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Why did Buzz Williams leave Marquette for VT?

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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- We were sitting at Waffle House, the one by campus, a few minutes after individual workouts on a Thursday morning, picking at eggs and bacon and whatever else the waitress put on our plates, when I asked Isaac Chew the question everybody asked me any time I mentioned I was heading to Virginia Tech to see Buzz Williams.

Why did he leave Marquette for a historically bad job?

Chew, the one full-time assistant who followed Williams from Milwaukee to Blacksburg, was seated to my right. The first thing he said in response to my question was the exact thing I expected him to say, and that thing was this: "People ask me that all of the time."

I told him people ask me that all of the time, too.

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When Marquette fired one of Williams' assistants, Scott Monarch, in 2012, Williams personally supplemented Monarch's income until he landed a new job at North Texas that Williams helped him get.

MAYBE BUZZ CAN PAY BENFORD'S BUYOUT!??!?!?!?!

It might just lower the temperature a few degrees in his room when Buzz makes his inevitable road trip to Hell.

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