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Historically Competitive
Well... I guess I'll chime in.
I haven't followed the team at all since I left Blacksburg... but in my four years there, I attended quite a few games and kept up with the team the best I could (and, I think, I mostly did so from an unbiased perspective since my primary 'fandom' never shifted from WF).
Seth was a whiner on the sidelines. He was guilty of acting very K-ish (especially in meaningful games) with the officials, and as much as I hate K... Greenberg certainly never earned the right (through success) to act entitled.
Outside of that... I really don't have much negative to say about the guy. Everything I personally experienced was in the 2006-2010 window; but looking back and reading about VT bball history, being a perennial 'NCAAT-bubble team' seems to be leaps and bounds past where VT had historically fallen in basketball hierarchy. Recruiting the past couple of years has been off-the-charts on the VT-scale & outside of Jeff Allen (who even Greenberg despised), his teams were generally comprised of solid (easy to root for) guys. With the exception of Allen, Greenberg seemed to bring higher caliber individuals than another (unnamed) big-time revenue sport in Blacksburg.
His teams were fun to watch & he (as far as I know) was about as active as a NCAAB coach could be in interacting with and engaging the student body to generate excitement for the program. He was a very visible figure and dedicated a lot of time (outside of his normal responsibilities) to the school. He hosted 'chalk-talks' in the dining halls, wrote countless 'letters to the editor' in the CT (VT student paper) about both basketball and non-basketball topics, and even paid for student tickets to NIT games so that they would support the team & hopefully boost the program to the big dance in future years. In short, in this regard... I get the feeling that Greenberg is everything that [Redacted] isn't. Its what made me appreciate him as a coach & as a part of the university (especially in hindsight).
Maybe I'm jaded by seeing the direction we have gone with [Redacted], but the timing of this move is similar (and even later in the game) & some elements of the story make me see a lot of correlations in Weaver's move today and Wellman's move in '10.
I hope Weaver knows something the fan-base doesn't & there's more to this story than meets the eye.
I haven't followed the team at all since I left Blacksburg... but in my four years there, I attended quite a few games and kept up with the team the best I could (and, I think, I mostly did so from an unbiased perspective since my primary 'fandom' never shifted from WF).
Seth was a whiner on the sidelines. He was guilty of acting very K-ish (especially in meaningful games) with the officials, and as much as I hate K... Greenberg certainly never earned the right (through success) to act entitled.
Outside of that... I really don't have much negative to say about the guy. Everything I personally experienced was in the 2006-2010 window; but looking back and reading about VT bball history, being a perennial 'NCAAT-bubble team' seems to be leaps and bounds past where VT had historically fallen in basketball hierarchy. Recruiting the past couple of years has been off-the-charts on the VT-scale & outside of Jeff Allen (who even Greenberg despised), his teams were generally comprised of solid (easy to root for) guys. With the exception of Allen, Greenberg seemed to bring higher caliber individuals than another (unnamed) big-time revenue sport in Blacksburg.
His teams were fun to watch & he (as far as I know) was about as active as a NCAAB coach could be in interacting with and engaging the student body to generate excitement for the program. He was a very visible figure and dedicated a lot of time (outside of his normal responsibilities) to the school. He hosted 'chalk-talks' in the dining halls, wrote countless 'letters to the editor' in the CT (VT student paper) about both basketball and non-basketball topics, and even paid for student tickets to NIT games so that they would support the team & hopefully boost the program to the big dance in future years. In short, in this regard... I get the feeling that Greenberg is everything that [Redacted] isn't. Its what made me appreciate him as a coach & as a part of the university (especially in hindsight).
Maybe I'm jaded by seeing the direction we have gone with [Redacted], but the timing of this move is similar (and even later in the game) & some elements of the story make me see a lot of correlations in Weaver's move today and Wellman's move in '10.
I hope Weaver knows something the fan-base doesn't & there's more to this story than meets the eye.