(05-17-2023 06:24 PM)GarnetAndBlue Wrote:  

(05-17-2023 06:21 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(05-17-2023 04:38 PM)GarnetAndBlue Wrote:  “Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock used the words “blindsided” and “shock” for those who were uninformed, adding, “These jobs are hard enough without something knocking you upside the head.””

I found this quote interesting and telling.

Babcock has been through all this before. He was at UC in 2011 when Pitt and Syracuse announced they were leaving, then WVU, Rutgers and ultimately Louisville.

Ruh roh. Maybe he’s the proverbial yellow canary.

He better act like he's looking for a way to fix this. He's on thin ice after the Fuente debacle.

(05-17-2023 08:17 PM)4x4hokies Wrote:  

(05-17-2023 06:24 PM)GarnetAndBlue Wrote:  

(05-17-2023 06:21 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(05-17-2023 04:38 PM)GarnetAndBlue Wrote:  “Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock used the words “blindsided” and “shock” for those who were uninformed, adding, “These jobs are hard enough without something knocking you upside the head.””

I found this quote interesting and telling.

Babcock has been through all this before. He was at UC in 2011 when Pitt and Syracuse announced they were leaving, then WVU, Rutgers and ultimately Louisville.

Ruh roh. Maybe he’s the proverbial yellow canary.

He better act like he's looking for a way to fix this. He's on thin ice after the Fuente debacle.

At least he didn't hire Senator Tuberville...so you got that goin' for ya.

(05-17-2023 04:38 PM)GarnetAndBlue Wrote:  “Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock used the words “blindsided” and “shock” for those who were uninformed, adding, “These jobs are hard enough without something knocking you upside the head.””

I found this quote interesting and telling.

A remarkably sympathetic statement, coming from one who helped administer the head-knocking.

Phillips sounds much like Mike Tranghese as the old Big East was on the cusp of breaking up.