As part of the ACC's scheduling agreement with Notre Dame, Virginia Tech will travel to South Bend this weekend for one of the most highly-anticipated road games the Hokies have played in years.

But if Virginia Tech fans are expecting to see legendary coach Frank Beamer in attendance … well sadly, he won't be there. And it's thanks to the most spectacular reason possible: He'll be at a beauty pageant.

The news broke when Virginia Tech announced on its Twitter account that Beamer will be judging a beauty pageant, but unfortunately, that's not technically true.

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Instead, he'll be there to do what any good football coach does: give the contestants a pep talk!

Here are details, via The Washington Post:

“He is actually giving the girls a pep talk like he would do the football players in the locker room,” Kim Nicewonder, executive director of the Miss Virginia USA and Miss Virginia Teen USA State Pageant told me in an exclusive interview. “What’s kind of interesting is that his pep talks that he’s used to doing in the locker room, he’s taking it in a little different direction this year and he’s going to be giving a pep talk to the Miss Virginia USA contestants before they compete in the final night. This is a pep talk on stage, in a glamorous evening gown instead of a football jersey, and he will be presenting his pep talk to a group of beautiful, good-smelling women rather than dirty stinky sweaty football players.”

First off, shout out to Miss Nicewonder. I didn't think I'd be reading any stories today that included the phrase “dirty, stinky, sweaty football players.”

But more importantly, shout out to Frank Beamer. After spending the past 25 years of his life in a dark film room breaking down tape of Wake Forest's 3-4, blitzing defense, he's spending his glory years in style.

After all, if he's going to give a pep talk on Saturday, this is a helluva venue to do it in.