Andy Bitter looks back at 2011 recruit class.

By: Hokie Fireman

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on February 1, 2016, 3:00 PM | 8 comments

http://www.roanoke.com/sports/columns_and_blogs/blogs/andy_bitter_virgin...

But the reality of signing classes is that about a third of the players will be pretty good, a third will stick around and a third won't make it to the finish line at their first school for various reasons. That's usually close to the breakdown, although Virginia Tech's 2011 class as a whole looks pretty bad in that respect.

A lot of "what ifs" with this class.

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HokieBen87 | 10 years 5 months #

Looking at the 2010 and 2011 offensive talents makes it obvious why we went downhill, one OL in 2011!

tech46 | 10 years 5 months #

And that one OL never played a single play. This is mind -boggling , and some wonder why this team has struggled so much the past few years. Hopefully , Fuente understands the need for an offense and offensive line.

VPIhokieME

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I'm sure he does. I think a good offensive coach understands that it all starts up front.

hokiefan89

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Caleb Farris was in that class and played.

zblaetz

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| 10 years 5 months #

It is crazy to see how many kids come to tech that don't ever see the field/pan out. Sometimes we forget that they are just college kids that happened to be good at football.

Joe Lanza

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I should note that this was the final season where Jim Cavanaugh and Billy Hite were on staff. Shane Beamer and Cornell Brown were brought on board shortly after signing day in February of 2011. Looking at how recruiting tapered off for a few years, you can see why, although the moves didn't have quite the effect Tech hoped.

Hite mailed in recruiting long before he retired, and Frank should have never of let that happen. As I understand it, Cav was reluctant to be put out to pasture, and he was a solid recruiter.

MPHOKIE | 10 years 5 months # ^

Accurate on both counts. Cav wanted to continue coaching and likely would have. Alas, he began having health issues and that forced his hand.

757hokie83

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Man, Lockhart had a rough go:

Robert Lockhart, WR, 3-star: The Boca Raton product did not qualify and spent the fall of 2011 at Fork Union, then flipped his commitment to home-state Miami in the final month before signing day in 2012. He played in two games before tearing his ACL that year. He left the program the following offseason and went to Hinds Community College before committing to Nebraska in 2014. He never signed there after tearing his ACL again in junior college, ending up at Faulkner University in Alabama, an NAIA school. He was listed as a second-team All-MSC receiver in 2014.