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Does Dell have any more sons?

I have always hated seth greenberg. he recruits and has a bunch of thugs on his team.

He couldn't spell class if you spotted him 4 letters.

I hope Huggins gives him a job pushing a broom on the court or something in Morgantown so the fans can heckle him.

Please...someone who supports thug gins talking about thugs and class???n. I've officially heard everything

somebody needs some consoling...

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but after today it will be hard to suport an athldept that has hurt my fam & handled a sitch so poorly for unnecessary unexplanable reasons
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i will always be a graduate of VT & always cherish my time in bburg, hokie nation has been so supportive..
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so proud of my dad, couldnt have been more fortunate to share my 4 years in college with my family...

LoL

It's also clear that SG was essentially Friedgened: fired because his assistants were leaving and the AD didn't think it was worth it to put one year's worth of lipstick on the pig.

I wonder why all the assistants left for arguably lower profile positions. I also wonder why Weaver didn't talk to him over the weekend and make the exit a little more graceful for SG. Right or wrong, unless something happened that we don't know about, this was handled pretty poorly.

I know, I know, it couldn't have happened to a better guy.

I actually agree, but it seems that Weaver sees this as similar in the way Weaver describes Greenberg's lame duck status.

I would have just dealt with whatever until next March. Are they going to really get the guy they want right now?

Wait, Because he signed a LOI, if Harrell goes to another ACC school, doesn't he have to sit a year and lose that year of eligibility (see Gus Gilchrist). Dumb ACC rule, right? Or do I remember that scenario incorrectly?

If I am right, he will stay at VT or be in another conference then. No way this kid sits a year.

That was his problem-the better a player, the more greenberg let him get away with. no discipline.

Which is why he never won anything and ended up being fired for being what he is-a loser.

A lot of coaches recruit questionable players, but the good ones control them and are strong on discipline.

He also oozed slime. Weaver said he had a workshop and 182 fulltime members of the athletic dept attended. But he noted Greenberg did not.And he said he made his mind up at that point.
I think greenberg thought he was too good to go to the Hokie workshop. He likely did not consider himself part of and subordinate to the AD. When you win just 4 games in your conference you damn sure better attend things that the AD holds dear-like his workshop.

I'm all for Greenberg bashing, but how does anything you said support the claim that he's dirty? And how does a Bob Huggins fan call any other coach in America dirty?

I think the VT AD screwed up. If you look at the timing, clearly he was blindsided by assistant James Johnson leaving for Clemson. He obviously wasn't on top of the state of the program. If Weaver knew Greenberg had such terrible relationships with everyone, it would've made sense to pull the trigger after the ACC tourney loss. Instead we end up trying to make a hire during recruiting evaluations at the end of April. VT can be a tough job, but Weaver just made it worse and increased the likelihood we'll be searching for a new coach in 4 years or so, which will really dagger the program.

Only if VT blocks and given all of the negative attention blocking transfers has received in the past year I'd be shocked if VT blocked him and even if they did I doubt they'd enforce the two year rule.

If only twitter was around (or as popular as it is now) back when Gus was here.