Hadn't seen this shared yet, but Alumnus Win Sheridan has pledged a $5 Million donation to renovate the football locker room. Hopefully his first name is a good omen. Are we getting a waterfall?!?!?
.@virginia_tech alum and longtime donor Win Sheridan has made a $5 million pledge to redesign & renovate our locker room 🤝— Virginia Tech Football (@HokiesFB) April 13, 2022
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Call it the Frank Beamer Win Locker Room you cowards!
I keep seeing "Veatch" and my brain keeps trying to make it "Va Tech"
My brain did the exact same thing!!
Paging GGC for one of his anagram posts
Jeff Veatch anagrams to Jeff Va Tech
I will take more of those Wins too!
Thank you to the big donors!!!
I wonder if the massive increase in overall funding through the HokieClub's growth will lead to more targeted donations like this? In the past, this kind of money would have been needed to essentially help keep the day to day expenses covered, but now that the HC covers them, I wonder if the big donors will be willing to give more for specifically earmarked ventures that gets their name out there with a tangible result?
I think that was a lot of the point of the push. Now we just need to get on the NIL train. Literally today interviewed with a startup that basically just funnels money to players through NFTs. Notre Dame gets their players a crap load and the NFT gets the special events and stuff with the players. LSU is next to sign up with all the blue bloods following. Not sure I'll join the company but it was extremely eye opening at the direction of college sports.
You should 100% join that company and start cranking out some Hokie NFTs!
That's where my heads at with considering it.
In AB's recent long form piece at The Athletic, Whit said that NIL has "dominated" the discussions he's had with Coach Pry so far, and that the Hokies are expected to release news about aligning with an NIL collective "in the near future."
Babcock also said that, to his knowledge, it's something every recruit brings up, but its only influenced the decision of two recruits so far.
I'm sure if some players are making $80k at one school and $10k at another, it will start mattering a lot. NIL is really in its infancy still.
Glad to see NFTs becoming a new channel for money laundering.
That's what they are made for
lol yeah, you'll never be able to convince me that the gorilla NFTs are not just a complete money laundering scheme exposing the inherent issues with anonymity with crypto, and everyone who has bought one is helping funnel money into an unidentified criminal enterprise.
With all of that said, if VT wanted to seriously innovate with current trends, they'd set up a shadow company for the sole purposes of hosting NFTs, pairing with a couple local artists and just cranking out their own artistic NFTs that the artists get a decent cut from, with the intended end result of funneling money to the school via NIL sponsorships or academic donations.
And if we play this well (we're a tech school, we have enough brainpower to figure it out) we can make sure its all anonymous using current legal guardrails to keep the public from being the wiser.
You mean the money laundering NFT's are cutting into the money laundering crypto scheme?
I've always found that crypto is like Mary Kay pyramid scheme for tech bros. What makes NFTs the money laundering scheme is that there is a direct sale instead of just investing.
Just win baby
Win Sheridan is no Brian Bickell, thankfully