Friday Q&A: July 19, 2013

1) Discuss and dissect the Beamer coaching tree: how do VT football coaches tend to do after they depart VT for whatever reason(s)? There seems to be a lack of successful pruning of said coaching branches here when you consider that Frank is indeed the active all-time leader in D-1 wins.  Why is that? I know loyalty was a part of that equation; and nevertheless, if the VT football staff really was that great, where are their Godfather ‘esque offers that they can’t refuse?

Chris Coleman: That’s an interesting question.  As far as I know, only one of Frank’s former assistants has gone on to be a head coach.  Here are some of the major coaches who left the Tech program (for whatever reason) during the Beamer Bowl Era.

Mike O’Cain (fired): Coaching 1-AA football at JMU

Curt Newsome (fired): Coaching 1-AA football at JMU

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