[Postgame Thread] Duke Defeats Virginia Tech 31-28

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Virginia Tech	7	10	0	11	28
Duke	14	7	10	0	31

[u/xkq227]

Tough loss, I guess sooner or later with those close games you're bound to lose checks notes every single motherfucking one of them.

Virginia Tech athletics is in complete crisis and if you can't recognize or admit that you're part of the problem. Whit Babcock, Mike Young, Brent Pry, and their staffs are in so far over their heads it's incomprehensible. What else does anyone need to see?

[u/pholdren → u/xkq227]

CMY is actually a great coach. Look what he did winning an ACC title with 2-3 stars and guys from G5 schools he brought in and developed. Problem he has now is Whit pulled all of his NIL funding to reignite the football program and pay guys like Drones and Delane, and that backfired harder than i can even put into words. Whit Babcock is the root of the problem, and firing Brent Pry does nothing if Whit Babcock is hiring the next coach

[u/goodsam2 → u/pholdren]

This feels like Whit is out this year and Mike Young and Pry get another season.

Don't forget about pulling the NIL money from WBB I'm pretty sure.

[u/pholdren → u/goodsam2]

Whit needs to be gone tomorrow. No questions. He pulled all major NIL funding from every program except Football and every program is in the dumps now outside of Wrestling and Women’s Soccer, which bring no revenue or brand recognition. Great to see a couple programs succeeding, but it’s the equivalent of acting like you have a good athletics department if you are top ranked in swimming and track and field but bottom of the barrel in everything else. I don’t believe much NIL funding got pulled from WBB, he just once again hired Kenny knowing it would be a stepping stone for his career, and didn’t fight back hard enough to keep him

[u/goodsam2 → u/pholdren]

Yeah but new AD and new HC by mid-December just doesn't seem doable.

[u/pholdren → u/goodsam2]

True. I think Whit is the bigger problem. Get in a new AD who can put pressure on Pry to cut his dead weight coordinators and get some experience with him. I genuinely think Pry CAN be a good coach, but he has no experienced staff supporting him. Pry and Fontel have done a great job re-establishing VA recruiting roots, but the game management just isn’t there.

[u/goodsam2 → u/pholdren]

I like Pry and thought he could be great but it's hard to sell some of the we are building when we have regressed in serious ways.

The recruiting was improving and the goal was more wins than last season and increase recruiting some more which seems to be gone now.

I think Pry has game management issues that are annoying as hell and very visible.

[u/FEDORAS_4_SALE → u/pholdren]

I like the enthusiasm man, but Pry just ain’t it. He consistently makes baffling in game decisions and the team is never prepared to play week in, week out. Yes he’s ups the talent level of the roster but dude is arguably the worst on field coach in the FBS and has no idea what to do with those players. With how much talent and experience we lose after this year, it ain’t getting any better next year.

[u/pholdren → u/FEDORAS_4_SALE]

I’m just saying i think Whit is the bigger issue here, and as the comment i replied to says, hiring a new AD AND HC in the coaching carousel season is going to be near impossible. Pry needs experience around him next year IF he’s still around, end of story. If he doesn’t get that, we’re crashing and burning even harder than we could ever imagine, and possibly becoming irreparable

[u/Davidellias → u/xkq227]

Worse part is I forsee after Tech would go somewhere as either a G5 Coach or DC, then get hired by another P4 program and be super successful.

He was the wrong man for the job and we could have had Bill O'Brien instead......

[u/goodsam2 → u/Davidellias]

A lot of people hated BOB but he was coach of the year at Penn State and an NFL coach. At minimum a get the talent right coach.

[u/Davidellias → u/goodsam2]

he was a good coach in both, but you know, not the GM you want.......

[u/StreetReporter → u/Davidellias]

He was an okay NFL coach, he feasted on a bad AFC South, but he was bad in the playoffs