[Postgame Thread] Virginia Tech Defeats VMI 73-3

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Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
VMI	0	0	0	3	3
Virginia Tech	21	24	21	7	73

[u/hwy41_]

Not to exaggerate but this is the best game I’ve ever seen

[u/Iwantthat799 → u/hwy41_]

Pry would have won this game 17-10 and called it a gritty win

[u/Sentinel8675309 → u/Iwantthat799]

Don't knock Pry. Great dude. He had no resources

[u/omirsantos → u/Sentinel8675309]

This is insane revisionist history lol

[u/Sentinel8675309 → u/omirsantos]

Nah it's not. VT doubled it's salary pool across the board

[u/cssvt → u/Sentinel8675309]

Pry seems like a great guy and a great coach but he’s not a great head coach. Increased salary may have gotten him 1(?) extra win. More salary allocation and resources are true but they’re not the reason for his lackluster tenure at the helm.

[u/Sentinel8675309 → u/cssvt]

In my opinion it was too big of a jump. It seems starting off at a smaller school as a HC and building a staff, then moving as a unit is the best way to succeed. Trying to hire all new staff with a limited salary pool as a first time HC at a P5 program hasn't been going well lately. Franklin brought like 20 office personnel and dozens of assistants because of the salary pool. Same way Campbell was able to bring his staff, more pay

[u/cssvt → u/Sentinel8675309]

I agree he probably would’ve had more success at a smaller conference. Our admin was just legitimately that bad and out of touch that it took interviewing Franklin to finally accept what was needed since that was required to land him.

[u/Traditional-Till9998 → u/cssvt]

100% both Pry & Fuente needed to happen unfortunately, in order for admin to stop playing the underdog. If that had happened DURING Beamer's era who knows how high we could have gone. Now we know the program has uncapped potential and we're starting again on the ground floor. Its incredibly exciting

[u/Sweaty_Fly_3965 → u/Sentinel8675309]

He took a flyer with Marve and Bowen. Hindsight he should’ve gotten 2 veterans to help him see the bigger picture.

Someone smarter than me pointed out that if some other school hired him as their DC it would be deemed a good hire which I agree with. The optics are just confusing.

[u/kilpatrickbhoy → u/Sentinel8675309]

And also don't play down how bad VMI is. Tech did exactly what they should have done and didn't let their foot off the gas until very late in the game. But man, VMI was holding 7 players back on extra point situations.

[u/Sentinel8675309 → u/kilpatrickbhoy]

I honestly was going to mention that but didn't want to be a buzzkill. They won one game last year. It was against a D2 school. They are absolutely dog shit lmao

[u/AFriendlySloth → u/Sentinel8675309]

Obviously it's fun when we score a bunch but come on, it's hard to make a lot of assumptions from this game with how bad VMI are.

[u/throwaway2987650 → u/Sentinel8675309]

I lived right next door to VMI’s campus and stadium until very recently. That school has had 2 good football years in its entire existence. I will say they do have an oddly loyal fanbase with a lot of support in Virginia and East Tennessee.

[u/GPpats1995 → u/kilpatrickbhoy]

You are literally being downvoted because of your flair. We sat 3 rows behind VMI's bench tonight. They do not belong on the same field as VT or UVA. It was almost sad and they were just getting the shit knocked out of em. One of VMI's player's mother was seated two rows behind us...it was a little awkward and my mom was literally sad for her knowing how shite it would be watching her boy's team get their shit kicked like that. So yeah you are correct. It was like a pro boxer sparring with a child using Hulk Hands.

[u/PickpocketJones → u/kilpatrickbhoy]

While this is true, if I'm not mistaken they haven't scored 70 in a game since 1995.

[u/Quirky-Marsupial-420 → u/kilpatrickbhoy]

Yeah VT was 55.5 point favorites.

The VT of old wouldn’t have covered but this was just VT doing what they were supposed to. Blowing out a really bad VMI team.

[u/Grandmalicious → u/Sentinel8675309]

Did he have more than ODU?

[u/rkdghdfo → u/Sentinel8675309]

I don't think more money would have solved Pry's shortcomings as a HC. The WAY the program is being run is night and day difference under Franklin.

[u/MarlonBain → u/Sentinel8675309]

Resources aren’t why he could never manage to start practice on time.

[u/TinyPeenMan69 → u/Sentinel8675309]

He had plenty of resources, he’s just an alcoholic defensive coordinator at his core… he couldn’t figure out how timeouts worked for four years