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Some people claim it was Knowles because he wanted out of OSU after losing to UMich and didn't have the level of autonomy he desired. He was allegedly the leader and the reason they were getting all the safeties in the portal.

Interesting theory. If true, wonder if we'll see some of these new safeties depart when the next portal window opens.

Saying that it is the #1 reason implies that there are other reasons.
I assume it was one of those other reasons.

Thanks Max for putting this together for us...great work and much appreciated!

Management is the #1 reason people leave a job. So if Knowles was looking to leave and we were paying the same why not.

No real sauces here but a quick summary of the Hokiesphere.

Some people claim it was Knowles because he wanted out of OSU after losing to UMich and didn't have the level of autonomy he desired. He was allegedly the leader and the reason they were getting all the safeties in the portal. Winning the national championship put him on everyone's radar, so PSU paid him $3.4M. And then we moved onto Siefkes, who also runs a high 3 safeties defense.

The other potential candidate (and more likely at VT's level) is their safety's coach Matt Guerrieri. He was a co-DC at Duke when Coach Cheetah was there. He would have brought the high 3 safeties as well.

The circumstantial evidence supporting Knowles is decently convincing, but still seems far-fetched that ACC-middling VT could hire away a DC from a playoff caliber team.

Mentioned in other threads that we thought we had an inside line on Knowles (OSU DC) after they lost to Michigan again, but the playoff run killed that. Penn State shelling out $3 mil was icing on the cake.

Any #sauces on who the candidate was coaching in the championship game?

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