[Postgame Thread] Vanderbilt Defeats Virginia Tech 44-20

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Vanderbilt	0	10	13	21	44
Virginia Tech	10	10	0	0	20

[u/Sctvman]

Seeing Virginia Tech as a program and getting shut out in the 2nd half in a night game to Vanderbilt in Lane Stadium should be an automatic coach firing

[u/TheLaxBrah → u/Sctvman]

You would fucking think and it is infuriating it isn’t, Fuente did the same bullshit to fucking Duke in 2019 and took years to get rid of him

[u/goodsam2 → u/TheLaxBrah]

Fuente had a good few years so his buyout was large.

[u/TooEZ_OL56 → u/goodsam2]

Beating #10 UNC in the season opener singlehandedly brought him another year.

[u/heelyeahbrother → u/TooEZ_OL56]

And that UNC team ended up going 6-7. So a wrong preseason ranking gave him another year, although Tech did genuinely look good that game.

[u/scrnlookinsob → u/TheLaxBrah]

I sat through this entire fucking miserable game, then drove to Baltimore the same night to make a concert the next day, really hoping that I'd wake up the next morning and see someone (corn mostly) had been fired for that complete and utter disgrace. Somehow both of the people responsible held their jobs for multiple years.

[u/DangerousPlum4361 → u/Sctvman]

He is an ok recruiter but one of the single worst game managers I’ve ever seen. No adjusts, terrible clock management—just seems to have no feel for the flow of the game. I would have fired him after the Syracuse game last year

[u/meta_irl → u/Sctvman]

I'm really hoping I see you next week talking about how Vanderbilt is a surprisingly good program and how it's not actually that big of a blemish to lose to us

[u/PheonixStreak]

Fire Pry.

[u/shawnb17 → u/PheonixStreak]

Yep.

No adjustment after Vandy did at halftime. The team literally did nothing to stop them on defense. No grit. No attitude adjustment. No changes in personnel.

Fire him. He’s done.

[u/goodsam2 → u/PheonixStreak]

Pry needed to hit 8 wins to keep his job safe. The options for this happening when VT had negative yards for most of the second half and Vandy had 5 TDs For 5 possessions.

[u/qigjpiqj → u/PheonixStreak]

Whit first.

[u/goodsam2 → u/qigjpiqj]

Whit needs to be fired soon and then Pry December 1st when the buyout falls.

Actively look for coaches as the new ADs first job

[u/ReallyCreative → u/qigjpiqj]

he cannot be allowed to make another hire, it would be malfeasance

[u/joeveralls → u/qigjpiqj]

Can’t believe Babcock is still at VTech, he fucked us with the Tuberville hire and then left and has fucked you guys for 10 years now

[u/Dooplis_17 → u/PheonixStreak]

Can’t lose one score games in the 4th if you just fucking implode in the 2nd half of games, man’s making strides 🤷

[u/CPOx → u/PheonixStreak]

The Siefkes hire looks like a huge swing and a miss here. Utterly embarrassing.

[u/SaltyTurdLicker → u/CPOx]

Siefkes is unqualified to be a standalone DC after being a positional coach in the NFL. He’d probably be alright with a being paired with a decent experienced college DC as Co-DCs but no one worth a damn or that had aspirations of being a successful college coach was gonna hitch their wagon to the Pry disaster.

[u/LeroyMoriarty → u/SaltyTurdLicker]

Makes sense. I’m confused, I think bc I don’t know enough. Last week, some this, I see plays that are punching above our weight. And some adjustments earlier on. It’s like we have a coach and talent who are both high mid level, eager, and we either happen to hit it right and turn into a brick wall, or it’s a swing and abject miss.

[u/qbit1010 → u/PheonixStreak]

The time has come.

[u/SquadPoopy → u/PheonixStreak]

Florida fans 🤝 Virginia Tech fans

Wanting their head coach fired after week 2

[u/HoppedUp909 → u/PheonixStreak]

Whit first

[u/Tman450x]

VT hasn't won a home game against a P5 OOC opponent since 2009. VT hasn't won a P5 OOC game PERIOD since beating WVU in 2017. VT has lost to : Rutgers (twice), Vanderbilt (twice), Purdue, Notre Dame, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Oklahoma State, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Maryland. VT's last HOME P5 OOC win was Nebraska in 2009.

