Brent Pry buyout: Details of Virginia Tech head coach's buyout

If Virginia Tech decided to part ways with Brent Pry following the 2025 season, the Hokies would owe their head coach $6 million. Virginia Tech would pay Pry in equal quarterly installments over the remainder of his contract, which expires Dec. 31, 2027.

He would receive $750,000 per quarter until the end of 2027, when his six-year agreement expires, if fired at the end of the 2025 college football season. Pry is making $4.75 million this season. Here is a full breakdown of his buyout:

+ Buyout drops to $2.5 million after the 2026 season
+ Buyout drops to $0 million after the 2027 season

According to his contract, the head coach is owed 70% of his remaining contract if fired without cause. However, his deal calls for him to be paid out 50% of Year 6 of the contract. Pry receives the use of two vehicles, which can be replaced every two years, as part of his contract. Membership to the Blacksburg Country Club is covered, along with a suite for each home football game.

The former Penn State defensive coordinator was hired in November 2021 as Virginia Tech’s next head coach. He replaced Justin Fuente, who went 43–31 overall and 28-20 in the ACC in six seasons in Blacksburg.

Brent Pry worked as a defensive graduate assistant for the Hokies from 1995-97 under head coach Frank Beamer and defensive coordinator Bud Foster. Pry is 16-23 in four seasons at Virginia Tech.

“We picked Coach Pry because we thought he was the best, and then I didn’t expect it to be negative, but the overwhelming positivity from former players, his current players, NFL guys, people at Penn State reaching out to him, you’re like, ‘Man, that was a nice start,'” Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock said at Pry’s introductory press conference in 2021. “It is nice to see this place reunited. We’re not any good when we’re divided. Hopefully, this is a step in the right direction.”

Under Pry’s direction, the Hokies reached a second consecutive bowl game in 2024. It marked Tech’s first back-to-back bowl appearances since the 2018 and 2019 seasons.