(03-27-2018 05:52 PM)k-vegasbuc Wrote:  

(03-27-2018 05:00 PM)usffan Wrote:  

(03-27-2018 02:48 PM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  Now Seth Greenberg's name is floating around. Can we please stop this cruel game and just give Pitino whatever we can afford to come here. I'm tired of all this speculation and bogus info circulating & I really am about to lose it if we don't get a quality coach to Greenville ASAP!

Came back and logged in to say I just saw that Greenberg's name is in play for ECU. Maybe it's a "time heals all wounds" kind of thing, but I think Seth can be successful at ECU. First off, he's a decent enough X's and O's guy and is a reasonably good talent evaluator and recruiter. To be honest, the biggest issue was that he always had a wandering eye, which hurt him in recruiting in his later years at USF. I get the sense from people who've interviewed him since he got fired at Virginia Tech that he's no longer looking for stepping stone jobs, which means he can solely focus on the job at hand - turning the Pirates into a top AAC team.

Regardless, good luck. I've witnessed first-hand what it's like when your AD makes a terrible hire. I will never understand how a non-blue blood is going to hire a young assistant at a place like Kentucky and think they're going to come in and succeed. It's not like you're going to be getting McDonald's AA's to just show up and out-talent other teams! I think the best shots for places like USF or ECU are to get coaches who have experience building mid-majors. Seth did that at Long Beach.

USFFan

I think he's an intriguing candidate. He has a history of being successful at historically unsuccessful programs. At Va Tech he came in right as they were transitioning to the ACC. He took them to the post season 6 out of his 8 years and was ACC COY twice. He essentially became a victim of his own success though since the expectations increased from just making the NIT to making the tournament and he only did that once. At 61 if he could give us a solid 5 year run with some post season experience, it could lead to a much more attractive job for any successor, sort of like it worked for Va Tech. I still would prefer Dooley, but I could see how he could potentially be a good fit at ECU if he still has the drive (that might be a big if since he's been out of coaching for 6 years).

As someone who was at Virginia Tech while Greenberg was there, the issue at the end was not that he was a victim of his own success. His biggest problem was that he had alienated a huge portion of the athletic department. He wasn't liked by many people there when he was canned.

I firmly believe that if Greenberg had an easier personality to deal with on a day-to-day basis, he'd never have been fired. When you combine his abrasive personality behind the scenes and his "woe is us" attitude every year after getting snubbed by the committee, it's harder to deal with NIT appearances every season.

I think Greenberg did an excellent job during his time there, but I think a lot of people forget that the reason we were on the bubble so often is because we lost games to opponents we should have beaten. They remember that we had one signature win in some of those years, but you can't lose to middling opponents and expect the committee to overlook it.

All that being said, I think he'd be a very good hire for ECU. I think he's a little overrated as an X's and O's guy, but he's got a very good eye for talent and recruited well. If he'd been retained at VT, Montrezl Harrell would have been a Hokie.