Signing day for football is Wed, Feb 4th. We have 23 verbal commits. Will we lose any of these guys? Also, do you think there is anyone that might flip to us? Always an exciting time to be a Hokie!
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I could be wrong, but I don't think we're going to have any surprises (good or bad) come Wednesday.
Agreed, NSD should be fine. Then we start the long, slow, hidden process of working the admissions office and NCAA Clearinghouse.
Hoyt is the only guy I expect to commit.
I hope so. He seems like a sleeper OL prospect. We can never have enough OL on the team.
Ah, right. Forgot about him.
Would be a nice late pickup.
I'm really surprised we're not trying to target a few big-bodied WR prospects. Maybe some that have mostly mid-major offers. Really thinking we would try to get a few late since Cager committed elsewhere. We could use a few more tall receivers and see if they can develop.
Isn't Kendrick Holland 6'3" or 6'4"? Between him and Bucky I think those will be our jump ball threats.
Yeah, Holland is a tall guy. And of course we have Bucky. Just figured we would maybe try to target some under-the-radar guys for depth and development. We haven't seen much of Holland yet. Holland and Parker are our only two 6'3" - 6'4" WRs right now.
You can never have enough bid bodied WRs.
I mean really, put another receiver with size on this roster along with Holland and Bucky to go along with the speed options we have in Ford and Phillips, and you have a very strong receiving core that would present any defense matchup nightmares all over the place.
Agreed. I think an X-Factor in all of this is Kalvin Cline. Can't wait to see him come back after his injury. He's another big-bodied target at 6'4" 240, and the thought of 3-TE sets is pretty exciting. Also, has anyone noticed we currently have a 5'11" 194 lbs TE on our roster??
His nickname, when lined up with the other TEs...
Hoyt was a gray shirt offer, correct?
Correct!
I believe it depends on scholarships. If, heaven forbid, someone doesn't qualify my understanding is that they would have him come in at the regular time. It is a greyshirt right now though.
You would be correct. It all depends on if Settle and another recruit (forget who) can clear admissions.
Hill. We'll know by tomorrow afternoon, so don't be concerned/surprised when you see he's one of/the last to send in his LOI. He isn't flipping, he's just getting one more thing cleared so he can get into Tech.
Yikes. TKP would (perhaps rightfully so) melt down if Settle and Hill were both nonqualifiers.
Yes, yes it would. Which is why I'm really hoping people see what I posted above. The guys over on 247 don't foresee any issues, so barring any major surprises he should be in no problem and ready to go this summer. I'm sure we'll see a bit of panic anyways. Oh well.
I hope the panic would be the result of understanding the need for DEs and not because "our recruiting is in shambles, no good recruits even qualified, Torrian Gray disrespects moms, Beamer doesn't do in-home visits, and we let Moorehead walk instead of making him Head Coach-in-Waiting."
Looks like Tim's planning to start his day off right.
I thought all those accounts with uis name were fake, or am I misremebering, it's a different recruit.
Josh Sweat had fake accounts made in his name. Settle's is legit.
right that's it. thanks.
So if he signs tomorrow at 7 and they put all his information up on Hokiesports, does that mean he has qualified academically? Or do we still play the waiting game?
We still wait.
If he signs, he's formalizing his INTENT to play for Tech.... completely separate from Tech granting him admission (although they will) and the NCAA clearing his to participate in NCAA-sanctioned competition (the part we'll be waiting on).
I don't know guys, he didn't use the chicken emoji. Now I'm nervous. (sarc)
Trevon Hill tweeted this as well.
Looks like his grades are solid.
Congrats to Trevon.
I believe it was a legal issue that may prevent him from signing tomorrow (which based off of his earlier tweet, it might be a non issue now.) He has always had the grades to qualify.
Yeah, his grades are fine. As I said, everything should work out just fine with him, it's just an issue of having a few i's dotted and t's crossed. Aaaaaaaaand that's all there is to talk about.
