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Brent Pry

2022-2025Virginia Tech

One defining program at Virginia Tech.

Brent Pry's coaching record is 19-30, highlighted by seasons at Virginia Tech from 2022 to 2025.

Brent Pry coached 4 seasons, won 38.8%, and posted an average SRS of 0.4. Best season: 2024 Virginia Tech. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
19-30
Career win rate
38.8%
Average SRS
0.4
Peak SRS
10.4

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached
4
Career span
4 years
Best finish
Consistency
39.8

Primary school anchor

Virginia Tech

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 62.8.

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Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Brent Pry
Overall record
19-30

49 countable games, 38.8% win rate.

Virginia Tech record
19-30

4 countable seasons at Virginia Tech.

Full-season record
16-21

3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
0-10

10 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-2

2 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-1

1 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Virginia
2-1

Virginia-Virginia Tech games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
1-1

2 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.

Record definition and data status

Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.

Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.

Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 30, 2025. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

Brent Pry
EliteStrongAverageLean
2022Actual season year • SRS range -8.7 to 10.42025

Active comparison point

Brent Pry2024

Selected

2024 Virginia Tech

Best season

6-7 • SRS 10.4 • SP Overall 10.0

Win %

46.2%

YoY SRS

+6.5

SP Off / Def

31.3 / 22.4

Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Ranked opponent record

Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.

Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-10

Games
10
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-2

Games
2
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results10

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Virginia Tech

2022-20254 seasons

Avg SRS 0.4 • Win % 38.8%

Longest tenure
Virginia Tech • 4 seasons
Best tenure
Virginia Tech • 0.4 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Virginia Tech • 38.8%

Style and Strength Profile

Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.

These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

Brent Pry sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Brent Pry sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Brent Pry

Mixed

Raw avg SP Overall
-0.9
Percentile
53th pct

Mixed

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Virginia Tech

2022-202519-30

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 0.4Win % 38.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.8 during vs 6.2 baseline

-1.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

0.4 during vs 4.5 baseline

-4.1

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-0.9 during vs 7.2 baseline

-8.1

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

-20.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Virginia Tech 2024

6-7SRS 10.4

Biggest Improvement

Virginia Tech 2023

7-612.6 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Virginia Tech 2024

6-7SP Off 31.3

Best Defensive Season

Virginia Tech 2024

6-7SP Def 22.4

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Virginia Tech 2022

3-8SRS -8.7

Biggest Drop

Virginia Tech 2025

3-9-14.5 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Virginia Tech20251239025.0%-4.1-10.121.430.8-14.5-21.1%Completed-game fallback
Virginia Tech20241367046.2%10.410.031.322.4+6.5-7.7%Season summary
Virginia Tech20231376053.8%3.95.827.523.3+12.6+26.6%Season summary
Virginia Tech20221138027.3%-8.7-9.513.522.8Season summary

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