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Coastal Carolina, blue fish, and YOU ! Gotta pick em, gotta love em.
Exactly this! I thought by making it through selection Sunday he was safe for a year. Apparently not.
Give a lot of credit to ltrepeter2000 for writing up a great article on this very subject earlier:
Right here.
Frank Martin? He wouldn't make my top 20 list. He won at KSU mostly with Huggy Bears' (shady) recruits and then left because a potential mass exodus of his players. In two years at USCe, he's beaten #17 Kentucky and that's about it and IMO, there's no room in the game anymore to treat your players like dog poo. Just my opinion but I would not be happy if we hired Frank Martin.
There's no way in hell Shaka is coming to VT:
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/20/shaka-smarts-new-c...
That contract is filthy
http://www.hokiesports.com/mbasketball/recaps/20140317aaa.html
Might be the fastest hokie sports has ever reported something like this.
Always liked Coach JJ. Very personable and always nice to the fans at chalk talks. Wish him the best!
I like the names mentioned how about Cliff Ellis down at Coastal Carolina?
He can definitely teach them how to get open.
Danny Manning is my favorite at well.
I hope JJ finds a job that is better suited for him to come in and have success. He got a lousy hand here at VT, and now he's got to find work again. It's a shame to have happened to him, but it's business.
Best wishes to Coach JJ.
Call up Duke & UNC, see how much they want for their guys! Also, we could resurrect John Wooden under an assumed alias!
When he decided last week to keep Wolf, I knew the handwriting was on the wall. No way he was making 2 BB searches in one year.
I think Whit has put the feelers out through back channels (going back to before he started) and there is someone (or several) interested parties.
I wish JJ the best. Think he is a classy guy and top notch coach...just not ready for the ACC head coaching and to play the hand he was dealt. Looking back, I wish Cheapy (...I mean Weaver) could have gotten a golden years coach (maybe out of retirement) to HC to straighten the mess and groom JJ for the job...the. He could step out this year and promote JJ. Alas, here we go.
Let the Shaka, Greg, etc to BBurg rumors begin!
I disagree with the decision, but it's not my call. Now the question becomes who they get to replace him.
I'm anxious to see what Whit does. The next decision he makes is going to be an important one for his career with VT
Though I've never really been into basketball, I hope the next coach is put into position to succeed. Johnson really wasn't, given the circumstances around his hiring.
Can Danny Coale coach basketball?
So JJ just got fired, this list becomes very relevant. I'm not going to stop putting out this name: Dave Smart from Carleton University in Canada has won 15 straight CIS national championships. Add in Mike Cronin, Whit's hire at Cincy. I think the coach will probably come from the A-10 or AAC.
I'm surprised but not surprised, if that makes any sense. I felt this decision could go either way. I feel really bad for Coach Johnson and the situation he was in. Great guy, and I'm sure he'll find a new position elsewhere.
Thanks, JJ, for your efforts at VT, and best wishes.
If there's one positive takeaway here (for me at least), it's that our new AD is decisive. He didn't wait around on this one. He assessed, and he made a change. For better or worse, at least that tells me he has a vision for what he wants and feels he can make things happen. Bravo to Whit for that.
As much as I like Michigan State as a tournament team, they always seem to have a game where the three ball doesn't fall and they lose before they should have.
Same I'm from michigan and I have Michigan St winning in 3 of my 4 brackets. I hate Michigan though
Wow. Best of luck to you JJ.
Guess Whit has an ace up his sleeve (I.e. Big time coach).
JJ just fired per ESPN
I have Florida in my Billion Dollar Bracket. If I win, I will be sharing with VT.