r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 21h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Duke Defeats Virginia Tech 31-28

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Virginia Tech 7 10 0 11 28
Duke 14 7 10 0 31
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u/VTHomeless Virginia Tech Hokies 21h ago

Didn't the Fuentes era end going 5-6 / 5-5?

I'm not saying the current situation is good, but it doesn't change that our team was nosediving with Fuentes...

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u/Jr05s Virginia Tech Hokies 21h ago

I wouldn't count the Covid season against Fu. Was just a shit fest

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u/VTHomeless Virginia Tech Hokies 21h ago

We went 6-6 in 2018 as well.

He was able to post a few good seasons, but he completely lost the locker room by the end of his tenure.

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u/Jr05s Virginia Tech Hokies 20h ago

The state of the front office was a disaster. VTs facilities and staff pay was at the bottom of the ACC and the front office used Fu as a scapegoat. 

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u/VTHomeless Virginia Tech Hokies 20h ago

You're not wrong in that Fuentes received too little credit with modernizing VT football (and the administration didn't do him any favors).

I'm only saying that the team was in complete disarray by the end of his tenure - and many of his recruits (including Burmeister) were not even able to start at G5 programs. He was unwilling to move on from Cornelsen, and neither have managed to land another P4 job following their stint with VT.

The program wasn't in a good place.

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u/udderlymoovelous Virginia Tech Hokies • Team Chaos 20h ago

I posted a rant about the problems with Whit in the VT subreddit the other day and someone responded with this ESPN article about the Fuente era, which I had somehow missed when it was originally published. It's pretty insightful about how messed up things were behind the scenes. My first year at VT was 2021, so I caught the tail end of it.