Thatās surprisingly doable given itās his first season. Really makes me wonder what Byingtonās is.
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Bumping some DeVries stats and numbers @KarlHess also realized looking back through the thread I was first on Hoiberg train after he was mentioned by @EmbracePaceUVA. Then I researched his buyout and made the switchā¦ if UVA is looking to spend the kind of money necessary Iād make them 1A 1B. Byington 1C I think I remember seeing in one of these he had a $10 million buyout like Hoiberg.
If we wanted Hoiberg, we could wait until April 1 to hire and the buyout would drop to $7.5 million (assumes Hoiberg would be receptive - no judgement one way or the other on that point).
Have not found anything solid on Byingtonās Vandy buyout yet. It cost Vandy $1 million to get him from JMU. Since Vandy is private, conjecture might be the best thatās out there.
For someone like Byington who is a natural fit at UVA on the surface, itās interesting that he made the move last year anyway. Have to assume that Tonyās tenuous status was somewhat known in the profession and just over the mountain no less. And thatās ignoring that Byington probably has at least decent contacts with the program given his history with UVA.
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Thereās a strong inverse relationship between our game performance and the replies on this thread.
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also ā¦ Ed Cooley? Has his team looking sort of decent.
Say they ended up as a 7 and won a tourney game. What do we think?
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Insider on the VT board suggesting he expects a change at the end of this year in reference to MY. Not that weād be competing for coaches with them but could be another ACC job open this offseason
Agree, but I bet Odom will be competing for our job and if he doesnāt get it, I bet VPI will want Odom (assuming MY is done).
Question is: do you take VPI over VCU? Probably, but Iām not sure itās a slam dunk.
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I donāt think Odom leaves VCU for VT unless they assure him that thereās gonna be ample money and resources being provided to their basketball program, which they canāt promise in their current state. With VCUās announced NIL situation it would be a lateral move at best for him.
If he doesnāt factor into our coaching search this offseason I could see Odom waiting another year or two for a job like Wake to open up, and jumping at that opportunity (assuming Wake doesnāt fire Forbes after this season).
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Yeah I hate to tell VPISU but with the way theyāre handling financial situations they arenāt attracting any ānamesā out there. Theyāre be hiring from lower level mid majors and down.
Iād be fascinated to hear who asks about the NIL money situation faster: recruits or prospective coaches? Itās essentially the big deal now whether we like it or not.
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VCU job > VT job in this current environment. Especially after what VCU just announced regarding payments to its players.
How does VT recruit a coach a year after gutting its basketball NIL to fund their football program?
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I would see no reason to jump to VT from VCU. Youāre going to be on a short list for a way better job every year at VCU meanwhile you probably tank your prospects for at least a few years while trying to build with whatever scraps they give you, and youāre obviously not competing for national titles there, so the only reason to move there would be to pull a Buzz which has gotten exponentially more difficult in the last 5 years.
I hope the hokies are happy with their 6-7 football team!
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I donāt really disagree with any of the points here, and I think things are really up in the air going forward with House settlement plus conference instability.
But Mike Young is paid about 2.7 million and Odom is paid about 1.75 million, according to the same source.
Presumably Tobi Lawal didnāt wind up in Blacksburg because he wanted to study in engineeringā¦ though maybe he did.
VPI isnāt keeping pace with its P4/5/6/7 peers, and VCU compares favorably with its mid-major+ / low-high major peers, but VPI seems to be devoting much more $$ to its program than VCU this year, likely because of the much bigger ACC payout.
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I think the one thing Im curious about is how much weight @HoozGotNext 's letter of recommendation is going to help out Houston WIlson @HoustonWilson when he applies for the new regimeās Director of Scouting (please apply, Ill put in a good word too)
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If BYU can employ the proprietor of āHoopSeen.comā as their Director of Recruiting, then surely we can do a version of that. I guess having a brother whoās the head coach helps too.
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Yeah, but are your long term prospects better by being a top of the conference team at VCU or being a bottom of the conference team at VT? Iād say the former.
Obviously i know nothing of Byington personally, but to jump from Vandy after a year would be a bad look for him. And seems unlikely given SEC looking like a much better spot than ACC. And Vandy is a great job. Moderate expectations and a solid if not exceptional basketball history. nashville is a great quality of life. And does someone from Salem really have a UVA connection? I know he was an assistant for a minute, but Salem is as likely to be VT/UT-K country as UVA. But Hoo knows, maybe someone on here knows that UVA is his dream job and Iām just speculating based on minimal knowledge.
Seems like a tough call to me. With the exception of Shaka, though, every VCU coach has left for a fairly mediocre high major program.
The question is whether something is different going forward, either because of House / hoops-only school $$, or conference alignment, or just idiosyncratic of VPI.
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Vandy is not that great of a job, and Salem is plenty dense Wahoo country. Several of us might jump in here on that point.
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Which also means itās going to be much tougher for him to compete for championships whereas he could realistically have UVA at the top of the ACC alongside two of the biggest brands in the sport in Duke and Carolina. I think best case scenario for Vandy is top 5 in the league and a mid single digit NCAAT seed.
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Byington was here one year as an assistant (sorry, Director of Ops) and one year as a manager / grad assistant:
@Hoos_Tee may know more, if he still posts / lurks.
He spent most of his early career under Bobby Cremins.
I still think itās highly unlikely he leaves Vandy after one year, unless UVa really was a low key dream job. Though it would be nice to go from zero PGās to a team full of PGās.
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