We’ve talked before about how puzzling it was to see Gregg Marshall really dazzle at Winthrop and never get hired by an ACC team.
Marshall was at Winthrop from 1998-2007 and made the NCAA Tournament seven times in nine years. In his last season, he won 29 games and overall won 70 percent of his games. He was the precise template of an ACC hire.
Yet when openings occurred around the conference, everyone passed. Here are some of the ACC hires made while Marshall was at Winthrop:
- Paul Hewitt, Georgia Tech, 2000
- Leonard Hamilton, Florida State 2002
- Seth Greenberg, Virginia Tech, 2003
- Dave Leitao, Virginia, 2005
- Oliver Purnell, Clemson, 2006
- Sidney Lowe, NCSU, 2006
People talked about him though.