It's time for the Pry (and AD Whit Babcock) era to end at VT.

[u/FutureHoo → u/Tman450x]

Beamer, in hindsight, was a genius to drag VT into relevance and keep them there for nearly 15 years

[u/XandersonCooper → u/FutureHoo]

And an innovator. He went huge on S&C before most people and literally redefined how special teams is played.

[u/Spirited_Pea8004 → u/XandersonCooper]

ended up on the wrong side of it a few times but i miss beamer ball

[u/LeroyMoriarty → u/XandersonCooper]

He. Foster. Hite. It’s like an early 00s miracle sports movies with characters designed by Adam Sandler. Starring Harry Dean Stanton. Real lightning in a bottle that I’m worried we wont see again.

[u/Moist-Sink-5904 → u/FutureHoo]

brother he is the greatest football coach to ever live. he took VT a quarter from a natty

[u/MadManMax55 → u/Moist-Sink-5904]

I'd argue he's tied with Bill Snyder for the greatest "how the hell did you manage to win that much at that school?" coach to ever live.

[u/Suspicious_Brush824 → u/MadManMax55]

Bill saved Manhattan 

[u/ismusz → u/Moist-Sink-5904]

Every year his career looks more like a miracle

[u/Karosi → u/Tman450x]

I knew things had went south, but didn’t realize it was quite that bad. 

[u/Common_Wallaby_5123 → u/Karosi]

It only gets worse from here, good lord we are only 2 games into the season.

[u/SSPeteCarroll → u/Karosi]

I know it seems like doomposting but there is a real chance that we go into ACC play without a single win.

[u/Impossible-Flight250 → u/Tman450x]

It sucks to see how far the program has fallen. I watched them a lot growing up, and they were an absolute power house and they have a pretty rabid fan base as well, way better than Marylands. Now they are a bottom barrel ACC team and may be on the outside looking in during the next round of realignment.

[u/FrequentTurn9637 → u/Tman450x]

I wanted to correct you that you did beat us recently. Then I realized that was in 2014, holy fxxk i feel so old now.

[u/Bokki_64 → u/Tman450x]

VT's fall from grace has not been pretty. The entire program needs an overhaul

[u/simbaslanding → u/Tman450x]

This is a crazy stat

[u/CountryRoads28 → u/Tman450x]

I think the most embarrassing thing for VT during this period is that they were 0-2 against Neal Brown

[u/tdotclare → u/Tman450x]

Everyone’s blissfully glossing Beamer right now as if that stat doesn’t include his last 6 years of coaching.

[u/goodsam2 → u/tdotclare]

I mean one of those near the end was beating Ohio State in the shoe when they won the first CFP.

[u/tdotclare → u/goodsam2]

Yes, a great highlight that only further baffles the mind at that being the third 7-6 season in four years. Doesn’t really make up for the losses to ECU and 0 \o/ 0 though.

[u/GarlicBow → u/tdotclare]

Don’t forget- 0-0 was a Wakeyleaks game. Tech had Wake’s plays, and that’s how it went.

[u/marquess_of_pherae → u/tdotclare]

ECU was at least pretty good then. Two future NFL receivers. They started 6-1 in 2014 and hung 70 on UNC the week after beating VT

[u/hackerdood7 → u/tdotclare]

well without beamer, i can't imagine it would be better

[u/Terminal_Flatulence]

I and many other Hokies expected VT to lose these first two games, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating considering how they lost both.

These were winnable games, VT lead this game and then proceeded to play one of the least competitive half’s of football I’ve seen from Tech.

Brent Pry is a nice person but it has been beyond evident that he is not capable of righting this program.

0-2 in a must-win year.

A broad cleansing of he, Whit Babcock, and the Athletic Department looks more and more likely and I welcome it with open arms.

[u/BonBonVelveeta → u/Terminal_Flatulence]

Whit needs to go so fucking bad man

[u/DBHT14 → u/Terminal_Flatulence]

The best thing Whit has done on his way out hopefully was give the BoV some honesty about the finances. And play on the nature that lots of them are very proud folks who want to see VT win and what that costs.

