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Good luck with the new job, Joe! Appreciate all that you've done. TKP is, bar none, the best Hokie website on all the internetz
..did...did you do this yourself? For TKP?
You cakers and piers are so funny, neither of your desserts are edible without a scoop of ice cream making it the true king of dessert.
Especially around the time of searching for a new coach, I must've checked the site a trillion times a day.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Semi-tangent here, but I would say NCSU and UVA were pretty different. NCSU is a Tobacco Road blueblood which has won multiple NCAA titles and has quite an extensive basketball history. UVA has a ton of bandwagoners who suddenly became basketball fanatics because Bennett finally made them relevant. Historically, yada yada Ralph Sampson, and that's about it for the Hoos. They do have a wonderful facility in JPJ, but as someone who has been to a few UVA games at JPJ, it's nauseating to see the big season ticket holders show up late and wander around and have social hour during breaks. It's just such a commercial/corporate atmosphere fostered by the elitist culture there. NCST at least has some traditional basketball credibility and a much more rabid/devoted fanbase to fall back on. UVA just throws money at a problem until it works (or doesn't: see UVA football).
DRIVES THE FURY ROAD
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# | Virginia Tech to Face Princeton in 2016 National Invitation Tournament You're asking the important questions around here.
I'm in. When The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights run the table to be crowned NCAA champs you know I'll have won the bracket.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Buzz has plenty of money.
What he seems to want is to build a program from scratch. For some reason, he chose VT. Seems to me he'll see that through until VT has reached the pinnacle of the ACC. That's the challenge the way I see it. Don't know why he'd jump off that to go to a different ACC program unless he started to sense that he isn't going to be able to do that, or didn't get along with the administration at VT. So far, no signs of any of that.
Seems to me that VT has the right mix of challenge and potential for a guy like Buzz. With the success he's had so far, I don't know why he'd abandon that at this point.
DRIVES THE FURY ROAD
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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 have a gut feeling that Buzz, in addition to being a badass, is also grooming Issac Chew for the top role. He's Buzz's right hand man and rumor has it he's turned down some head coaching offers before (Non P5). If I'm not mistaken I think CBS Sports also named him one of the top assistants in the country fairly recently, so it's only a matter of time before he bails to get a head coaching gig somewhere. So whenever Buzz does leave us to go back to the midwest (hopefully years and years down the line) Chew could come back home to Blacksburg and keep the train rolling along. By then he would have some head coaching experience to go along with the Buzz culture and teachings. Anyway, that's my theory. Zero sauces involved. Also: Chew coached at Murray State. That seems to translate to good things at VT.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Honestly, I dont see Buzz leaving Tech for another ACC school. Not even UNC or Duke. I think that if he goes somewhere else it will be a Big12 school or a Big10 school, since he hasnt yet left his mark on either of those conferences. I expect that he will stay at Tech at least until we make a good run at the tournament and possibly even beyond that. I would imagine alot will have to do with who remains in charge above him. If Tech keeps Whit and Dr Sands, then that becomes less of an issue in terms of Buzz leaving. If either leave, than it will probably depend on their replacements approach to the game and team before he makes a decision.
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# | Virginia Tech to Face Princeton in 2016 National Invitation Tournament Well maybe you don't...
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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 forget many things, but I'll never forget what it's like there in Jan/Feb.
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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. I think you are forgetting what is was like in January/February, when wait for the bus became skip class on the walk to the bus stop.
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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 remember back in the day, it was nothing to walk, jog or bike everywhere in Bburg. Literally everywhere, North Main to South, Jefferson Apartments to Hethwood.
I didn't think anything of it, other than planning the travel time.
Time to go take care of my lawn.
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. Oh wow, I didn't know that. I'm just so accustomed to Frank and his 29 years. Thanks!
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. It makes little sense, but not for the reasons you mention. If he's anything, Buzz is a forward thinker. A big reason, albeit not the only reason, he left Marquette and the Big East was because he saw the writing on the wall for the separation between the haves and have nots in college athletics and that football was going to be writing the checks. Do people think it's an accident that Buzz chose a football school with an underdeveloped basketball program?
Other than the anti-ACC all-the-time chicken-little crowd over at TSL, any reasonable person would look at the combination of basketball prowess and conference viability over the next 5-10 years and would see the ACC as the better bet over the Big 12.
OK St may be closer to home, but it's still not home. And OK St may have the better basketball history (actually not "may" have...), but going from 2 to 3 seasons in rebuild mode to 4 to 6 seasons in rebuild mode in the prime of one's career would have to wear on anyone with a competitive streak in them; there is only so much enjoyment one can get from being patient and having teachable moments. At some point you want to see the efforts come to fruition.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see Buzz going in that direction right now. Buzz may seem impulsive, but I think he's far more calculating than meets the eye.
Yeah, it seems like we played against all of our transfers this season (Brown, Smith, JVZ).
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# | At some point we are going to have a conversation about Buzz leaving rumors , it might as well start now. If we were still in the Big East, absolutely, I would bounce from VT to NCSU and not think twice about it. There is potential at NCSU to climb faster than there is at VT, and there is far less building from within that would need to happen to sustain the level at which he'd take them. Yes, Duke and UNC dominate the region when it comes to basketball acumen, but don't forget that NCSU has boatloads of money as well. They might not necessarily have the revenue streams of the others, but they have a fairly large endowment, and they would much rather go for broke in basketball than in football, something those others would never consider.
I took UNC over Kansas in the final.
Top 10 ways VT's players disrespect their country and their flag! Number 3 will shock you!
You already know that someone will report on it again next year and go "LOOKS LIKE THE VIRGINIA TECH MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM IS STILL MISBEHAVING DURING THE ANTHEM"
Usually you don't need a ticket for your "lil man"...
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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 think this is very harshly worded. If you had said something like "I think it would help our broadcast image if he played a little nicer with the @$$*$ in the local media", I could have agreed. This just looks like you are trying to find fault and be insulting about it based on one incident where he kept you waiting.
Silly Joe, thinking you'll be able to start a new job and focus the morning after the Hokies with the NIT. If you find that there are minutiae/administrative junk that you need to delegate, hit me up.
Happy birthday to TKP! What a great year it has been, with more and more outstanding content from the staff, great discussion from the community, and a whole lot of not staying on topic that makes this place the best.