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TresKidneys t1_iu4o744 wrote

Reply to comment by lemon_difficult90 in Rollout of VCU-branded beer paused after concerns from university community, family of Adam Oakes by woodubahoo

Actually you hit the nail on the head! I started in 2005 and VCU was kind of seen as a misfit art college. That was the fun of it though, you were in a big city, not closed off from it. I don’t know, maybe the change was going to happen no matter what, but I think a sudden influx of NCAA money definitely sped things up.

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lemon_difficult90 t1_iu4om4g wrote

I think you’re right again! Some of it was probably inevitable, but the choices that the administration made kicked it into turbo. A lot of the problem seems to be Rao, and I do wonder if Trani or somebody else would have done it all the same way.

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TresKidneys t1_iu4oyuh wrote

Didn’t Rao explicitly state that his goal for VCU was real estate? Maybe I’m misremembering, it feels like he’s been there a lifetime.

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lemon_difficult90 t1_iu4p2uc wrote

I don’t know for sure, but it would certainly make sense if he did.

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TresKidneys t1_iu4q1cs wrote

Well either way, I’m glad to know there are people that remember VCU wasn’t always a basketball program with a library attached

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