When Virginia Tech football coach Brent Pry made the trip to Charlotte for the ACC Kickoff in July, the Hokies' head boss was looking ahead to a big 2025 season. After entering the 2024 season with so much hype, with a ton of retention and additions through the transfer portal, Virginia Tech was a dark horse for the new 12-team College Football Playoff.
Things went south early, and it began with an overtime loss to Vanderbilt in Nashville on Labor Day Weekend, and it ended at 6-7 following a Duke's Mayo Bowl loss against Minnesota in Charlotte. When Pry spoke at the ACC Kickoff, he had a quote that opened some eyes around the Hokies' fanbase, but it's not aging well with each passing week of the 2025 season.
Brent Pry's quote about his team over the summer is not aging well
The Hokies' fourth-year head coach said that the 2025 team is the closest to the vision he had for Virginia Tech football. You can see the quote below from David Cunningham of Tech Sideline. Let's just say that it's not aging well.
Brent Pry: “This team right now is the closest to the vision I have for Virginia Tech football.” #Hokies
— David Cunningham (@therealdcunna) July 24, 2025
After a season-opening loss to South Carolina in Atlanta, the Hokies followed that up with a 44-20 loss at home to Vanderbilt last week. This weekend, they were supposed to pick up their first win of the season against Old Dominion, but it never happened. In fact, the 45-26 beatdown at the hands of the Monarchs proves that the program is heading in the wrong direction fast.
If that was the vision Pry had for Virginia Tech football, then yes, the program is headed in the right direction; otherwise, this quote is not aging well and will be one that is remembered long after he's gone. If Saturday night's loss doesn't end things for him in Blacksburg, I don't know what will.
There needs to be a new vision in Blacksburg and finding that coach won't be easy.