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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed 
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The AD should sign off. And Whit shouldn't be the AD. The new AD should pick who they want to work with. Every indication is that Whit is on his way out, either a soft ramp to a forced retirement or an inglorious leave your laptop with IT. So either he isn't, which is a disaster, or you are saddling the next AD with a coach they didn't pick (which is basically making that coach a lame duck.)
It is legit insanity. "Kirby Smart is a scrub, he keeps losing to Bama" is the vibe
This whole process has become a dumpster fire. Why can't we just fire the AD and hire a replacement, then hire a coach? Or better yet, why didn't we initiate an AD search and push Whit to retire last offseason so we had a new AD in place already? Why can't we make a decisive move on anything?
At this rate we are going to end up with a horrible desperation hire at HC.
Seeing Hokie Twitter hating on Franklin for not winning the big games....Frank Beamer made a career of not winning the big games on the back of a solid season, and got a statue of him 😂
What are we doing here?🤣
the big games that Franklin lost are generally unattainable for Virginia Tech the vast majority of college football.
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9 months 6 days
# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Even disliking Whit, the idea that the athletic director wouldn't sign off one his direct reports is foolish. Of course the AD is going to sign off on the coach. I highly doubt a candidate that comes forward with a solid recommendation from the committee is going to get tossed aside while Whit laughs maniacally from his secret lair.
Also, did we expect there was going to be constant press releases about candidates as they interviewed or something? They should have made this move before the committee members were announced.
My point is, VT will never be at the blue blood level.
We'll be lucky to rebound and get back to whatever tier 2 is.
Saying we shouldn't hire Franklin because he can't win what PSU defines as big games would be foolish.
Exactly. If there is one rule of thumb in today's college football, it is that an AD gets two football hires. That is it.
BEARDS > PEOPLE
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9 months 6 days
# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed "let us bungle this hire in peace"
Well with that attitude it is.
Build the warchest. I don't care if it takes years, I don't care if it takes decades. Build it.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Our fans are legitimately fucking insane.
This is true everywhere. Don't base your judgement of anyone/anything based on what some rando says on twitter. This applies in all contexts.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Whit should have been gone the same day as Pry. Every day that passes where he's still the AD just makes things more confusing and awkward.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed I think everyone in Merriman needs to go. Until we clean house we are going to have issues.
Eh. I think you look at it with an asterisk but I don't think you just throw it out. A lot of these offers are similar, and I do think kids are considering the entire package. Also, Franklin has been recruiting at basically the same level before/after NIL.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Nice! Another Whit Babcock super secret hiring!
STOP.
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9 months 6 days
# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed We pale in comparison to some of the bigger fanbases, and coaches aren't making decisions based on stupid shit people post on Twitter.
Because we have been ass for 15 years and still nearly sold out the game we knew we would lose to ODU with the north and east student sections being full 45 minutes before kickoff.
Sorry, but this is a masterclass in how to snuff out any enthusiasm that stemmed from Pry's firing and the BOV announcement. Lack of transparency, Whit still saying he will be the final voice when he spoke publicly last time. My confidence in the leadership at VT (which I will qualify by saying I have zero insight into the people and personalities involved) could not possible be more waning.
You have to throw out a lot of pre-NIL recruiting
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Honestly, taking one look at the absolute dumpster fire of a shitshow that is the VT fanbase on social media right now, I don't know why any good head coach would want to come and coach here.
Our fans are legitimately fucking insane.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed I lean toward this interpretation. For example, I signed an NDA as part of my role in the provost search on day one, before we had even received applications. It doesn't signal a state in the process.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Well this seems like a very interesting development. NDAs tend to indicate that we are well into the negotiation process with someone.
OR the hiring process has come under fire recently (due in large part, though not completely, to babble-mouth-bruce) and the powers-that-be want to be able to operate without criticism/without TSL/Teel talking shit.
Most of them are students on scholarships equivalent to the football team - Tom and Jed are the exception. Source: My roommate had that job in college.
Allar wasn't a bust, but he didn't live up to expectations. The idea that he was going to be a 1st round pick this year was because there was an assumption that he'd be developed. Hackenburg wasn't a Franklin recuit and didn't fit Moorhead's scheme. Clifford was a dual-threat game manager - good enough to keep PSU in games, but not good enough to elevate the talent level of anyone on the field. If you put Drones on the same PSU teams as Clifford, I think you'd see similar results.
In the last ten years Hokies would kill to have that kind of production at the QB position.
I think a lot of that production (with the exception of McSorely who was a fantastic college QB) was more due to the strength of the roster, less so due to QB play.
The problem is, its not just random people on Twitter, its some of our more prominent people who are just absolutely flying off the handle about every single update that occurs with this process. Guys who actively contribute to prominent sites and podcasts just throwing shit all over every update that comes out. These are people that coaches are going to have to interact with when they are here. Some of the negativity I'm seeing out there makes me cringe and I'm a Philadelphia fan.