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The 2022 football coach bidding war and last season's college basketball

changes with NIL look like very similar situations. My take is that Whit was asleep at the wheel, scratching his butt and got steamrolled by both situations. He is about the WORST possible fit we could have in this environment. Oh gee, USC and LSU paid over $10 million a year for coaches. Wow. Oh gee, Duke and Miami in basketball pay backups multiples of what we pay for starters. He is weak and got this far by overpaying non-revenue coaches. He has no ability to find bargains, use strategy or craft a portfolio and now we are failing at both football and basketball. Instead of copying schools with lower budgets that are effective, he tries to outspend the big boys, but does it on non-revenue sports. This approach is about as misguided as it could possible be. ** Edited by TDVick at 11/22/2024, 3:08:13 AM
Posted: 11/21/2024 at 11:53 PM ET
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Will any idea what kind of NIL money we had for bball**
DCL 11/21/24 09:13 PM ET
I believe the number is a little less than a million, which just won’t cut
jfrance41 11/22/24 12:40 AM ET
That’s just ridiculous.
cajun_hokie 11/22/24 12:07 PM ET
The argument for VT moving to FCS FB and funding D1 MBB**
40ozDistrict 11/22/24 10:22 PM ET
Wait until you hear about every professional sport **
GCHokie34 11/22/24 01:33 PM ET
Not sure anyone is forcing you to pay
EvDogHokie 11/22/24 12:13 PM ET
The 2022 football coach bidding war and last season's college basketball
TDVick 11/21/24 11:53 PM ET
Our strategy on funding bball NIL amounted to throwing good money after bad
Zanderhokie 11/22/24 11:59 AM ET
Things would be lots better if Miller wasn't a crook and Drones was a QB
N2VT2 11/22/24 07:17 PM ET
I hear ya, but aren’t we paying people a lot of money to figure that out?
Zanderhokie 11/22/24 11:44 PM ET
Non revenue 'Big Boys'?
Techdady 11/22/24 09:21 AM ET
Maybe WB knows he can't spend enough to make a difference in FB MBB.
40ozDistrict 11/22/24 08:35 AM ET
Agreed. It's becoming increasingly obvious we'll never have enough $$$
Zanderhokie 11/22/24 12:01 PM ET
How is this not obvious to WB? I'm baffled how slow those folks minds work.**
40ozDistrict 11/22/24 10:24 PM ET
Mr. Zander, let's hope that is done by a new AD!!**
ancient alien 2018 11/22/24 08:43 PM ET
It’s kinda looking that way
Zanderhokie 11/22/24 11:31 PM ET
Agreed 100%. Hop he goes out gracefully!!**
ancient alien 2018 11/22/24 11:33 PM ET
My opinion.......
2hhoop3 11/22/24 12:14 PM ET
I agree that the strategy and decision making are worse than the resource
TDVick 11/22/24 01:32 PM ET
Whatever the amount, we might as well
Pride_and_Joy 11/21/24 11:27 PM ET
-5**
ancient alien 2018 11/22/24 01:15 PM ET
That is basically my point. All these other schools in the ACC field more
TDVick 11/22/24 09:31 AM ET
Honestly, a lack of NIL explains losing to Jacksonville?
Pride_and_Joy 11/22/24 10:22 AM ET
Good point. I'm a dummy but I hear MY needs to keep kids in his program
40ozDistrict 11/22/24 10:29 PM ET
How are NIL decisions made at VT?
VT ChemE 1986 11/22/24 09:43 AM ET
Here's a link to Triumph NIL "About Us" page
saret 11/22/24 01:19 PM ET
I'm glad to see they've got one of MV2's running buddies involved, plus
King of Hokies 11/22/24 02:19 PM ET
I am an advocate for going "cold turkey" at this stage**
VT ChemE 1986 11/22/24 01:27 PM ET