James Franklin has slowly been putting together his first coaching staff at Virginia Tech in recent days. He has dipped into his old stop at Penn State to bring some of his assistants to Blacksburg.
He is bringing back, reportedly, Brent Pry to Virginia Tech, and be Franklin's defensive coordinator after he was fired in September after four underperforming years as head coach. Awkward.
There were a couple of coaches from Pry's staff that fans were hoping that Franklin would retain. Derek Jones announced early this week that he was moving on, but things were quiet surrounding a pair of other assistants, offensive line coach Matt Moore and wide receivers coach Fontel Mines.