2025/2026 Coaching Carousel

[stolitonic]

Off to an early start this year.

Foster fired by the Bruins

Pry canned by VT

 

[theroyz71]

As a parent of a Hokie alumni, I hope Tech hires someone good. I'm not going to hold my breath though.

 

[stolitonic]

As a parent of a Hokie alumni, I hope Tech hires someone good. I'm not going to hold my breath though.

Seems they have been taking their own "walk through the wilderness" since Beamer retired.

 

[Boston Vol]

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.

 

[StarRaider]

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.

even daddy/coach nic?

 

[volfanbill]

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.

It didn’t work when they went after a then current head coach either

 

[feathersax]

even daddy/coach nic?

Excellent choice...or maybe Beldar or Butch?

 

[Boston Vol]

It didn’t work when they went after a then current head coach either

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.

 

[Firebirdparts]

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.

 

[StarRaider]

transfer portal opens for ucla and vt .... since neither has played 4 games anyone can transfer and redshirt the rest of this season

 

[ENGRVOL]

Now that Foster is free Florida needs to go ahead and part ways with Sunbelt Billy so they can hire Foster.

Will be willing to help Foster move to Gainesville for free.

 

[TrueOrange]

Seems they have been taking their own "walk through the wilderness" since Beamer retired.

Honestly, looking at their history/ year by year results, after he left they’ve pretty much gone back to where they were before Beamer was hired.

His 20 years was seems like it was an outlier for that program.

 

[05_never_again]

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.

 

[ButchPlz]

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.

Va Tech doesn't have the pockets for NIL, either.

 

[theroyz71]

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

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

 

[stolitonic]

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

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.

 

[give_him 6]

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.