Bill Blankenship coached Justin Fuente in high school and has been a sounding board for Tech�s new head coach ever since
Bill Blankenship served as Justin Fuente’s football coach at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, so he, probably before anyone else, saw a coach in the making.
“Actually, no, I thought he was way too smart to get into coaching,” Blankenship laughed. “I thought he would be a CEO – and he is, but not in the way I thought he would go about it.”
More than 20 years after coaching Fuente, Blankenship appreciates where his pupil is these days in his career as the head football coach at Virginia Tech.