Gabriel Williams COMMITS to the HOKIES

By: Clone-A-Fuller on June 11, 2023, 6:21 PM | 54 comments

Consensus four star linebacker recruit out of Maryland, and from a rankings perspective the highest of the Pry era (I don't count the 2022 class). This is a big time recruiting win... FAMMMMMM!!!

https://247sports.com/Player/Gabriel-Williams-46128629/

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JDoubleBlast's picture JDoubleBlast
| 3 years 3 weeks #

LET'S GO...

SoupHokie09's picture SoupHokie09
SOUP OR SALAD?
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

HOKIES!

"Nooooooooooo!"
~What happened?
"James Franklin to Virginia Tech...."
~Fuck me......*sigh*
"Oh my God.... They're gonna take all our recruits... like WTF bro...."
~*squints eyes in disbelief*

LancerHokie's picture LancerHokie | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

HOKIES!!

2 time Longwood grad married to a Hokie.

hokieguy95's picture hokieguy95 | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

HOKIES!!!!

Max Power's picture Max Power | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

KROGERING!!

"Give me a fu¢king beer", Anonymous Genius

JDoubleBlast's picture JDoubleBlast
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

KROGER PLUS!

101WildTurkeys's picture 101WildTurkeys | 3 years 3 weeks #

This is a BIG time get. This has got be our highest composite score recruit in years. This is the type of win you can start building a foundation on

APrimusHokie's picture APrimusHokie | 3 years 3 weeks #

WOOOO. THE FOUR HORSEMEN ARE HERE😤

The taste is so divine
A chemical come alive
Welcome to your vice
Good luck with life
'Cause you can't
You can't
You can't kill me that easily

Clone-A-Fuller's picture Clone-A-Fuller | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Nneckhokie84's picture Nneckhokie84
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

4 horsemen references always get a leg. Way to go hokies!

gobble gobble chumps's picture gobble gobble chumps
PLS
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Fam!

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

FudBoster's picture FudBoster
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Pry got his fucking guy. Here we go.

"What are you going to do, stab me? - Quote from Man Stabbed

benw92's picture benw92
HOKIE IN CHICAGO
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

senjohnblutarsky's picture senjohnblutarsky | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Great show.

benw92's picture benw92
HOKIE IN CHICAGO
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Just binged it again. Season 4 comes out 7/23

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

07Hokie's picture 07Hokie
STATS AND DOG SPORTS
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Highest rated true LB since Dax that arrived at Tech

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

2HokiesIn1's picture 2HokiesIn1
PICK 6 BIG SHOOTS
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

In honor of that and THIS commit

A decade on TKP and it's been time well spent.

Little Bobby Tables's picture Little Bobby Tables
MEH. 😕
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Someone needs to ask Pry at his next Pry-ssr of hell do cartwheels for this commit.

Edit: *if he'll
Stoopidt swype keyboard

"Yes I am going to have favorites. My favorites are high production and low maintenance players, coaches, and staff." - JMFF

KingJames's picture KingJames
🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Um the Pry-ssr of hell huh, I mean I'm fine selling my soul to the devil for a national championship, so I'm all in.

VAtoSCHokie's picture VAtoSCHokie
| 3 years 3 weeks #

McHokie540's picture McHokie540
🤮UVA💩
| 3 years 3 weeks #

LFG!!!

uva - the taint of the ACC
Callused perineum is a symptom of being a uva fan

HomebrewHokie08's picture HomebrewHokie08
🍺MAKES "BEER" ⚗️🦃
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Feels like a future center piece in the Pry-style defense

Plan for the worst and hope for the best, not the other way around.

vt2016's picture vt2016
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Seeing some dividends from the Elijah Brooks hire. His area of focus and the third highest recruit he's ever helped to pull in.
It looks like Pry has raised the floor of recruits from the Fuente era... this is a big step in raising the ceiling.

VT 2016
Go Hokies

APrimusHokie's picture APrimusHokie | 3 years 3 weeks #

On3 has him as the 86th best player in the country 👀

The taste is so divine
A chemical come alive
Welcome to your vice
Good luck with life
'Cause you can't
You can't
You can't kill me that easily

Palmetto Hokie's picture Palmetto Hokie | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Next?

USAFHokie's picture USAFHokie | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Tomorrow morning

Tech Triumph Teacher's picture Tech Triumph Teacher
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Comin to the Burg as an angel we've all been praying for. A certain demon for all opponents

Go Hokies!

KingJames's picture KingJames
🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒
| 3 years 3 weeks #

yay!

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 3 years 3 weeks #

We are so back

benw92's picture benw92
HOKIE IN CHICAGO
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Wait, are we back because of this commit or because your Intel foresees big commits coming up?

