Va Tech fires DC, OL coach, strength coach

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Virginia Tech is in a bit of chaos right now.

Fired the DC, OL coach, and strength guy yesterday.

hokiesports.com

Pry announces staff changes

hokiesports.com hokiesports.com

In addition, VT has least 14 players now in portal, including at least five starters.

Likely to see several opt outs from potential NFL guys (they have 5 going to Senior Bowl, unlikely any of those play in bowl game).

Will be an interesting bowl game.
 






mcrow47 said:
This sucks for the Gophers that they're not getting a legit opponent. Will be interesting to see if we get more opt outs on the Gophers side knowing how depleted VT will be.
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Still a legit opponent. This kind of stuff is becoming pretty commonplace these days....

All you can do is go out and play the game against whatever team they send out to face you. Both teams will be dealing with transfers and opt outs.

In the end a win or loss vs. Virginia Tech in a bowl game wasn't going to move the needle in any significant way anyway. Still a reward for the players and a great chance to get some additional practice time for the younger players.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Still a legit opponent. This kind of stuff is becoming pretty commonplace these days....

All you can do is go out and play the game against whatever team they send out to face you. Both teams will be dealing with transfers and opt outs.

In the end a win or loss vs. Virginia Tech in a bowl game wasn't going to move the needle in any significant way anyway. Still a reward for the players and a great chance to get some additional practice time for the younger players.
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IDK, if they have a ton of kids in the portal and opting out and DC is gone this is not close to a full strength VT team compared to the Gophers.
 


Holy Man said:
I’m always worried about teams who have nothing to lose.
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They’re playing with house money and for the name on the front of the jersey and not the back. Those gym rats can be difficult to defeat, as they’ll give a 110% and leave it all on the field.

We’ll likely be a double digit 🐶 .
 



mcrow47 said:
IDK, if they have a ton of kids in the portal and opting out and DC is gone this is not close to a full strength VT team compared to the Gophers.
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We almost certainly won't be at full strength as well. I agree that it sucks, you would love to see teams at their best so that nobody has any reason to doubt the quality of the win.

Just isn't how things work these days.
 

MNVCGUY said:
We almost certainly won't be at full strength as well. I agree that it sucks, you would love to see teams at their best so that nobody has any reason to doubt the quality of the win.

Just isn't how things work these days.
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Unfortunately most of these games that aren't playoff games end up being glorified exhibitions now.
 





MNVCGUY said:
We almost certainly won't be at full strength as well. I agree that it sucks, you would love to see teams at their best so that nobody has any reason to doubt the quality of the win.

Just isn't how things work these days.
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Sounds like it’s not even a close comparison though based on sheer numbers of 2 deep players as well as multiple coaches being fired.
 

Gopher_In_NYC said:
They’re playing with house money and for the name on the front of the jersey and not the back. Those gym rats can be difficult to defeat, as they’ll give a 110% and leave it all on the field.

We’ll likely be a double digit 🐶 .
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Needs about 5 more cliches
 



Catechol said:
Sounds like it’s not even a close comparison though based on sheer numbers of 2 deep players as well as multiple coaches being fired.
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Totally agree, they are getting hit way harder then we are to this point and that doesn't seem likely to change before the game.

But we have no control over that so all we can do is play the game against whoever they have left. Unfortunate we won't get to see them at their best but it is what it is.
 


mcrow47 said:
Someone has been a coach before. Every coach I ever had was a cliche machine. It's like they didn't even understand English without cliches. 😂
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It is because people get annoyed by cliches but they rarely get offended by them. When you don't use them people find a way to nit-pick and get all bent out of shape.
 


You can see the actual presser in the link from the OP. Bottom left button for "Sound Bites" from presser.
 





howeda7 said:
Maybe if we played tomorrow. I'm not sure "win one for the fired DC" will resonate as much 3 weeks from now.
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I still recall our guys knocking off a better Washington state team after the mess with Claeys.
 

Holy Man said:
I still recall our guys knocking off a better Washington state team after the mess with Claeys.
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True. But that situation was the players rallying around their own etc.
 


STPGopher said:
One small(?) problem though. New DC means no film. New OL coach may mean a chance in blocking schemes?
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Yeah, let's start over 13 games in the season. No confusion there.
 

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