We got a request on the message boards this week to compare and contrast the size of Virginia Tech football’s coaching staff under Brent Pry and his predecessor, Justin Fuente. It’s a little bit difficult to do, but we’ll take a crack at it today.

I used the online rosters for the 2022 and 2018 Virginia Tech football teams for the comparison. If you click on each link, you can scroll down to the bottom and see a listing of all the staff members of the football program.

It’s important to take the 2018 numbers with a pinch of salt, however. For example, Tech’s strength and conditioning staff were not listed on that page for some reason in 2018, but they are listed in 2022. Also, Assistant to the Head Coach Shannon Lewis is listed in 2022, and she was not listed in 2018 (Fuente hired her, and Pry retained her). You can throw in the medical staff as well. Virginia Tech certainly has a bigger staff in 2022 than it did in 2018, but the difference isn’t quite as big as the numbers indicate on those roster pages.

The biggest difference between the two staffs is the pure differential between numbers in two key categories: recruiting and analytics. Today we’ll primarily focus on those two departments, as well as note a few new positions that have been created.

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