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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Casiovo on 2025-04-11 13:44:09+00:00.
As a Virginia Tech fan seeing an article like this is hard but a true reality. To simply put it, The Virginia Tech Administration has been arguably the most incompetent among the P4 schools in the Post Beamer Era (Since 2015). A combination of unsuccessful hires and not giving those hires remotely enough support to succeed in this adapting CFB landscape has caused this program to fall into irrelevancy. To this day the program’s future still worrisome. Even currently the administration refuses to hire a football GM or a dedicated fundraising for the booster club.
While fundraising efforts have been a little bit better and NIL resources for Football have been pretty good (apparently within the top 1/3 of the ACC), but doesn’t have quite the Financial Resources of the B10/SEC schools. The FSU/Clemson settlement has the ACC set to implode or at least look drastically different in 2030 and VT may be left behind during that inevitable period realignment unless something drastic changes.
This is before mentioning how bad the current coaching staff has been. Brent Pry is currently 16-21 at VT and a mind boggling 1-12 in one score games (the only win being a 1pt win vs Liberty while Hugh Freeze already had his foot out the door to Auburn). While he has raised the talent profile of the program, who recruited poorly during the Fuente era, Pry has severely underperformed with that talent. Last season VT had a ton of hype in the ACC and with a win total of 8.5 and the most returning production in the country. But ultimately ended up going 6-7 playing a relatively manageable schedule (and of course 0-5 in one score games). This was despite having 5-6 guys who will be drafted in a few weeks, and 8 players who transferred out to P2/ND programs.
While Pry did revamp his coaching staff (New DC, OC, OL, S&C) and a solid portal class (ranked 14th by ON3) but his seat his still warm going into this year and another 6-6 season or worse will likely not cut it.