The Virginia Tech Friday Q&A: New ACC Coaches, Football Analysts, And More

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Brent Pry is one of four new coaches in the ACC Coastal Division. (Virginia Tech athletics photography)

1) Of all the new head coaching hires in the ACC Coastal, which one do you think will have the better year one? By year four? – cdogvt

Chris Coleman: On paper, I would have to say that Miami’s Mario Cristobal is best positioned to have a very good season in year one. The Canes certainly have talent, but the big thing is quarterback Tyler Van Dyke. His stats from his freshman season are pretty impressive…

Comp: 202
Att: 324
%: 62.3%
Yards: 2,931
Yds/Att: 9.0
TD: 25
INT: 6

Those are impressive numbers for anybody, and remember that Van Dyke only played in 10 games. Particularly impressive are his TD-INT ratio, especially for a freshman, as well as his competition percentage considering he attempts a large number of deep balls. I’m not sure there is a better deep ball quarterback in the country.

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