{"id":730287,"date":"2026-02-05T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:00:16","slug":"soundbites-football-media-availability-virginia-tech-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730287\/","title":{"rendered":"Soundbites: Football Media Availability &#8211; Virginia Tech Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defensive Coordinator\/Linebackers Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/staff\/brent-pry\" title=\"Brent Pry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Pry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the decision to return to Tech:<br \/>&#8220;You know, it seems like a tough decision, but really it&#8217;s not when you think about what&#8217;s important to me and my family, and that&#8217;s working with and aligning with somebody that you trust and know as a leader, as a man, and how he&#8217;s going to treat people and how he&#8217;s going to run the organization. I had other opportunities to be a coordinator at other places, but there was a lot of unknowns. So the the knowingness, the comfort of working with James again after so many years was a real positive for me. He knows me, and I know him. Secondly, I love Virginia Tech. I think everybody knows that. So, a chance to continue \u2013 there was no bitterness for me \u2013 a chance to continue to to help Virginia Tech turn the corner and be proud again. I want that, and this was an opportunity to continue to do that. And then my family and I love this community. My kids love Blacksburg High. We love being here in Blacksburg and representing Tech. So, there were too many positives. A lot of these players that were returning, I wanted to coach these guys. I love these guys. I still want what&#8217;s best for them. And now the role is just a little different in how I can help them do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensive Coordinator\/Linebackers Coach Brent Pry On the decision to return to Tech:&#8220;You know, it seems like a tough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[329,7,3489,966,83827],"class_list":["post-730287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-acc","tag-football","tag-hokies","tag-virginia-tech","tag-vt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116015794782977584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}