James Franklin should be announcing his complete Virginia Tech coaching staff very soon. (Ivan Morozov)
1) All of the assistants have been hired now. Surprised we were under budget? — st_andrew
Chris Coleman: I don’t know the final total at this point. On Thursday, I saw a random coach introduce himself on Twitter as Virginia Tech’s new assistant special teams coach. I hadn’t heard of him, and I didn’t know Tech was hiring him. I’ve already somewhat forgotten his name (it’s Pat Shepard), because with all of the new players and the eleventy billion coaches on the staff, I just can’t keep track of everyone.
My point here is that I don’t know that the Hokies are done with hiring assistants to the top assistants, and those guys’ salaries count towards the pool as well. I don’t know how much they’ll all be making. I agree with you that Tech will come in under budget, though.
That doesn’t really surprise me. Not knowing the allotted budgets of other programs, I’m guessing many of them come in somewhat under budget. That leaves some wiggle room. For example, if you are at your budget and you have $0 left to spend, you can’t give Fontel Mines a big $150k raise like Tech had to do back in 2023.
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