Looks like uva is trying to buy reputation

Uva outbidded one of vt leading architecture department / faculty to become associate dean at uva. His speciality was community outreach …vt didnt make any opportunity match

When vt built the r&d campus in roanoke - vt got one of the leading geome experts to come to vt. He came from uab medical. Vt gave him salary- lab and stsff to create a one of a kind cemter. Its amazing ..

Uva is late in the r&d game. They offered him a package - increased salary staff and budget. He left.

So lesson is the pressures of competition by universities in the athletic world is just as ruthless in the academic world. Universitiss need to be prepared to hunker down and schools that cant compete are left behind