OT: Virginia Tech Football Coaching Staff Considering Fining Players for Infractions?

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This should end well. @normwood: #Hokies DC Bud Foster said coaching staff will explore fining players money from cost-of-attendance funds as future disciplinary measure.
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Mr. Yost

August 26th, 2015 at 7:04 PM ^

When the NFL fines players...they don't dock their salaries, I don't believe. When they SUSPEND players they do.

But if you get fined, for say a late hit...you just pay it like a ticket, right?

The cost of attendance is contractually agreed upon I believe. Wouldn't this be like taking scholarship money or taking away per diem on road trips?

Not sure you can do that, Bud.

He probably thought of this when he was putting back that 24 pack of Natty Light last night with his huge chaw in. (I'm not stereotyping because it's SW Virginia, I've met the man 3-4 times, he's as country as they make'em...one hell of a coach though. You want to meet him? Just go out the night after a big Tech win...he'll be at the bar, guaranteed. And you thought Sark was the only one...)

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FreddieMercuryHayes

August 26th, 2015 at 7:03 PM ^

Good good. They're just asking for a lawsuit and make players officially employees aren't they? It's part of the scholarship isn't it? Either you take the whole scholly for something egregious, or you take nothing.



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jdberkley

August 26th, 2015 at 11:59 PM ^

Beamer hasn't had a lot of oversight since winning his battle for control over the football program with former AD Jim Weaver in 2000. He's been fining coaches for swearing in practice(nothing major, more of a "swear jar" type fine) for the last several years, and either he thought he could apply this sort of thinking to players or somebody in the football office did. I'm reasonably certain the assistants had nothing to do with it-- Foster's getting flak for it because he was the first coach asked about it, and he clearly wasn't prepared to answer the question. VT AD Whit Babcock immediately sent out a press release indicating that he would be discussing this matter with the coaching staff as soon as possible, which I strongly suspect means these fines will never be implemented.

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Perkis-Size Me

August 26th, 2015 at 8:33 PM ^

Hey I've got a great idea!!

Let's start fining players who we make millions off of but don't pay a single cent to!

I like the idea that they're trying to promote discipline and accountability, but this has the mark of future lawsuits written all over it.



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GoBlueNorth

August 26th, 2015 at 9:10 PM ^

1) I'm against paying these kids

if we're not going to pay them beyond their scholly and their stipend

2) I'm really against fining them

There are other ways to discipline these kids!!

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Muttley

August 27th, 2015 at 8:42 AM ^

If instead they instituted a notion of "Fine Currency Debt", now that would be interesting.

Infraction A at price X could be paid by some combination of Stairs (price Y), Gassers (price Z), Etc.

Not very helpful to the team, but interesting.

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