Virginia...

[hatvol96]

just made a brilliant hire. Tony Bennett will do very, very well there.

[UTCVol]

I like the job he did at Washington State. Great hire for UVA.

[hatvol96]

Washington State strikes me as a perfect place for Randy Bennett to make the jump to a BCS school.

[droski]

he would have been an idiot to stay at wsu

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by droski

he would have been an idiot to stay at wsu

When your career winning percentage at a school is about 160 points higher than its all time mark, you do have to wonder how long you can keep it up. That said, he's leaving a nice core of talent behind for the next guy.

[Dylan Stevens]

Lot of talent running around the DC area for him to recruit as well. He's bound to pick up some studs.

[TennesseeFan07]

I think Bennett is a tremendous hire. He'll be one of the better coaches in the ACC.

[dickens821]

Originally Posted by hatvol96

just made a brilliant hire. Tony Bennett will do very, very well there.

Originally Posted by TennesseeFan07

I think Bennett is a tremendous hire. He'll be one of the better coaches in the ACC.

hmmm

[Sudeepvol]

Bennett is a great hire. One of the best coaches in the ACC, he will be.

[TennesseeFan07]

Originally Posted by dickens821

hmmm

????????????????????? Check back to every post I've ever made on him. I've never changed my views on him.

[dickens821]

Originally Posted by Sudeepvol

Bennett is a great hire. One of the best coaches in the ACC, he will be.

I think Bennett is a swell hire. He'll probably be in the upper echelon of ACC coaches.

[TennesseeFan07]

Originally Posted by TennesseeFan07

I think Bennett is a tremendous hire. He'll be one of the better coaches in the ACC.

That said, I still think I would have held out for something other than Virginia. He's probably capable of getting a better job a year down the road from now.

[Sudeepvol]

Originally Posted by dickens821

I think Bennett is a swell hire. He'll probably be in the upper echelon of ACC coaches.

Bennett in the upper echelon of ACC coaches, he will be. Thus, he was a very swell hire.

[droski]

Originally Posted by hatvol96

When your career winning percentage at a school is about 160 points higher than its all time mark, you do have to wonder how long you can keep it up. That said, he's leaving a nice core of talent behind for the next guy.

i'm not sure if you've ever been to that part of the country, but it's a bloody miracle he was even .500. it might be the coldest, ugliest, and most boring place in america.

[armchairvol]

Originally Posted by TennesseeFan07

????????????????????? Check back to every post I've ever made on him. I've never changed my views on him.

this guy? I hope he succeeds--I live near UVA and love the place--but I don't know much about him. My take is that there isn't much recruiting competition in the northwest, besides gonzaga and washington. Granted, there probably aren't a ton of great players in the northwest US., but any good player in the northwest who doesn't want to go halfway across the country to play has limited options--and wash. state is one of them. At UVA, he'll have to compete with EVERYBODY in the country for east-coast talent--not just the acc--and uva ain't exactly on my kids top 10 list. He'll have to be a very good coach just to get UVA into the upper half of the ACC--forget the top. UNC and Duke will never be dislodged, and Maryland (national title) and Wake are very solidly the third and fourth best teams in the conference, not to mention Clemson and va. tech. He's got his work cut out for him. I also hear he plays a (boring) Wisconsin style. That may actually be a good thing.