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Brent Pry excited by trajectory of Virginia Tech football program

Chandler Vesselsby:Chandler Vessels•01/12/25•

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Even after a loss in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, Virginia Tech coach Brent Pry feels his team is headed in the right direction. The Hokies head man just wrapped up his third year at the helm and led the team to a 6-7 record, which is one win less than the 7-6 finish in 2023.

Despite this, Pry told reporters after the game that he is eager for what the future holds. In fact, he would even argue that he feels better about the team than he did at this past last year when Virginia Tech won its bowl game.

“I’m excited about the guys returning,” Pry said. “I’m excited about the class we signed. I’m excited about the transfer portal. We’re a much better team today that we were last year at this time. We’re just closer in so many areas, whether it’s in our locker room, whether it’s on the field, whether it’s depth. We’re just in a better place. I thought this bowl prep, it gave me confidence in that watching these young guys and what they did, how they worked and practice habits. There’s a lot of good things.”

Virginia Tech is 16-21 overall under Pry and has only one winning season since 2017. However, it often takes time for a coach to truly get his players in and develop a culture.

Pry is reaching the four-year mark next season, meaning the majority of the players on the team are ones whom he recruited into the program. He’s done a solid job, bringing in classes than rank at least top eight in the ACC every year.

With that and adding a transfer portal class that ranks No. 24 according to On3’s Transfer Portal Team Rankings, and there’s a lot of look forward to.

“I think the core of our football team moving forward is guys that we signed,” Pry said. “Guys that we brought in here as freshmen. The majority of those guys have stuck with us. They understand the culture and they laid the foundation. But these seniors that played (in the bowl game) out here today, I’m so proud of thankful for them. You’ve got eight or nine guys that hung in there with us and played in that game. In today’s times, to me that speaks volumes.”