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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. 
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. 
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Except he isn't the only one to have brought up the possibility of Buzz being attractive to other schools. Multiple national and team sports writers have brought up his name when talking about job openings.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Prediction:
IF Buzz goes to Oklahoma State
Buzz then pummels Texas constantly
Texas fires Shaka Smart
VT hires Shaka Smart
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Look I get we gotta discuss it and all, but at this point it just feels like we're feeding into it.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Better to ignore than to clutch pearls over the twitter feeds of editors at a student newspaper in Milwaukee
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Because the rumors and articles are being written now. Would you just rather we ignore them?
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Why in the world would you want Gotlieb as your coach over Buzz? Has Gotlieb coached anywhere before? Granted, I'd be happy to keep Buzz for a long time, I just don't get where this guy is coming from
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Why can't we wait until after March to discuss?
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. The best indicator I see that Buzz isn't going anywhere is he hasn't said "I'm not going anywhere". As soon as he does, we should start talking about replacement candidates.
"I think a lot of people will be happy, but personally, I'm disappointed," Seth Allen said. "When you set a goal you don't want to come up short, so it's frustrating."
Love the attitude. Me as a fan? Super pumped to have made the NIT. Glad to see the team isn't satisfied though.
IT'S VADER TIME!! (Ric Flair with a great WOO there in the background too)
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Ahh. Would explain the lack in followers. But like I said, not sold on it and I don't think Buzz leaves (yet), but thought I would share.
Gotta be careful. Yeah. Ah, who are we kidding, we're so totally gonna kick their asses!
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Myles Jack injury would be an odd shot in the dark. Writers can have connections anywhere. Not saying I'm sold on it, but having connections at Marquette could mean connections to Buzz.
That's what I did. While everyone else was squabblin' - I went to my local pie shop and grabbed a slice of barbecue pulled pork and a slice of Baltimore Bomb, headed to my local watering hole and enjoyed with a cold beer.
It was a good night.
As a long(er) time Villa supporter (I remember when Gabby Agbonlahor was a local Brummie just breaking into the first team and people thought he'd be, ya know, good one day) I can tell you this season has been a long time coming. Villa has flirted with relegation for the last five years, and it seems every decision takes them from bad to worse, with only temporary reprieve. My best analogy:
Oh no! My finger is bleeding! Well, I'll just cut it off to solve that problem. Oh no, the stump is bleeding! Better cut off my hand. Oh no! Now I need to cut off my arm!
Every decision has been to survive short term with no thought to the long term consequences, which have invariably been terrible. Need a goal scorer to survive? Pay 20M for an older guy who has a season or two left and you'll NEVER be able to sell on for anything close to that. Oh, and pay him an extortionist salary. Then, once he saves you, make him train with the kids when he starts slowing down to make selling him even harder. Cha ching!
You could argue that the raft of young players they brought in over the summer was a longer term plan, but it was mixed with the leftover also rans from what was frankly a BAD team last year and a bunch of over priced rejects or wash outs from better teams that they thought they could salvage. If I had my druthers, they'd hold on to the Jordans, Gana, Adama, Grealish, Baker, MAYBE Gestede, Bacuna and Clark, and put the rest of the squad up for sale or out to pasture. It might take longer to get back to the Prem, but they need to clean out the losers and build again. This team exceeds even our worst basketball seasons at the level of terrible play and incompetent leadership and then acts like they're getting PR advice from the Pharma Bro at every turn.
If you want a project team that you won't be able to watch on tv for at least next year and probably longer, you can find the comic side of ineptitude and you're up for the very risky potential pay off of long term averageness, I welcome you to join the thinning ranks of Villan supporters. If you are looking for happiness, winning and/or entertaining soccer, look elsewhere.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. But if Buzz leaves now, it's a public acknowledgement that everything he preaches is crap. Do I expect him to stay at VT in perpetuity? No. But when you talk as much as he does about service, honor, respect and finishing what you start, you don't bolt after two years of a rebuild. He came here to do a job, and he's about 60% of the way through doing it.
As you said, if he leaves, he invalidates everything he's been preaching since Day 1. He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would do that.
I really think he's going to stick with this until around 2020. At that point, he'll probably move on, but I can't see him doing it earlier. In fact, if he does that, it'll only damage his reputation as a coach for other schools, as others would be hesitant to hire him thinking there's a better than average chance he leaves within 3 years. Short term, it may be good, but long term it would be damaging.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. I had the chance to speak with Mike Burnop at the Hokie Club event in Arlington, VA a few weeks ago and after asking him about Buzz his exact response was, "Whit needs to find a way to keep that man around now..."
He said there is going to be a number of schools with a lot of money in the Big 12 (read: Oklahoma State) that are going to come calling after the biggest turn around a program has seen in the ACC. Not only that - but also look down Tobacco Road... Coach K and Roy are both getting older and within the next few years could be moving on to retirement and straight into the HOF. The pockets of both those alumni bases are even bigger and could lead to an even scarier possibility of Buzz staying in conference...
As much as I like to think Buzz is a man based on principal after everything he's said on and off camera...it's a painful reality that he's not going to be the Frank Beamer of our basketball team. We just better pray that we can find a guy to keep the culture moving in the right direction when the next opportunity presents itself to Buzz & Co.
Great wrrite up Brian and VT better bring their fundamentals because this team will make you pay for mistakes.
So where are the Emma gifs?
this may help!!
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vader253 March 11, 2016 at 7:06 AM
They didn't beat north Carolina,sorry
And people wonder why I really don't like living in Raleigh during basketball season....
Hey, I've got an idea.
Since this is the first time VT has been in a tournament in a while, let's have a thread to capture any unsupported rumors that might be out there about losing the coach we like, no matter how obscure and lame.
That way we can focus on that instead of our team being a number 3 seed in the NIT tournament...