Go Tech Go, Part 25: Dutch Baughman Hires Frank Beamer

Dutch Baughman
Dutch Baughman

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Virginia Tech entered a new era on December 12, 1986, when it named someone other than a former football coach to be its athletic director. James I. “Bud” Robertson, who chaired a 23-man search committee, had called their task “the most critical period in the history of Virginia Tech athletics. We can’t afford to make a mistake.”

Robertson maintained the search committee wanted a man “who loves mother, peach pie, and all those other things that are fine and good in this world.”

Their choice: 37-year old Dale T. “Dutch” Baughman.

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