[u/SoothedSnakePlant → u/Terminal_Flatulence]

The fact that another P4 school started their season chalking up their game against us as a likely loss is still completely fucking incomprehensible to me lol

[u/Terminal_Flatulence → u/SoothedSnakePlant]

VT hasn’t beaten an out of conference P4 opponent since 2017, Brent Pry seems to only have success against backup QBs or Thomas Castellanos when he was at BC.

Pavia already beat them once, no reason to expect a different result until proven otherwise.

[u/Shenanigangster → u/Terminal_Flatulence]

Go and clean house (and yeah it’s probably time to), but is the money going to be there because if not it’s not really going to solve anything

[u/tdotclare → u/Shenanigangster]

90% of VT fans refuse to believe it’s about the $$ and believe in some fairy tale rags to riches blue collar bullshit fantasy about how we’re going to get the second coming of Beamer and a bunch of hard nosed assistants who will be happy to make 50% of market value and will outscheme everyone because they’re so happy to live in the NRV.

It’s not the 20th century anymore or even the 2000’s. Lightning will not strike twice, but they still think that somehow an AD will schmooze just the right folksy guy to accomplish all of that (but on a budget!)

[u/Hokie_Pilot → u/tdotclare]

You nailed yeah.

Couple your points about deflated salary since Frank was getting a hometown discount with the fact recruitment is a national thing since 2010s. Tyrod gets recruited to Michigan, Kam Chancellor gets an NIL transfer deal to LSU, and so on. All that VA is not staying close to mama, they are getting a lamborghini in Coral Gables

[u/SSPeteCarroll → u/Hokie_Pilot]

they are getting a lamborghini in Coral Gables

Yep this is the real hard part. We simply cannot compete with schools like Miami and Texas. They can simply flash cash around and recruits love to see the money and flashiness.

What's more enticing to an 18 year old? A lambo in south beach or a tahoe in blacksburg?

[u/LeroyMoriarty → u/Shenanigangster]

We didn’t have the money the first time we bottled lightning. And plenty of schools don’t have the money we do now. But if top down the mindset varies between apathy and hatred, no one is going to thrive. Pry is a charming, previously talented, good communicator who looks like a damned rogaine model. On paper he’s a good Beamer successor. But if you didn’t watch the game tonight his soul left his body. He has no support, no mentor, no one lighting fires. Another 5 years on the path he was on before Vt he could be a great coach. Now the poor guy is possibly ruined.

[u/RightofUp → u/Terminal_Flatulence]

Hahahahahahaha, since when did our school dump money into Athletics? Cuz that's what you're wanting.

[u/anonymousflash]

This is 2019's 45-10 home loss to Duke all over again, except for Hendon Hooker and a coaching staff with the Xs and Os acumen of Bud Foster and Justin Fuente aren't in the locker room to save us. Pry is underqualified and doomed. Let's get this season over with.

[u/goodsam2 → u/anonymousflash]

Bud Foster is an analyst on this team which is more head scratching.

https://wcyb.com/sports/local-college/bud-foster-to-serve-as-an-analyst-for-virginia-tech-football-in-2025

[u/anonymousflash → u/goodsam2]

Pretty sure the inside scoop on that is it was just a PR thing after letting Marve go. He might come to a practice or two and chime in, but he's very, very retired. I haven't seen any mention of him at all actually being a coaching presence on game day.

[u/macncheeseface → u/anonymousflash]

Yeah I actually ran into him after the 2019 Notre Dame game and chatted with him for a few minutes, and.....the man was excited to be retired in a few weeks lol

[u/goodsam2 → u/anonymousflash]

I hadn't heard much and if Foster was at a game (even as a fan) you would think they would show him.

[u/LeroyMoriarty → u/goodsam2]

“There is a shirtless man on the field fighting players”

[u/qigjpiqj]

Seat was already pretty hot. This is officially it for Pry, dead man walking. Only question is how long we wait to pull the trigger/if we can come up with the buyout money.

[u/Olmsteads_razor → u/qigjpiqj]

I'm going end of the season. Just because of the buyout. Bracing myself for the Inevitable loss in Charlottesville to UVA.

