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As I recall, Sharpe is also the last fb head coach VT hired

who was not a head coach already (Dooley, Beamer and Fuente obviously were). So 1974, >45 years ago, was the last time VT hired an assistant coach to be the fb head coach.
So the Pry hire very much goes against VT tendencies, not just Whit's tendencies.
Not a knock on Pry, just an observation about how rare this is at VT.

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Posted: 12/01/2021 at 2:41PM

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