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Three Virginia Tech football players’ opinions on coaching additions and coach shuffles
Former football standout for Virginia Tech
Regarding his coaching staff, Virginia Tech football coach Brent Pry had a lot of turnover during the off-season. The three most notable departures are offensive line coach Ron Crook, defensive coordinator Chris Marve, and offensive coordinator Tyler Bowen.
In addition to Philip Montgomery as the offensive coordinator, Pry has hired Matt Moore as the offensive line coach and Sam Siefkes as the defensive coordinator. He revealed further hires on Wednesday, including Bryan Whitehead as an edge coach, Jireh Wilson as an assistant running backs coach, and Cannon Montgomery as the running backs coach.
is the nickel coach that’s new.
Additionally, Pry reorganized his staff, adding Jens Danielson as assistant offensive line coach, Xavier Adibi as the new inside linebackers coach, Shawn Quinn as the outside linebackers coach, and Brent Davis as the tight ends coach. Here are three opinions from the new employees regarding all the additions and modifications.
Brent Pry gives his employees more experience.
The fact that Pry has Philip Montgomery, a former head coach, on staff is one result of the additions and modifications. He had trouble making judgments and playing in games the previous season and the first two seasons at Blacksburg, but now he has
An experienced head coach with whom to share ideas.
Even while it might not seem like much, anything that might assist in any way is beneficial on both sides of the ball, especially considering all the problems Pry and the Hokies have had in one-score games.
Pry adds coaches who are familiar with each other
Whitehead has been on a pair of stops with Siefkes before coming to Virginia Tech. They worked together at Wisconsin-Platteville for two years and then at Wofford. Before arriving to Blacksburg, Whitehead was the nickels coach at Southern Miss.
One way to get a staff to be on the same page is bringing in coaches that are familiar with one another and that is the case with some of these hirings. Cannon Montgomery is the son of new offensive coordinator Philip. Cannon was a graduate assistant at Auburn and was at Tulsa. The more familiarity the better and the smoother the transition will be in terms of getting things functioning come spring.
These moves are something that needs to be done
The initial round of hiring for Pry, he surrounded himself with certain coaches who were inexperienced at some of the jobs they were appointed for. Boy did that show. Now, he’s brought in coaches with a lot more expertise for the role they’re being hired for and that should make a major impact.
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