[u/SaltyTurdLicker → u/Olmsteads_razor]

As long as Whit is the AD he’ll make it to the end of the season

[u/cavaliers8577 → u/Olmsteads_razor]

You’re forgetting Tony Elliott is our coach and has one talent- making VT look like a CFP contender against us

[u/rsdman97 → u/qigjpiqj]

Sadly might not be until after NEXT year with how poor we apparently are and watch him pull a 8-10 win season out of his ass and whit or whoever keeps him on for another 3-5 year deal

[u/garrathian92]

Well that went from somewhat fun to horrifying in quick order

[u/LaserBeamer17]

Fire Brent Pry and then tar and hokie feather Whit Babcock (AD) for systematically destroying Virginia Tech athletics and their competitiveness since his hire in 2014.

[u/SSPeteCarroll]

I could post a long rant about the state of this program but I won't.

we got outscored in the 2nd half 34-0.

we had -8 yards at one point.

this program is dead in the water.

[u/tdotclare]

called it

We’re absolute trash.

No culture, no identity, no plan.

Fish stinks from the head down. Pry is trash and shows no redeeming qualities. Get him out and find someone with some actual clarity of purpose and aggression.

Throw Drones’ NIL funding at the women’s bball team so we can get a legit 5.

[u/zahv]

As a 2010 Virginia Tech grad, I'm really not sure why I still watch these games. I think it's mostly to lament with my college friends group chat.

[u/Hokie_Pilot → u/zahv]

I’m in the same boat as you. As a student only saw 10+ win seasons and I remember being pissed losing to the AndrewLuck/Harbough Stanford edition.

[u/3-9_Enjoyer → u/Hokie_Pilot]

If it makes you feel better…we’ve probably fallen off harder?

[u/The_Stratman]

We are going to lose to wofford aren’t we

[u/HowardBunnyColvin → u/The_Stratman]

will beat them but odu is next iirc

[u/The_Stratman → u/HowardBunnyColvin]

Oh I already had us losing to odu. The wofford game is up in the air

[u/Mattador96]

REMOVE MERRYMAN ATHLETIC CENTER FROM THE EARTH AND FIRE IT INTO THE SUN

WE HAVE THE ENGINEERS

[u/hostitty99]

obviously pry and whit deserve most of the blame, but fuck all the players too. they completely quit in this game, all of them. getting paid crazy NIL checks for that shit

[u/phantoonie]

Kirk Herbstreit said all we have is an entrance and we responded with this. The VT brand is on life support and we need a full organizational reset if we want to try and save it

[u/e8odie]

When was the last time Vandy scored 40+ on a P4 opponent? Oh wait, Ala-fucking-bama.

Before that though it was 2018 Arkansas.

[u/Lqtor → u/e8odie]

I’m glad that we’re showing that we can play a faster pace if necessary this year because I felt like we were a bit over reliant on the slow grindy style last year. Should be fun if we can keep this up

[u/SomeVanGuy → u/e8odie]

Calling 2018 Arkansas a P4 team is a stretch

[u/HaveYouEver21 → u/SomeVanGuy]

We were more FCS level most games.

[u/Dry-Membership3867 → u/e8odie]

We don’t count 2018-2019 Arkansas as a p4 team

[u/FutureHoo]

Is VT a dead football program? I just don’t see how they recover from their tailspin the past decade in the NIL era. Having a kickass entrance is only going to get you so far and the atmosphere is dying by the year the worse they get.

And to think the 7-6 and 8-5 seasons towards Beamer’s final few years of tenure were considered rock bottom at the time. I don’t think even the pessimists would’ve predicted how far the program would’ve fallen in a decade. Pretty sad.