Yeah, most of the "gurus" believe that he'll be fine. VT has been monitoring this the whole way.
That is good to hear 'cause I feel like he might be the most underrated player in this class. He has some scary good talent.
Great news - my 10 am meeting on NSD got pushed to Friday morning, so I can be fully unproductive while paying attention to NSD.
Whatever happened to the Perdue verbal O lineman we were flirting with?
DE and I believe that he never visited because he feared that Purdue would pull his offer and there was no guarantee that he would get a VT offer so it seems like not visiting and just sticking with Purdue was the smart thing to do.
You are correct good sir!
Thanks. I don't know where I got in my mind he was an O lineman.
The best offense is a good defense.
#DBU
Frank would be proud.
Anyone done the scholly math yet, how many do we have open vs. how many "commits"?
The numbers always work.
I wouldnt be surprised if we still got Cager
I would be.
Cager is solid to Miami. Plus one of the main reasons we were one of the "finalists" is because he had such a close relationship with Moorehead.
I thought his relationship with his position coach was the reason he picked Miami? not saying he didn't have a good relationship with Moorehead, which I am sure he did.
better chance seattle passes from the one yard line then we get cager. O wait................
The new Hokies are coming..the new Hokies are coming
Tennesee looks to be getting the number 1 OT as a flip from Ole miss. So someone of their current class might be up for grabs
How do you get a meme generator picture to upload on the site? I'm using iPad if that helps.
I just went to google and punched in what I wanted. Somebody had already done one close enough and took the link from that. Punched it into the pic link.
Ok yea I can manage to get that, but I tried to make a Paul Revere, signing day is coming meme and it would not load.
IIRC, I also have problems doing that with my iPad. Something in the way it displays the URL at the top.
As far as I know, if you have your own image (a custom meme, if you will) you can upload it to imgur.com and then use that link here.
In other news:
Best Seinfeld Voice: "Bruce Jenner is trying to become a woman. What is up with that?!"
Best response. +1.
There is a Seinfeld quote for everything. :)
Any early 90s SNL reference gets a leg from me, but especially when it's a Pat reference.
So when's Drew Harris coming to Blacksburg? *ducks*
I just read an article the other day he left UMASS. Feel bad for the kid.
agreed. serious clusterf*ck. shouldn't have happened
Clearly there are some issues beyond the surface there.
Biggest issue was that the NCAA clearinghouse is a terrible, terrible institution that needs to be razed to the ground.
the best account of the issues that prevented his enrollment: HERE
and a passage:
ESPNU doing 11 hours of signing day coverage tomorrow. Reporters at 16 schools and at announcement sites of six of eight remaining uncommitted five stars. Gets more ridiculous every year.
Hokiesports will be doing a "signing day live" program from Cassell.
http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20150202aab.html
I always prefer knowing what's gonna keep me from being productive at work ahead of time, rather than having to make it up on the fly.
Signing day is here!
These are fax machines kids.
Woah, a printer that can make phone calls too?
"Ahh so these must be the keyboard phones people had before smartphones!"
What's next?
Carriages with no horses?
*Scoff
FILL 'ER UP WITH PETROLEUM DISTILLATE AND REVULCANIZE MY TIRES. POST HASTE!
How long until the NCAA accepts e-signatures? I'll be honest, I work in financial services and I think people would be shocked at how much we rely on this technology still.
Still use them to send Fire/EMS reports to hospitals and insurance companies.
If you want a good laugh and have any high school or young college interns around ask them to fax something. It's pretty funny to watch what happens.
When can the faxes start being accepted? Are we go for launch?
What is Urban Meyer selling at anOSU. They now have 6 QB's for next year 4 of them ESPN top 300 players, Jones and a walk on.
Playing time in the future. Miller is gone after next year. Whoever starts between Barrett and Jones probably goes pro after this year and the new recruit is then only a RS-Fr with a chance to compete.
How do you think they went 4 deep and won a title this year?