Buzz Williams Leaving
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Given that it's taken us 49 years to build a statue of Joe Lapchick, one of basketball's iconic figures, it would probably take at least 75 years before we built one of Buzz ... provided, of course, that he proved to be as successful as Coach Lapchick.
Whatever, the perception of Buzz's leaving Marquette for Virginia Tech at this time is not a good thing for the Big East. It gives the impression that he's abandoning a sinking ship. Here's hoping that Shaka Smart or Ben Howland has interest in the Marquette job.
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Buzz with an illegitimate child in Venezuela:
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the arena is not great but the facilities are top notch.
they must have paid him really well.
i agree with MainMan that Howland is an upgrade.
I always thought Buzz Williams was more of a buffoon and an overrated coach.
Howland built the foundation for Pitt's success and he cleaned up the wreckage from the Lavin era at UCLA to lead them to two Final 4's. Howland sounds like an upgrade to me.
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It gives the impression that he's abandoning a sinking ship?
He just booked a ticket in luxury class on the Titanic.
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...and I was referring to VaTech as the Titanic. Marquette has been a basketball icon for half a century while VaTech is an icon for military drills and NRA fanatics.
Greenberg never won anywhere. You might want to check again. He made the NCAA one time in nine years and was 66-71 in the ACC (8-8 first year). That was before Syracuse, Louisville, and Pitt. Va Tech will be an afterthought in three years when he finally would be able to get them up and running. There is no way they will ever be a perennial top 5-6 team in that conference with Duke, UNC, Syracuse, NC State and Louisville.
I am pissed at the way Buzz handled this. All these reports about how he wanted to bolt from the New Big East...a school and a conference that did everything for him. Crean left him with a great reputation after the Final Four a few years earlier with Dwayne Wade, and full of talent. Crean averaged 23 wins the seven years before Buzz inherited that team.
The great Buzz coached his first season with: Dominic James, Lazar Hayward, Jerel McNeal, Jimmy Butler, Wesley Matthews, and Maurice Acker. All guys that were recruited before he even took the assistant position the year before.
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Buzz is the basketball coach for the Hokies not the football coach. The table would be reserved for football conferences and the ACC without Florida State and Clemson would be like the SEC without Kentucky and Florida in basketball. If the top 5 BCS schools bolt they will take Fla St and Clemaon with them and pay the ACC a negotiated reduced penalty like Maryland. I know this as a fact the way you know when it all shakes out. Seth Greenberg won what exactly???
Gotcha! It's been a long, long day of watching games and my brain isn't working so well at this late hour: totally misinterpreted the Titanic reference. Think we both agree that it wasn't a great move for Buzz. But that said, it doesn't look good for the BE to have a "name" coach leaving a successful program for a mediocre ACC program like VaTech's.
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It was Buzz's ship that was sinking in Milwaukee. Please note our not very good team beat them twice! Buzz already has morphed into a new persona in Blacksburg:
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Buzz was 14-15 in his lone year has head coach at New Orleans before Crean took him on as an assistant. He would still be a nobody if he didn't inherit four NBA players his first season. Marquette took a HUGE risk passing up established coaches for Buzz who only had one season as an assistant at Marquette and one year as a losing head coach at New Orleans. Any coach could have taken that team at least as far as Buzz did. Way to show gratitude....don't let the door hit you on the way out. Marquette deserves better.