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Don't love for a few reasons...
- Players quit on him this year. What changing if he's the DC? Maybe they'll all be gone?
- What happens if he doesn't perform well? Does CJF actually fire him?
Also, does it actually save money on our buyout? That shouldn't be a deciding factor, but I'm just curious.
I imagine (perhaps wistfully so) that he's going to be pretty motivated to get the taste of the last few years out of his mouth, and will come out swinging. As long as the position coaches are good, I don't hate it, but we need some new blood in those rooms.
I trust Franklin/the AD isn't in a position to tell Franklin what he can/can't do.
Puts Brent and Franklin in an awkward position. Really hoping it works out for their and VTs sake.
I think Franklin would have no problem firing him if it comes to that. Pry is a built in fall guy.
Pry clearly loves him some James Franklin and VT. Really hoping it works out.
I also dont love this move out of the gate. I think we aren't far enough removed from the bad defense played under his tenure. Makes me wonder if a lot of the fan base will have him on a very short leash... and if things dont go well, asking to fire him again. At minimum, most of the defensive assistants should be asked to move on.
I also wonder if some of the current players were excited to move on and get some fresh coaching in. Hope it doesn't convince our best players to move on since they might not get a better coach than what they've had.
Id love to be proven wrong and for this to be a winning combination, but it doesn't feel good right now.
Head coach and coordinator are two completely different things. Pry was an excellent DC for Penn St but a terrible HC for us. Getting him back to what he does best and just focusing on the defensive strategy while not worrying about anything else should be fine.
As for the players and listening to him, any player that was here this year and still on the team next year should just be thankful to be here.
The only way yesterday could've gone better is if we'd been one of the winning teams. Bama losing big, anOSU choking, and of course the LOL getting put back in UVA.
I hate Miami, but they should get an at large bid.
Pros:
Like Pry as a VT guy
Like JMFF putting guys in place on his staff
By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings
Cons:
Might be awkward
Let's give it a whirl if he's game
Edit: I'd prefer the analyst style role myself, but we fought hard to get JMFF here, so I'm not going to start second guessing before he's even coached a football game. The justification for hiring Pry as HC to begin with was his tenure as DC, so I feel like this isn't as risky as some are pointing out.
Love having him back but I think this might be in too much capacity. Hopefully he's on a short leash.
Every time some one tells me executives are in their roll because they are smarter and more strategic than the peons I just think about the ACC leadership as a great way to prove them wrong
Feels weird but unless we were going to get someone like Knowles Pry might have one of the better resumes of who we could get as a DC.
Does Knowles stay at PSU or is he looking for HC openings?
Thank you Duke.
I still think that conferences should make everyone play this weekend. 1v2, 3v4, 5v6 and so forth. More football is better. This means some teams can't just sit at home, only ND which was anointed by touchdown Jesus as the college football playoff savior
This feels like a corn-fu situation....hope I'm wrong
Yeah and to be clear I'd be fine with Pry in some kind of defensive analyst role. And I think he'd be an absolute monster in fundraising. But I'm leery of having him interact directly with some of the players he used to coach right after getting fired.
I dunno, I see the logic behind getting the band back together and keeping costs low so that money can go other places etc, but this is still an extremely risky move.
Yet not as expensive as paying ANOTHER DC AND the buyout.
most expensive DC ever
For Brent, too - how is it going to look for applying to be head coach at another school?
(assuming he wants to continue to be one, I suppose)
Feels like Head Coach career life support, which I know Saban did a bunch at Alabama. IDK if any of those coaches had been coordinators for Saban immediately before their head coach flameouts and he didn't have them as coordinators, I don't think.
F(uck uva)AM
Not gonna lie this is a hard sell. How is anyone that played under him as HC going to take him seriously in a different coaching role?
I'll say! Cody Grimm graduated in '09.
I see why people aren't going to be fans of this. That said...
Basically getting a free Defensive Coordinator for a few years, while putting Pry back into a position where he was effective.
Interesting choice if Pry is OK with it. Probably a good move from a financial perspective.
Will take some getting used to this idea, but I suppose it could work.
Finally broke UVa's 2025 overtime streak, which was 3-0 going into this game.
Eventually, that luck was gonna run out.
UVa did a good job with the portal, and then took advantage of a soft schedule to get to the championship game. Isn't that sortof the college football moneyball? Bottom of the conference to the top? While they executed competently, they weren't truly great. They were lucky not to have faced the top ACC teams, even in a year without many standouts.
But I'm pretty sure this says it best:
Fam!
Coach Kill isn't just in a consultant role at Vandy. It feels like he's 'head coach of the offense.' I've seen him call timeouts and argue with refs. Not sure if he's a playcaller, but he's clearly integral to their gameday decision making.