Did they get a bump in NIL funding?

Who dont fund their programs Women's basketball (much like all non-rev sports) is a matter of which schools choose to fund the sport VT does well in wrestling because not nearly as many fully fund the sport Coastal Carolina chooses baseball Akron chooses soccer But in sports where everyone funds the bare minimum at least (i.e. football and mens basketball) being at the bottom levels of that funding makes talent acquisition difficult Hope this helps

I was looking for your latest spins on both mens and womens BB teams - like your perspective! My sense is that the women did better than the men this cycle and that any impact from BOV $$$, CJF push, new AD hire will impact both teams in 2028 vs 2027...? But the womens team seems to be ahead of mens on paper...

Lets put some arbitrary amounts out there to illustrate the point... Lets say mens basketball is in a conference whose funding is like this Team 1: 10 mil Team 2: 9.5 mil Team 3: 9 mil Team 4: 8.5 mil Team 5: 8 mil Team 6: 7.5 mil Virginia Tech: 7 mil Team 7: 6.5 mil Team 8: 6 mil Team 9: 5.5 mil While middle of the pack, the gap between VT and the best team would be manageable On the women's side, lets say it looks like this Team 1: 3 million Team 2: 2.7 million Team 3: 2.4 million Virginia Tech: 2.1 million Team 4: 1.8 million Team 5: 500k Team 6: 250k Team 7: 125k Team 8: 100k Team 9: 100k Now lets say it is decided both mens and women's programs are going to be cut by 20% for next season The budgets would like like this on the mens side Team 1: 10 million Team 2: 9.5 million Team 3: 9 million Team 4: 8.5 million Team 5: 8 million Team 6: 7.5 million Team 7: 6.5 million Team 8: 6 million Virginia Tech: 5.6 million Team 9: 5.5 million And on the women's side Team 1: 3 million Team 2: 2.7 million Team 3: 2.4 million Team 4: 1.8 million Virginia Tech: 1.68 million Team 5: 500k Team 6: 250k Team 7: 125k Team 8: 100k Team 9: 100k Both teams are affected, but because the bottom half of the women's league doesnt fund their programs, you still have access to the top half of the talent within the league But for men's, they would move further down the list and go from competing for the middle third of the talent to the bottom third of the talent. You can then decide to pool that money and try to gain access to a short few higher tier players and have depth issues or you can spread the money around and have top end talent issues. But for the women, they don't need to make the same concessions. Their losses are marginal in comparison to their peers so if they make some good evaluations it could be as though they didnt lose much funding at all (or it could be detrimental if they do make mistakes in evaluating talent...like everyone else)

could pay a big return in on-court success. Glad it seems we’re doing so.

Hope this helps

recruits! Great job by Duffy and staff!!

Women's hoops at VT has more funds relative to some of their conference peers than the men's team does. Women's hoops at VT has a better recruiter as HC than the men's team does. It's not either/or. Money has always been part of recruiting, whether that shows up in facilities or direct payments to players. But the vision, track record, charisma and salesmanship of the recruiter matters too.

into the discussion. I was merely pointing out that the WBB seems to be doing really well with recruiting. But I’ll stop — as this apparently doesn’t belong on the MBB board.

Here are the traditional expenditures of the women's program for the last three years, per our financial reports... FY23: $5.29 million FY24: $7.21 million FY25: $6.5 million So after making the Final Four (FY23), we appear to have given Kenny a lot more resources (FY24). Then he left anyway, and our support dropped a bit (FY25). FY25 was Duffy's first year, so it's hard to say if we dropped support a bit, or if she just didn't spend as much, or some of both. We'll know the FY26 numbers at this time next year, so the sample size will be bigger. But this a better conversation for the women's hoops board.

It should be a fun season ahead.