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It happens. I'm sure Erick would have rather stayed than left, but he def has to look out for his best interest. If, for example, we hired a coach that doesn't believe the PG should ever shoot- he should only facilitate, I would not blame Erick if he wanted to play elsewhere.

I'm glad he and the other players seem to like JJ and are excited to play for him. Now we just need a few more players (only have 8 scholarship players on the roster without Harrell and Wood)

As a VT fan Im somewhat offended by Eric Green's tweet. Was he really considering transferring!? shows how much school pride he has.

Nuff said

i can see where it will work, young, liked, knows how to recruit in the acc, vs some mid major guy who has never recruited at this level (i.e. runners and aau coaches.) we'll see, it's obvious they struck out on bigger names and that's ok too. bburg is not a destination job in cbb.

what i don't want and have seen, is saying jj caused sg to be fired then took his job. not accurate.
a semi tl as i understand/deducted it ...

• sg was a jerk to many, unless it benefited him.
• the last few yrs, players and coaches left.
• this yr, a coach and bb op guy left ... for step down jobs.
• 3 players, all starters wanted to leave after this season. they were talked back in, but certainly not a given.
• jj leaves, on his way out, talked and was candid (i.e. not his press answers) with jw.
• richardson leaves for a step down job (the straw that broke the camel's back)
• now jw is stuck. he can't extend sg, obviously. sg by being in limbo, can't get an asst coach worth his shit to come to vt.
• couple that with everyone leaving because someone is a grade A ahole and he had to make a move.
• to add to the fact vt was losing fans and not even selling out season tix anymore, jw had to make a move. even if it didn't revitalize the energy of the program, it at least stopped the bleeding ... temporarily.

it's in jj's court now.

JW must have really liked this guy now looking back at the press conference where he announced Seth was gone. If the players all stay that means they must have liked him too. If JW did not get permission to talk to any big name coaches this most likely was the plan to hire JJ. Sounds okay to me because JJ and these young players don't win it will be a lot easier than all the drama with the Seth termination. Go Hokies!

Is it possible this is just a placeholder position? We were too late to the game to get a big time coach. Johnson will keep the current players happy and (hopefully) the recruits signed. He gets a year of coaching experience in the ACC and then leaves next year for bigger and better things. We get stability for a year while we make plans for going after a bigger coach next year. Any possibility? What do y'all think?

I'm also a little conflicted here, but for different reasons. I'm sure we'd all rather have a proven commodity. But I also understand that was going to be a tall order. So let's see how this plays out. If he can pacify the current players and save current recruits that's a big step in the right direction. We'll want wins of course, but having good players is after all a prerequisite for that. And if it doesn't work out, Weaver will be retiring about the same time this experiment is drawing to a close, and the new AD can pick their own guy... hopefully with a little better timing.

Would have been a terrible hire, from what I've heard he rubbed people the wrong way at WF and that's why he's not there anymore. From what I've heard (and seen, according to twitter) the players love JJ and he's the one who was the lead recruiter for our recruiting class, if I remember correctly.

I was saying all along that this is who they should have hired.

MEH! Ask me in mid February. I mean who even knew who this guy is until he left for Clemson. If he keeps the team from imploding this off season then great as this whole Seth termination has generated a lot of negative focus on the VT basketball program. I am not booking Sweet 16 2014 tickets yet but I don't claim to know shit about basketball except #AllOfTheThrees

Probably also the path of least resistance.
Will be able to possibly salvage recruiting class.
Apparently is a Weaver favorite - not sure if that's a good thing or not.
Regardless, best of luck to Coach Johnson.
Now go hire some assistants.

It seems like the wrong move for Weaver to say that he did not want to keep Seth on as a lame duck without staff just to elevate a member of his staff....
And if Seth's culture rubbed the athletic department and Weaver the wrong way, how is one of his assistants much better? Maybe this will pay off in the long run but I don't see how this is an improvement. I was hoping for Dino all along though, knows the ACC, learned from Skip Prosser, and a totally different attitude than Seth had.

that we have 2 Hokie backs making a splash this year; it's be nice to see Little Sweetness come back from his injury with a vengeance and have both him and DW make an impact at the same time. RBU!