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#MeetTheFamily: David Jackson
I first met Buzz when he got hired and I right away knew he was special and unique because he was so family oriented. Everyone came with him. Right away, he wanted family involved, he wanted my wife and other wives to come to the gym, he started Hokies, Hoops & Heels. Buzz cares about…
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#MeetTheFamily: “Big Fred” Wasson
I’m originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma and the way I first met Buzz was through a mutual friend by the name of Bill Pope, who has a made a career in the NBA as an assistant coach. Bill had met Buzz when they were both working at junior colleges, Buzz was a student manager at Navarro…
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#T2T: Teaching Text to Team
Throughout my career as a head coach, I have made it a point to send a text to my wife Corey every day, that has nothing to do with my job, that doesn’t include my itinerary for the day, and has no mention of our children. As my world was changing from assistant coach to…
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#MeetTheFamily: Lyle Wolf
I first met Coach Williams while I was working the Marquette basketball camps. I got to know Coach Buzz along with other staff members and after a year of really staying connected with them I was fortunate enough to where Coach brought me on as a graduate assistant. I was at Marquette with Coach for…
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#MeetTheFamily: Josh Chambers
When Coach Buzz got here to Virginia Tech I was a rising senior and was going to be a guy on the manager staff. After the previous staff got fired and Buzz was hired I started researching him, and was super excited to get to work for him. Coach Buzz’s culture was completely different than…
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#MeetTheFamily: Devin Johnson
I remember meeting Coach Buzz his first Friday on the job at UNO. I went to his office and because I grew up with most of the guys on the UNO team I told him I would love to help in anyway I could. Right then he told me I could help out, and from…
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#MeetTheFamily: Joe Fulce
I originally met Coach Buzz through my high school coach, Tom Inman, they were really good friends growing up and Buzz had just made the transfer from Colorado State to Texas A&M to coach under Billy Gillespie. I wasn’t really on the radar at the time but after attending a few camps I ended up…
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A Unique Perspective on #BootCamp
I think I bring a unique perspective to Virginia Tech basketball because I’ve played at Harvard, I’ve coached at Harvard, and I was able to be a part of the University of Central Florida staff last year in Orlando. So coming in, I wasn’t sure what to expect because this is my first time being…
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#MeetTheFamily: Jamie McNeilly
I met Coach Buzz in the fall of my senior year at UNO and my first encounter with him he immediately jumped me and tested me in front of the team. I didn’t know who he was, didn’t know anything about him, but I knew he was going at me as a senior who had…
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Everything Matters
‘Everything Matters’ These two words are more than just our first quote shirt at Virginia Tech; they represent the approach we want to take in all aspects of the program. Each individual action, whether by staff, member, player, or manager, can have either a positive or negative impact on the program. Since giving the ‘Everything…