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hoosnowahokie
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Let me ask you this, what happens more? Home visits or recruit event

visits? Everyone has to do the event visits (Well they don't have to, but you know what I mean), and unless you are in the town that event is in, you're spending equal-ish costs for hotels/travel/food etc. I say equal-ish because it depends on where you go and how you hit the town with your recruits and we can quibble on flight costs, but then how often does MY use the private jet? Clearly, Brent's been using it this week, so I don't know if CMY gets to do that or not at this point. But for in-home, at their school visits...do those just not happen nearly as much any more then? I understand that VT misses on recruits, I didn't have time to open that barrel and look at the ones you mentioned and any others from 2020. But for the recruits that VT got, is it not advantageous to have those schools much closer by to evaluate that talent more often, and at a much cheaper price than others? Also, I picked Kansas because they're furthest away of Duke, UK, UNC and KU 😂 And again, I look at UNC's budget for that year. The main cost difference is coaching salary. That was about it. UNC is a 25 min drive from RDU and has similar advantages for travel to games as VT does. Past the money, we know the difference (cache) they have in recruiting, but does that mean UNC is just severely underspending on their program, or are others really just massively overspending? (I lean to the overspending. K was paid $12.4M for 2021 season based on tax returns. That's nuts). It would also be nice if these numbers had some more substance to them about what actually goes into. Thanks for the lengthy response. I appreciate it.
Posted: 06/14/2022 at 04:58 PM ET
(In response to this post by GCHokie34)

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Came from the 247 board...VT dead last in ACC in terms of spending
GCHokie34 06/13/22 09:24 PM ET
Surprised by how low UNC is really. Thought for sure
tylerhokie 06/19/22 09:20 PM ET
If we had $$$ to move the dial, where should we should them?
UpperQuad 06/16/22 12:27 AM ET
Spend some $ on figuring how how to reduce the cash drain from Women's BB
UpperQuad 06/17/22 10:21 AM ET
Kind of misleading...sub in buzz's staff salary and we move to what?
No good points 06/15/22 09:36 AM ET
VT is 13th out of 15 in staff salaries...
GCHokie34 06/15/22 09:38 AM ET
My point is this is mainly a staff $$ comparison, e.g, A&M and Buzz in...
No good points 06/15/22 09:49 AM ET
Buzz's deal...
GCHokie34 06/15/22 11:20 AM ET
got it. I thought Buzz made much more while here, top 25 level(ish).**
No good points 06/17/22 08:26 AM ET
Love having you here, seriously **
BleedinOandM 06/14/22 09:06 PM ET
And VT is putting more effort into Basketball than in the past. No wonder
wwhokie1 06/14/22 05:23 PM ET
Was thinking we were closer to $6.5-$6.8M ish for FY 2021.....
VTScoop 06/14/22 03:01 PM ET
VCU has a pretty good bball program for that monies...**
Bmackattack 06/14/22 01:54 PM ET
So, if we had more money to spend, where would you spend it?**
vtbball80 06/14/22 01:35 PM ET
Apologies for missing this...
GCHokie34 06/15/22 11:33 AM ET
Thanks for the insight. Always interesting.**
vtbball80 06/15/22 02:54 PM ET
People need to dig into the numbers and see that we're not
hoosnowahokie 06/14/22 11:37 AM ET
You're very close but drawing the wrong conclusion...
GCHokie34 06/14/22 04:34 PM ET
you are right, but what's percentage of recruiting cost to total expense?
icelus 06/14/22 05:09 PM ET
Parking at ROA isn't a budget breaker. The west end of RIC is 35 to 40
133743Hokie 06/14/22 05:25 PM ET
yeah, I had to laugh at the discussion of
Pylons 06/17/22 12:27 PM ET
Sorry I thought we were talking about spending. Basketball recruiting is
icelus 06/14/22 05:43 PM ET
Let me ask you this, what happens more? Home visits or recruit event
hoosnowahokie 06/14/22 04:58 PM ET
must mean VT ranks #1 on ROI
MaroonAvenger 06/14/22 10:55 AM ET
Agreed.**
Stork 06/15/22 10:55 AM ET
VT arena (Cassell) is bought and paid for, that will change soon
VictoryTurkey 06/14/22 10:54 AM ET
Could be wrong, but I don't think that's part of bball budget
GCHokie34 06/14/22 01:41 PM ET
Yeah, it's not basketball specific. Unless they dole it out between sports
hoosnowahokie 06/14/22 02:21 PM ET
Yep, that's in a separate debt section.**
Chris ColemanAdmin 06/14/22 01:55 PM ET
Duke is 3rd, are they still financing Cameron?**
BG Hokie 06/14/22 11:24 AM ET
They were paying Coach K well over $10M/yr his last few years
hoosnowahokie 06/14/22 11:39 AM ET
Most conf /means medians down 20-30%? Color me skeptical of those numbers.
marcbvtgm 06/14/22 10:43 AM ET
Disappointing**
Hokdawg 06/14/22 10:35 AM ET
Thanks for the info.**
saret 06/14/22 10:16 AM ET
The Ghost of
Vippie1 06/14/22 08:03 AM ET
Geez**
MrFantastic! 06/14/22 06:09 AM ET