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Greenberg is out. No new coach hired as of now.

 

Will they put a red circle with a cross through it over his head now that the news is out?

 

I just finished watching the presser. From what I could understand, Weaver was concerned about the exodus of three assistants and a the DOBO (dir. of basketball operations). The final straw apparently was assistant James Johnson heading to Clemson. Weaver went to the school Prez and got the go-ahead to bump up a financial package comparable to what Clemson was offering.

Johnson went to Clemson anyway. There are unconfirmed stories that when all four had their exit interviews, whatever they said, it may have not been very positive about Greenberg.

Very strange timing of this.

 

Word is Greenberg had a recruit on campus today. Bizarre timing.

 

VT botched this thing. In so many ways. Here, let the best columnist in the state tell you....

http://www.roanoke.com/sports/mcfarling/wb/307858

 

Not familiar with Aaron's work, but that's a haircut you could set your watch to!

 

Ha! Yeah. They're no Bama Bangs, though!

I posed the Shaka to VT thing to BYH a few weeks ago. Doesn't really make much sense, unless the VCU AD situation and the upcoming A-10 move pisses him off.

 

Can't imagine VT paying more than Illinois did and they'll be plenty unstable for the next year or two. At least whoever becomes coach doesn't have to worry about firing any staff.

Wonder who'll take the AD job at VCU. Does Florida have any young assistant ADs?

I guess this is better suited for the conference expansion/reorganization/donkey show thread, but the A-10 that much a better destination than the Colonial for a couple of public Virginia schools? Temple's out, Charlotte will be soon and UMass might follow as well. Xavier, Dayton and (presumably) Butler are great, but into each life some Duquesne and LaSalle must fall. Yeah, the A-10 has a better at-large bid record over the last 10 years, but the Colonial is trending up and have two schools (VCU and Drexel) getting top eight seeds in Joe Lunardi's silly little pre-pre-preseason Bracketology. If Mason and VCU hit the road, the CAA could be dead. JMU, Delaware and ODU will have to fast forward whatever FBS plans they have, and the rest of the schools are in trouble deep. William & Mary in the Big South? UNCW in the Atlantic Sun? Towson in the CIAA? (maybe not the last one).

 

Virginia Tech could hire John L. Smith, I hear he is available even though he just took another job somewhere else....oh wait a minute.

 

I hear Tubby will listen. Just signed an extension, but damn it, he wants his name connected to every opening in America.

By the way, North Texas looks like it may have made a pretty good hire yesterday. Considering they are likely headed for C-USA (or whatever that's going to be), they didn't settle. Would have been interested to see what would have happened with Fraschilla:

http://espn.go.com/dallas/ncb/story/_/id/7850281/tony-benford-hired-new-north-texas-mean-green-head-coach