But we had to hit on this, Danny, because this feels like a sea change as far as the college landscape in the Commonwealth of Virginia and in the DMV.

A fan-based pool.

Blacksburg is certainly not DMV adjacent, but there are tons of Hokies fans listening in and around Virginia right now.

And what a hire for Virginia Tech.

ESPN's Pete Famill reporting, they are finalizing a deal

to hire James Franklin as their next head coach. Tech, which is not won eight games since 2019,

which is not one double-digit games since 2016. They have fallen on really hard times post-Frank Beamer.

Justin Fuente came in here, and they were a 500-ish team at the end.

They go to Brent Pry, and they have gone 3-8, 7 and 6, 6 and 7, and now 3 and 7 after he started 0-3 and was blown out.

Interim coach Philip Montgomery's 3 and 4.

They played in the military and Duke's

Mayo Bowl the last two years. Yeah, two bowl wins in the last nine years from Virginia Tech.

The leftovers of Frank Beamer's program, they went 10 and four, nine and four, and haven't been

that good since. And by the way, the bowls are not good bowls. No, you're talking about a decade,

a decade where Virginia Tech, in their minds and in fans'

minds, has simply not been Virginia Tech. You're losing the Camping World Bowl. You're winning the

Belk Bowl. This is not where they think they should be. So in a cycle where LSU needs a head coach,

and Florida needs a head coach, and maybe Lane Kiffin's jumping from

Ole Miss, and there's going to be some real star power in terms of programs needing

new head men for them to be able to go out there as an also ran. I mean, JMU has

overtaken them in the state of Virginia in terms of football over the last few years.

Virginia this year and the ACC is overtaken them. the state of Virginia in terms of football over the last few years. Virginia this year and the ACC has overtaken them.

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