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Virginia Tech Hires the New Vice President/Athletic Director: FAU’s Brian White Joins the Hokies

Brian White, former Vice-President and Athletic Director of Florida Atlantic University is hired to replace retiring Whit Babcock. He has a reputation as a big fundraiser, but there will be questions since FAU is a Group of 6(5) university with a bumpy football record.

That’s Sort of Out of Left Field

Virginia Tech hires Brian White to head up the Athletic Department, a title which also comes with the Vice-Presidency of the university.

For a full resume and introduction, we have to rely on Hokie Sports for the superficial information.

Brian White named Virginia Tech’s Vice President and Director of Athletics – Virginia Tech Athletics

The Standout Realities Don’t Shout Very Loudly

The main thing to look at the CV of Mr. White is that is experience at the P4 level is non-existent. His last university program, Florida Atlantic University. FAU’s football program has struggled in the 22 years of its existence with only 5 years of greater than .500 records. During his tenure from 2018-2025 as AD, the Owls only had a single season over .500 with the mercurial Lane Kiffin as head coach. That was in White’s second season with the team in 2019 when FAU played in Conference USA.

Since then, other than a .500 year in the bogus 2020 season at 5 and 4, FAU never posted a season better than 5 and 7. Kiffin blew town before the team won the Boca Raton Bowl in 2019, but we can’t hold that against White since Kiffin bolts for bucks faster than rabbits make bunnies.

The Owls’ Men’s basketball team fared a bit better making it into the NCAA Beeg Shew in 2023 and 2024 with a trip to the finals in 2023.

This Will Be a Work in Progress

Mr. White will have much to learn and navigate. The fanbase will be hyped up about some things, but many deep diggers will be a bit perplexed as to why this choice was made. Since the Hokies are in a total administrative rebuild, the results will all happen as they do and success remains to be seen.