2025/2026 Coaching Carousel

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As a parent of a Hokie alumni, I hope Tech hires someone good. I'm not going to hold my breath though.
 
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Va Tech will likely look for a current head coach. They went coordinator last time with Pry, and that didn’t work out too well. I don’t know why any coach, coordinator or current HC, would touch UCLA at the moment. There’s basically zero institutional support for football.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Va Tech will likely look for a current head coach. They went coordinator last time with Pry, and that didn’t work out too well. I don’t know why any coach, coordinator or current HC, would touch UCLA at the moment. There’s basically zero institutional support for football.
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even daddy/coach nic?
 
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Boston Vol said:
Va Tech will likely look for a current head coach. They went coordinator last time with Pry, and that didn’t work out too well. I don’t know why any coach, coordinator or current HC, would touch UCLA at the moment. There’s basically zero institutional support for football.
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It didn’t work when they went after a then current head coach either
 
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volfanbill said:
It didn’t work when they went after a then current head coach either
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I know. But athletic directors have a tendency to hire the opposite of their last failed hire. So I wouldn’t certainly expect them to go the current head coach route.
 
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I wonder if they have any real money. I don't know much about it, but you can tell they don't have big NIL to hire good players. That's obvious. Getting kids to live in Blacksburg must be also a bit difficult.

I get the impression that they've never had "money". All their football history (they are 26th all-time in wins) is the result of something other than money.
 
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transfer portal opens for ucla and vt .... since neither has played 4 games anyone can transfer and redshirt the rest of this season
 
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There's a little bit of a false narrative I think around how their program has performed post-Beamer. They actually started regressing the last 4 years that Beamer was there, not after. Beamer went 29-23 (16-16) his last 4 seasons, never finished in the top 25. Then they actually improved during Fuente's first 2 seasons (had 2 9-win regular seasons, finished ranked) before slipping again and they've been bad ever since.

I think it is possible that the NIL era isn't beneficial for them. Beamer had good players over the years but he never consistently had elite classes and was kind of a developmental coach. There are good players in Virginia, but other schools with more resources come in and raid that state.
 
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05_never_again said:
There's a little bit of a false narrative I think around how their program has performed post-Beamer. They actually started regressing the last 4 years that Beamer was there, not after. Beamer went 29-23 (16-16) his last 4 seasons, never finished in the top 25. Then they actually improved during Fuente's first 2 seasons (had 2 9-win regular seasons, finished ranked) before slipping again and they've been bad ever since.

I think it is possible that the NIL era isn't beneficial for them. Beamer had good players over the years but he never consistently had elite classes and was kind of a developmental coach. There are good players in Virginia, but other schools with more resources come in and raid that state.
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Va Tech doesn't have the pockets for NIL, either.
 
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Next CFB coach fired
Per SportsBetting.ag

Billy Napier (Florida) +225
Scott Satterfield (Cincinnati) +375
Tony Elliott (Virginia) +450
Brant Brennan (Arizona) +800
Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State) +800
Kalen DeBoer (Alabama) +900
Sam Pittman (Arkansas) +900
Luke Fickell (Wisconsin) +1000
Mark Stoops (Kentucky) +1000
David Braun (Northwestern) +1200
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Next CFB coach fired
Per SportsBetting.ag

Billy Napier (Florida) +225
Scott Satterfield (Cincinnati) +375
Tony Elliott (Virginia) +450
Brant Brennan (Arizona) +800
Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State) +800
Kalen DeBoer (Alabama) +900
Sam Pittman (Arkansas) +900
Luke Fickell (Wisconsin) +1000
Mark Stoops (Kentucky) +1000
David Braun (Northwestern) +1200
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Gundy has been around long enough and is an alumni. They are gonna give him until the end of the season. They may announce his firing in week 8/9 or so but he will be allowed to finish the season.

Honestly, I might take a small flyer on the coach of Northwestern. They play UCLA Saturday. They lose that game with all the chaos in Westwood, somebody deserves to get fired.
 
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VT needs to increase their spending. Thoughts on Jimbo Fisher? He can recruit, he's from WV (not too far away from Blacksburg) and they can probably get him at a good salary since the aggies are still paying his buyout.
 
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give_him 6 said:
VT needs to increase their spending. Thoughts on Jimbo Fisher? He can recruit, he's from WV (not too far away from Blacksburg) and they can probably get him at a good salary since the aggies are still paying his buyout.
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I think it comes down to expectations with them.

Unless Beamer's seat gets really hot in south carolina I don't see anyway he leaves for VT.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Next CFB coach fired
Per SportsBetting.ag

Billy Napier (Florida) +225
Scott Satterfield (Cincinnati) +375
Tony Elliott (Virginia) +450
Brant Brennan (Arizona) +800
Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State) +800
Kalen DeBoer (Alabama) +900
Sam Pittman (Arkansas) +900
Luke Fickell (Wisconsin) +1000
Mark Stoops (Kentucky) +1000
David Braun (Northwestern) +1200
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Tony Elliott with the 3rd best odds is wild. His buyout is low, but 6-6 gets him another year. Hell 5-7 may be good enough because UVA doesn’t even have a President at the moment.
 
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05_never_again said:
Nope. He has zero incentive to get another job. There was no offset clause in that thing. I would be stunned if he's working anywhere ever again unless he gets bored and wants to call plays for a HS team or something.
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Since there isn’t a clause requiring him to seek employment, if I was in his shoes I’d definitely never coach again at the college level. He’s 59 years old, so old enough to retire with that kind of money and young enough still to enjoy retirement.
 
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Plecoptera said:
Since there isn’t a clause requiring him to seek employment, if I was in his shoes I’d definitely never coach again at the college level. He’s 59 years old, so old enough to retire with that kind of money and young enough still to enjoy retirement.
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You, me, and 99.9% of the population. However a lot of these guys are crazy and need to be "doing something." Even still I can't imagine him being a head coach again though.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Va Tech will likely look for a current head coach. They went coordinator last time with Pry, and that didn’t work out too well. I don’t know why any coach, coordinator or current HC, would touch UCLA at the moment. There’s basically zero institutional support for football.
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Tech was paying Pry 4.75 million a year to be horrible. Clark Lea made a little over 3 mil last year. You think Tech has him on their list of candidates?
 
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