Will the Hokies land Joel Caleb,Korren Kirven,and Ken Ekanem on or around National Signing Day? Or will it be another disappointing finish to what could of been a special class? The best i've seen in my 27 years of being a fan. I think alot of that has to do with Shane Beamer. He upped the ante in Blacksburg. Would you agree? And what say you Hokie Nation?
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All three have us on their short lists. Its still as much as a toss up as it has been from the start but I'm most confident in gnabbing Caleb and/or Kirven. It seems as though a mutual loss of interest has happened between Caleb and tOSU. He has already had his visit on Dec 9th as well. However, WVU and Gawgia are also hounding him.
Ekanem has us listed alongside ND and will visit with us this weekend. I hope to which is a fruitful endeavor. He is a big boy and highly touted thus far and his torn ACL may be something to our advantage as we seem a little less weary about it.
Kirven is from brooksville. Both LT and Zach McCray are from there and have most likely tried to help with the process. We keep talking about wanting a Tackle recruited as a Tackle. He's it. There will undoubtedly be some struggle with Bama if they have a spot for him regardless of their own oversigning woes. Virginia and MD also want him pretty badly too.
I was aware of most of that RiVAHokie...
Now 247 is saying WVU is Joel Caleb's favorite. And I think ESPN said Bama was Korren Kirven's favorite a while back. And a crazed Notre Dame fan on Rivals recruiting board said Ken Ekanem would commit to the Irish today sometime. All the people I talk to who are in "the know" aren't too worried about any of the 3 going anywhere else but VT. But lets not forget last year the whole Marquise Williams fiasco. So who knows?
Stephone Anthony
that sucked as well
i would like everyone to notice this ..
miami announced ...
Six freshmen and one junior college transfer have enrolled early and joined the Canes for the upcoming spring semester, the school recently announced.
Gray Crow (Clearwater, Fla.), Preston Dewey (Austin, Texas), Ereck Flowers (Miami, Fla.), Taylor Gadbois (Dallas, Ga.), Ladarius Gunter (Montgomery, Ala.), Raphael Kirby (Stone Mountain, Ga.), and Josh Witt (Weston, Fla.) have all begun classes for the spring semester, which began on Tuesday.
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anyone see a name missing. a few weeks back a trusted guy on another vt site said lockhart didn't have the scores to get into tech yet ... or as it looks like miami it appears.
that's the word i've heard as well. looks like he may have to take the juco route. And all the people i talk to seem to feel pretty comfortable about the remaining big 3 and poss a late offer.
nothing is a given
and the staff has been misled before as we all know, but from what i hear and i know person or 2, they feel pretty good about all 3. i think tech gets at least 2.
Interesting. I posted that question on Twitter earlier just after the announcement because with something like that there has to be more than just whimsical feelings: either academics or Miami reverting to Shapiro-like ways of recruiting (the latter would make no sense due to the current NCAA investigation). I hope it all works out for the kid and he doesn't burn Tech whenever he gets to Miami or another institution. Gotta wonder what happens if he cannot get into Miami next year.
all 8
we get all three of em .. hamilton from nj .. deloatch, goldman, stanford, and lockhart pulls a big "sike!!!" and tweets "i was just f-in witch yall .. im vt #5 all da way" ... hahaha
seriously, we'll get at least 1 of the big 3 .. probably 2 .. possibly 3 (but i'd be surprised and call shane beamer the second coming of ______________ ) .. and i think we get stanford (romond may prep if we get him??)
fwiw
lets hope that shane beamer is a good closer
Shane was brought in for this very situation.
It sounds like we're in good position w/ all three.
The staff has been working their asses off. Beamer and Foster were up visiting Ekanem on Tuesday and have been going around the region since they've gotten back from the national coaching convention in San Antonio. At the end of the day, they're kids, so who knows.
I think we'll land all 3. But it would be nice to have had them locked up earlier. Put alot of us at ease.