Steven Godfrey suggesting that Pry's seat is much hotter than we think

Well, much hotter than I thought... title is mine.

Anyways, SZD/Steven Godfrey do a regular episode where he summarizes and brain dumps all the hot seat info he gets from agents, ADs, coaches, etc. From the most recent one (VT talk at 23:30):

Another job I want to talk about real fast before we get into one that's open is Virginia Tech... ...It does not help Brent Pry's case at all that Fran Brown had the season he did. Totally honest.

There are there are fast emerging better case studies on how to do this [rebuild a struggling program] quickly and efficiently in the portal era... look, I sat in the guy's office and - I've said this on the show before - where he said it's going to take like it's going to take four years.

So he's 16-20 overall, and he's had one winning season in the ACC. They finished 6-6. Obviously they beat UVA, which you know.

This is a job that, I don't know if it opens this cycle, but if it did, I think it might come with some larger changes in the program.

There is a kind of an existential issue here going on. I don't want to say full blown crisis, but again... ...Pry came in and wanted to rework all of the things that Fuente had done opposite of Beamer, but neither plan is workable in 2024.

I don't know if I said that right, but... ...the idea 3-4 years ago might have been like we need to get back to the Beamer idea of things. That can't exist in the modern game.

Now you're in a Position where... ...you assume to be a power, but there is no proof of concept of any kind of modern success.

I'm not saying it can't happen. Look at Vanderbilt.

But, You know, Vanderbilt eked its way to six and [Vanderbilt was] a completely different situation and setting, but... ...Clark Lee was absolutely DOA going into the season.

Transcript lightly edited for clarity