Sources: Hokies fire Pry after 0-3 start, ODU loss

Virginia Tech plans to occurrence manager Brent Pry connected Sunday, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel. Pry is acceptable to beryllium owed much than $6 cardinal successful buyout.

The determination comes a time aft a home nonaccomplishment to 45-26 to Old Dominion, a crippled that saw the Hokies get booed loudly portion heading into the locker country for halftime.

Saturday's nonaccomplishment dropped Virginia Tech to 0-3 connected the play and 16-24 done 4 seasons nether Pry.

The hot-seat speech bubbled up astir Pry successful November of past play successful Blacksburg, and if the Hokies had mislaid to Virginia to extremity the season, a alteration whitethorn person been made astatine that point. But Virginia Tech defeated Virginia, and Pry's 2nd consecutive 6-6 regular play landed him successful a vessel game.

But arsenic the offseason included unit changes, the speech astir Pry's presumption didn't fade. He entered Year 4 with a caller antiaircraft coordinator -- Sam Siefkes, a erstwhile linebackers manager with the NFL's Arizona Cardinals -- and a unit that included erstwhile longtime Hokies antiaircraft coordinator Bud Foster arsenic an advisor/analyst.

It did not enactment successful the aboriginal going. Though the Hokies played hard successful a season-opening nonaccomplishment to South Carolina, they were pushed astir by different SEC team, Vanderbilt, successful Virginia Tech's location opener a week later. The Commodores scored 34 consecutive points to adjacent retired a 44-20 triumph that they trailed by 10 points astatine halftime.

That loss, however, proved to beryllium conscionable an opening enactment to Saturday's stunning nonaccomplishment to in-state squad ODU.

"Clearly, it starts with me," Pry said aft the nonaccomplishment to the Monarchs. "Coaches, players, everybody is accountable here. We've got to get backmost to the basics and find a mode to beryllium person to the squad we tin be."

Pry began this play halfway done his declaration and Virginia Tech was not successful the champion presumption to devour a seven-figure buyout. So, this determination apt came aft overmuch treatment astir the absorption of the program, some connected and disconnected the field.

Virginia Tech volition big Wofford adjacent Saturday, earlier opening ACC play the pursuing week astatine NC State.