Sources: Lutz has emerged as candidate at Virginia Tech
North Carolina State associate head coach Bobby Lutz has emerged as a candidate for the opening at Virginia Tech and could end up as the man who replaces Seth Greenberg as the Hokies' head coach, multiple sources confirmed to CBSSports.com on Friday.
The development was first reported by The Washington Post.
Lutz was the Charlotte head coach for 12 seasons from 1998 to 2010. The 53-year-old North Carolina native made five NCAA tournaments in that span and finished in the top three of Conference USA in four of the seven years he coached in the league while competing against Rick Pitino at Louisville, Bob Huggins at Cincinnati, John Calipari at Memphis and Tom Crean at Marquette, among others. Lutz spent the 2010-11 season as an assistant at Iowa State. He joined Mark Gottfried's staff at North Carolina State last year. And though Lutz is happy in Raleigh -- he was just recently named the associate head coach -- multiple sources told CBSSports.com that Lutz would very much like the opportunity to become a head coach again, and that he'd love for that opportunity to come via an ACC job like Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech fired Greenberg last Monday.
He made one NCAA tournament in nine seasons at the school.
The development was first reported by The Washington Post.
Lutz was the Charlotte head coach for 12 seasons from 1998 to 2010. The 53-year-old North Carolina native made five NCAA tournaments in that span and finished in the top three of Conference USA in four of the seven years he coached in the league while competing against Rick Pitino at Louisville, Bob Huggins at Cincinnati, John Calipari at Memphis and Tom Crean at Marquette, among others. Lutz spent the 2010-11 season as an assistant at Iowa State. He joined Mark Gottfried's staff at North Carolina State last year. And though Lutz is happy in Raleigh -- he was just recently named the associate head coach -- multiple sources told CBSSports.com that Lutz would very much like the opportunity to become a head coach again, and that he'd love for that opportunity to come via an ACC job like Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech fired Greenberg last Monday.
He made one NCAA tournament in nine seasons at the school.
