Prior to Final Four play Friday, team coaches answered questions from the media.
Virginia Tech coach Kenny Brooks on making the move in 2016 from coaching his alma mater, James Madison:
When I was at James Madison, I felt like I was so busy making a life, that I wasn’t living a life. It was a blur. I watched my kids grow up, and I missed a lot. I missed a whole lot.
So when the Virginia Tech opportunity came along, my wife was on board because she understood that the challenges that I wanted to accomplish, I wanted to test my wits against the best, and she knew that. But my children had never moved. Unprecedented, they had never moved before in their lives. They lived in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Their grandparents lived there. Their cousins lived there, their aunts. They had a normal life. They didn’t have a coach’s family life.
I taught them to hate Virginia Tech because we were James Madison, and we were always battling. My oldest child was on board. My baby girl, she didn’t know what was going on. She was just going where daddy and mommy went. My middle child was reluctant. She said, I’m not going. She said, I’m staying here.
Ultimately, one day…
