As many of you know, Virginia Tech guard Nigel Munson has requested to transfer from the Blacksburg, Va., school to somewhere in or closer to his native Washington. However, in order to for another school to talk with a player about potentially transferring, the player’s current school must approve the talks. According to GW Director of Athletics Jack Kvancz, Virginia Tech did not authorize GW to talk to Munson. Without an approval, GW “cant talk to (Munson) or about (Munson),” Kvancz said. “We can’t do anything.”

Kvancz said he was “surprised” by the denial and that this is the first time he has heard of a player not being allowed to talk to a school outside of the the current school’s conference. Teams do not have to give a reason for the denial, and Virginia Tech chose not to.

In a phone interview Friday, Kvancz said he did not know of any previous animosity between the schools and could not think of a reason the Hokies decided to block GW. Current Wynton Witherspoon transfered to GW from Virginia Tech before the 2006-2007 season without a problem and when asked if Tech could be worried about becoming akin to GW’s farm system, Kvancz said “Maybe, but my guess is as good as yours.”

As for next year’s scheduled trip to Blacksburg for a game against the Hokies, Kvancz said that the game will go on as scheduled.

“Those are two separate entities,” he said.

GW beat the Hokies 63-62 in last year’s BB&T Classic.
Calls to the Virginia Tech Athletic Department were not answered, but stick with the Hatchet as we look into this story further.

The six-foot tall Munson averaged just 3.0 points in 11.1 minutes per game last year, but was considered a top prospect coming out of DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Md.
Note: Although Kvancz expected to have a full out-of-conference schedule by today, he did not receive all of the contracts. He expects them sometime next week.