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I'm a chart man, personally. I like pie charts.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I like the thought process, let me give it some thought on potential to incorporate. Initial reaction is the weighting in the most recent class would be pretty low given number of first year starters typically seen.
Shame they couldn't show the replay with the clock on it. Surprised to see them overturn it.
DB coach, great recruiter... Score...
In February 2014 Rivals.com and Scout.com each named West its ACC Recruiter of the Year. West spearheaded a recruiting effort that landed UVA numerous top-rated recruits, including two of the nation's top-10 recruits. West was named the Atlantic Coast Conference's recruiter of the year for 2011 by 247Sports and was one eight finalists for the organization's national recruiter of the year honor.
http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/west_chip00.html
Last second win for McFadden!
Edit. Nevermind. Overturned. Looked like he got him down in time to me.
Interesting, indeed. I'm not of the opinion that recruiting trumps coaching ability, but the top programs consistently value recruiting experience as significant. If you're losing one of your best in Gray, I would think that would be a consideration. Hopefully Bud is involved with the process to assess fit/ability as French suggested.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class The staff acknowledges that. The one thing he has that they can't be taught is speed. And he has speed.
Or you know...there's this: http://www.hokiesports.com/wrestling/players/
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class 
Very interesting. He has recruited Hampton Roads very well for UVA.
Did he not get fired with London?
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class a guy who can be dangerous in his jet sweep series and run the bubble and jailbreak screens that we have not seen here recently. He was looking for "that guy." Velus Jones or Nate Johnson would have been getting work day 1 in that role
Spot on- was really disappointed we could not get one of those guys. Maybe Denmark can fill the void given his speed
A lot going on here. You won't hear much of an argument from me about the overall rotation, though it gets overblown somewhat. But what you have to keep in mind is that the sum total of McMillian's experience at RB was basically a year on the scout team. He still just didn't have the skills to do everything he needed to. But the Stroman point you bring up largely makes my point for me. Bringing in one player, to do one thing, usually spells doom. Stroman broke a couple of decent runs, but was largely bottled up because when the opponent saw him, there was no mystery. After a game or two of only ever running with McMillian, it would have been the same thing.
That's not a knock on the kid; he developed into an outstanding RB by year's end. But everything we heard was simply that he was still learning on the job. He picked it up by mid-way and never looked back. But to think that he simply should have been playing more based on raw talent at one task is just hindsight bias and assumption.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Strong work.
It would be interesting to do a weighted average based on the number of players in each class. I might take it a step further and apply arbitrary weights more heavily to the older more mature classes as they most likely compose the majority of the starters and two deep.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class On a somewhat related note, Paul Myerberg on the Football Four podcast yesterday went to far as to say top 10 recruiting classes are essentially required for winning a NC. The definitive nature of the statement rubbed me the wrong way, so it got me to thinking what Rivals rankings have looked like for the loser in the NC. Spent my productive day pulling the information together for this. Nothing conclusive, but certainly interesting.
All stats are per Rivals. Their website isn't great for analysis, so if anyone wants the back up Excel for 2002-2015 rankings for all top 100 teams each year let me know.
Is anyone else's stream really bad, like choppy and behind?
Bentley's lankyness and height is giving Dance trouble, really fortunate he wasn't reversed there in the 2nd, way too high
Engineers who like tables? How odd.....
Like Stroman on the jet sweep? I see your point on what the coaches said but you have to admit there is an advantage to having someone who can move the chains in the game when we were rotating backs every SINGLE play! That is not hyperbole. (Ok maybe a little) I physically witnessed it on multiple series in the first 3 games. We over complicated the running game when we had the talent to do better than we did. That's all I am saying. IMO, if the scheme is too complicated to run the ball with the best talent, then simplify it!
AND why can not Foster come up with a scheme to slow down running QBs. That has been a PIA for the last 4 years at least. AND how many games have we lost in the last few minutes over the past 4 years due to going into a "prevent" defense? Answer: a lot!
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# | Hokies Jump into 2017, 2018 Recruiting Classes with Hosting Weekend Heavy on Virginia Prospects http://www.si.com/more-sports/2012/01/20/commitment-project
Of the 500 players ranked in the Rivals100 for the classes of 2007 through 2011, 73 (14.6 percent) decomitted at some point during their recruitment. Of those, 62 (12.4 percent) ultimately signed with a school other than the one to which they originally committed.
I have a feeling that number is higher for recent classes but that's just based on anecdotal evidence.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I disagree with the premise. I would argue that the need for traditional X's was filled with the current commits. All are bigger guys, and all (except for Deablo who can do some damage on jet sweeps) are going to be pass catchers and blockers on screens.
There is a huge void in the traditional slot, jitterbug, Ryan Switzer role- a guy who can be dangerous in his jet sweep series and run the bubble and jailbreak screens that we have not seen here recently. He was looking for "that guy." Velus Jones or Nate Johnson would have been getting work day 1 in that role. Right now, it is Deablo and a bunch of nothing unless Stroman moved back or Deon Newsome can actually produce something.
Having taken that class, he definitely shouldn't have stressed the paper. I'm pretty sure they weren't even read because I got a 100, and wrote it the night before it was due, while drunk on Jameson and having a mini-stroke.
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# | Hokies Jump into 2017, 2018 Recruiting Classes with Hosting Weekend Heavy on Virginia Prospects I'm really hoping we start to pipeline more often from Georgia and South Carolina. SEC country, and a lot of solid talent, even at the mid-level. Have certainly noticed a trend back into Florida.
This is awesome!!