VIRGINIA TECH BETTER OFF IN THE ODAC

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 14, 1993                   TAG: 9303140008
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C14   EDITION: METRO 
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VIRGINIA TECH BETTER OFF IN THE ODAC
To Jack Bogaczyk:
I have been associated with Virginia Tech for 32 years and have seen some good basketball coaches and basketball teams. Virginia Tech went to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament in the late 1960s before losing to Dayton in overtime.
In the early 1970s, it won the NIT when the NIT was still a very good tournament. It had remarkable success under Don Devoe and Charlie Moir. We defeated such teams as Indiana, Purdue, Georgetown, Wake Forest, North Carolina State, Syracuse and Kentucky.
The current basketball team is by far the worst we have had at Virginia Tech since I have been here. It has no talent and has lost to such basketball powerhouses as Liberty, East Carolina and Florida International. There is not a Division I league, including the Ivy League, in which it would be competitive.
My feeling, which is shared by quite a few of my faculty colleagues, is that Tech would be better off in the ODAC conference. MARTIN SCHNITZER BLACKSBURG

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