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I think someone isn't happy about Fuente's policy of not taking official visits after verbally committing. Kinda like Hokie07ME states above....I think he wants to be wined and dined (figuratively) before he really commits.
We aren't fucked calm down. Even in our terrible last 5 years we still ranked 25th in the country recruiting. That's enough talent to compete more than we have. Like a powerhouse? No, but anyone who expects that needs to check themselves. Coaching has been our problem far more than anything. It was just combined with a slight recruiting decrease as well. With good player development and scheme execution we will easily be more than a .500 team, even with current recruiting
if that means telling our boosters to put up or shut up, then so be it.
I'm sure this will get the money rolling in
I always wore my uniform. Yes, some people called me a square, and old fashioned, but I prefer my dangly bits to be as snug as possible until the play is called dead.
I'm just curious about this increase the recruiting budget idea. Garbutt commits early, is very excited to be a part of the class, suddenly the "head swimming" stage happens after a visit to Pitt, and now he decommits. I'm just wondering what a bigger recruiting budget is realistically going to do to keep guys from looking elsewhere. Were we not calling him enough everyday? Was Bud Foster/Fuente not talking to him as much as they should? Were we not tweeting him enough? Not inviting him down more/giving him more swag? I'm just confused as to exactly how more money = keeping recruits committed without straight up paying kids cash. To me, it sounds like Bud/Fuente weren't able to sell their vision for Garbutt at VT as well as Narduzzi at Pitt. Say what you want, but Bud's system is seriously casting some doubt in the mind of one elite defensive recruit after. I love Bud and am very excited about Fuente - in my mind, two of the best Xs and Os guys out there. But neither of which are very great and/or proven recruiters at this point in time.
thanks for dinner,drinks and taking me to this killer party but I'm going home with him.... kiss on cheek and walks out
Probably should have gone to USC or UCLA for their film departments. Maybe a future there.
Really hope we see a steep increase in recruiting next cycle.
take 120k off of shibest's enormous salary and pay 2 recruiting coordinators 60k would be a good start.
yes, and de-committing, but saying "VT is still my leader" is like said 17 year old telling his girlfriend "hey, there's this girl I want to get with, but can't do that while we're dating. So let's break up and get back together after. That way I don't have to feel like I'm cheating."
Sigh
Sorry. Corrected.
sends a pretty powerful message about the state of the recruiting atmosphere right now. Kind of ironic he picked Michigan, IMO. Seems to me Harbaugh is the most blood-thirsty coach out there...
Since less talented teams like East Carolina have found a way to "mitigate" the talent differential with us lately it will be nice to return the favor to a few other more talented teams and to less talented teams, also. I guess I want to see us take advantage of the talent deficit and beat teams like ECU and Wake Forest when we play them again in 2019.
I agree the JUCO film gives us a lot to be optimistic about. With more reps with our guys, the timing will get there and he's going to show us a lot more than what we saw in the spring. I think his ceiling is high with Fuente and would be curious to hear what Bud has to say; is he Brett Hundley like or not? Sure he will play against an overall faster level, but he's still going to earn more than one defensive backs respect with either his arm or his legs or both.
If that's the case we might as well pack it in now, because we're where we're going to be long-term unless we can start to recruit better. Oh, sure we might have a season where things come together and we get 10 wins, but more than not we'll be a .500 football program from here on out.
Sorry, but I refuse to accept that is the case. And if those in charge are resigned to that fact, those people need to be replaced as well.
Our recruiting budget MUST increase, and its getting to the point where I don't really care how it happens. You can't have success in this age of collegiate sports with one hand tied behind your back, and if that means telling our boosters to put up or shut up, then so be it.
sounds like his HS Coach wants him to go to Pitt and really is fighting in their corner. If I remember correctly his HS coach wasn't too happy of his commitment when it happened
The world is on fire, call the priests for a cleansing, SEC rules the continent, etc.
His high school coach tried to talk him out of committing right from the start, if I remember correctly. Not that he was against him going to Tech, just didn't want him to limit himself.
what's best for me.
Wouldn't that involve coming to Blacksburg?
I take recruiting decommits much better after I started looking at them as a 17 year old breaking up with his girlfriend. I know committing to a school is a little more serious, but how much commitment can a 16 or 17 year old kid give someone. While it's frustrating, you can't be mad at a kid when they don't marry their high school sweetheart.
His HS coach pushing him to Pitt apparently...
link?
I think we've already established here than few, if any, are fans of #TEAMNOPANTS.
But apparently, uniforms are more important than the article.
Son of a
I still haven't seen much actual evidence that we have significant deficiencies in recruiting budget and I've taken part in about 5 discussions on MB's about this issue. The numbers are nebulous, the positions are difficult to sort out and at the end of the day, the scale of any deficiency isn't sufficient enough to worry about. Basically, you see people saying we need about $250K more for recruiting. That's nothing for a $70M revenue machine. If we need it, then the coaches should request it and Whit should give it to them. I haven't seen coaches lamenting the budget, nor would I expect them to do so publicly.
Finally, this was again not an issue with budget. We lost this kid because someone at Pitt wooed him. Also, they have momentum....in the ACC....over VT....defensively. They are who we used to be. I sure-as-shit bet that Pitt doesn't have a bigger recruiting budget than we do.
As you noted, we hired player development guys, not recruit-first guys. This is the type of result we should expect until our player development guys start developing players. Or become better recruiters.
We made this decision last December, January and February when we hired coaches. We decided that this type of result is acceptable in the interim. But we better win some games to make up for it.