Vow, I didn't even know they had a separate signing day for JUCO players
Virginia Tech head football coach Justin Fuente announced Wednesday the program has signed a junior college player to a national letter-of-intent (NLI) during the junior college Signing Day. Fuente, who takes over the Hokies' reigns after the Independence Bowl, officially signed his first commit at Tech, as the program welcomes quarterback Jrod Evans.
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Someone needs to support unicode when they copy-paste.
No no, he is the second coming of Tyrod. The great Jrod.
They also need to learn the difference between reigns and reins.
Again.....
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blame it on the google chrome
Actually, it's Joe's fault. :)
It is. TKP's MySQL instance is configured to support 3-byte characters. A bunch of the emojis (like the ones copied, pasted and embedded from recruit's tweets) are 4-bytes. I strip out any characters that are greater than 127 (standard ASCII). As a result, Jérod Evans becomes Jrod. (It worked there because I escaped it in HTML, i.e. é).
Well, once I get that HTML doohickey working, my posts will become trilingual.
The first person Juente signs is a 4 star QB....still skeptical on whether he can recruit...
Who be this Juente cat?
He's Phuente's cousin
Say hello to Fustin Phuente..
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He has cable!!
I mean the whole time he has been here and he has only signed one player!
Yeah. The entire two weeks!
Not to mention he STILL hasn't won any games!
On the other hand, he's undefeated!
I guess he sucks. Bad on Whitt!
oh, the irony!! It hurts!!
Someone didn't get it based on the 2 downvotes.
One player doesn't make a class. I'm still in "wait and see" mode.
Solid start though.
I think he will recruit fine, but it is the area where Fuente has proven the least. He's clearly a program builder, he's clearly excellent at player development, he's clearly an elite offensive mind, he's clearly a QB whisperer. He has proven during this transition to be very considerate and has demonstrated magnificent leadership qualities.
But one 4-star QB does not a great recruiter make. He may be a great recruiter, and recruiting to VT and not Memphis will help..........but Fuente being a great recruiter is utilizing a lot of projection and not data to support that opinion at the current time.
Not bad for the worst head coach in the Coastal, according to Matt Fortuna
reading that article reminded me why I came to TKP and never looked back...
It seems they have some confusing criteria.
I have Justin Fuente last ... even though his turnaround job at Memphis rivals any in recent college football history, and even though I think Virginia Tech's hiring of him is the best hire of silly season.
How can he be the best hire, but rank lower than Mendenhall, who was hired in the same class?
It seems their criterion was "most accomplished", which is different than "best".
I guess it gives Fuente and VT something to prove.
Fuente and VT doesn't have anything to prove to this clown.
Fuente and VT have something to prove in general, without regard to this clown.
Well, that's a fucking stupid opinion for him to have.
I'll list the flags for you
1. They write for ESPN
2. They were hired by ESPN and assigned to the ACC. Even ESPN thought they were second rate writers at best...
3. ....
4. Profit
5. Have said second rate writer bash the conference for a couple years with baseless claims.
6. Without reason, promote said second rate writer to a position covering the college football playoff.
7. Remember that you're ESPN and the SEC is the only conference that matters because you say so.
8. ...
9. More profit.
What's stupid is ranking coaches...and pretty much everything else these days.
Word. We'll know where the Coastal coaches rank in a little less than 12 months.
He's just mad that David Hale has much more knowledgeable insight than him on just about everything.
I may not have gotten enough sleep, but didn't we cover this commitment (and the "NLI") in two separate threads (one official) 4 days ago?
The difference being that today was really the first day Junior College football players can sign their letters-of-intent for their respective schools.
The No. 1 rated quarterback according to the 247Sports Composite and No. 8 player overall in Trinity Valley Community College's Jerod Evans committed to Virginia Tech during his Dec. 11 official, choosing the Hokies over Missouri.
Thanks, I think I may have also confused Evans' commitment announcement with some of the other early enrollees' financial aid "signings". There has been a lot of activity over the last week.
Our o-line in a couple of years is gonna the height of an NBA team
Gallo - 6'2"
Teller - 6'5"
Osterloh - 6'8"
Nijman - 6'8"
Jackson - 6'9"
Jackson and Teller will never start a game together. Osterloh and Teller may never start a game together.
Probably right. But Malcolm Pridgeon very well could. He's the 4* OT and 5th overall JUCO player in the nation (Jerod Evans was 8th) that decided to delay signing his NLI today and to schedule a visit in Blacksburg after the dead period.
6'8" 303lbs with 29 offers from Bama, Ohio St, Baylor, and everybody else in the country.
"He's the 4* OT and 5th overall JUCO player in the nation (Jerod Evans was 8th) that decided to delay signing his NLI today and to schedule a visit in Blacksburg after the dead period."
Well, well, well now! I get home and find this little gem right off the bat.
Calls for a lil sumpin sumpin
Who dosed the drinks on this thread?