Bryce Baker
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Sep 28, 2026
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
As far as skill set goes, I do think making Boston College honor their quarterback run a little bit more would have made a difference.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
So I did have several times where I'm like, are we going to see Bryce Baker? Again, not because Bryce Baker I think is better, but Bryce Baker's skill set in the variables that were presented to us I think would have made a big difference.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
But the counter to that is – at a certain point this was adversity that the team was facing and they're going to face adversity later on in the year so for grunk to be able to figure it out and get us to a win at the end of the game and as the game went on he got better so um man that's that's kind of where i landed on the ground conversation
Pat FinnHOST
yeah i think it is honestly like what you need in a game like that is Honestly, a game manager like you don't need you cannot be asking Gronk to do too much in a game like this.
Pat FinnHOST
unless they were actually in the building and were seeing it and feeling it themselves.
Pat FinnHOST
You had some gusts that were 50 miles an hour.
Pat FinnHOST
I cannot imagine how awful it was going back to the huddle every single play and saying, okay, how are we going to move this football past the sticks on this drive? Um, As far as like, I'm with you on the Bryce Baker thing.
Pat FinnHOST
I was thinking the same thing.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
The difference is with these last three games, when James Franklin's got out to a lead, he's basically been like, look, let's get some work in here.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
Let's let Bryce Baker throw the ball.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
Let's let Ethan throw the ball.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
We'll be aggressive on fourth down, right? When you're dealing with weather, things can change like that.
Mike WaddellHOST
He's not played that much.
Mike WaddellHOST
But the guy who was christened to be the next big thing at quarterback for Carolina, if it wasn't going to be our natural North Carolina homegrown guy from down in Forsyth County, Bryce Baker, who had to transfer to Virginia Tech, we thought it was going to be Travis Burgess, who came up from Cobb County, Georgia, just like the big boss man off the WWF back in the day.
Mike WaddellHOST
But Travis Burgess, he might as well be Waldo because you can't find him anywhere.
Mike WaddellHOST
There's no talk of anything.
Mike WaddellHOST
He was going to go with Gio Lopez.
Mike WaddellHOST
Old Max Johnson was never going to get a shot.
Mike WaddellHOST
And Bryce Baker said, I'm out of here because they're never going to give me a shot.
Mike WaddellHOST
And now this quarterback position, I mean, the Carolina fans are notoriously spoiled and maybe a tad arrogant because they think that they're a lot better than they are.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
The difference is with these last three games, when James Franklin's got out to a lead, he's basically been like, look, let's get some work in here.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
Let's let Bryce Baker throw the ball.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
Let's let Ethan throw the ball.
Billy Ray MitchellHOST
We'll be aggressive on fourth down, right? When you're dealing with weather, things can change like that.
Anthony PagnottaHOST
This year, it's different.
Anthony PagnottaHOST
And, you know, you could say, well, you know, they had a four-star quarterback in Bryce Baker last year.
Anthony PagnottaHOST
Remember, Bryce Baker couldn't beat out a guy who came in later than him to the recruiting class in Arturi Newkirk.
Anthony PagnottaHOST
And that's no slight to Arturi Newkirk.
Anthony PagnottaHOST
But Travis Burgess, four-star that had all the hype around him, he came in and beat out Arturi Newkirk while being limited back in the spring.
Ryan CastleHOST
He said, for much of the offseason, we didn't know who our starting quarterback was going to be.
Ryan CastleHOST
Was it going to be more of a dual-threat guy like Bryce Baker or someone like Ethan Grunkmeier, who's a little bit more of a pocket passer but can still get it done with his legs, more of a scrambling quarterback? than a true runner.
Ryan CastleHOST
And so the scheme has adapted really well to the personnel.
Ryan CastleHOST
You've seen it with Ethan Gronkmaier.
Ryan CastleHOST
We also talked with James Franklin yesterday about the backup quarterback competition.
Ryan CastleHOST
He said that right now the competition is still open, but Bryce Baker is the backup quarterback for now.
Ryan CastleHOST
But he did say that Kelton Ryan and Troy Hoon are very, very close in that competition.
Ryan CastleHOST
They all got live reps during the team's Sunday scrimmage this past week, which is another evaluation tool for this coaching staff to see how these guys respond defensively.
Ryan CastleHOST
in live situations.
Ryan CastleHOST
Right now, since Bryce Baker has a little bit more experience, he's the number two.
Ryan CastleHOST
But Franklin said on Saturday when Baker came in against ODU, he had a very short leash because of that competition with Kelton Ryan and with Troy Hoon.
Ryan CastleHOST
But Franklin thinks Baker did a really good job against ODU.
Ed WilliamsGUEST
They obviously easily could have broke that record if they had felt like it.
Ed WilliamsGUEST
they did as a team, or at least they tied because Bryce Baker had one completion after he entered the game.
Ed WilliamsGUEST
But I thought Gronk was really good.
Ed WilliamsGUEST
I thought he made good decisions all throughout.
Mike McDanielHOST
So that was more minor.
Mike McDanielHOST
Um, the CW also put up a graphic of what they thought was Virginia tech backup quarterback, Bryce Baker.
Mike McDanielHOST
Um, It was not Bryce Baker for a couple different reasons.
Mike McDanielHOST
Not even close, really.
Mike McDanielHOST
He was the one who tweeted that particular item, Joey.
Mike McDanielHOST
And then Doug Bowman, a VT scoop, took it one step further and went digging into ACC rosters to find out who it is.
Mike McDanielHOST
And lo and behold, the picture that was put up that was not Bryce Baker was Pitt backup quarterback Holden Gerringer.
Mike McDanielHOST
Hmm.
Ryan CastleHOST
Franklin says the team had a really good Sunday cleanup practice, got a lot of the mistakes from Saturday's games corrected, and then said they had their first developmental scrimmage of the season.
Ryan CastleHOST
This is something Franklin said that he's gonna do every Sunday, where the twos, the threes, and the fours have a fully live scrimmage, including the quarterbacks, meaning the quarterbacks can get hit down the field, which I think is a great way to evaluate a guy like Bryce Baker, who wants to run, who wants to use his legs.
Ryan CastleHOST
Nice for the Hokies to see him in some live situations, even if it is a scrimmage at the end of practice.
Ryan CastleHOST
So Virginia Tech continuing to evaluate their depth and keep stock of how those guys are progressing.
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