University of Tennessee at Chattanooga assistant football coach Chris Malone, an offensive lineman at Tech from 1992-95 (Richmond Times-Dispatch) "Beamer is just the type of guy to make coffee for the office secretaries, move his car so an elderly person could have a better parking spot, take a campus visitor to lunch, buy a gift card for a staff member who became engaged a day earlier, drive 80 miles round-trip to spend an hour with a friend dying of cancer, stand up five times during dinner to have his picture taken with fans, smiling and laughing each time as if he had known those strangers for a lifetime, or tip a waitress 50 percent of the bill because he overheard her say she was struggling to pay off her student loans. He took a bunch of 'try hard' guys and Virginia kids and made them buy into changing the culture." When I was a kid in Virginia, no one wanted to go to Virginia Tech. Michael Vick, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback (ESPNU) "He put them on the map, made them relevant.
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He always wanted the best for my life, not just as a professional football player, because he knew that that would happen, but as an individual." Before he asked me anything, he would ask me how my family was doing, how my kids were doing.
The one thing he always stressed was to keep my family first. former Virginia Tech athletics director Dave Braine (The Roanoke Times) "Coach always stayed in touch and encouraged me to be the best that I can be.
I knew he was a good teacher, and he was a good coach." Nobody wore sweatshirts with Virginia Tech on them. We couldn't even get anybody to carry paraphernalia in their stores. DeAngelo Hall, Washington Redskins defensive back (The Washington Post) "When Frank first came here, people didn't have 'VTs' on their car. Nick Saban, University of Alabama head football coach (AL.com) "Everybody always me when I first got into the league, 'Why did you go to Virginia Tech over some of these other schools?' It's that personal connection, that personal touch that those coaches just created with me and a lot of the other players that they were able to recruit and get to come to Blacksburg." I think their program has been one of the stellar programs through the years." I've always admired him as a coach, but also the professional character that he always carries himself with and the way he treats other people. He's one of the great guys in our profession. How many people can say they're playing for a legend?"įrank Beamer has been one of the icons, in my mind, in this era of coaching. For us players, we all look up to Coach Beamer. When people talk about Virginia Tech football, Coach Beamer's name will always be remembered. He's instilled something that's going to be here forever. it goes way past numbers in a record book. Said Trey Edmunds, "All that Coach Beamer has done. Coach Beamer has always said to us: 'Any time you feel like calling, call.' When you feel comfortable with one child, then you feel comfortable to send the next ones in line." When parents let their babies go, they have to feel and know that someone is watching over them.
"You have to feel you can go to a coach at any time, that you can ask them anything, and you have to feel they're being honest with you. "It really has a lot to do with being approachable," said Felecia Edmunds, the mother of Terrell, Tremaine, and Trey Edmunds. Beamer coached 25 sets of brothers in 29 years at Tech, with four families sending three or more sons to play for him, according to an ESPN story.
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