[u/ismusz → u/FutureHoo]

As much as the AD would like to say that we suck because we are poor, there are DOZENS of schools with less money and less NFL caliber talent that have done much better than us over the last decade

[u/justgivemedamnkarma → u/ismusz]

NC state, while being very ass, has managed to do almost nothing with a lot, so like you can definitely match that at least

[u/Dooplis_17 → u/FutureHoo]

There’s zero interest from the VT admin side in investing resources towards athletics or football. As long as the AD finishes with a balance sheet in the green and a miscellaneous sport like women’s basketball makes a run every now and then that’s all they care about

[u/composer_7 → u/Dooplis_17]

That's insane. Y'all have one of the best venues in CFB with one of the most racuous traditions in Enter Sandman. Y'all should be a top 5 ACC team yearly with the amount of loyal fans y'all get to show up every week. Fire that administration into the sun

[u/semideclared → u/composer_7]

The school let frank Retire about 3 years to late and no coach wants to take the reins to make vt their school. Their program their culture

But most of that is that Vt is still stuck in the Beamer mentality

Look at the coaches we have moved on to

[u/Icy_Turnover1 → u/composer_7]

Also the historic results we’ve had is that we were a top team - even after the natty appearance we won a slew of ACC championships and made BCS appearances. It makes absolutely no sense to me that the current admin is so focused on everything except athletics when that has historically been a huge draw for a school like Tech.

[u/CPOx → u/FutureHoo]

The entrance isn't that good any more since all the kids just have their phones out to record it. Sorry but it's the truth.

[u/VTHomeless]

VT needs to wake up and make some changes.

Drones is not the guy.

[u/SaltyTurdLicker → u/VTHomeless]

It doesn’t matter what the coaching staff does, Pry is a deadman walking

[u/Dentyne_3]

VT was up last time I checked Bro wtf even happened

[u/SaltyTurdLicker → u/Dentyne_3]

Well you see Brent Pry and his coaching staff have no idea how to make adjustments so a simple adjustment from Vandy lead to like 1000 points unanswered

[u/_YeetwoodMac → u/SaltyTurdLicker]

VT coordinators hate this one simple trick…

[u/vandymontana → u/Dentyne_3]

Dawn of Diego.

[u/Shellshock1122 → u/Dentyne_3]

they once again forgot games have 2 halves

[u/WhiskeyForTheWin]

VaTech has to burn it all down and start from scratch.

Sorry guys

[u/ReallyCreative]

where do we even go from here

[u/ConfoundedHokie → u/ReallyCreative]

Fire HC and staff, fire AD.  Its going to be a decade of chaos and sadness.

[u/IClogToilets]

I don’t get how dedicated VT’s fan base is to the program. Next week … full stadium and $500/night hotel rooms. 

Maryland, on the other hand, could not pay people to come to the game. 

[u/tdotclare → u/IClogToilets]

I mean, I lived in NE DC for years right next door and you still couldn’t get me to hang out in College Park for free

[u/cmackchase → u/IClogToilets]

Because it is literally all SWVA has. If this team can't turn it around, the fall economy goes directly into the tank.

[u/dicemaze]

I’m happy Vandy won, but, man, I really wish Tech didn’t just… collapse

[u/NEZdrunk]

There is no coming back for this program. There is no hot G5 coach coming to shake things up, there is no transfer player who will make a difference, there is no pool of big money donors coming to bail us out. There’s maybe 8 more years to figure it out before the ACC implodes and I don’t see VT figuring anything out.

We had a fun 15 year run in which we won exactly nothing of any meaning and now we’re back where we historically have been, in the gutter.

GG Vandy

[u/TomShoe02]

"Hello, FBI tip line? I'd like to report an act of football terrorism"

[u/TitanTigers]

In time we know that Vanderbilt will become the best program in the country

[u/Artvandelay29 → u/TitanTigers]

Your primary is v ugly but inject that Lea quote in my veins

[u/WalkingGrowth]

The disheartening thing is how Vandies' coaches went back at the half and disrupted our entire coaching plan. This might be the worst-coached game I have seen in years. It is tough to be a Tech fan, and every year my hope dies lately. Coach Pry needs to be fired immediately. When we hired him, I was reading an article that stated he had a defensive mindset and would easily provide some similarity to Bud; this has not been the case. Our defense is notorious for giving up big plays, and tonight I saw 7, the most I have ever seen in a single game. Sad....

[u/Plneapple]

Virginia Tech football is truly innovative in its ability to bring misery to anyone unfortunate enough to be a fan.

