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But is it a "we" as in The Key Play people discussing it, or suggesting that Pry isn't focused on it?

As mentioned, I assume it's because none of us know any names. Plus, there may be more room for bringing someone in from outside football teams that we never would have heard of.

As in... his very own -had, past tense- stuck to his L'ing ways gangSTARS, just g-checked his beyotch azz right into the icy plexiglass. booooom

No. I think he's saying the Bloods and the Crips are now playing hockey instead of having street wars...

I guess that's fair, but that's a LOT of conjecture. How do we know who Fuente and Pry wanted vs didn't get or had a limited the budget for. I mean, MAYBE it is true, but what are we expecting, that Whit would pony up the cash to poach away coordinators from top 10 teams? Most of them are probably hoping for HC gigs. There are probably multiple factors with respect to coordinators. PLUS, it's not like there have even been that many. The statement that he hasn't overseen a good coordinator hire makes it sound like he's overseen dozens of them.

He's had two head coaches, possibly played a part in retaining Foster, but then I remember hearing that Foster highly recommended Justin Hamilton. So how much of that was whit vs Fuente taking a hall of fame worthy DC's recommendation on a pick? We had plenty more money than what we spent on Hamilton, so I gotta think that one was influenced more by Foster than by Whit. And I highly doubt Whit had any say, even purse strings related on Corny - that was all Fuente all the way.

That leaves Pry. Everything I remember hearing on here was that he picked Bowen and Marve based on their cerebral qualifications, and that he knew them already. Most head coaches hire people they know, at least to some degree, and it seemed like Pry did that with a lot of his selections. So if Pry was hiring people he had good relationships with, how do we know Whit made purse string limitations?

By my calculations, Whit didn't influence Fuente bringing Corny, probably didn't factor into Foster being retained, and almost definitely could have paid more (a LOT more) than what we paid Hamilton, so doubt Whit was the limitation there. Even still, to date, it appears Whit has overseen the hire of exactly 3 coordinators, which is not a large sample size. (The 3 being Hamilton, Bowen, and Marve, attributing Corny solely to Fuente and not based on any sort of limitation based on budget for that one).

Ugh...Fine...I'll take a shot.

2009 Memphis Tigers, the DC was current Ohio State Secondary coach Tim Walton
2011 Vanderbilt Commodores, Pry served as Co-DC with Bob Shoop, currently Marshall's Secondary coach, as well as Robert Livingston (Colorado's DC/S), and Sean Spencer (Texas A&M's DL coach)
2012 Vanderbilt, George Barlow, currently Louisiana's Secondary coach.
2014 Penn State; Terry Smith (Penn State AHC/CB), Will Windham (South Alabama DC/S)
2019 Penn State; Joe Long (Oregon ST/Nickels)
2020 Penn State; John Scott (Detroit Lions DL), Deion Barnes (Penn State DL)
2021 Penn State; Anthony Poindexter (Penn State Co-DC/S)
2022 Virginia Tech; Derek Jones (VT CB), Shawn Quinn (VT OLB), Pierson Prioleau (VT S), Xavier Adibi (Assoc LB), JC Price (Assoc HC/DL)

My brain hurts

Today is the first time I've ever took the initiative to count calories. It's also the first time I've ever really monitored what i ate.
I've always felt the daily recommended value (drv) of caloric intake of 2000 was low for an adult male; however now at my age of 45, that's where i'm going to set my baseline. Considering I have an office job and spend the majority of my day at a desk on a computer, my body probably doesn't require any more than that.
This morning breakfast totaled 290 calories, lunch was 430 and dinner was 395, for a grand total of 1115. I still did my evening 20 minutes on the treadmill for -100 but also enjoyed about 3 ounces (~100ml) of Wild Turkey 101 @ 87 calories per ounce.
Overall, i'm still very hungry right now but content. Pretty excited that I made it through the day without boredom snacking and overeating at my meals, while still leaving room for a little WT101 enjoyment.

. (speaking as a frequent TEMU shopper)

... but why

Brent Pry was born in Altoona where his grandfather worked for the railroad there. Just outside of town there's a famous turnaround and namesake of a minor league baseball team, the Altoona Curve. Trains traverse 220° around the curve. If you travel at a heading of 220° from Altoona it roughly puts you in Bristol, where tech played Tennessee. Also with the same heading from state college you get to Blacksburg and from Buffalo where Pry played college ball you get to Knoxville. Of course this is me eyeballing it but Banks is all but guaranteed if you ask me.

What about Banks heading to Penn State and that still frees up Dex to VT? Might just be a timing thing.

That's good to hear! Also gotta give props to Rechsteiner for holding it down when Hammond was out. He only had 2 TOs against Stanford and none against Cal.

I can't tell you, I have to show you...