Maryland went to the Sweet 16 last year, hired a coach many on this board idolizes and now theyre the worst power conference team in the nation There just aren't many schools that have changed their stars unless they've done so across decades with the same coach (Gonzaga, and to a lesser extent Villanova) Blacksburg is going to be Blacksburg. You're going to have to overpay players just to get on the same playing field as your peers. Would a splash hire co opt some cache in the short term? Maybe. But across a full recruiting cycle theyre going to win just about as many games as any other VT coach has won. Gonzaga is going to plummet when Few leaves/retires. Villanova already has. UVA isn't going to all of a sudden land McDonald's All-Americans with regularity even after a championship. It just doesn't happen. I said it years ago but VT as a program, regardless of who is HC is a 50% NCAAT program. Leave someone in the seat long enough and they'll make the tournament about 50% of the time and be on the bubble most of the time. That isn't a Mike Young thing, or a Buzz Williams thing or a Seth Greenberg thing. It's a Blacksburg thing. VT did a great job landing James Franklin to use his brand recognition from PSU. He was smart to not target many non-PSU recruits/transfers because he's the sell...not VT