If Seth Greenberg is interested, ESPN would like to talk.

The sports cable network could be the coach's next destination.

Greenberg's tenure at Virginia Tech ended abruptly Monday when athletics director Jim Weaver hastily called a news conference to announce the coach's firing. Greenberg spent nine seasons at Virginia Tech, and his team made the NCAA tournament once, in 2007.

During this year's NCAA tournament Greenberg did a stint as a guest analyst for ESPN. It went over well for the 56-year-old born in Plainview, N.Y.

"He did a great job for us," ESPN spokesman Mike Humes said Tuesday in an e-mail to USA TODAY Sports. "We'd be interested in exploring a larger role with him if he's interested."

Attempts to reach Greenberg were unsuccessful.

"He's going to hold off on discussing the situation for now," said Gideon Cohen, director of sports broadcasting for IF Management, the agency that represents Greenberg.

As far as head coaching jobs go, Greenberg doesn't have many options. And he has no options among power conference schools.

The only schools with openings (as of Tuesday early afternoon) were North Carolina A&T, Grambling, Southern Mississippi and North Texas.

Weaver did Greenberg no favors with the timing of the firing, which stunned Greenberg. The more attractive openings were filled weeks ago.

Weaver did not immediately respond to a request to be interviewed sent to assistant athletics director for communications Dave Smith.

The firing reeks of something personal, but at a news conference Monday Weaver described it as a business decision, saying the school was not going to extend Greenberg's contract in 2013 and decided to move sooner.

Two assistants had already departed with another expected to follow suit. The director of basketball operations had left. "It made all the sense in the world to us to move forward and change the direction of our program and hire a new staff that's going to be here," Weaver said.

Greenberg is known for being outspoken, and that could serve him well for television.

The opportunity is there if he wants it.