Teams · RUTS program report · CFB · Blacksburg, VA
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Virginia Tech Hokies

Full department read: how the Team Visibility Score is built, what the calendar is worth in content units, which audience pools are addressable, and the 90-day sequence to move the number.

TVS
22.9
24h
+0.5%
CFB rank
#37 / 41
Posture
Prove
Tier 4 · Latent · scored on tracked market inputs · TVS = SPS×0.1 + MVS×0.4 + CSRS×0.1 + DSPS×0.4
Layer 1 · decomposition

Where the score comes from

Each input normalized against the league leader, then weighted. The contribution column is what actually moves TVS.

InputRawWeightNormalizedContribution
MVS · Media visibility
Broadcast + national media impressions across the season window.
123.2M40%
44.4 index
17.8
DSPS · Digital / social
Owned + earned social reach across team, athlete and fan channels.
93.1M40%
22.5 index
9
CSRS · City / state / diaspora
Addressable population in-market plus diaspora communities that convert.
44K10%
1.1 index
0.1
SPS · Stadium presence
Gate capacity — the physical activation surface per home date.
66K10%
61 index
6.1
Layer 2 · content inventory

What the calendar is actually worth

  • 13 scheduled eventsEach one is a pre / live / post content unit — three placements minimum.
  • 104 clip slotsEight harvestable clips per event at conservative capture.
  • 459,424 season attendance7 home dates × 65,632 seats — the physical activation surface.
  • 110 athlete channelsDistribution nodes the program does not currently monetize.
Layer 3 · audience pools

Who is addressable

In-market metro
Blacksburg, VA core catchment
44K
Season gate
7 home dates × 65,632 seats
459K
Social reach
Owned + athlete + fan channels
93.1M
Media impressions
Broadcast, syndication, national press
123.2M
Engagement volume
24h interaction throughput
320K
Layer 4 · modeled return
Year-one sponsorable inventory band
$200K – $658K
Blended effective CPM
$2644.81
Tier
Tier 4 · Latent

Band assumes the 104 clip slots and 13 event windows are packaged and sold as one season product, with the Blacksburg market and athlete channels routed through a shared ledger. Low end is inventory-only; high end includes diaspora and commerce activation.

Layer 4b · commercial base

Businesses in this market

Who can actually write the check — firm counts, output and category budget in the club market.

Blacksburg, VA · commercial market
88 / 100
Market output
$720B
annual GDP in the footprint
Employer firms
240K
businesses that can buy inventory
Small businesses
936K
incl. non-employer firms
Addressable pool
$55.4M
local sponsor $ per year
Club marketBlacksburg, VA · VA$720B · 240K firms
Where the budget sits
Banking & insurance$7.5M
Tech & software$7.2M
Healthcare systems$6.6M
Auto & dealer groups$6.0M
QSR & beverage$5.0M
Retail & commerce$5.0M
Interest lanes · breadth 1.28×
Fitness & wellness · $16.7M

1 declared interest lane unlock 30% of the local sponsor pool — a 1.28× breadth multiplier on reach.

  • · Blacksburg, VA is the commercial anchor — $720B of output and 239,968 employer firms inside the footprint.
  • · Banking & insurance holds the largest slice of local budget here (14% of the pool, ~$7,533K a year) — lead the sell there.
  • · 935,875 small businesses sit in these markets. Small-business packages are the fastest revenue to close because they need no national approval.
  • · This business base is why Virginia Tech Hokies carries earnings potential beyond raw follower count.
Virginia Tech Hokies · earning potential, market cap & fan economy
4× · vis 22.9
Annual earning potential
$3.1M
$1.7M – $5.6M
Market cap
$12.4M
$4.9M – $30.0M
Sponsorship band
$2.1M
$1.1M – $3.8M / yr
Fan economy
$1.8M
29,459 fans · $60/yr
Fan economy split
Gate & live attendance$725K
Merchandise & licensed product$601K
Digital, content & subscriptions$442K
  • · Visibility 22.9 converts to a 2.9% capture rate against a $55.4M local sponsor pool.
  • · 29,459 monetizable fans at $60/yr drive $1.77M of fan-economy revenue.
  • · Capitalized at a 4x revenue multiple. Modeled estimate, not a reported valuation.
  • · Every figure above is Virginia Tech Hokies's market economy priced through visibility — move the visibility score and the whole stack moves with it.
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Layer 5 · execution

90-day activation plan

Phase-gated. Each block ends in a re-score, not a report.

Days 0–30 · Baseline
  • · Lock the VT score sheet: verify Stadium presence as the lead asset (61 index).
  • · Audit every owned handle and map the 110 athlete channels into one distribution graph.
  • · Price the 104 clip slots against comparable CFB inventory before any sell motion.
Days 31–60 · Build
  • · Close the City / state / diaspora gap — it is the lowest normalized input at 1.1.
  • · Stand up 3 recurring franchises around the 7 home dates (pre / live / post).
  • · Build a Blacksburg/VA civic lane — local commerce converts before national does.
Days 61–90 · Monetize
  • · Package 13 events into a season sponsor tier at the modeled band.
  • · Route athlete-channel inventory into the shared rev-share ledger.
  • · Re-score at day 90; target +7.7 TVS on the next pull.
Layer 5b · storyline & value

Team analysis

Live headlines, combined roster reach, sourced franchise value and viewership — storyline written only from the pulled articles.

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Program details · Blacksburg, Virginia

User-supplied College D1 Sports Teams workbook, 2026-09-07. Social handles are best-known official accounts; verify on each athletics site before use. No follower counts.

SportConferenceVenueSeatsXInstagramSite
FootballACCLane Stadium65,632@HokiesFB@hokiesfbsite
BasketballACCCassell Coliseum8,960@HokiesMBB@hokiesmbbsite
W BasketballACCCassell Coliseum8,960@HokiesMBB@hokiesmbbsite
W SoftballACCTech Softball Park1,200@HokiesSB@hokiessbsite
BaseballACC——@HokiesMBB@hokiesmbbsite
W SoccerACC——@HokiesMBB@hokiesmbbsite
W VolleyballACC——@HokiesMBB@hokiesmbbsite
SoccerACC——@HokiesMBB@hokiesmbbsite
Layer 5c · surprises

Concealed value on this roster

Who is worth more than the attention they get — plus the full report as a PDF.

Players at or above this roster's median RUTS whose followers and 90-day press lag behind. Gap = RUTS minus attention. Only measured follower or press counts qualify — unknown never counts as low reach. Modeled, not reported.

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Layer 6 · roster

Roster on file

Read live from the athlete database — every name opens that athlete's own RUTS page.

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Layer 6 · live feed

Roster & schedule

Pulled from the official league feed, every athlete scored on the RUTS spine.

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