Virginia Tech coach James Franklin is targeting Brent Pry to be his defensive coordinator in what would be one of the most unusual coaching hires in college football history, sources told CBS Sports' Matt Zenitz and Richard Johnson .

Pry was a long time Franklin assistant at Penn State and Vanderbilt before being hired at Virginia Tech as the head coach in 2022. However, Pry was fired after an 0-3 start to the 2025 season. There aren't many (if any) examples of a coach being fired one season and returning to the same school in a different capacity in the next, but with more than a decade of experience as a coordinator under Franklin, it makes this a particularly unique situation.

Hiring Pry would likely garner a mixed reaction in Blacksburg from fans, but even though he's only

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