Times are changing in Blacksburg. First, James Franklin was hired as the school’s new football coach, replacing his former Penn State defensive coordinator, Brent Pry. Actually, despite getting fired as the head coach in Blacksburg after four underperforming years, Pry is coming back as Franklin’s DC with the Hokies.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Virginia Tech president Tim Sands was retiring. Then, a few weeks later, it was announced that athletic director Whit Babcock is retiring as well. That’s some major shakeup in the administration after Franklin was hired.
Read into that as you will, but change is coming, and that can be a good thing. Is it a coincidence that Franklin is hired and Sands and Babcock are retiring? Who knows, but these next couple of hires are hires that the school needs to get right, just like the football hiring of Franklin was one the school needed to nail…