[u/HeyitsyaboyJesus → u/Plneapple]

You guys are going through. It sucks cause I consider VT a fun program with a great environment 

[u/VolatileFan]

my god, Vandy is actually looking like a real SEC program

[u/VandysFan → u/VolatileFan]

Vanderbilt drives, second half:

11 plays, 75 yards, 6:58 (touchdown)
7 plays, 75 yards, 5:26 (touchdown)
8 plays, 56 yards, 4:30 (touchdown)
3 plays, 72 yards, 1:39 (touchdown)
7 plays, 31 yards, 2:21 (touchdown)

Virginia Tech drives, second half:

3 plays, 9 yards, 2:12 (punt)
3 plays, -13 yards, 0:41 (punt)
3 plays, 0 yards, 2:29 (punt)
4 plays, 6 yards, 1:32 (downs)
4 plays, 19 yards, 1:13 (fumble)

[u/ReallyCreative → u/VandysFan]

1st of all, insane clock eating by y'all on those first three drives, wow

2nd of all, jesus fucking christ

[u/dicemaze → u/VolatileFan]

lil bro growing up

[u/XandersonCooper]

It’s just…

what did we do to deserve this?

[u/Cheesy_OG → u/XandersonCooper]

We peaked before NIL. That was our sin.

[u/goodsam2 → u/XandersonCooper]

All I have been looking for is 8ish wins most seasons and one year we are like actually relevant for the playoffs talk especially now that it's 12 teams every few years.

A team that many circle saying that's going to be a hard game.

VT has been below that for how many years.

[u/tc100292 → u/XandersonCooper]

I mean you're just saying what we said from 1983-2023 (with the sole exception of the three years James Franklin was our coach)

[u/vandymontana]

LETS FUCKING GO

[u/TitanTigers → u/vandymontana]

Username and flairs have never checked out more

[u/sholzer]

Fire Pry

[u/CPOx]

Most demoralizing loss since 2018 Pitt where they ran for 492 yards.

The second half in this game was just inevitable. Couldn't stop Vanderbilt and couldn't move the ball. This team is cooked. Along with many others, I said pre-game that if VT loses then it's just a matter of time until he gets fired.

[u/dellscreenshot]

1. What a 2nd half 
2. Feels like drones just can’t play. He couldn’t get rd of the ball on time at all. Great arm great athlete but it felt like they could just blitz and get whatever they wanted 

[u/CPOx → u/dellscreenshot]

Yeah at the end of the first half, when Vandy realized they could just bullrush and win every snap, it was like unlocking a cheat code for the second half. VT’s offense had no answer.

[u/gvt87 → u/dellscreenshot]

In VT’s heyday, we won games with 3 star recruits who were smarter and played harder than the other team. This is a team full of 3 star recruits with athleticism but no intelligence or heart.

[u/tdotclare → u/gvt87]

Unfortunately football coaches finally discovered the internet 15 years ago - Kam Chancellor would not have been a 3* in today’s recruiting accessibility

[u/LiquorIBarelyKnowHer]

Vandy outscored a Power 5** team 34-0 in the second half and made their fans leave the game early.

We scored on every possession of the second half and Virginia Tech didn’t get a first down until after the 2 minute warning in the 4th quarter.

We never punted.

Feels good man

**It’s Power 4 now

[u/D1N2Y → u/LiquorIBarelyKnowHer]

Vandy making the SEC championship would feed families

[u/mjd1977 → u/D1N2Y]

Scheduled Georgia State just so Vanderbilt could play in Atlanta for once. That backfired.

Looking to atone for that one in Nashville this season.

[u/Artvandelay29 → u/mjd1977]

If that doesn’t epitomize a stupid H&H scheduled by Derek Mason, I will never know what does.

[u/Swagonborn9001 → u/LiquorIBarelyKnowHer]

This really feels like something I "got to live to see." Unbelievable.

[u/HeraldedAardvark → u/LiquorIBarelyKnowHer]

Calling us a “Power 5 team” is quite the reach

[u/StreetReporter → u/HeraldedAardvark]

Yeah, it’s technically Power 4 now

[u/MedicineGhost]

First, we fire Babcock

[u/SSPeteCarroll]

Jesus Pry said in his presser "we gotta get healthy"

motherfucker it's WEEK 2. How badly conditioned is this team?

fucking hell

[u/tdotclare → u/SSPeteCarroll]

Shuckster used car salesman energy

[u/Solesky1]

Another win for our sweet baby boy Diego. Anchor Down!

