None of us know when Frank Beamer is going to retire. We can all guess, but we’ll never truly know until it happens. However, we all certainly want him to go out on a high note. For the way he has built the program through the years, and the way he treats people, he certainly deserves it. But is such an end going to be in the cards?

Recent history says probably not. Specifically, Bobby Bowden, Joe Paterno and Mack Brown. Bowden and Brown in particularly had ends that were similar to the 2012-14 seasons for Virginia Tech.

First, here are Bowden’s numbers over his last nine seasons: 8-4, 9-5, 10-3, 9-3, 8-5, 7-6, 9-4 and 7-6. That’s a total record of 66-36, which is a winning percentage of 64.7%. That’s good. However, Bowden won 10+ games in each of his previous 14 seasons and won two National Championships in that span.

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