Charles Moir
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| Charles Moir | ||
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| College | Appalachian State | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Place of birth | Francisco, North Carolina, U.S.A. | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 616-238 | |
| Championships | ||
| Division II National championship (1972) Metro Tournament Championship (1979) |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1963 - 1967 1967 - 1973 1973 - 1976 1976 - 1987 |
Virginia Tech (asst.) Roanoke College Tulane Virginia Tech |
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Charles (Charlie) Moir is a former college basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team from 1976 until his resignation in October, 1987. During his eleven seasons at Tech, Moir compiled a 213-119 record, but was forced to resign after the discovery of severe NCAA violations. Including his time at Tech and coaching stints in high school and at Roanoke College and Tulane University, Moir compiled a career record of 616-238 in his 31 seasons as a high school and college head coach.
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[edit] Before Virginia Tech
Moir was a basketball and baseball athlete at Appalachian State University. Following his college career, Moir played Minor League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds organization.[1]
After three years in baseball, Moir moved on to coach high school basketball, coaching for eleven years at Stuart, Virginia, Jefferson, North Carolina, and Mount Airy, North Carolina and finishing with a career record of 224-43.[2]
In 1963, Moir joined the Virginia Tech basketball coaching staff as an assistant. After coaching under Bill Matthews and Howard Shannon for four seasons, Moir moved on to Roanoke College where he compiled a 133-44 record in his six years, winning the NCAA College Division (now called Division II) national championship in 1972.
Moir's first recruit at Roanoke was Frankie Allen, the first African American basketball player in school history, who would eventually follow Moir as the head coach of Virginia Tech and become Virginia Tech's first African American head coach.[3]
Moir left Roanoke for Tulane University in 1973, where he earned a 46-33 record. After three years in New Orleans, he returned to the Hokies and Virginia Tech.
[edit] Virginia Tech
Moir became the head coach in 1976, replacing Don DeVoe, who had moved on to Wyoming. In Moir's first season, the Hokies earned a bid to the NIT, but fell in the second round to #12 Alabama. In Moir's third season as coach, the Hokies, who had been independent since leaving the Southern Conference some 13 years earlier, joined the upstart Metro Conference. Tech stunned tournament favorite #13 Louisville in the conference semi-finals and went on to defeat Florida State for the conference championship.
Following Moir's lone losing season with the Hokies (1986-1987), a report presented by Mike Glazier and Mike Slive detailed 12 NCAA violations in Moir's program. The report found that, "in reviewing the academic records of basketball athletes, it is evident that most are not serious students" and that not a single player who entered Tech from 1981 until 1986 graduated.[4] The most serious were that a player had falsely been given credit for a course he did not take and the wife of another player was given a personal car loan. Moir himself was cleared of any wrongdoing, but was forced to resign.[5] Athletics director and football coach Bill Dooley had been dismissed earlier that year and the school was placed in the unenviable position of having both football and basketball on NCAA probation.[6]
During his time at Tech, Moir led the Hokies to four NCAA tournament appearances and four NIT appearances. With a record of 213-119, Moir remains Tech's winningest basketball coach of all time and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Hall of Fame in 2006.
[edit] Personal
Moir's son, Page Moir, is currently the head basketball coach at Roanoke College.[citation needed]
[edit] Career record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Virginia Tech (independent) (1976 — 1978) | |||||||||
| 1976-77 | Virginia Tech | 19-10 | NIT 2nd round | ||||||
| 1977-78 | Virginia Tech | 19-8 | |||||||
| Virginia Tech (Metro Conference) (1978 — 1987) | |||||||||
| 1978-79 | Virginia Tech | 22-9 | NCAA 2nd round | ||||||
| 1979-80 | Virginia Tech | 21-8 | NCAA 2nd round | ||||||
| 1980-81 | Virginia Tech | 15-13 | |||||||
| 1981-82 | Virginia Tech | 20-11 | NIT quarterfinals | ||||||
| 1982-83 | Virginia Tech | 23-11 | NIT second round | ||||||
| 1983-84 | Virginia Tech | 22-13 | NIT third place | ||||||
| 1984-85 | Virginia Tech | 20-9 | NCAA 1st round | ||||||
| 1985-86 | Virginia Tech | 22-9 | NCAA 1st round | ||||||
| 1986-87 | Virginia Tech | 11-18 |
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| Virginia Tech: | 213-119 | ||||||||
| Total: | 616-238 | ||||||||
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National Champion Conference Champion Conference Tournament Champion |
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[edit] References
- ^ Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2000.
- ^ Strother, Warren H. and Wallenstein, Peter. From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech 1962 - 1974. Mercer University Press, 138. ISBN 0865547874.
- ^ Berrier, Ralph. Being a First was Secondary to Being a Star. Roanoke Times.
- ^ SPORTS PEOPLE; 'NOT SERIOUS STUDENTS'. New York Times (1987-07-03). Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
- ^ Stewart, Will (2005-08-22). The Year of Our Discontent: Conclusion. techsideline.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
- ^ Associated Press (1987-10-27). Virginia Tech Hit by Sanctions. New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
[edit] External links
- Allen Replaces Moir
- Moir to resign
- Moir named to Tech hall of fame
- Page Moir bio
- Virginia Sports hall of fame
| Preceded by Dick Longo |
Tulane men's basketball head coach 1973–1976 |
Succeeded by Roy Danforth |
| Preceded by Don DeVoe |
Virginia Tech men's basketball head coach 1976–1987 |
Succeeded by Frankie Allen |
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