Our Recruiting Culture
After Alabama's drubbing of LSU in the National Championship game some analysts pointed out that 16 players on the team were from their top rated '08/'09 recruiting classes. Since SEC ball is "big boy football" this hardly comes as a shock to anyone as it often takes top talent to play against top talent later on. Hokie fans are aware of this gap during marquee games sadly enough.
To address the disparity we were all relieved to see Frank break the mold with staff shake ups and the ruturn of his prodigal son. The dividends to which are paying off nicely. Shane's fresh approach and charisma has helped the rest of our top recruiters get better at landing top talent.
My question then becomes is our mentality of doing "more with less" emerging into something better OR are we finally realizing our potential? I hate to be a negative nelly but I am unsure as to how this staff handles a class similar to the likes of FSU and Clemson's 4/5* buffet. This is not to say we can't. Rather, how does continuing to reap in highly regarded talent fit with our current culture?
I agree that things are looking up and have changed for the better. I just want to see what you all think the extent of which we can get better talent over realizing the "diamonds in the rough".
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Seems like we're doing an #
Seems like we're doing an okay job of it this off-season. If all goes well, we have a number of three- and four-star recruits headed to Blacksburg after Signing Day. We can only get bigger and better. I think we're showing promise by actually recruiting OLs instead of using converted Tight Ends to play line. I've never understood that.
Plus, if you think about the young talent at RB that we could possibly have coming into the program with the talent that is already there, (Michael Holmes, who will hopefully start next season) we could potentially have a stable of horses like USC (or even ourselves) had a few years back. And they would all be freshmen or redshirt freshmen -- excluding Tony Gregory, whom I really havent seen a lot out of when he gets reps anyhow.
The future is bright.
No lie, I bleed M&O.
Character guys #
We have seemed to shy away from the Ronyells and Jimmy Williams the last 5 or so years, which is good, but I think every now and then we need to take a shot at guys like this. I remember being furious when they would kill us with personal fouls, but it seems the last few years we have almost been too nice. Gayle comes off as having some of that attitude without hurting us, but we need a few more like him. The "big boy" schools seem to be able to harness these personalities for the most part. I wonder who we don't even attempt to go after just because their attitude dosen't seem to fit our new standards.