Twitter is a mess, but link to the Tweet
"It means a lot for me being able to play in the home state and for the home team," he said. "I want encourage others from Virginia to stay in the state and come turn this thing around for the Hokies." From the 24/7 VT write up
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Let's go!!!
HOKIES!! (or... Krogering? I'm not really sure, I'm out of the loop on this)
KROGERING!!
Exciting times for the hokies!
Puts us at 37 in 247 and 29th at On3, with a couple other big possible commits due the next 2ish weeks. Please god let us make a bowl this year because a decent season could see us really carry momentum into the 2025 class
Class calculator has us at 33rd best class. Rankings hasn't updated yet
Lol our lines are loading up nicely
Phrasing?
Yuuuuuuuge!
Oh yes! Feeling good.
The nature boy gif always gets a leg. Wòoooo
https://www.on3.com/db/rankings/player/football/2024/?state=va
VA boys starting to realize home is where the heart is.
FAM!
Sorry, Hoos
i would be fine with a marketing campaign around THE Home Team to go along with This is Home.
He gets it.
Thank goodness. If he were only 800% committed I would be worried.
Yeah our track record above 100% isn't so hot. Hope he is a trend breaker....or new trend setter.
Height 6-4
Weight 235
Good god what are they feeding these kids?
Not all the crap I eat, I really should eat less hamburgers
Huge get!
Show me a sadder kids movie moment than Artax going down in the Swamp of Sadness.
Actually, don't. Don't show me a sadder kids' movie moment than that.
If I wrote a book about my childhood, TNS would feature heavily. Seminal film for me❤️🥺
There are at least five roughly equally sad kids movies I can think of from the 80s/90s off the top of my head (yay childhood during golden age of sad movies): Land Before Time, Brave Little Toaster, Iron Giant, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Fox and the Hound. I'm sure there are more that I didn't have on VHS back then. I wouldn't include American Tail or a few others as being quite that sad, but still had their moments.
and some older classics.
Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows
Transformers (Optimus's death)
The Secret of Nimh
Bambi's mom dying.
Haha, sorry wasn't trying to trigger anyone. Just happy to be retaining top VA talent again.
Don't apologize, the best part is none of them named a sadder movie scene in my opinion so you win.
Edit just realized I'm responding to the wrong person /also is there no delete comment option on here?! I figured I'm just being dumb and can't find it but if not that's wild.
Maybe I missed it but The Neverending Story where Artax dies in the Swamp of Sadness is forever logged into my brain. That's top 3 if not #1 for sure.
"My Girl" when she's screaming at Macaulay Culkin's casket that he needs his glasses. The fact that I saw this movie and A Christmas Story for the first time in the same year had me absolutely panicked when I was told I needed glasses.
Well, he can't see without his glasses.
The other day I suggested putting Neverending Story on for my 9 year old, wife said absolutely not! never watching that scene again, lol
The story, "The Pony", by Steinbeck.
I wish I knew his battery percentage.
This is great. We have to start somewhere in terms of top Virginia talent. We have to raise the bar from 2-3 star recruiting to 3-4 star recruiting if we want to win 10 games and compete for the ACC. Let's hope this is a start in that direction.
Win the LOS, win the game! He should have a good shot at starting for 3 years with the way the depth chart stands now.
Wasn't he a heavy UVA lean prior to his visit?
He was. He really enjoyed his visit there. And then he visited VT where he said we did everything 10x better. Loved the lake visit and the spread we left for him at the hotel room, etc.
A few observations from his HUDL film...
1. Plays with his hand in the dirt and standing up. Seems to be comfortable doing both, however he is a tad quicker off the ball with his hand in the dirt. He doesn't have that typical "quick twitch" that we used to hear so much about with Wiles and Foster, however that doesn't mean he isn't fast. He makes up ground very quickly.
2. He appears powerful at the point of attack, looks like a kid who could contribute early based on what the roster looks like atm. His most prominent move is to simply try and bulldoze the opposing OL, which he is very good at doing in HS. If he can develop a Darryl Tapp sort of tool box he will be lethal in the ACC.
3. He seems to hold the edge fairly well when he is on the edge. Sometimes he moves inside (mostly to the 3 technique) and is equally effective there. That tells me (other than the fact that he's the best defensive player on his team) that he is comfortable making some adjustments based on the defensive alignment. Additionally, he seems to understand his role. He does occasionally over pursue, but for the most part (at least the snaps I saw) he seems to be fairly disciplined.
All in all I think this is an extremely good evaluation by the staff on a blue chip type of kid who can make an impact early. I love the size (particularly the length) of the kids Coach Pry and Co. are working to bring in on the defensive side!
I think Pry plays with 2 types of DEs, one that's more point of attack/hold the edge and one that's more of a true pass rusher, and I feel like he (currently at least) fits the mold of the former. Hard to know for certain without knowing the scheme his high school teaches
That tells me we can definitely see some overload blitzes to his side, with him sliding inside at the point of attack and the STAR and FS come in off the end to lay out the QB.