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[3] Pry Marve 2024
[4] We must ride on the wings of the Pry-beast
[5] Scholarships to all the VA Top 10
[6] There is NNOOOOO number six.
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https://x.com/abrookeleonard/status/1697740007245590745?s=46&t=8rp7N4ryf...
https://x.com/therealpcorrell/status/1697743673159557493?s=46&t=8rp7N4ry...
Pry at Salem game getting there in style.
Musk has done something to Twitter and all embeds say "private can't copy"
I just embed one a bit ago and didn't have problems but was on desktop. Strange
It works fine on desktop. But if you're on mobile (at least iOS), copy a twitter link into a browser (I tried on chrome and safari), then click embed, it doesn't generate the code. Really weird.
I think I got it to work, but Twitter has been a huge pain in the ass the last few weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if it was spazzing out on you.
Desktop or phone? I'm on iPhone.
Android.
Someone with an iPhone must have made a mean comment about Musk /s (I think)
That expanded ACC money on display!
Will Stewart saying on yesterday's pod that the helicopter was 'borrowed' from a friend of the program, and VT likely just paid for the fuel, if anything.
Pry said on TTL that it was funded by mega-donor (and former VT football player) Steve Johnson, fwiw.
This guy's a mega-donor? His net worth is $5m. But it also appears he's dating Steph Curry's mom.
Anyways, I've never heard of this person until reading this comment so I'm mildly fascinated lol
I guess she's keeping it in the Hokie family?
Well us hokies have the best gobblers
If you were in SWVA, and a VT person, you'd know who he is. Otherwise, he's not going to stick out much.
Does he have other things on campus named after him? Or is helicoptering one of the few things he splurges on in life? So curious.
He did hang a giant banner off the side of a building in Bristol for Battle at Bristol.
Pretty sure it was his building too.
That's a nice, smooth touchdown with those slow rotors going. ;^)
When you're sick and tired of I81's shit and you wanna see Chris Cole ball out.
I bet Kirby Smart didn't take a helicopter to see Cole play.
Actually, he's done it before.
Judging from the recent Driving Record of UGA's Football Program, it's probably safer to have them arriving by copter than in a car...
Realistically, I'm guessing he goes elsewhere, but Chris Cole announcing Sept 10
I see it happening in DT Roanoke and am trying to not get my hopes up. But shots all around if he commits in a local establishment.
If it's USC or Georgia it won't hurt that much I'll be sad if it's one of the other 3 non-VT options
was gonna say the same
Not that tweet responses should matter, but there aren't really any Georgia posts. Even the fans are slow playing the guy.
If i had to bet on gut, feel like it might be UT as the secret dark horse. School is loaded with NIL and his teammate is already committed there. Gives him a "sw Va feel" but bigger school, SEC pedigree and program that's winning more right now.
He commits to UGA, realizes he won't see the field for 2-3 years and gets a little homesick, hops in the portal, and comes on home. Starting at LB in 2025 for a VT team that makes a run to the ACC title game.
A boy can dream?
As we are starting to see, this dream (which I love) is and will continue to be a reality. It is the phase 2 of HS recruitment and for a team in rebuild mode, will be the single most important factor from a specific gap fill in roster management. Wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing more of this Y/Y (transactional wise). If so, then the UGA's of the world become a 1-2 year training camp for VT. Now, this dream sequence would be Rated XXX level good.
For now, but if we want to get back to where we want to be than we need to start landing the Cole's of the world out of high school. Just IMHO but if Pry works out and in 2-3 years we are 9-3 we land the next Chris Cole.
If it's Penn St I want to see Pry with a Franklin voodoo doll and burning the last of his PSU gear. I agree with UT and UGA being the real threats.
Wow, doing it from 202.
Tweet has two quote tweets - one from a Hokie fan tagging VT Football saying 'future hometown hero', the other from a Vol fan hoping he goes to Tennessee. Chris Cole liked the quote tweet from the Hokie, but not the Vol.
Edit: it's poop again
Remember way back - 6 months ago- When Mike Norvell was firmly on the hot seat and went out and got literally the best players in the portal to save his ass? Remember when Fuente/Pry did that? no you don't. I'll leave my Cole commentary at that.
When was Pry on the hot seat?
I was speaking to FSU taking their pick of the portal litter- not pry on the hot seat.
So you weren't happy with the players we got through the portal?
If I'm reading between the lines correctly, DC feels that Pry & Co failed in the portal so we will fail getting top HS targets as well
No- not at all. Pry is not "failing" at anything. The point I am making is that prospects like Cole go to certain schools and right now VT is not one of those. FSU is- witness them getting whoever they wanted from the portal. That's what I am saying.
Glad I asked. This isn't the take I thought you were going for in your post above. I feel like Pry did a good job of bringing in immediate starters in the transfer portal. But I agree that we aren't currently able to recruit talent at the same level as FSU. Anyway, thanks for clarifying. Have a leg!
Are we looking at the same portal? We didn't get the same type of guys FSU did but we got an entire WR room, a starting RB, and a guy who got 2 sacks in his first game for us. Not exactly a portal whiff.
Our starting QB is a last minute portal guy from last year.
In the last game the portal acquisitions accounted for all the passing yards, 190/259 receiving yards, 3 TDs, and 2/5 sacks. There's a lot of work to do, sure, but I'm not sure how you're upset at the Pry portal performance.
Sure I left all running stats off the list because the Pry run game was abysmal last game, but that can hardly be chalked up to the portal.
If we had just got five 5* Olinemen from the portal like we all wanted we would have had better rushing stats
"We didn't get the same type of guys FSU did"... this is my point. and Cole is one of those type guys. This is not a slam of Pry. It's not. Right at this moment, VT isn't landing these types of players. I hope I am wrong on Cole.
Oh god and almost all his likes (there arent a ton of them) the last 3 days have been Hokie related. Here we go again....
Been here before lol
Don't do this to yourself my friend.
Big Dawged
Where did he decide?
Georgia
If this is true, we were right there at the end. Really wish we could have closed on him
Try to flip him! And if that fails, get him from the portal.
Yup, play the long game and hope he's a Hokie by '25.
I wish we could have closed on him and I hope he picked the perfect place for him to thrive and set himself up for the future he desires. If that doesn't happen, for whatever reason, I honestly hope that the fact he said the hardest part of the recruiting process was telling Tech no means we are in prime position to bring him home at some point and set him on the course he's looking for.
I loved the part where he said visiting Tennessee showed him how much better picking Georgia was the right choice. How badly did that visit go?
I let my hopes get up for about 5 minutes before I pulled myself together and remembered it's better to assume he goes elsewhere and maybe be surprised.