Has Whit improved Virginia Tech Athletics during is tenure?
Are we more or less successful overall?
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1y
...you could say MBB, WBB, softball, and baseball have all reached unprecedented heights under his tenure. And he deserves credit for most of that (probably not softball, which benefits from an angel investor and made a WCWS prior to his arrival).
But...he has failed at overseeing the football program. And, what's maybe worse, is he did nothing to parlay the successes in the other sports into something sustained. MBB seems poised for a calamitous season. Baseball is going nowhere. He let the WBB program pack up and move to Lexington in the middle of the night. The stuff we're still good at (wrestling, softball, T&F, and to an extent women's soccer) essentially pre-dates him.
It just doesn't feel like things are being run very well. Maybe it will turn around. But I don't really have confidence Babcock is the guy to lead that turnaround.
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1y
he has killed the golden goose - FOOTBALL!!!!! Priority one to fund the entire program so I would not be looking at success as you seem to be.
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gman86
1y
I have an idea... let's stop the "Fire the AD" after every close FB or MBB loss. Let's instead discuss the real problems:
- time management
- D needs to get one more stop
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1y
If you made the same mistakes in a job for three straight years, would you expect your bosses to keep the status quo or to maybe look for a replacement because it's just not working?
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Blueboy
1y
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1y
Not saying these are driving the bus like Football and MBB.
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1y
a push at best.
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1y
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1y
important sports when determining metrics for an AD.
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