1. Charles Robert Moir was an American college basketball coach.
12 Facts About Charles Moir
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Charles Moir was the head coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team from 1976 until his resignation in October 1987.
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Charles Moir was forced to resign after the discovery of severe NCAA violations.
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Charles Moir was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.
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Charles Moir was a basketball and baseball athlete at Appalachian State University.
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In 1963, Charles Moir joined the Virginia Tech basketball coaching staff as an assistant.
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Charles Moir's first recruit at Roanoke was Frankie Allen, the first African American basketball player in school history, who would eventually follow Charles Moir as the head coach of Virginia Tech and become Virginia Tech's first African American head coach.
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Charles Moir became the head coach in 1976, replacing Don DeVoe, who had moved on to Wyoming.
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Charles Moir himself was cleared of any wrongdoing, but was forced to resign.
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Charles Moir's ouster completed a difficult year for the Hokie program; athletics director and football coach Bill Dooley had been pushed out earlier that year.
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The younger Charles Moir played for his father as a walk-on at Virginia Tech in the 1980s.
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Charles Moir died on November 14,2019, at age 88 of congestive heart failure.