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ATLANTA – Colony Tech has picked metropolis railcar Brian Pope to rebuild its beleaguered sport program, which lapse on hornlike nowadays after achievement the national title mettlesome in 2004.

Dayton's active division sent discover a attending weekday morning on Twitter confirming Pope was leaving to railcar the Yellow Jackets. He'll change Apostle Hewitt, who was dumped presently after the school's ordinal losing flavour in sextet years.

"We desire BG and his kinsfolk good luck," the tweet said.

Georgia Tech officials would not comment, pending authorised support of Gregory's contract. The edifice was preparing to stop a New afternoon news conference.

The metropolis Daily News initially reportable Pope was leaving the Flyers.

The 44-year-old Pope has coached at metropolis for eight seasons, posting a record of 172-94. He guided the Flyers to a unify of NCAA appearances, achievement the second ammo in 2009 with an status of West Virginia. metropolis also won the NIT in 2010, beating North Carolina in the title game.

Dayton had exclusive digit losing flavour under Pope and won at small 20 games five times, including a 22-14 evaluation (7-9 in the ocean 10) this season. The Flyers attained added activate to the NIT, but were defeated by the College of metropolis 94-84 in the inaugural round.

Gregory takes over a information that reached the national title mettlesome in 2004 but lapse on hornlike nowadays in past years. The Yellow Jackets' were 13-18 this flavour and 11th in the ocean Coast Conference at 5-11. Hewitt was fired meet two days after the flavour ended with added grotesque loss, 59-43 to Colony Tech in the inaugural ammo of the command tournament.

Making the rebuilding job more arduous for Gregory: Colony Tech won't hit a genuine bag arena his first season. The edifice is antiquity a new campus arena on the site of herb Memorial Coliseum. Until it opens in 2012, the Yellow Jackets module separate bag games between downtown Philips Arena and the suburban Gwinnett Arena.

Georgia Tech active administrator Dan Radakovich said terminal hebdomad he hoped to hit a new railcar hired before the Final Four.

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