Since Justin Fuente was hired as head coach of the Hokies, Virginia Tech has extended scholarship offers all around the country, well outside of Frank Beamer's preferred six-hour driving radius to Tech. Moreover, Tech's hammered the JUCO ranks, a recruiting strategy Beamer Co. sparingly used. Tech secured the services of possible quarterback of the future Jerod Evans from a junior college in Texas. Although, don't expect Tech to make its hay in the JUCO ranks and outside the state of Virginia. Fuente met with reporters Thursday to convey some of his recruiting strategy and other tidbits.
Fuente said JUCO signees won't be the norm with the #Hokies. This year about replenishing depth. Wants to build program through HS ranks.— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) January 7, 2016
Fuente also said he expects Virginia to be primary recruiting focus for new staff. Not sending army of recruiters to Texas, Midwest. #Hokies— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) January 7, 2016
Fuente said there's no recruiting coordinator among the coaches, per se. Said lots of people involved in larger recruiting strategy. #Hokies— Andy Bitter (@AndyBitterVT) January 7, 2016
#Hokies football coach Justin Fuente praised the work of @ChuckCantor. Said team will be hiring an additional recruiting support position.— Mike Barber (@RTD_MikeBarber) January 7, 2016
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Also read the Spring Game IS confirmed for April 23rd.
Still not sure what the difference is between an associate head coach and an assistant head coach
Obviously, the spelling.
Sounds like something lifted from The Office.
Associate Head Coach is the guy who takes over if the Head Coach can't perform his duties. He's basically the Vice President. By Fuente's explanation, the Assistant Head Coach does a lot of the day to day stuff for the team. So he's, in essence, the Chief of Staff.
Not sure that is the best use of limited resources when it comes to coaches. We're limited in the number of coaches we can have. Sounds like Scott is taking over Cornell's duties with the additional title. I wold almost rather have a dedicated ST coach, JMO, but Coach Fu knows what he is doing.
Yeah, it does sound a little stilted, but I have a feeling that as time goes by, they'll figure out what slot each has the most to offer and smooth out the assignments as they progress.
Associate is the substitute like Shane was. Assistant is a fancy word to help on future resumes. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Biggest takeaway was the Scott is going to be an assistant D-line coach and that Bud will keep coaching LB's.
So does Scott not have pure ownership (sole responsibility) of anything?
So what, would you say, you do around here?
I'm a people person dammit. people like me!
Not as of yet.
Fuente must really believe in Scott if he thinks he can help an already amazing D-line coach in Wiles
or maybe he wants Scott to learn something about D-Line from Wiles.
No recruiting coordinator. Does anyone know (assuming they continue) who will lead the Hokie Club recruiting events?
What do you mean? The Hokie Club events are planned by the Hokie clubs themselves with some help from Club offices. If you are referring to what coach will come out I know different coaches went to different events.
I have attended the Richmond Hokie Club recruit night many times. The recruiting coordinator has traditionally been the coach who presented (Stinespring/Cavanaugh generally)
Complete shot in the dark, but given Scott's title and co-coaching a position my guess is that he's the one that will be present at those sorts of things.
For us in SC it was Torrian last year.
Of course, I don't see such an event listed on the RIchmond Hokie Club's upcoming events page.
In soccer the assistant head coach usually conducts meetings, is usually the main speaker during team meetings, conveys the head coaches major points, speaks at press conferences and is somewhat of an enforcer of Head coach's philosophy. Outside of football, i haven't really heard of associate head coaches so I'll take the vice president comment.
From the article, and Fuente himself.
Also, why he chose Bud:
Fuente also said Scott's role is still being flushed out and that things are still fluid as far as his exact role. Bud and Scott have hit it off, he added.
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I know I saw in another thread speculation that Fuente is grooming Scott as a future Replacement to Bud. So having him learn operational stuff and learning D line from someone like Wiles may be part of the plan. Have him learn from great resources to build on.
"Fuente also said he expects Virginia to be primary recruiting focus for new staff. Not sending army of recruiters to Texas, Midwest."
This sounds like media speak to me. I fully expect THE emphasis to be regional (NJ to Georgia) plus Florida with only as much of AN emphasis on Virginia as necessary.
He said every coach will have a part of Virginia. But I agree that unless we have some sort of Virginia movement going on like at Maryland our emphasis will be regional. Especially with kids in North Carolina who in some cases are closer to us than the Virginia beach kids