We beat Wofford in football,but they may have left with a big consolation prize:
Giltner expected to be Wofford's next coach
This, on the back of some strange basketball news from Wofford: they fired their last coach, then reportedly had let some players go over housing issues:
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oof.... could be a rough year for Wofford. They are not on our schedule but I am sure there are plenty of schools keeping an eye on this, tough to reschedule anything at this point if Wofford has to cancel the season.
In the NIL world that we currently live in, this just seems absurd.
How big of a blow for us would it be to lose Giltner?
if there isn't WAY more to this, I don't know why anyone would take that job
Looking at this from the outside...just seems a really bad situation to put yourself in for Giltner.
The school fired coaches over an issue players aren't even going to be suspended for? Were they just looking for an excuse to clean house? School really that tight on money they can't afford for athletes to eat free on campus?
Does Giltner get paid if they can't field a team?
Not only that but he's taking the job right when VT athletics are getting a jolt in funding that should help give basketball a little more to work with. Seems like odd timing, unless someone paid him handsomely to come in and hold the fort down for a bit
Wife's family in town, which may be a draw.
But yes, seemingly a difficult situation to go into unless there's more to it.
Yeah, agreed, it's completely screwed up. The school housed the kids, then moved them, which prompted the move off-campus (because they weren't given what they were initially told) and then they fire the coach...and maybe/maybe not the kids are suspended by the NCAA over what amounts to like $100 in food credit. Someone send some Hardee's coupons, and clear this up. Sheesh.
And the NCAA is taking to twitter to say they didn't suspend the players...who followed the coach there and are now enrolled (read: trapped because classes started) for the semester. In the day of NIL, if they had taken a $250k car apiece, nobody would have blinked an eye. But over what turns out to be a Benjie over the entire semester...
Is this the part where CMY grabs the players he needs from Wofford to make it to .500 in the ACC this year?
This actually brings up an important question, can you start the year on one team and then finish it on another team? Can't really do it in football (for now) because you need to enroll but for basketball it could work, bring in some dudes to try and make a run at the tourney as long as you early season record is not bad.
No, because the transfer portal isn't open until after the championship game. You cannot transfer mid-season and be immediately eligible.
What about the 30 day post firing of a coach window? Technically you could enroll for spring semester if they are given this loophole.
They should be able to enroll and play this season since the season hasn't started. They would likely have to wait to play until spring classes start or next quarter if on quarter system. Players are considering suing the school for misinformation that forced them to break a lease on an apartment and other actions taken by Wofford. The food issue violated a school bylaw not NCAA rules.
Players were told they would be in upperclassmen dorms but were placed in freshman dorms so decided to move off campus but were never told by the school that the meal plans were on campus students only.
That the meals plans couldn't be used if living off-campus...and needed to adjust their plans. It was a simple fix, one that could have easily been remedied by "refunding" the extra $100 or so and putting them in the correct off-campus meal plan category.
And yeah, they can transfer now in the 30-day window, but I believe it's similar to football where they wouldn't be eligible until the spring semester. (I think this is different than the original question where they could play a few games for team A, then go to Christmas break say, transfer, and stack a team for the March Madness run in the spring...)
And the fact they used this to fire two coaches and alienate the entire team by publicly announcing the players were ruled ineligible by the NCAA (even though the NCAA had not even been contacted) rather than take those minimal steps to fix an administrative oversight would make me really leery of having anything to do with working under them.
1 million percent. It's an ax to grind, complete incompetence, or a disgruntled employee that just wants to burn everything to the ground.
I'm used to Mike Youngball unexpectedly losing a player weeks before the season starts. First time with a coach though
still time to lose a player
Don't say things like that unless we are stealing from other programs.
Maybe?
Boise St 24/7 guy retweeted by VT's
Anyone know anything about him?
What kind of hire do we see this as?
Boise isn't exactly a high profile bball school
Looks like he has red hair.
I would beg to differ. They have been on a pretty steady run of good teams in the very competitive Mountain West Conference. Most people have viewed the MWC as better than the ACC the last few years. Here are their records and postseason results since 2017:
2017-2018 - 23-9 (14-6), NIT 1st Round
2018-2019 - 13-20 (7-11)
2019-2020 - 20-12 (11-7)
2020-2021 - 19-9 (14-6), NIT 2nd Round
2021-2022 - 27-8 (15-3), NCAA 1st Round
2022-2023 - 24-10 (13-5), NCAA 1st Round
2023-2024 - 22-11 (13-5), NCAA First Four
2024-2025 - 26-11 (14-6), College Basketball Crown (I really thought they deserved a NCAA bid after making it to the MWC Tournament Championship game against Colorado State)
As a VT fan, I would have taken those overall and conference records the last few years. Now, I don't know this guy from Adam, but he's coming from a winning program and seems to be highly regarded as a coach. I think it's a not a bad hire given how close we are to the start of the season.