"Fuente is an excellent coach, and Virginia Tech isn't as good of a job as its fans think it is — the candidate pool for this one isn’t expected to be blockbuster if it opens — but at the end of the day it’s hard to out-evaluate and out-coach your competition in a league like the ACC. You need to do the work in recruiting, and Virginia Tech just hasn’t had much juice with top prospects in the region."

So Mr. Excellent Coach can't out-evaluate, out-coach, and out-recruit the competition in the ACC. What.....what other duties does the head coach of a football program have?

The guy just had to frame this like we're considering firing a coach that we should feel lucky to have...even though nothing is going right on any front.

Yeah, we aren't as good a job as Texas and Michigan. Breaking news there.