The Virginia Tech Friday Q&A: The Football Schedule, And The Basketball Roster

By: Chris Coleman | Lead Analyst and Columnist
Virginia Tech, Brent Pry
Virginia Tech head coach Brent Pry is one of many new coaches in the Coastal Division. (Jon Fleming)

1) Which new head coaches will elevate, maintain or regress their programs? Baseline is last five years, how about three head coaches for each category? – st_andrew

Chris Coleman: Talk about Coastal Chaos. There were four head coaching changes in the 7-team Coastal Division in the offseason. That’s nearly 25% of the total (13) head coaching changes throughout all of Power 5 football in this cycle.

Here they are…

Duke: Mike Elko
Miami: Mario Cristobal
UVA: Tony Elliott
VT: Brent Pry
Oklahoma: Brent Venables
TCU: Sonny Dykes
Texas Tech: Joey McGuire
Notre Dame: Marcus Freeman
Oregon: Dan Lanning
USC: Lincoln Riley
Washington: Kalen DeBoer
Florida: Billy Napier
LSU: Brian Kelly

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