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He looked pretty good on the last play against NC State. Something happen in practice?
To be fair, I don't think Whit has uttered the words "GM" as something we were going to hire... He did mention expanding the front office, but hasn't said anything about what that title will be, when it will be announced, etc.
I think Bruce was talking off the cuff with McAfee. Bruce is a great Hokie, and is obviously quite knowledgable about the game, but I don't think he's really had PR training.
We eliminated it officially in our 2016 rebrand.
Or they just understand the current era of college sports and understand that its good to have someone help manage the money and expenses so they can manage the team. If done well, the GM and front office handles all of the prep work for the coaches so they can stay focused on the team itself. And quite frankly, a GM is basically just the AD of the football team. The coaches answer to someone.
It makes sense that the Director of Athletics will need to approve any hire, and as of today, that's still Whit. I would expect it to be a pro forma approval, and that the search committee is making the actual decision.
Concerned about the Questionable status of Hokie legend Christian Ellis.
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What happened to the burnt in burnt orange
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# | Georgia Tech signs a 10 year roughly $190m apparel deal with UnderArmour To be fair, UA prob drives away more recruits than it brings in. That's why this works at GiT........
If we took this bag, and didn't improve, would it be because Whit got us more money, or UA doesn't bring the athletes to the yard, or what...point being this isn't a bad look for Whit. Not everything is connected to VT. And Whit is fine with passing, not reaching out, blocking UA in my book. Other stuff, yeah, but this has zero reflection on him or VT. Just picks at the Nike deal we have and that's about to be reworked.
The chrome orange lids with maroon jersey and pants is so fricken clean. Wish we wore this more.
In typical Tech fashion, it seems we have yet again, bungled it. You have Bruce saying one thing, then Whit coming out and saying this. Assumably, there was a lack of communication, which is a failure in this situation. Insane how we just continually let this man destroy any momentum we ever find.
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Ryan Berman graduated from Virginia Tech in 1982 and is the Managing Partner of Ryan Berman Advisory, a strategic consulting firm. She has led multi-channel consumer businesses for global fashion and technology companies. Her career includes roles such as Chief Executive Officer of Victoria's Secret Direct, Chief Executive Officer of Giorgio Armani Corp, Chief Operating Officer of Apple Retail, and Global Group President of Ralph Lauren Retail
Well that's quite the list of brands she can pull from to try and sway a potential coach in our direction
I'm starting to think we won't go the GM first route... I bet the moment Arians said that on Pat McAfee a dozen agents reached out to Whit saying no one they represent wants to report to a GM.
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# | Hokies unveil a new NMA helmet for Homecoming / 🟠Orange Effect🟠 I remember those, and did enjoy them.
So is Jeff King not being named mean he's not involved because he's a candidate for GM and they are also searching for candidates for that role? I would think a GM would be involved, but none of those names seem to fit that role, save maybe Arians.
Ok, you're absolutely right, the matte maroon helmets were nice.
Give me a white script Hokies helmet on a matte maroon with an orange stripe with the spaced VT outline and possibly even a white facemask and I think that's a complete winner of a look. Would fit in nicely with the current branding.
This is extremely concerning. I can only hope Rocovich continues to control this and is listening to elsewhere in regard to approving this hire. You just can't let Whit be involved in a third hire.
Babcock says the #Hokies search committee will be in charge of identifying the top two to four candidates.Those candidates are then referred to the "hiring authorities" -- that's Babcock, president TIm Sands and rector of the BOV, John Rocovich.— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) October 3, 2025
So are we still hiring a GM first, or is the GM been found? Or are we now hiring the coach first? Or is the search committee hiring both?
This seems like a fantastic list of accomplished individuals, but that doesn't mean much if they don't have a plan...
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# | Georgia Tech signs a 10 year roughly $190m apparel deal with UnderArmour Times have changed... Universities can give money directly to recruits, this stuff doesn't matter much.
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# | Georgia Tech signs a 10 year roughly $190m apparel deal with UnderArmour Pretty surprised to see this tbh. I've read many experts say that the days of monster apparel deals are gone. Not only that, but UA doesn't have the best record of actually honor contracts through their lifetime.
Another bad look for Whit...
You'd think that if whit misspoke in the podcast, they'd have edited that out.
I'll take him at his word.
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No metallic maroon.
We have our default glossy maroon with the little orange flecks in them if you look up close
We had matte maroons in 2018. They were cool but the team wasn't that good so nobody remembers them fondly. We also did a matte maroon fighting goblet helmet in the Russell athletic bowl in 2012. Pretty cool.
No candy/metallic maroon that I've seen
You have football minds, business minds, and BoV minds. A good mix that seems like it would be handling both a GM and an Athletics CEO. Interested to hear more about it. Contrary to what Whit said in the podcast about a head coach first, then GM, the smoke has pointed to a GM first, then head coach.
I laid this out in comment in the Jeff King thread, but there's a difference between an associate AD of football and a director of personnel.
In the NFL, a GM owns all personnel decisions - that includes scouting players, hiring coaches, allocating capital, etc. This idea that the person who scouts recruits/portal entrants AND gets to hire the head coach is COMPLETELY FOREIGN to college football. There's one P4 team doing this today: Stanford + Andrew Luck.
I think very few sitting P4 coaches (or G5 coaches with P4 experience) will sign up for this, and I think doing this will drastically shrink our candidate pool. I could be very wrong. We'll see.