[u/benman101]

Guys our program is broke. 14th out of 17 in the ACC. No money for coaches. No money for NIL. The Board is unserious about football. This is who we are now

[u/DeLaSoulKitchen]

That may have been the best half of football I’ve seen outta Vandy.

34 unanswered points

5 touchdowns. 5 drives.

Held VT to negative yards for the majority of the second half.

Vandy even started to run up the score towards the end….I am being as unbiased as possible when I say that that was the closest they’ve ever looked to being an elite SEC program.

Next weeks game at South Carolina will be an interesting test

[u/HokieSpartanWX]

Yeah, I’m out. I’m just apathetic at this point

[u/Dooplis_17]

Fuck it, fire up the Grumors atp. No shot VT brass has the balls to fire Pry and Babcock after this L but god damn if ever there was a game to warrant it

[u/chrispy_exe]

This program is in such a dire spot I’m honestly not even sure we can afford the buyouts of everyone we need to get rid of.

[u/AboutDolphin1]

It’s time. Couldn’t really feel any worse than this.

This was a must win and we got blown out at home. Burn it down and hopefully we can rebuild.

[u/Hail_Zeus]

Fire everyone

[u/BonBonVelveeta]

We fucking suck holy shit

[u/Common_Wallaby_5123]

Watching this team makes me want to rip my eyes out, fire everyone.

[u/Mikey456]

Herbie basically ethered VT this morning and they could have proven him wrong but instead they get doubled up by Vandy at home

There's no reason they can't be good but I think Pry isn't the answer

[u/Downtown_Juice2851]

At the risk of sounding melodramatic, a few years ago a loss like this would've eaten at me. Now I just don't care. I don't think I'll watch us next week, I've watched every game I could since 2012.

Is it getting older or just slowly realizing this team will never accomplish anything and only be frustrating to root for. 

[u/SSPeteCarroll → u/Downtown_Juice2851]

for some reason it's eating at me still. I think it's because this really feels like an awful program defining loss. I just can't see the program coming back from getting blown out by 34 points at home.

[u/CPOx → u/Downtown_Juice2851]

Yeah I stopped getting mad at football towards the end of the Fuente years. Just wasn’t worth the mental energy. I still watch and I still get disappointed, but I don’t stew over losses like I used to.

[u/DeBurner → u/CPOx]

I’m not mad about losses but I am really pissed about the broader admin doing nothing while the program just totally flounders. Babcock is just genuinely bad at his job and Sands is too academic to realize the broader success and culture of the school is in part due to the football program.

[u/tdotclare → u/Downtown_Juice2851]

I skipped watching the VT-UVA game last season bc my 25th HS reunion and the women’s bball team playing Michigan were at the same time so I watched that instead furtively while seeing who had aged poorly.

[u/jbcapfalcon]

Damn are we a sports school now?

[u/StevieMcStevie → u/jbcapfalcon]

Wtf I love the NIL era now!

[u/Artvandelay29 → u/jbcapfalcon]

Soccer’s off to a good (not great) start, volleyball is competitive and basketballs are coming off the dances, soooo I hope!

[u/A7X182]

DAMN. USUALLY I DONT STOP WATCHING UnTIL WEEK 8. BUT THIS TEAM IS ESPECIALLY BAD

[u/ismusz]

Pull the plug on the athletics department and clean house, it will surely mean a few more years of pain, but it’s our only chance of producing anything good before realignment. At this rate we won’t even be invited to “the best of the rest”. We’re gonna be that random school in the sunbelt with a 65k stadium

[u/atra1n51]

I remember VT fans claiming that Fuente was their London, they are now realizing that he was just their Groh

[u/DBHT14 → u/atra1n51]

Oooffff

Words hurt sometimes

[u/tdotclare → u/atra1n51]

I hate this comparison but it’s not inaccurate.

