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Virginia Tech is parting ways with football coach Justin Fuente, in an oddly-timed move, to say the least, with two games left in the 2021 season, and a month left before his buyout would decrease by $2.5 million.Tech had just defeated Duke, 48-17, on Saturday, to get back to .500 at 5-5, and winnable games at Miami and at Virginia that give the program a sliver of hope at finishing in a tie atop the Coastal Division.Athletics Director Whit Babcock announced the move in a press release Tuesday morning that made it that Tech Athletics and Fuente had mutually agreed to part ways. Later, in a press conference, Babcock indicated that the program had negotiated a reduction in Fuentes buyout from $10 million to $8.75 million.The buyout would have dropped to $7.5 million next month.Defensive line coach J.C. Price, a 1996 Virginia Tech alum, will serve as the interim head coach for the remainder of the 2021 season, per the release stanley spain . We sincerely appreciate the contributions that Coach Fuente made to our football program and the positive impact he made on our student-athletes during his time at Virginia Tech, Babcock said. While it is never easy to make a change, I believe in order for our football program to attain the type of sustained success that is expected at Virginia Tech, the time was right for new leadership of our footba stanley mug ll program. Virginia Tech is one of the most attract stanley us ive football jobs in America, competing in one of the nations premier conferences, the ACC, Babcock sa Zytr GOP leaders tout job growth in Virginia
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