Boyd had committed to Tennessee, but coach Phillip Fulmer was fired near the end of the season. New coach Lane Kiffin was willing to honor the scholarship though he told Dee and Boyd's father that Tajh was not part of the big picture. So, Boyd was deciding between Ohio State and Oregon when Danny Pearman, a former assistant at Virginia Tech, called his friend Dee to ask if Clemson could make a pitch.
Before Boyd left for the U.S. Army All-American game, Swinney visited the family's home and asked them to buy into his dream. He finished by showing them the poster.
It was heady stuff for a kid who always felt as if the chips were stacked against him.
"It seemed like I was always on the scouts' back burner," he said. Boyd wanted to play at Virginia Tech and follow Vick, one of his idols. "It was like I wasn't the main recruiting priority."
I had always heard the complete opposite, that Boyd didn't give Tech the time of day...
via http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/17/3204226/tajh-boyd-finds-perfect-h...
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I'm not about to start an "Is Logan the man for the job" argument again, but the fact that nobody really jumped on recruiting him makes me incredibly angry. Logan's good, but Tajh is astronomically better.
Logan's the man. He's my favorite player right now. But I've always said if Logan was playing his natural position with Boyd throwing it to him, the case would be full right now. Even with O'cainspring calling the plays.
I couldn't agree more with that. Boyd to Logan is more terrifying than any Clemson combo.
Hell, you remember Tyrod to Logan during the Wake game in 2010? His hands and his ups were mindblowing.
I wouldn't lose much sleep on it. If Tajh had been a Hokie he wouldn't be half as good playing behind Newsome's offensive line.
or with o'cains QB direction...he wouldn't even know what a progression is
It's so annoying that Tech couldn't get one of the many talented in state QBs that year. However if Tajh picked us the whole offensive staff from before would still probably be here, and while I would love to have him I think having a fresh offensive staff benefits more in the long run.
Strong take. Completely agree.
I'll second that!!
Lets not forget he also committed and decommitted to West Virginia after decommitting from UT.
This is complete bullshit, Virginia Tech wanted Boyd but Boyd didn't even take an official visit to Blacksburg. He thought the offense we ran was heavy with zone-read schemes (w/ Tyrod) and wasn't going to prepare him for an NFL career. He saw what happen to Sean Glennon when we played a "Pro Style QB" and said VT wasn't the college for him (in fairness, if I was in his position, I would have done the same thing).
This is all revisionist history.
this is true, either the writer or boyd remembers wrong or wants to make vt look silly. either way its not it went down
Yeah, I remember as an undergrad hoping to land him but never had any indication we had a shot.
Count me in.
I remember following his recruitment and thinking 'why not us? and everything I read (not that you can always trust it) said he wasn't interested.
Boyd saying he didn't think that VT had prioritized him enough says, to me, that Tech didn't stroke his ego enough.....and here comes Dabo pushing the right narcissist buttons to make him sign. (Dabo's a great recruiter, maybe just for this reason.)
Rivals.com lists all of his offers and VT had offered with Cavanaugh as the lead recruiter.
Clearly a miss, but don't go saying we weren't interested.
The fact that there isn't a quote with Boyd saying anything about wanting to be at Tech pretty much gives it up that the writer was taking a few liberties. The paragraph reads like he was talking about us, but it's really just an almost irrelevant statement to try and make it like we ignored him.
Revisionist history strikes again.
Revisionist History is pretty popular in Virginia
I really want to know what is on the poster that Dabo carries around on recruiting trips.
It's a poster he made for Boyd that said "Tajh Boyd for Heisman." It's in the first or second paragraph.
Don't forget we were all in on Kevin Newsome that year but could never sway the right people to make that happen.
He is probably regretting not picking Tech now.
Tajh Boyd is fat and nothing is funnier than seeing him on a park bench, by himself, eating a sandwich
I'm gonna love watching his candied ass get handed to him by opposing D coordinators on Sundays.
Let's look at the bright side folks - If we we had Boyd here, then O'Cainspring would still be calling the plays. Also, I think he is only good because the way Clemson runs their offense, and playmakers they have at WRs.
http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt_columnrecruiting_1019oct19,0,396...
Hey folks..Virginia Tech had Mike Vick. That's all that needs to be said b/c you can't get them all to be Hokies. Clemson would still had beat us in those games..they were a better all around team