Virginia Tech fires basketball coach Seth Greenberg, possible replacements are…familiar

Yesterday, in a surprise press conference, Virginia Tech Athletic Director Jim Weaver announced that he had fired head men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg. Greenberg had been the Hokies’ head coach since the 2003 season, presiding over Tech’s transition from the Big East to the ACC. He was by no means unsuccessful,1 but the lack of […]

April 24, 2012; 10:36 AM • by Ross Catrow

Yesterday, in a surprise press conference, Virginia Tech Athletic Director Jim Weaver announced that he had fired head men’s basketball coach Seth Greenberg. Greenberg had been the Hokies’ head coach since the 2003 season, presiding over Tech’s transition from the Big East to the ACC. He was by no means unsuccessful,1 but the lack of NCAA tournament appearances (one) and poor showings at the NIT left some Hokie fans asking for change.

Ask and ye shall receive!

Now, fellow Hokies, we are in for one of the most exciting sportstimes: a coaching search! And, if you’re a fan of the hometown-hero Rams you’re going to recognize a lot of the names popping up to fill Greenberg’s shoes:

  • Gregg Marshall–Head coach of Wichita State and VCU’s most recent NCAA tournament victim.
  • Chris Mooney–Head coach of the University of Richmond who last year after the Spider’s Sweet 16 run signed a 10-year contract extension.
  • Blaine Taylor–Head coach of Old Dominion.
  • Jeff Capel–Former VCU head coach, current Duke assistant by way of a failed Oklahoma head coaching job.

And of course no list of possible head coaches would be complete without Shaka Smart. There is zero chance, no chances out of all the chances, that Coach Smart would leave VCU to coach the Hokies–so let’s not even talk about that one.

I’ve seen a couple other names thrown around, but maybe most interesting is former VT great Dell Curry, father of Stephen and Seth Curry (both of whom are awesome at basketball and were not recruited by VT).

Whoever ends up with the job, it’s going to be exciting to watch the process.

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Footnotes

  1. Over Greenberg’s eight years in the ACC his teams finished 4th, 10th, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 3rd, 4th, and 9th in conference–for an average of 5.5. Which is actually pretty great. ↩
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