St. John's has targeted Virginia Tech's Seth Greenberg as the leading "realistic" candidate to become its next coach, according to the New York Post, which cited unnamed "highly placed" sources.
The newspaper reported yesterday that St. John's will dismiss Norm Roberts after six seasons, during which he went 32-70 in the Big East.
Greenberg did not return a text message yesterday asking if St. John's had contacted him. He did not attend the ACC tournament's first-round games at the Greensboro Coliseum, where the Hokies, who received a first-round bye, will play Miami today in the quarterfinals.
Greenberg is in his seventh season at Tech and was the ACC's coach of the year in 2005 and 2008. On Sunday, the Hokies likely will be selected to play in the NCAA tournament for the second time in his tenure. They also made it in 2007. Tech had losing records in six of the seven seasons before Greenberg arrived and hadn't been to the tournament since 1996.
Greenberg has roots in the New York area. He grew up on Long Island and went to St. John's games at Madison Square Garden during the program's glory years under Lou Carnesecca. He attended Farleigh Dickinson in New Jersey, and his first job out of college was as an assistant coach at Columbia in 1979-80. His mother, Marilyn Fleming, still lives in Manhattan, where she works as a real estate agent.
St. John's is prepared to pay its next coach $1.5 million a year for six years, according to the Post, which put Roberts' salary at about $650,000. Greenberg received a new six-season contract for the 2007-08 season, which was scheduled to pay him almost $850,000 this season.
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