Should Seth Greenberg Hire Dino Gaudio?
by Josh Parcell on Apr 19, 2010 1:06 PM EDT
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PrintSeth Greenberg's longest-tenured assistant at Virginia Tech, Ryan Odom, bolted for Charlotte last week, creating a glaring vacancy on the Hokies' staff.
Dino Gaudio was recently fired at Wake Forest as the head basketball coach, and is looking for a job.
A stop in Blacksburg might be a perfect fit.
Gaudio is best known for being an outstanding recruiter. He brought in superstars such as Jeff Teague and Al-Farouq Aminu to Wake Forest.
He's already very familiar with the ACC, and as far as I know has a fine relationship with Greenberg.
The Hokies' recruiting has really picked up the last few seasons and is getting better. Marquis Rankin committed to Tech two weeks ago. Rankin is rated as one of the best players in the nation in the class of 2011.
The announcement of that commitment was huge news to Hokie nation. Gaudio picked up prospects of that caliber with regularity in Winston-Salem.
There likely won't be a financial concern should Greenberg push to hire Gaudio.
Gaudio would surely love to stay relatively close to his last stop.
He has ties also to the Ohio region, where he grew up and also coached at Xavier under Skip Prosser in the 1990's.
Greenberg said he wants to fill the void in the next two to three weeks. He couldn't give his fan base much better news than saying he has brought on a former ACC head coach to his staff.
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This would be a huge coup
… And I think a very unlikely one. Head coaches that have had the sort of regular season success that Gaudio has had are generally loathe to go back to being an assistant. Don’t see this happening.
BC Interruption, SBN's Boston College Eagles blog
Agreed
But where is he gonna be a head coach? If he wants to take a year off, I guess that is his only other option, but why not keep the fire going as an assistant for a year or two at least before taking a head job again?
From my early days listening to Bill Roth depict a dazzling Michael Vick dance around the field to glory until now, it has been more than a pleasure to be a Hokie fan. Since 1998, there has only been one game played in Lane Stadium I did not attend (stupid chicken pox), and I dread the day where I am not fortunate enough to be in the stands week after week.
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While it is certainly possible that he could end up at Virginia Tech, I don’t see a situation where he would be released from Wake Forest and then pick back up at a rival ACC school in a worse position. He could get plenty of jobs in college basketball. I think most likely he takes a year off and then comes back after next year with another school.
by BJohnston on Apr 19, 2010 3:16 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
The only down side I can see to this is that we probably couldn’t expect him to stay very long. How big a factor that would be for Greenberg in offering, I don’t know. Or whether Gaudio’s the kind of guy who would rather sit out a season or go back to an assistant job for a year or two. We shall see…
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