Charles Moir

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Charles Moir
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Team	Appalachian State
Biographical details
Born	1929/1930 (age 83–84)^[1] Francisco, North Carolina, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1963 - 1967 1967 - 1973 1973 - 1976 1976 - 1987	Virginia Tech (asst.) Roanoke Tulane Virginia Tech
Head coaching record
Overall	616-238
Accomplishments and honors
Championships 1972 Division II National Championship Metro Tournament Championship (1979)

Charles "Charlie" Moir (born c. 1930) 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.

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.

Virginia Tech

Main article: Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball

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.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7]

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.

Personal

Moir's son, Page Moir, is currently the head basketball coach at Roanoke College.^[8]

Head coaching record

NCAA College Division/NCAA Division 1

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Roanoke Maroons (Mason Dixon) (1967–1973)
1967-1968	Roanoke	22-8	11-3	1st	NCAA Semifinals
1968-1969	Roanoke	17-10	12-2
1969-1970	Roanoke	20-8	8-6
1970-1971	Roanoke	23-8	12-1		NCAA Semifinals
1971-1972	Roanoke	28-4	9-2		NCAA College Division National Championship
1972-1973	Roanoke	23-6	10-2		NCAA Quarterfinal
Roanoke:		133-44	62-16
Tulane Green Wave (Independent) (1973–1976)
1973-1974	Tulane	12-14	Ind.
1974-1975	Tulane	16-10	Ind.
1975-1976	Tulane	18-9	Ind.
Tulane:		46-33
Virginia Tech Hokies (1976-1978 Independent 1978-1987 Metro Conference) (1976–1987)
1976-1977	Virginia Tech	19-10	Ind.		NIT Quarterfinals
1977-1978	Virginia Tech	19-8	Ind.
1978-1979	Virginia Tech	22-9	4-6	T-4th Metro	NCAA 2nd Round
1979-1980	Virginia Tech	21-8	8-4	2nd Metro	NCAA 2nd Round
1980-1981	Virginia Tech	15-13	6-6	T-3rd Metro
1981-1982	Virginia Tech	20-11	7-5	4th Metro	NIT 3rd Place
1982-1983	Virginia Tech	23-11	7-5	T-2nd metro	NIT 2nd Place
1983-1984	Virginia Tech	22-13	8-6	4th Metro	NIT Semifinals
1984-1985	Virginia Tech	20-9	10-4	2nd Metro	NCAA 1st Round
1985-1986	Virginia Tech	22-9	7-5	3rd Metro	NCAA 1st Round
1986-1987	Virginia Tech	10-18	5-7	T-5th Metro
Virginia Tech:		213-119	62-48
Total:		392-196
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion

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. p. 138. ISBN 0-86554-787-4.
↑ 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 2008-01-10.
↑ Stewart, Will (2005-08-22). "The Year of Our Discontent: Conclusion". techsideline.com. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
↑ Associated Press (1987-10-27). "Virginia Tech Hit by Sanctions". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-10.
↑ "Head Coach - Page Moir". Roanoke.edu. Retrieved 2009-03-02.

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Appleton A. Mason (1912–1913)
Carl Hanson (1913–1914)
Edwin Sweetland (1914–1915)
Clark Shaughnessy (1915–1918)
M. A. Moenck (1918–1920)
Claude Simons, Sr. (1920–1928)
Bernie Bierman (1928–1930)
Claude Simons, Sr. (1930–1931)
George E. Rody (1931–1933)
Ray G. Dauber (1933–1938)
Claude Simons, Jr. (1938–1942)
Vernon Haynes (1942–1945)
Clifford Wells (1945–1963)
Ted Lenhardt (1963–1964)
Ralph Pedersen (1964–1971)
Dick Longo (1971–1973)
Charles Moir (1973–1976)
Roy Danforth (1976–1981)
Ned Fowler (1981–1985)
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Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball head coaches

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Harlan Sanborn (1916–1917)
Charles A. Bernier (1917–1920)
William L. Younger (1920–1923)
B. C. Cubbage (1923–1924)
M. Buford Blair (1924–1926)
Henry Redd (1926–1927)
Bud Moore (1927–1928)
I. E. Randall (1928–1929)
R. S. Warren (1929–1930)
C. D. Rhodes (1930–1931)
George S. Proctor (1931–1932)
William L. Younger (1932–1937)
Herbert McEver (1937–1944)
George S. Proctor (1944–1947)
Flake Laird (1947–1955)
Chuck Noe (1955–1962)
William Matthews (1962–1964)
Howie Shannon (1964–1971)
Don DeVoe (1971–1976)
Charles Moir (1976–1987)
Frankie Allen (1987–1991)
Bill Foster (1991–1997)
Bobby Hussey (1997–1999)
Ricky Stokes (1999–2003)
Seth Greenberg (2003–2012)
James Johnson (2012– )

Persondata
Name	Moir, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball coach
Date of birth
Place of birth	Francisco, North Carolina, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death

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