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EDITOR’S NOTE: Pry was fired by Virginia Tech on Sept. 14, following a 0-3 start to his fourth season as coach. The termination occurred about a month after the 2025-26 Virginia 500 edition went to press.

A former defensive coordinator at Vanderbilt University and Penn State and a player for the University at Buffalo until he suffered a career-ending injury, Pry became the Hokies’ 35th head coach in November 2021.

His first season, not surprisingly, was not exactly stellar, with a 3-8 record, but in 2023, the Hokies improved to 7-6 and beat Tulane in the Military Bowl. A disappointing 6-7 season followed in 2024. Afterward, Pry fired three assistant coaches, and his offensive coordinator left. Gearing up for the 2025 season, Tech announced four assistant coach hires in March. Quarterback Kyron Drones said in July that he’d recovered from a foot surgery in the spring. A Lexington native, Pry grew up in a football family; his father, Jim Pry, was a quarterback at Marshall University beginning in 1971.

This is Pry’s second time on the Virginia Tech coaching staff; from 1995 to 1997, he was a graduate assistant coach for the defensive line when the Hokies appeared in back-to-back bowl games. Pry previously spent eight seasons at Penn State, including six as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, before returning to Blacksburg.

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