If there was a coach and an ACC program that needed a win Saturday, it was Brent Pry and Virginia Tech against Vanderbilt. Now this isn’t your Vanderbilt of the past. The Commodores are now a credible program if not really a top 25 one. Beating them isn’t a signature win, but it proves your program still has some life.
Up 20-10 at the half, Lane Stadium was rocking and for 30 minutes Virginia Tech was Virginia tech of old. Then reality set in, and Virginia Tech became what the program currently is – lifeless under Brent Pry.
Vanderbilit started scoring and kept scoring to the tune of 34 straight unanswered in a nightmare second half. Hokie fans just started pouring out of the once feared venue early in the 4th quarter. The final was a 44-20 debacle.
The state of affairs at Virginia Tech is bad. AD Whit Babcock didn’t have Virginai Tech prepared for the NIL era, and now the end of the Brent Pry era seems inevitable.
Saturday night Brent Venables and Oklahoma also faced some hotseat talk, and they beat a ranked Michigan team 24-13. That was the kind of performance the Hokies needed. It never came.
Pry is 16-23 and has lost 6 of his last 7 games, and the program is stale as ever.
With a schedule that still has Georgia Tech, Louisville, Florida State, and Miami the best scenario for Virginia Tech is 7-5 but realistically this looks like a 4-8, 5-7 season coming.
Virginia Tech needed to show something early thsi season. There were moments against South Carolina, and Vanderbilt, but they were too few and too far between.
The Hokies need a finish that I just don’t think they have in them to save Pry’s job.
