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Fan Reaction to Mike Young Hire

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I've been perusing various social media and VT fan sites since the announced hiring of Mike Young. In a word, the consensus fan reaction is "brutal". Negative comments seem to outweigh positive comments by about a 70-30 margin, with both Babcock and Young equally in the cross hairs.

I guess everyone was hoping, if not expecting. another high profile coaching hire of someone we've all seen repeatedly prancing the sidelines on TV leading some other program to great national acclaim. Babcock did not deliver on that "vision" this time around, and HokieNation is furious!

Almost every "name brand" successful coach had a humble background and came from a low profile setting before achieving great success on the national stage. Who would have thought a coach at Army with a modest career record would become arguably the greatest coach of all time at Duke? Who would have thought John Bellein, who toiled for years within the low to mid ranks of college basketball, would become one of the outstanding coaches in America at West Virginia and now Michigan? In football, do you think an obscure position coach at Clemson a decade ago was a "homerun" hire on the day Dabo Swinney was promoted to Head Coach?

A majority of our fan base is running Mike Young out the door before he even has a chance to enter. I find this appalling and a very bad look for a fan base that purports to be among the best, most loyal in America.

Mike Young deserves a chance to succeed and our full support as fans!
 
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