Comments on: Tech criticized on ESPN

By: markberman

markberman — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:28:31 +0000

Yes, I know that. I went down to High Point recently to interview him for a story that ran on the front page of The Roanoke Times on Jan 9. There is a link to that story on this blog in a Jan 9 post

By: HOWIE

HOWIE — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:40:43 +0000

ALAN CHANEY PLAYING AT HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY

By: markberman

markberman — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:28:41 +0000

Tech medical staff ruled last summer that it would not clear him to ever practice or play in games for the Hokies. That decision was made a year ago. So if he ever plays again, it will be at another college. But some other college has to be willing to let him play for them, which has yet to happen.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:11:06 +0000

Anyone heard anything about Allan Chaney? Will the VT medical staff clear him? Or will he transfer — like all the others??

By: Rolrbal

Rolrbal — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:42:24 +0000

Wolff is a place holder until Weaver Retires. JJ probably is also.

By: crooked road

crooked road — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:15:49 +0000

Weaver deserved to be embarrassed, considering how he embarrassed the VT program with his hire of Wolff. Wolff wasn’t hired because he was the best candidate, there is no evidence that there were ANY other candidates. Wolff was hired because he was convenient. For those who hide behind the argument – ‘He was more skilled than any female coach’, then why not hire another male coach, because there are tons of them more skilled than Wolff.

I won’t even get started on the ‘family atmosphere’ farce, I’ll just say that Weaver needs to be retired. Pay out his contract, just remove him from decision making. What the VT athletic department needs more than anything else is an infusion of outside perspective, NOT more inclusion.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:50:15 +0000

They should be criticized. VT looked bad then with that move and even worse when Weaver gave his “justification”. I translated that into ” VT doesn’t really care about women’s BB”.
On another note, I know Weaver has Parkinson’s and back issues. He should retire and enjoy life. The presser on Seth’s firing and this interview snip on ESPN make him and VT look really bad. Anyone w/o knowledge of his health issues or w/o a heart would wonder how in the world he is the AD at VT.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:55:29 +0000

This is all on Weaver in my opinion. He let a good coach go to Kansas, all she did was resurrect the Women’s program and take them to the NCAA’s, and walk to his closest Dir. of B-Ball operations and hire him. He did not want to take the time to hire, or pay a qualified coach.(Not that Wolff is not qualified, but he should have been asked to put in his app. with other qualified candidates) An ACC job would attract plenty of qualified candidates. Especially considering the funding put in to the facilities as of late.

He also lost control of Greenberg, so what did he do? For convenience sake, fire him. And hire the convenient candidate. Again, a more exhaustive search would have aided the program. Many candidates could have emerged.

Both programs have been set back. I feel his judgement is flawed. And all the things he was able to accomplish while being here, will be tarnished by his careless judgement in the last couple of years.

By: the other Tony

the other Tony — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:18:08 +0000

I wonder if Vanderveer was angry because Dream Weaver did not hire one of her assistants and players, Bobbie Kelsey, who had been at VT a couple of years back before going to Stanford ??

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:09:47 +0000

My cousin knows someone that used to play for Pat Summitt. Maybe I could coach the Tech women once Dennis is through.