Hokie Alumni In The Coaching Ranks Learned From Frank Beamer

As you might realize, or maybe calculate, a lot of young men have played football at Virginia Tech during the 29-year tenure of soon-to-retire coach Frank Beamer.  Some of them have gone on to NFL careers.  Others have gone into coaching, either in the NFL or at the college level.  There are even a few who have returned to Virginia Tech as assistants on Beamer's staff, including his son Shane.  Many have retained a thing or two from their playing days.  From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

There are times when J.C. Price becomes so frustrated and disillusioned with one of his Marshall football players, that he wonders if the thing to do isn’t to move on, cut ties, give up on the athlete.

And then his wife reminds him.

“‘Coach Beamer didn’t turn his back on you,’” Price said this week after legendary Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer announced he would be retiring after this season, his 29th with the Hokies. “You think about that. You think about your experiences.”

In Coach Price's case, make that "retained a thing or two, with the help of his better half".  To find out what he and other former Hokie players now in the coaching business learned from Frank Beamer, read the full story.