Hiroshima?

[mixINaWILSON]

Buzz to V. Tech.

[keefe]

It's true. He is desperate.

http://chat.virginiatech.sportswar.com/message_board/vtbasketball/2014/March/18/20157.php

[chapman]

That's silly, Virginia Tech doesn't even have a basketball team.   

[Skitch]

According to a thread on Reddit, Buzz had all but accepted the job already on Monday.  Then again if I remember correctly the source was a conversation overheard at the airport.

[mr.MUskie]

According to a thread on Reddit, Buzz had all but accepted the job already on Monday.  Then again if I remember correctly the source was a conversation overheard at the airport.

http://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/20lg65/buzz_williams_leaving_marquette_for_virginia_tech/

[NotAnAlum]

Wouldn't make much sense.  Going to a second tier ACC school that hasn't done anything in basketball for a long time.  With the power houses in the ACC he'd be lucky to finish better than middle for the foreseeable future.  Not a great recruiting base.  No religious focus.
Plus he's got a solid recruiting class coming in, a shot at Diamond and his staff is all set.
Buzz doesn't seem like the type to cut and run after one bad year.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Buzz doesn't seem like the type to cut and run after one bad year.

[buckchuckler]

Wouldn't make much sense.  Going to a second tier ACC school that hasn't done anything in basketball for a long time.  With the power houses in the ACC he'd be lucky to finish better than middle for the foreseeable future.  Not a great recruiting base.  No religious focus.
Plus he's got a solid recruiting class coming in, a shot at Diamond and his staff is all set.
Buzz doesn't seem like the type to cut and run after one bad year.

Does VT count as second tier? 

[Dawson Rental]

http://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/20lg65/buzz_williams_leaving_marquette_for_virginia_tech/

My favorite comment came from someone using a Texas Longhorns avatar:

"Dammit, he was supposed to replace Rick."

[brandx]

Back to the annual silliness. Are these posters really that desperate for someone, anyone to pay attention to them?

[Tugg Speedman]

Babcock knows he'd better get Virginia Tech basketball hire 'right'

http://articles.dailypress.com/2014-03-19/sports/dp-spt-teel-column-vt-hoops-presser-20140319_1_seth-greenberg-virginia-tech-hokies

March 19, 2014|David Teel

Much will hinge on money. Johnson was making approximately $700,000 annually, a package Tech may need to double for his successor. Moreover, the school owes Johnson more than $800,000 over the next three years and Greenberg, fired in 2012, approximately $600,000 over the next two.

Wow, next year they will pay $1.4 million to coaches not on campus.  And the article says they may go as high as $1.4 million.

The marquee hire for which fans pine and Babcock should aim? Good luck.

I can't imagine Texas' Rick Barnes returning to his rural ACC roots — he's from Hickory, N.C., and coached Clemson. I doubt Marquette's Buzz Williams, Cincinnati's Mick Cronin, VCU's Shaka Smart, Harvard's Tommy Amaker or Roanoke native Gregg Marshall of undefeated Wichita State would consider Tech.

The Los Angeles Times' Bill Plaschke reported recently that former UCLA coach Ben Howland wants back in the business, but other than four years at Pitt, he's a West Coast lifer. As a player, Danny Manning led Kansas to a national title, but are two seasons as Tulsa's head coach enough?


$1.4 million is a pay cut for all these guys.  Raise you hand if you want to take a pay cut and go to a revolving door job that will have empty cupboards?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Amker is a bad fit, period.  His Michigan tenure proved that.  Harvard is a great place for him and the only jobs that will lure him away is Duke with K leaves (carried out) or maybe Stanford.

Marshall is inline for a "real" college basketball job, not go and disappear into the Virginia backwoods.  Did he insult someone to deserve this mention?



No, history says Tech will land a successful head coach who's not an ESPN darling. Winthrop's Pat Kelsey, Ole Miss' Andy Kennedy, Wofford's Mike Young, George Washington's Mike Lonergan, Xavier's Chris Mack, Dayton's Archie Miller, Southern Mississipppi's Donnie Tyndall and Louisiana Tech's White spring to mind.

None of those names, it must be stressed, come from Babcock or anyone at Tech. They're the musings of your friendly keyboard jockey and some of his coaching contacts.

How about doing what lots of successful programs so ... hire a hot shot assistant.  VT is in the ACC and I'm sure there are lots to pick from.  

Chris Mack is never take this job, the author just shows his ignorance with this name in his article.