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

McHokie540's picture McHokie540
🤮UVA💩
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

In Pry we trust

uva - the taint of the ACC
Callused perineum is a symptom of being a uva fan

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

I'm not alluding to any specific crooting intel, but this is a very positive development.

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 3 years 3 weeks #

6-4 195? This kid is going to be terrifying when he gets in a P5 weight room

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Succinct's picture Succinct | 3 years 3 weeks #

Landing Dax got me so jazzed and now this. This probably gives Bud a smile.

itllbuff's picture itllbuff | 3 years 3 weeks #

Excellent, now next year get 5 players of his caliber. Then the next year get 10. And so on and so forth. Then sneak into the playoffs in 2025. I think last year might (I say this with very few data points) have been the bottom. Obligatory, we bak!

And I turned twenty-one in prison doin' life without parole
No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I denied
That leaves only me to blame 'cause Mama tried

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 3 years 3 weeks #

People on 247 saying four more commits from the most recent visit (one of which is silent and won't come out for a while)

Edit to add - these people/posters have been wrong before, so I don't take it as fact. But figured that it would be fun to share the rumor and speed up the hype train.

GISHokie's picture GISHokie | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Link pls? (if not vip)

Vroom Vroom

VAtoSCHokie's picture VAtoSCHokie
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Rayo's picture Rayo
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Oh no, not the return of the silent "commits"

gobble gobble chumps's picture gobble gobble chumps
PLS
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Chanz wiggins birthday/commitment date is july 6, so there's a chanz it's not a mythical signing day stunt

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

Frosty's dad's picture Frosty's dad
FROSTY IS A BEAR
| 3 years 3 weeks #

For reference, and positive trends, I looked up the 247 team recruiting rankings for VT.

2020 = 85th
2021 = 43rd (and 1 spot ahead of Kansas)
2022 = 41st
2023 = 39th
2024 = 33rd so far

Know it is not spectacular, but - thinking like a stock buyer - I'm really liking the positive trend.

And am I the only one who, if this was 3 years ago, would be thinking something like 'yeah, what are the odds he is with us on signing day?' but who now is thinking something like 'I hope this gets even more good players signing with us.'?

EDIT: Plenty of time for things to change but, for what it's worth, as of 5:15 PM east coast time on June 13, we are now at 22nd. Would love to be here or higher on signing day.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Hokie in The Wire's picture Hokie in The Wire
🦀🦀SHEEEEEEEEIT🦀🦀
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

I mean, you weren't the only one 3 years ago, but I'm still that guy. I just can't get myself to get hyped until they sign the dotted line...

Frosty's dad's picture Frosty's dad
FROSTY IS A BEAR
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

I don't disagree with you at all. Just trying to stay in cautiously optimistic mode.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

if this was 3 years ago, would be thinking something like 'yeah, what are the odds he is with us on signing day?' but who now is thinking something like 'I hope this gets even more good players signing with us.'?

This is what happens when you have a cohesive recruiting strategy. Fuente was targeting one-off guys, and when they fell through he moved to the next guy on his list, then the next, then the next, etc. He wasn't necessarily starting from scratch every time he moved to the next guy, but it's not like he had years of equity built up.

Pry is building relationships with people in (relatively) small geographic area, which allows him to focus on swaths of people instead of a bunch of individuals. When he has the respect of handful of connected individuals, he has instant credibility with their other connections.

Given Pry's strategy, steady growth is not surprising. Pry's been saying (per Godfrey on numerous SZD episodes) that it will take until 2025 to get the roster where he wants it. He's got two classes left to get there. Feels like we can have a top-30 team talent composite by then.

5_Star_Commenter's picture 5_Star_Commenter | 3 years 3 weeks #

bar1990's picture bar1990
ATLIEN
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Gemstones always get a leg

VTSnake's picture VTSnake
| 3 years 3 weeks # ^

Season 3 premiers SUNDAY!!

MaroonX2's picture MaroonX2
FIRE WHIT.
| 3 years 3 weeks #

I don't want to overreact but there's just no way we don't win a national championship in 2026, right?

Fire Whit.

GISHokie's picture GISHokie | 3 years 3 weeks # ^

If not 2026, then 2027 is 1000000% our year

Vroom Vroom

HokieMan07's picture HokieMan07
BY GRABTHARS 🔨
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Well well well... I enjoy this variety of news. More of this please.

What a savings

"Everything has an end, except a sausage which has two." - German Proverb

Nneckhokie84's picture Nneckhokie84
| 3 years 3 weeks #

Pry is killing it, walking the walk on recruiting trail. Now to talk the talk on the field with wins. Hopefully will get there in a couple years. Great recruiting, or so it seems right now.

USAFHokie's picture USAFHokie | 3 years 3 weeks #

My new favorite recruit. He is recruiting HARD for us