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Frank Beamer is well-known throughout the coaching circles for his efforts to keep his coaching staff together. In his recent contract renegotiation, a stipulation for his signature was that his assistant coaches get paid more money. He has always made it very clear that he believes staying together and doing things the same way year after year is a major key to having success in college football. Beamer has been very successful in keeping his coaching staff together throughout the years. Before Kevin Rogers departed Virginia Tech for the Minnesota Vikings earlier in the week, the last time the Hokies lost a coach was after the 2001 season with offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Rickey Bustle left to be head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette.
Virginia Tech’s assistant coaches come from many different backgrounds, and some have experience coaching a number of positions. Only two assistant coaches remain from Frank Beamer’s original staff. Billy Hite has actually been at Virginia Tech longer than Beamer. He was hired by former head coach Bill Dooley in 1978. Hite has been a running backs coach his entire career, and he’s served as Associate Head Coach since 2001. Bud Foster played for Beamer at Murray State and has spent his entire coaching career on Beamer’s staff. He followed Beamer to Virginia Tech, and has served as inside and outside linebackers coach, co-defensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. Foster is the assistant that is most expected to take a head coaching job at another school at some point. Bryan Stinespring is currently Virginia Tech’s offensive line coach and offensive coordinator. Like Foster, he has never coached under anyone except Frank Beamer. He has served as tight ends coach, assistant offensive line coach, offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator.
Tony Ball, Virginia Tech’s wide receivers coach, arrived in Blacksburg before the 1998 season. He spent time at seven different schools between 1985 and 1997 before coming to Virginia Tech. He has coached running backs and wide receivers his entire career. Danny Pearman has spent his entire career playing or coaching football at a very high level. Pearman played at Clemson, and was also a graduate assistant there. He coached at Alabama from 1991-97, and had stints with the offensive tackles, defensive tackles and special teams. He has been at Virginia Tech since 1998 and coaches the offensive tackles and tight ends. Lorenzo Ward played for the University of Alabama from 1986-90, and also spent three years there as a graduate assistant. At UT-Chattanooga he coached the secondary, running backs, and also spent a year as defensive coordinator. Ward is currently Virginia Tech’s defensive backs coach, and he has helped put a lot of players in the NFL. Like Bud Foster, Charley Wiles played for Frank Beamer at Murray State. He has been coaching at Virginia Tech since 1996, and he was also a graduate assistant in Blacksburg in 1987 and 1988. Before coming to Virginia Tech in 1996, he coached at East Tennessee State and Murray State. He has coached the offensive line, defensive ends, running backs, linebackers and defensive line during his career. He was also Murray State’s co-defensive coordinator in 1995. He currently coaches the defensive line at Virginia Tech. Coaching staffs are allowed to have up to nine full-time assistant coaches. With the departure of Kevin Rogers, Virginia Tech will have eight assistants, meaning the Hokies have room on the staff for one more. Rogers is expected to be replaced with Curt Newsome, the offensive line coach at James Madison. Newsome would coach the offensive line and Bryan Stinespring would become the new quarterbacks coach. A total of five of Tech’s eight assistants have been an offensive or defensive coordinator, either at Virginia Tech or at a previous school. When Kevin Rogers was still on the staff, the number was six out of nine. So as you can see, Frank Beamer has a very experienced and successful coaching staff at Virginia Tech. Losing Kevin Rogers hurts, but the fact is that the Hokies have always been a running team, and will continue to be a running team under Frank Beamer. The passing game will never be as advanced as some other schools, though it has generally been efficient. So even with Rogers leaving, if Curt Newsome is hired the Hokies have a chance to improve on what they do best…run the football.
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For
the second straight year, Virginia Tech has gone into the state of Georgia
and come out with a fine looking defensive back prospect. Today, Mario
Edwards, a talented defensive back prospect out of Westlake (Atlanta, GA),
verbally committed to Virginia Tech.
Our
photographer was on hand for the Gator Bowl against Louisville, and he
brought home 100 photos of Tech's 35-24 win over the Cardinals. We split
them up into two galleries, so log on and check out all the action from
Jacksonville, as Tech played their way to their third-ever 11-win season.
To the right, Cedric Humes holds up his MVP trophy.
This
week, Mike Harris asked Chris Horne about a variety of topics, including
recruiting fallout from the Marcus Vick publicity, the commitment of
Jarrell Miller to UNC, and updates on Brian Whitmore, Mario Edwards, and
LeSean McCoy. (WMA format, compatible with Windows Media Player and MP3
players, 3.3 MB, 21:37)
Catching
up on the news, some new, some old: Just days after Virginia Tech
announced that quarterback Marcus Vick would not be returning to the
football team, quarterbacks coach Kevin Rogers is moving on to the NFL.
Rogers is joining the coaching staff of the Minnesota Vikings, where he
will serve as quarterbacks coach. He is the first Virginia Tech assistant
coach to leave since offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Ricky
Bustle left to become head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette after the 2001
season.
Oscar
Smith (Chesapeake, VA) all-state defensive end Brian Whitmore has
scheduled three official visits for the month of January. The 6-4,
245-pound 4-star recruit plans to make these visits and will probably then
make a decision sometime around signing day.
Virginia
Tech suffered another heartbreaking loss on Tuesday night, falling 64-61
to #20 North Carolina at Cassell Coliseum. The Hokies had a chance to tie
the game at the end, but Deron Washington’s three-pointer from the
corner clanked off the front of the rim to preserve the win for the Tar
Heels. The loss drops Tech to 10-6 overall and 0-3 in the ACC. UNC
improves to 10-2 and 2-0 in conference play. The defeat is Tech’s fifth
close loss of the season, with those five losses coming by a total of 15
points.
Virginia
Tech will return to Cassell Coliseum searching for their first ACC victory
on Tuesday night when they host #20 North Carolina. The Hokies (10-5, 0-2)
have been one of the ACC’s hard luck teams this season, with four of
their five losses coming by a combined 12 points. They are hoping a return
to Cassell Coliseum and the emerging offensive threat of Wynton
Witherspoon will be enough to get them the victory over a young but
talented Tar Heel team that is 9-2 overall and 1-0 in the ACC.
Monday
night’s show came from Attitudes Bar and Café at the Holiday Inn in
Blacksburg. Since football season is over, basketball coach Seth Greenberg
was the show’s only guest. Greenberg discussed the season, playing on
the road and the upcoming game with North Carolina with host Bill Roth.
While
the eye of the storm last week centered around Marcus Vick, there was a
lot of turbulence circulating around Frank Beamer and the VT football
program as well. Sparked by "The Stomp," fans and media took the
opportunity to question the behavior of the VT football team as a whole,
and Frank Beamer's disciplinary methods for the Hokie program. Vick is
gone now, as of last Friday, and it's an opportunity for the Hokies not
just to heal and move on from the Vick area, but to look at how they do
things, top to bottom, and improve.
Virginia
Tech President Charles Steger announced late Friday afternoon that
quarterback Marcus Vick has been dismissed from the football team due to
legal trouble off the field and unsportsmanlike play on the field. The
dismissal brings an end to the wild ride that was the Marcus Vick era,
which was always filled with promise, yet never materialized the way that
Virginia Tech fans hoped.
Virginia
Tech will play the first of 15 consecutive ACC games when they travel to
Tallahassee to take on Florida State in the Donald L. Tucker Center on
Saturday night. The Seminoles are off to a solid start on the season,
standing at 9-2 overall and 0-1 in ACC play. They have suffered two close
defeats to Florida and Clemson but have shown great improvements over last
year’s team, which was one of the worst in the ACC.