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Im glad for all of this.
1. The BOV action (finally)
2. Arians involvement (finally involving VT grads whom REALLY know this business)
3. The pitch from Whit that made these gears all start to turn.

Why? Why did it take so long. The evidence was there. These people get paid to do this. Why did disaster have to happen before they acted?

In my profession, you get fired for waiting this long when the answer was visible in front of you.

I also heard/read rumors that Fuente wanted to hire two new, experienced coordinators after 2019, but he was not given the budget to do so.

I think a G5 headcoach with P5 experience would be a great get that is not unfathomable. Sumrall, Golesh, Kane Walmack, Charles Huff, Tyson Helton, etc all fall into this category.

A sitting P4 coach - eg; Matt Campbell - would be an absolute home run. I just think there's so few options here. I suppose Stoops is an option. Potential Fickle as well, but I don't think his Catholic AF family would move to a town without a Catholic high school.

But things are going to get saucy in another four weeks. I'm guessing that at minimum 2 of Arkansas/Florida/Kentucky/Auburn will open. In the B10 I see Wiscy and Northwestern could open up, and they'll throw cash at someone. That's 3-6 jobs that are better than VT opening up.

If Northwestern wants to pay Mullen more than VT can, do you think he comes here? What about Arkansas or Kentucky? Mullen to Wisconsin would be hilarious.

I get that the hiring committee has to find candidates with both a high ceiling and a high floor. But I would temper expectations... Everyone (except UCLA, Cal, and Stanford) is increasing budgets too.

I'm also interested to see if there's a candidate out there who can bring players with him. Definitely curious what Alex Golesh does the rest of the season, and I know very little (aka nothing) about that roster, but if Golesh wins 10+, and is open to taking the VT job, and has 10+ starters who have elgibility left and are willing to make the move with him, then IMO he immediately becomes more attractive than a Dan Mullen who doesn't bring any players with him (because I think we really need to grease the wheels a bit at VT).

It's not like he would go out and say I tried to fire him everyone - come on

I think the talent evaluation of Pry's staff was pretty good, even if the coaching and development were bad. Moore, Delane, and Dae'Quan Wright were good talent evals by Fuente's staff though.

I get the point, but VT isn't the program that is able to hire successful power conference coaches away from their current programs. That space is reserved for the bluest of the blue bloods. We could hire a proven coach who is no longer coaching at a power program (Mullen, Fitzgerald). Look at the list that bar1990 made, which one of those coaches is gettable? Mullen because he's now at UNLV, Campbell who's had much better offers than VT and passed, Dykes who's struggled since making it to the National Championship Game, or Klieman who may be on the hot seat at KSU?

My point is two-fold, and I made the same point during the last coaching search:

1) Very few programs can poach proven head coaches from other power programs, and we are not one of those programs (i.e. we're not poaching Sark from Texas or even Drinkwitz from Mizzou)

2) Most head coaching hires are risks. The rate of return on hiring a G5 head coach (Fuente) vs. a great coordinator (Pry) aren't all that different, and some of the best head coaches in the sport today had no previous head coaching experience. There is no guaranteed strategy or "proven" candidates for 90% of teams.

If hiring a head coach, drafting a QB, or hiring a transit agency head was easy, every team would win and the trains would always run on time.

Chesney is the one G5 guy I'd be hopeful about. He seems like he's in the Deboer/Leipold winners trajectory. However both Deboer and Leipold had at least one year with a power conference team, Chesney doesn't.

Saw this over on 247. Lol the man is getting stuff done like never before.

Yea, I agree. I decided to knock this out because I think it's a pretty easy 'pass'

But I will warn you (us)...

We amped up our budget big time
We are bringing Bruce Arians in as our OB1
We need to bring on a coach at this level as well.

If 10 other schools increase their funding by the same degree... well, it will be just like when we went from 3rd in the ACC to 7th in 3 weeks with Pry.

I can't imagine scheduling the vote if it wasn't already agreed upon in private. Too embarrassing if the vote blows up.

Hell, I wouldn't have even scheduled Whit's public presentation to the BoV if this vote wasn't already locked in. This is all theater to maximize IO value.

I'm just glad we have the basic savvy to orchestrate this show.

Doing the smart things along with the cash.....some folks are getting to it. Sands, BOV, and Whit aren't playing around.

1 million percent. It's an ax to grind, complete incompetence, or a disgruntled employee that just wants to burn everything to the ground.