The NCAA Bubble and Job Security
According to ESPN's Bracketology, Virginia Tech is one of the last teams in to The Big Dance, as it stands on Friday afternoon. Finally the Hokies may squeak into the tourney after years of complaining about how they got screwed out of an at large bid.
But the truth of the matter is that Coach Seth Greenberg and his athletic director could have rectified the matter years ago by having a tougher nonconference schedule. The reason they don't do that is that they want very badly to continue to work at V-Tech, and they know that no school president is going to fire a coach/AD who wins 20 games a year. Greenberg has been very happy for years now, scheduling creampuffs, winning 20 games, and going to the NIT, all the while publicly bitching about the unfairness of his situation.
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The message from the NCAA Tournament Committee is simple: teams that play tough schedules are rewarded.
The message from Virginia Tech's athletic department heads is just as simple: We won't lose our jobs if we win enough games and stir up enough controversy about how the selection committee screwed us again.
Come on, Virginia Tech. Get a better schedule.
It'll probably never happen, though.
But the truth of the matter is that Coach Seth Greenberg and his athletic director could have rectified the matter years ago by having a tougher nonconference schedule. The reason they don't do that is that they want very badly to continue to work at V-Tech, and they know that no school president is going to fire a coach/AD who wins 20 games a year. Greenberg has been very happy for years now, scheduling creampuffs, winning 20 games, and going to the NIT, all the while publicly bitching about the unfairness of his situation.
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The message from the NCAA Tournament Committee is simple: teams that play tough schedules are rewarded.
The message from Virginia Tech's athletic department heads is just as simple: We won't lose our jobs if we win enough games and stir up enough controversy about how the selection committee screwed us again.
Come on, Virginia Tech. Get a better schedule.
It'll probably never happen, though.
posted by joe sweeney at 1:03 PM
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