Whit has to consider what will be best for VT long term. To fire a football coach includes his entire staff. A call like this likely sets back your program 3 years. Reason? First you lose most of the recruits committed for next year, which appear on paper to be one of our stronger classes under Fuente; second thanks to the new transfer portal we may lose several of our returning players who are pretty good; third all of the above likely means a couple of pretty bad win-lost record years to come which makes recruiting even harder than it is today.

So just saying this isn't an easy call for Whit. Who he feels he can hire and do so quickly to minize the damage I outlined as possible is a key as well. It's unfortunate today that we now have a December signing date. If not the new coach would have 3 months to reach out to our committed recruits and sell them on him and his staff. But time is short in 2021.

I tend to agree with jonnyhawk. Poor recruiting for years is the culprit here. If you believe the changes in staff and finances you authorized just last year are working I feel you need to give it time to pay dividends. Unless you have a 5 star hire in your pocket who is well known and can hit the ground running.

Whit is informed to a higher level than we are. In Whit I trust.