for about 2 months. After Fuente, hoped for a fresh start so I was optimistic. However that changed when I learned Pry was hiring completely inexperienced OC and DC's. So yeah, I turned negative before Pry even fielded his first team. I was called out for it, being called a negative nancy, etc etc for pointing out the obvious, that this HC and team were headed for failure. Any new coach's biggest decisions are his coaching hires, and he failed miserably long before he started. It's incomprehensible how a new HC with no prior experience would hire similarly inexperienced coordinators for this team. Assigning Bowen, a guy who had never played or coached the QB position, the new QB coach position was equally boneheaded. I say this because it simply has to be said. Brent Pry was never and will be never be a bright guy. He just doesn't have the smarts to be a HC. His staff decisions have proved me right on this. Whether its the staff hires, or issues with game/time management during games, its all the same. Too many poor decisions over and over. I said this before about him, that his poor decision making ability was not by chance, and it was a lifelong trait for him. 4 years after his hire and still making poor decisions. Is there any question? I watched his ODU postgame for the first time today, and was struck how little emotion he displayed. He didn't even really seem to be all that upset. Saying that this is our deepest team ever was a complete joke. He never broke above the 40's in recruiting rank (including transfers), and this year 83. No fire in him, and IMO no strong desire to win, something all HC's need. I wrote a satire about him a year ago, essentially stating he was a plant for Penn State, designed to sabotage VT football so PSU could continue to dominate recruiting in the state of VA. I was just kidding, but was I? Pry was born in PA, and most of his extended family still lives in PA. Got the feeling some time ago that Pry wants to go back to PA, having accomplished his mission and being rewarded with $25 mill by a gullible AD who is as clueless. I predicted last year that this year would be Pry's last and I was proven right. The VT community never deserved the incompetence and fleecing of millions at our expense for a man who never really wanted to be here. ** Edited by n2beaches at 9/15/2025, 11:30:31 PM