having enormous scoring droughts.

Need to light a fire under Neo's ass in order to get his head out of it. How? Have him come into the game off the bench. Send him a message. We are a better team with him on the bench vs starting.

Liking Bedford

Wish they would set Schutt more for 3 looks when he's on the floor.

FAM

aptturkey's picture aptturkey
| 5 months 3 weeks # | Crying Irish FAM

Fam!

Dominant win, although I'm still scarred from all the other close losses that should have been easy or dominant wins that this one always felt closer than it was.

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 5 months 3 weeks # | Hokies add Baylor edge Kamauryn Morgan - 4* transfer

Which leaves fans with the question-- how far do they want their team to go? Do we want VT to damage it's academic reputation to win a few football games?

Michigan just won a national championship while being one of the five most prestigious public universities in the country. I know we're not Michigan, but we can still be an academic prestigious university and have an incredible football team.

We can still have an incredible football team without being Baylor, UNC, etc.

And if the rumors are true that this kid played for Baylor without going to a single class then I'm OK not admitting him to Virginia Tech.

I just despise the attitude that these kids are somehow unethical/immoral/or otherwise not worthy of attending Virginia Tech (or any other university) just because they are trying to maximize their financial earnings.

Every other actor (schools, conferences, coaches, agents, media/broadcasters, etc) in this entire enterprise prioritizes themselves and their financial well-being first and foremost, above everyone else, but for some reason athletes are the only group that is expected to pass a purity test.

Edit to extend my rant: one of the books I read last year was it never rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley. It's a memoir about an offensive lineman who played at LSU in the 70s and how he struggled to find fulfillment in life after being a student athlete at LSU. This guy turned down opportunities to play in the NFL because he was more interested in being a writer.

I think a lot of fans who are nostalgic for a simpler time romanticize stories like this. They point at the modern college football landscape and say "it should be like it was back then."

But 'back then' is different from today in so many ways. Coaches were paid teacher/professor salaries. Broadcasts were not driving success; in stadium attendance was. A college degree – any college degree - was a significant differentiator in the labor market. And, the NFL paid significantly less than it does today (your typical NFL player was making $40 to $50K, which was comparable to an early career physician, but with a much shorter career - the idea that an average NFL career could set you up for life wasn't really a thing until the 90s).

Anyways, the point I'm trying to make is that the entire system changed, but for some reason, nobody tries to cap the rest of the system; no one has attempted to limit coaching salaries, no one has attempted to limit television, revenues, and if anyone has, they have fallen victim to the collective action problem. The athlete is the only one who was expected to put their personal interest to the side for "the good of the sport." And, of all the entities that make up "the sport" the athlete is the least qualified to advocate for his best interest (and of course, this is the excuse that the powers that be used for decades to make a system that suits their interest).

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