the biggest recruiting disadvantage, the toughest schedule, the worst luck, blah blah blah. New year, same old tired excuses. The real truth is that VT has actually tried to be a real basketball program exactly once in the last 40 years, and that is when they hired Buzz Williams. Every move before and since then has been just more of the small-town, aw-shucks-just-happy-to-be-here thinking that has artificially constrained this athletic dept for decades. Fortunately, the larger university was able to get past that a long time ago.