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1 year 6 months
# | Report: VT Targets Arizona Cardinals LB Coach Sam Siefkes as DC Never heard of this guy, and I don't love that he's been tainted by working under Jonathan Gannon who is and always will be dead to me.
but if he can fix our LB play I'm all for it
Thamel works for CAA. Sure, the byline says ESPN but he is a press front for the agents first and foremost.
I think we are who we appear to be. In the present era we are a mid-tiered program with limited resources, and our first choices for talent aren't going to see VT as their first choice. We were never going to land CFP-grade experienced hires away from deep pocketed programs. That's not our tier anymore. Combine that with the admin functionality that took more than a month to decide on making an internal hire for S&C permanent and... we are where we are.
Hope he does great. Hope the Hokies improve as a result. I don't expect a lot given the nut-crusher start we have on deck next year. Might drop season tix for the first time in 25 years, I just can't get excited about the state of CFB overall and VT's place in it anymore.
Seriously, buyouts are expensive and hard, without guaranteed results.
To be fair, we don't know much about what went into this decision.
Translation: She's Qualified
Starting off 0-2 in the first week vs 2 SEC teams, not great. This is a meat grinder year in the making. Stumbling into conference play at 2-2., I expect 5-7 overall. Lean years continue
SoCar L
Vandy W
ODU W
Wofford W
@ NC State L
Wake - W
@GT - W
Cal - W
Louisville - L
@FSU - W
Miami - W
@UVA - W
9-3
13-0 Baby!
As Pry's mentor James Franklin once said
"I've been saying it for a long time, I will not hire an assistant coach until I've seen his wife. If she looks the part, and she's a D-I recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That's part of the deal,"
https://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/3555/james-franklins...
I'm glad you included the wife's name and month and year of marriage. Truly a major data point to consider on whether he's the right hire!
Apologies... I do appreciate the collection of data, just found it eccentric to include that tidbit.
rev up the hype train, we just stole an NFL DC
This ^^^
I want my coordinator to coordinate first and foremost. Recruiting is more important for position coach and head coach hires.
Nah, the Beamers will pay the buyout and he'll take a pay cut. Just watch.
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1 year 6 months
# | VT Officially announces Sam Siefkes as Defensive Coordinator Well, that's encouraging at least
I mean it's not Murray State, but ok.
Say it with me guys:
Recruiting chops for a coordinator is an added bonus, they are not a criterion for the job. They have almost no recruiting responsibilities. Bowen only recruits for a couple months out of the year and even then, it is one position that he splits with Crist who does most of the heavy lifting. And Bowen is one of, if not the best recruiter on staff.
One less score against us in most games and we are a 1-2 loss team.
A number of small errors fixed will take care of a few of them. Better LB and safety play and that takes care of the rest of them.
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1 year 6 months
# | VT Officially announces Sam Siefkes as Defensive Coordinator I do like the hire a lot more with Bud coming back as an analyst. Hopefully, Siefkes will be smart enough to lean on Bud.
Welp. We hired someone. So that's good. I almost thought I might get a new job before we hired a DC. Oh well.
I don't love or hate this hire. It feels like we whiffed on our top targets and settled. But, frankly, I don't know that any of us really know whether that's actually true.
I think Pry has to realize that he needed to nail this hire to save his job. Maybe he did some serious digging and rigorous interviews and legitimately thinks this is the best fit. Who knows?
Time will tell. I agree with posters above that he'll either be great and save Pry's skin or he'll flop and we're back to the drawing board. The only piece I'm not sure I agree with is Whit being gone after Pry fails. I don't want Whit to make the next hire but I'm not sure he's going to be shown out.
Lol. Shane just signed a $50 mil, $8 mil/year extension. Shane is never, ever coming to VT.
It'll only hurt until we hire Shane away from them in December
vs SCar - L (this one is going to hurt)
Vandy - L (Pry has still not beaten a non-conference P4 team)
ODU - W
Wofford - W
@ NC St - L
Wake - W
@GT - L
Cal - W
Louisville - L
@FSU - L
Miami - L
@UVA - W
5-7 on the season. But we beat UVA!
Fortunately we're bringing in a new DC with insider info from his time at Wofford to help shut down their offense. Now I feel comfortable penciling in that one as a win.
I think we can flip that State one. Replaced both coordinators with bad hires. Weren't very good last year and don't play inspired ball under Doeren