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VT One OP
Mar 13, 2025 at 08:36 AM ET
Louisville is the only model to look at. From the absolute outhouse to the
penthouse in one season. Money plus a competent coach and they added 20 wins to their total in one season(and they’re not done yet). I happen to believe that we have a competent coach. So give him the money to buy a roster and let’s roll.

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tallahasseehokie tallahasseehokie
U know how much Annual giving their 🏀 program gets?
Before Covid it was $30 million annual gifts same as UK. They r far from being a model for VT
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VT One OP
Fair point. I knew there was a big difference in money but my point is that
we have a good coach. Give him enough money to attract better players than we have. We don’t have to win 20 more games next year. Six to eight more could possibly put us in the NCAA discussion.
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ancient alien 2018
Expected to have 4-5 times the cash this off-season compared to last.
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2hhoop3
While it certainly is more........
resources than the previous year, it remains to be seen how competitive the new number will be relative to the competition. CMY played it pretty close to the vest early on about resources and how the calls were made for this year but, it is my opinion those decisions need to be reevaluated and those responsible held firmly accountable for any mistakes made.
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NokieHokie
LOL accountability at VT? :)
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ancient alien 2018
Well stated. More for VT hoops certainly doesn't mean other teams stay
at their current levels. It will just be nice if CMY can at least be in the game for more talented portal players. Will that happen? He said in his post game presser that it is going to happen, so we just wait and watch the action I suppose.
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MFWHokie0607
We got their coaches player though he didnt want to take with him to Lville
Burnham !
NC Hoke NC Hoke
Louisville burned it down and bought it back up to Louisville standards.
Yeah, a credible argument could be made for doing the same thing here, except as you say we don’t need to replace the coach, and I would kind of like to hang on to Lawal. We could certainly make a case for replacing all of our guards and buying that group up to high major standard.
YBYSAIAHokie YBYSAIAHokie
Are there any players at JMU, VCU, Richmond, Liberty, ODU we could use?
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Spider73
Why would a starting player at VCU (Lawal excepted?)
Come here? Their program is much better than ours. Their top 7-8 would start for us. but I expect their coach to be at NCS or UVA next year which could …… No meaningful help until our NIL gets competitive.
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soflahokie
Lawal was not a starter at VCU
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JackDSML
Did they think they were ass prior to this season?
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FlossEmVT
Yes great question/point. Something’s wrong from the inside of VT b-ball.
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soflahokie
Louisville has a top 10 NIL budget for basketball, we might be top 100
Louisville spent over $20M this year across football and basketball, keep in mind this is before rev sharing so expect that number to double.
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VT One OP
Understood. So with a third of their budget could we get 4-5 more wins? Or
6 or 7? Better players, with a competent coach equals more wins.
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soflahokie
For sure, that would mean increasing our budget from like $800k to $2.5M
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ancient alien 2018
It will be more than that this year. CMY will have the cash to buy more
talent.