[Dawson Rental]

Every year not too long ago, every BCS conference school with an opening thought that they could get Sean Miller away from Xavier.  It took Arizona, a school with a lot of advantages to finally make it happen.  I predict it'll take a lot to pry Mack loose, too.

[wadesworld]

It could happen.

[Tugg Speedman]

Every year not too long ago, every BCS conference school with an opening thought that they could get Sean Miller away from Xavier.  It took Arizona, a school with a lot of advantages to finally make it happen.  I predict it'll take a lot to pry Mack loose, too.

I agree ... I'm not saying Mack will not leave X.  I'm saying he's not going to VT, that's a backward move.

[Warrior Code]

It's true. He is desperate.

http://chat.virginiatech.sportswar.com/message_board/vtbasketball/2014/March/18/20157.php

That website is a mess.

[Wisco]

Their fans are delusional. They are the basketball joke of this state.

A troll from their board came over to the VCU forum and insisted that Shaka was interested in going there and was a small contract negotiation away from doing so.

I hope no one here actually buys this nonsense.

[Norm]

I saw that Jeff Bzdelik resigned from Wake Forest this afternoon. Now there's a job that could interest people more than the Virginia Tech job. It has a better history in basketball than VT, with good backing from the university and is also a member of the ACC.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Some pretty pitiful fans over there at the Va Tech board. Saying how the Big East will be irrelevant in 3 years and they cant recruit. What was that again TAMU? Tied with Kentucky...I mean the SEC for 2nd most top 100 recruits next year?

[77ncaachamps]

I saw that Jeff Bzdelik resigned from Wake Forest this afternoon. Now there's a job that could interest people more than the Virginia Tech job. It has a better history in basketball than VT, with good backing from the university and is also a member of the ACC.

Masiello?!

[chapman]

Some pretty pitiful fans over there at the Va Tech board. Saying how the Big East will be irrelevant in 3 years and they cant recruit. What was that again TAMU? Tied with Kentucky...I mean the SEC for 2nd most top 100 recruits next year?

Who are we to say?  They know what irrelevancy looks like!  This would be a lateral move at best...for Oliver Purnell.

[MUfan12]

Apparently John Feinstein was on DC radio this morning, and said VT is going hard after Buzz.

[Spotcheck Billy]

I saw that Jeff Bzdelik resigned from Wake Forest this afternoon. Now there's a job that could interest people more than the Virginia Tech job. It has a better history in basketball than VT, with good backing from the university and is also a member of the ACC.

Ron Wellman, the AD that hired him should also "resign"

Wake is my 2nd favorite team (going back to the Mugsy Bogues era)

[Golden Avalanche]

Apparently John Feinstein was on DC radio this morning, and said VT is going hard after Buzz.

I'm not sure why people in this thread are so dismissive of Buzz leaving Marquette. Given his job history, he likely had itchy feet two years ago.

Tech is a dumpster fire of a program but has a beautiful campus and is southern manners by nature (well, other then Cho). Plus, they'll be buried in the ACC for the near future and could provide Buzz with the no pressure, low expectations employment he seems to crave.

[Hards Alumni]

I'm not sure why people in this thread are so dismissive of Buzz leaving Marquette. Given his job history, he likely had itchy feet two years ago.

Tech is a dumpster fire of a program but has a beautiful campus and is southern manners by nature (well, other then Cho). Plus, they'll be buried in the ACC for the near future and could provide Buzz with the no pressure, low expectations employment he seems to crave.

No.  More money here, everything is built for him... If you really think the pressure is high here, you need to get off of the boards more.  I'd wager that unless Buzz missed the NCAA Tournament 3 years in a row with no hopes of getting back on the horizon he would be pressured.  As long as he keeps making the tourney, there is no other pressure.  Some fans around here probably should be a bit more realistic.  This is a great job, and the only reason a coach should leave is for a top tier program.

[Coleman]

I'm not sure why people in this thread are so dismissive of Buzz leaving Marquette. Given his job history, he likely had itchy feet two years ago.

Tech is a dumpster fire of a program but has a beautiful campus and is southern manners by nature (well, other then Cho). Plus, they'll be buried in the ACC for the near future and could provide Buzz with the no pressure, low expectations employment he seems to crave.

This is the most absurd reasoning for a coach going to another program....they leave for a program in the crapper because they crave low pressure. Are you kidding me? Buzz wouldn't be a high level coach if he didn't relish pressure and the rush that winning gives you. Its in the nature of a competitive person. You don't get this far if you relish low-pressure situations.

Buzz is not going to VT. Stop trolling