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So, you saying there's a chance?
"[They are] specific and thorough with situational football, which was a weakness for us..."
Saying the quiet part out loud. Good.
One difference between Pry and previous head coaches at VT is his ability to speak at a press conference. He's damned good at it. Maybe his best skill, and he's good at a few things I expect of a head coach.
Also, his description of the process was quite good. It seems the comment boards assume the process is shooting from the hip to hire the biggest available name, but that's not how it's actually done. Pry clearly was looking for certain things in a candidate, and interviewed 6 people in person (4 hour interviews), and two remotely, out of 10 finalists.
Most importantly, Siefkes seems like an excellent hire. He brings some excitement to the program, and it's a great opportunity for him, too.
He was dissatisfied enough to leave, but outside of the Hokie bubble I've not heard anyone mention VT as a possible destination, only Oklahoma
The first half of that quote is very true. That Knowles wanted out because he didn't have autonomy is public knowledge at this point, idk where it got reported originally but they talked about it at length on Cover 3.
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# | Brent Pry tops the On3 'Coaches on the Hot Seat' list for 2025 Who are your nominations?
Damn
Seriously, this is an important aspect of the job, and Pry is very good at it.
They've been talking about it for like a year. I think they cover it a bunch in these two episodes this week
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Z0lcjjfYr8GnaIGhvOwJ0?si=x5FWpLBHQjqom...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/00sFUEeCcVrCz4XNGiQ08E?si=7VTAKNg1TYyHO...
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Should've been fired on the spot
Men's Basketball is currently +3 on pre-season polls. Currently 11th in the ACC, expected to finish 14th.
Women's Basketball is at +4. Currently 8th, expected 12th.
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# | Hokie Hoops Central: Virginia Tech (8-12) at Florida State (13-7) 7pm ACCN This always kills me. It's not like they move the line back from grade school to pro. The defense doesn't get any tougher at the free throw line as the competition advances. College athletes should be able to hit 80% from the FT line.
Marve had zero interesting in leaning on Bud. In fact, he once became furious with Pry for getting Bud's opinion on something.
Bud is more than happy to help but he's not going to go out of his way to do so if he is not asked
Do I think we're great...No
Do I think we've got some fun players worth watching...Yes
Do I think we might just be able to surprise a few teams and get some wins we shouldn't...yes
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Haven't watched a game and decided to look at the ACC standings and then the overall rankings. If there is any indication of the rapidly changing landscape of the Have and Have Nots, coupled with the ESPN's SEC homerism and they have 10 teams in the Top 25. We have 2. The once dominate ACC is no longer.
Pry mentioned that he and Siefkes will be going over staff this week. Although Ryan Smith coached CBs at Arizona, perhaps he would come back to VT to coach the safeties being familiar with the scheme.
Maybe VT can convince Cheetah's old co-DC Matt Guerrieri (safeties coach under Knowles at OSU) to come take a major role at VT. Probably would take some money to do that, but maybe it happens.
VT also needs a LB coach, since Siefkes won't be directly overseeing a position. Could be an internal hire there, having direct tutelage from 3 elite LBs coach on staff.
(Side Bar: I really think Marve must have been so unwilling to learn from Pry and Bud. How does he not get the skills to teach LB as good as those two when one's your boss and the other is in the building. Sigh. Clearly a misevaluation from Pry when hiring him.)
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I haven't watched a minute of men's team live (usually do try and catch condensed games of the wins), but Lawal alone is worth the price of admission. Happy for CMY. And glad to see they dominated the infamous Hamilton (infamous to those that follow DC sports at least; but honestly all the Wiz coaches have sucked).
Yea, that's fair. And the fact he did leave OSU and the news articles on why he went to PSU mention his dissatisfaction with OSU. And perhaps he was so disenfranchised that he was willing to give up on OSU-caliber roster for a middling-ACC roster before PSU handed him a cool $3.4-4M annually. And perhaps if VT ended up being his best offer, he would be the DC here and we'd all be estatic. But it is also no surprise that he did check out his options beyond VT, including OU and PSU. And it's no surprise that he is now the highest paid coordinator in all levels of football.
So, I guess I am willing to believe that he did seriously consider VT. And who knows what would have happened if they lost to Oregon in that first playoff game, whether he would've signed on with VT or looked for a better P4 job. And maybe Pry did almost pull off the ultimate coup, but Pry's asshole mentor Franklin f'ed him over again.
In any regard, cheers to Sam Siefkes, the next great DC of the football world. Time to move on. And with the familiarity between VT and PSU, maybe they can have those offseason brainstorming sessions and utilize Knowles knowledge and experience for the betterment of Siefkes and VT football. It's wouldn't be a bad consolation prize to have that direct access to whom many consider the best DC in the collegiate game right now.
I'll take it!
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