PHOTO: Virginia Tech welcomes wrong bald Marquette coach

by Blake Murphy
Brad Penner / USA Today

Well, this isn't exactly getting a new era of Virginia Tech basketball off on the right foot.

The Hokies announced on Friday that they had hired Buzz Williams away from Marquette to be their new head coach. To coincide with the announcement, they prepared a biography and profile page for the new coach on their website.

Except the picture they added to it was actually of Scott Monarch, Williams' assistant coach and friend in baldness.

[Photo Courtesy: HokieSports.com, screen-capped 3/22/2014 at 13:48 ET]

At first blush, perhaps it's not that egregious, but if you're paying a guy an estimated $18 million over seven years, you should probably have an idea what he looks like.

Here are the two men side-by-side, and they're really not hard to tell apart:

[Photo Courtesy: Getty Images]

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