Frank Beamer is approaching the end of his coaching career. History tells us it will not be kind to him.

I’ll warn you ahead of time that this article is a little numbers-intensive, but even if you’re not a numbers person, I think you can take the major points away when you’re done, so stick with it.

On October 18th of this year, just two days before the Hokies went to Clemson and lost 38-17, Frank Beamer turned 66. The Hokies were 4-3 on Frank’s birthday, but their gift to him was a three-game losing streak starting at Clemson that dropped his program to 4-6, ended his streak of ten-win seasons, and put a 19-year bowl streak in peril.

The bowl streak is the only thing that was saved in this 6-6 year, but this season started a discussion of what Frank will do next, and where his program will go from here.

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