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I think this is the bigger point...even for the players have been exploited crowd.

This isn't helping create opportunities, its taking them away from others.

Its taking a Roster spot from an 18 year-old so a 26 year-old can continue prolonged adolescence as a "college football player" rather than deal with the fact that football is a forever job for 0.001% of the population and they're in the other 99.999%.
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I agree that with current situation VT's target is certainly more like top 30 or top 25 than top 15. The only way this changes is with $$$$. If somehow we get a huge influx of money and can outbid some of these top 15 teams then maybe the dynamic changes.

I spent longer than I should have, looking for Dallas and California dots outside the logo border.

judging from the comment below it wasn't taken very offensively

Agreed! Cheers.

It's definitely not great out of high school. Big part of why want a second DL coach. But asterisk for Madison who was a Fuente holdover.

So what you are saying is that no matter what, the P2 will all- with the exception of Vandy, etc- have higher rated classes no matter what? Is that what you are saying? If so, then yeah.

To be top 15 we would have to out recruit at least 2 of the following schools:
UGA, Bama, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Auburn
OSU, Michigan, PSU, Oregon, USC
ND, Clemson, FSU, Miami

And then not get passed by anyone else.

Pry could be the slickest salesman ever, we could win 10 games and we still wouldn't be top 15. Realistically, our program identity needs to be top 30 classes and out working and out coaching our opponents, and be in the conversation for ACC title games in November.

If your bar for success is Top 15 classes (and the success that is supposed to come with them - consistent Playoff appearances) then you are in for continued disappointment.

You would have to try to do worse than we do at recruiting high school DTs

If we do the same thing we have been doing, yep we will never sign a top 15 class. If we somehow figure out a way to leverage Pry's closing skills, win some games on the field and really leverage the "all in" on football, then we certainly can. If Maryland can pull in highly rated recruits, if Deoin can pull them in, so can we.

I doubt we will ever sign a single top 15 class again (did we ever?), much less multiple. We would have to have the best non-P2 class, beating out FSU, Clemson, Mia, ND, etc.

...so he can catch passes from Pavia for the next 7 years. /s

Honestly that makes me feel better about him hitting the portal. Good luck to him at UMass.

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