Thank you to all of the high school coaches who joined us for our first ever Virtual Coaches Clinic. We had over 400 coaches from 20 states join us this afternoon. We appreciate all that you do! #Hokies pic.twitter.com/uOkRuu1qra— Justin Fuente (@CoachFuente) April 29, 2020
Love seeing these kinds of events being put on. When you can't do normal find a way to do aemthing and keep yourself out there.
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I see Sam getting in on this clinic. Hopefully one day he can give one of these for Tech.
The coaches around Sam's window don't look as terrified of him as they should.
J Ham brought his game face to the top left of Sam.
This is great stuff!
Anyone else thing that Shack was Fuente's quarantine alter-ego until they noticed real Fuente in the middle?
Fuente shaved his COVID beard!! Well there goes his fun coach tweets.
Hard to imagine Fuente being personable like this, maybe he is finally listening to the fanbase?
You know they have done these coaching clinics around VA every year right?
Not sure if this is against the rules so I will remove if Joe or Guitarman ask me to, but:
Andy Bitter wrote a great piece for The Athletic (currently offering free trial for quarantine) earlier this week detailing Fuente's playing and professional career. After reading it and hearing input from folks who mentored or worked with him along the way, I honestly believe Fuente IS a personable guy. Somewhere along the line that persona of his was lost to the Virginia Tech fanbase but the things he is doing this offseason to be more open and outgoing strike me as being very authentic and true.
I honestly think the biggest issue is that he closed off the program for a couple years. Every time he engaged the fan base during his tenure he's personable and likable. We just never got to see it so assumptions were made that he must be prickly and introverted.