Virginia Tech’s 10-male assistant coaching personnel is full as the Hokies are established to employ the service of Outdated Dominion TEs coach Fontel Mines as their WRs mentor for every numerous sources.

Mines comes to Virginia Tech after investing the 2021 time as the ODU TEs coach. Prior to his time in Norfolk, Mines was the Inside of WRs coach/TEs mentor/recruiting coordinator for East Carolina from 2019-2020 after expending two seasons as the within WRs & TEs coach for James Madison even though introducing the recruiting coordinator title in 2018.

Right before that, Mines put in five seasons at Richmond as the WRs mentor (2012-2013, 2015-2016) and the TEs coach (2014) together with a single season at D-II Chowan College in 2011 to start out his collegiate coaching occupation. He also put in three seasons in the NFL with the Chicago Bears from 2007-2009 right after beginning in 20 game titles at restricted finish through his time at UVA in university. Mines is a Richmond indigenous who was a standout player at Hermitage Higher School in the early to mid 2000s.

Compared with quite a few of the Brent Pry hires, Mines has not coached alongside Pry formerly. However, ODU head mentor Ricky Rahne was the offensive coordinator for some of the time that Pry was at Penn Point out so that link might have proved a element in the vetting by Pry and offensive coordinator Tyler Bowen, who also coached together with Rahne, of Mines as a likely WRs mentor.

Fontel Mines may possibly not be the splashiest of hires for the WRs mentor opening, but the move is absolutely intriguing as he has proven himself at the FCS and Team of 5 stages as a coach and as a recruiter.

At ODU, he coached up Penn Point out TE transfer Zack Kuntz who acquired All-Convention United states Initial Team honors who led the Monarchs in receptions as a TE. At European, Mines coached up the Pirates’ receptions chief in 2019 and 2020 in 5’7” slot WR Tyler Snead who experienced 119 receptions all through Mines’ time in Greenville and acquired 2020 All-AAC Next Group honors.

While at JMU, Mines experienced a pair of All-CAA options at WR though yet another a single of his WRs, John Miller, was the 2017 CAA Distinctive Groups Participant of the 12 months.

All through his 5 seasons at Richmond, the Spiders gained 10 All-CAA honors among their wide receiver team…