After a 2004-05 season that saw a football player moonlighting as a criticaloff the bench role player down the stretch for a first division ACC team, one ofthe first priorities of Head coach Seth Greenberg [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook Articles
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: 2005-06 Preview: Perimeter Could be Right Stuff
“And they all came to talk about it. They came to cry and laugh and fightabout it. While searching for the Promised Land, tired souls with empty handsasking to themselves, ‘Is this all there is’?”Those [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Got My Mojo Working
Ahh yes, the dawn of October that many a sports fan considers amongst theirfavorite months. College football has once again eagerly arrived and is reachingthe midpoint of their season. Major league baseball [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: A Look Ahead to the ACC, Part 2
Click here for Part 1While the ACC returns the men’s NCAA defending championin North Carolina, that team will look quite a bit different, as well as muchyounger than the edition that head coach Roy Williams [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: A Look Ahead to the ACC, Part 1
Click here for Part 2With the ACC adding Boston College next year, thus going to twelve teams forthe 2005-06 men's basketball season, it might be an opportune time to look atthe conference and how it [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: A Look Ahead to 2005-06: The Backcourt
When looking at the overall prospects for the Virginia Tech 2005-06 basketball season, as I complete our look aheadby scrutinizing the returnees in the backcourt for next season, I would be remiss if [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: A Look Ahead to 2005-06: The Frontcourt
With four starters returning from team that finished withan 8-8 conference record, and a 16-14 mark overall that included post-seasonplay in the NIT, the basketball future for Virginia Tech appears to [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Gearing Up for Next Year
The most bothersome aspect of March basketball is the suddenness with whichyour season can end, especially if your last game was one that you would love torepeat, so as to wipe away the bad taste in your [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: A Double Scoop, Please
You have to go back and test your memory, but it was two women's basketballcoaches ago, and three men’s coaches, before you can correctly answer thetrivia question that perhaps many have not even considered. [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Cleansing the Demons
March Madness has arrived with gale force in Blacksburg. The ACC tournamenttips off Thursday, and recent history tells us that Virginia Tech will sit idlyby and watch the opening games of the tournament [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Seth’s Kingdom for a Big Man (or Two)
Tuesday night's loss to Clemson was a vivid and clear example of how trickyand fragile this team is with its personnel. Seth Greenberg is using smoke andmirrors to cover up the deficiencies on his team, [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: The New Word of the Day
The best thing about being a pack rat is that if you display patience and an even temperament, then those items thatyou've stored away might again be relevant at some point in time. You know those pack [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Regaining the Mental Edge
Witha key game coming up on Thursday night with the Dookies of Durham, and comingoff a disappointing road loss in Charlottesville last Saturday against theUniversity of Virginia, the Virginia Tech basketball [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Are Tournament Hopes Legitimate?
As the Virginia Tech men's basketball team gears up forthe second half of conference play, and the stretch run in February that willultimately define this team, there are some statistics that illuminate [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Run DGC
Theymight not have quite the games of Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond or Chris Mullin,when they balled with the Golden State Warriors of the NBA, nor perhaps have therap sensibilities of their almost musical [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Basking in the Glow
After back-to-back ACC victories in the past week at home(and who among you thought you would really be saying that in mid-January?),Virginia Tech fans can be excused if they find themselves in that mode [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Changes Greet Hokies in 2005
TheVirginia Tech men’s basketball team, under head coach Seth Greenberg, rang inthe New Year with some changes that were readily noticeable to followers of theprogram. Some were overt changes, like the [...] READ MORE
A Gym Rat’s Notebook: In Over His Head?
Afterwatching sophomore forward Philip McCandies decide to leave the program lastspring, transferring to The College of Charleston, followed shortly afterward bythe dismissal of 6-8 junior college transfer [...] READ MORE