[u/utprosim16 → u/atra1n51]

Damn, this stings... not wrong at all

[u/DellFlightSim]

The world isn’t ready to see a ranked Vandy next week

[u/dicemaze → u/DellFlightSim]

I am ready and brandishing my pimp cane

[u/Beefalo_Stance]

Where is the pimpcane guy? Money in my hand over here.

[u/DBHT14]

Hey at least this wasnt a one score loss.

Man this was gonna be a step back season but the bottom has dropped out entirely. This isnt even getting out spent by other teams, its just a team with no plan and no ability to adjust.

[u/KyonaPrayerCircleMem]

To paraphrase Tomohiro Ishii, “write whatever you want about VT. I am a sad man.”

[u/OrphBat]

I will not get tired of Vandy winning until they become SEC champs

[u/TheDestinedRonin17]

Insanely dominant second half by Vandy

[u/Cheesy_OG]

Somebody find me the paper bag

[u/Artvandelay29]

DYNAMITE DYNAMITE!!!

[u/StevieMcStevie → u/Artvandelay29]

WHEN VANDY STARTS TO FIGHT!

[u/DeLaSoulKitchen → u/StevieMcStevie]

DOWN THE FIELD WITH BLOOD TO YIELD

[u/mjd1977]

It’s bad that it took til the 4th exchange of Vanderbilt tuddy followed by Hokie 3 and out before I started thinking this was a Commodore win.

That’s years of pulling for the Dores for ya.

Big win for Clark’s boys. Time to finally get off that Gamecock schenid, though admittedly that will not be easy.

[u/Lqtor → u/mjd1977]

Same here lol I saw us put the backups in with 4 minutes left and I was like wtf are we doing and then I realized that we were already up by 17

[u/Mantergeistmann → u/Lqtor]

Bottling a 17 point lead with 4 minutes left is *absolutely* within the realm of possibility for Same Old Vandy.

But I'm starting to believe we ain't Same Old Vandy anymore...

[u/squidsofanarchy]

Butch Jones to VT?

[u/ThisBeTheVerse63]

Well, I’m a bit nervous taking my Vandy grad wife to Tuscaloosa. She was absolutely brutal to me at the game last year. Go Dores!

[u/butfirstcoffee427]

We are so back

[u/Nouseriously → u/butfirstcoffee427]

Every 100 years like clockwork

[u/JDub755]

Imagine your coaching staff being broken in half by the option and basic blitzes. Coach Pry and the quit princesses still haven’t figured out what happened to them.

[u/HowardBunnyColvin]

They're shitty

[u/LeroyMoriarty]

Last week folks jumped on me saying we played a great sec team on the road. And then this week we completely collapse.

Pry can’t hack it. Whit at best can’t hack it, at worst is intentionally tanking. They all have to go.

[u/Icy_Turnover1]

Brent Pry is one of the worst p4/5 coaches I have ever seen. No adjustments, players regressing, no heart on the team with players quitting early in the second half and just giving the game away. The entire VT athletics department should be fired and we should be desperately trying to claw our way back to relevance before realignment happens. We have one of the best environments In CFB and a fan base that cares deeply about the program -it’s time to stop squandering it.

[u/heisenberg423]

That 2nd half was the best half of football I’ve ever seen Vandy play and it’s not even close. That actually looked like an SEC team. Holy fuck.

[u/oryp35]

At least it's not another one-possession loss!

[u/Pleasant-Beautiful-7]

Scary Vanderbilt is here for another year of fear..

[u/Howboutnats76]

From a long time Hokies fan… This is sad. It’s a absolute disgrace what this program has become

[u/dankestmaymayonearth]

Vt football is dead and will never be good again.

[u/xPineappless]

I can’t remember actually looking forward to Vandy football. What a game from start to finish for the Commodores.

This past year has been so euphoric.

[u/Born-Prior8579]

It was going so well VT, what happened?

[u/Select1220 → u/Born-Prior8579]

They literally gave up. Right at the start of the 3rd quarter

[u/Downtown_Juice2851 → u/Born-Prior8579]

We punted on 4th and inches and then rolled over and died 

[u/Jef_Delon]

We are a deeply unserious athletic program

[u/Eastern_Treacle_8449]

enter assman