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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class 
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class 
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Remember that he also was offering kids he previously recruited at Memphis.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class maybe with all the taller WR's we had committed, he wanted to balance it out with some smaller speed guys to play in the slot.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Cedrick Wilson 6'2, TaDarryl Marshall 6'0, Kiel Pollard 6'2, Nate Johnson 5'11, Tyrell Pigrome 5'9, Latrell Williams 5'11. Rick wells 6'0. Your argument doesn't stack up
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Does anyone know why our only DL recruit besides the late addition of Hewitt didn't sign? Just curious.
or the coach is resting him
during a blowout dualagainst LOLUVa.
FTFY
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Look at who he offered since he got here and tell me if you still think that. Cedrick Wilson is the only guy that doesn't fit
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I hope that's true, but the fact that when he came in he went after shorter receivers has me doubting that. Especially when the guys he went after weren't "easy" to pick up late in the year guys. They were guys like Latrell Williams (5'11, Tennessee commit), Nate Johnson (5'11", Michigan commit), Velus Jones (5'11", USC commit), Dre Massey (6', Florida commit). That shows where his mind was
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class but he let UGA flip Long!!!
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Not sure some of that is not who he could get to go to Memphis. I think he looks for playmakers at WR, but when most programs are more desirable than your school as a destination you have to compromise on something. Maybe he compromised on size instead of quickness or speed, but would have loved to get the athletes in our system now if he could have.
and postpone all team meetings until after post game media availability
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I'm not seeing that in what the staff has said so far. They actually want Patterson and the other incoming WR's to add some muscle from what I've heard. Fuente & Cornelson have been stressing repeatedly how they will mold the offense around the talent and that it will change from year to year. I think it's more likely the fact that at Memphis they couldn't land many guys that had the necessary skill set plus the size that would make a high-value P5 recruit. Also, Denmark has been given a lot of credit for his track-speed. I just think if the incoming WR's don't make an impact next year I don't think it will be because they are too tall or too big.
FWIW the new staff pursued Patterson hard to get him to re-commit and fought for Denmark as well when he was getting in-home visits from Muschamp.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class In like what Fuente did as soon as he came in. In fact I think we might have lost only 2 kids recruited under the previous staff because of the change. And that's ok.
Considering that he knew we needed a QB, he got in a transfer and Secured Josh Jackson in the process. He just created competition at a critical spot for us.
2nd - he got Demetri moore, another need for us at OL.
2 more recruits which he managed to get here outside of transfers and then on top of that the staff was able to convince the committs who gave a verbal to the previous staff. That's pretty hard to do.
I think they will lay the groundwork and get better players.
The other aspect to our problem has been attrition since going back to about the 2010 recruiting class. Lots of dropouts, injuries, academic issues and other related losses. I'm hoping that the new staff can get guys and keep them along with developing them. There are a lot of stories with hokies of what could have been (Nick Dew, Drew Harriss, J.Stanford). Lets keep our fingers crossed.
it's really more like renting
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I wonder though if Fuente always wanted 6'+ guys but could never land them.
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# | Hokies Jump into 2017, 2018 Recruiting Classes with Hosting Weekend Heavy on Virginia Prospects Yulee going to Marshall is huge. There would have been wayy too much pull at Bama
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I vote we start ranking our oline recruits by what kind of wild animal they have or hypothetically would kill. Example: Wyatt Teller would take down a lion, especially if a bag of tacos was on the line
It's pretty obvious that this ban is an attempt to satisfy the NCAA in hopes that they won't punish them anymore. They usually are. No point in punishing specific people yet. I also don't think Pitino is the only one to blame, even if he did know it was going on.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I think it was either Kearns or Hopple. Coach Cornelsen passed along that tidbit and also had this quote from Vice about TJ Jackson, "he is the biggest OL recruit I've ever seen"
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class My daddy always said "Wait broke the wagon down!"
Interesting sidenote about Beamer Day:
He spoke at Imperial Plaza (a senior living community) in the evening after being at the Capitol. My father leads a bible study and the residents invited him to come see Beamer since they all know that I went to VT.
Anyway, Beamer spoke for about 15 minutes and did a brief Q&A - the question that stood out to my dad the most was when he was asked, "Who was the best player he ever coached?"
The answers might be pretty obvious, but thought it was still worth sharing. Vick was his immediate answer, saying he was super gifted and special. Followed that up by saying Tyrod was the next best player he ever coached.
I was fortunate enough to be in Blacksburg for all four years of Tyrod's career. The thing that is readily apparent from those teams to the more recent ones is that a guy like Tyrod masks a lot of weaknesses. There's currently a lot of narratives why things have taken a nosedive... well, considering the two best players Beamer says he has coached ended up as NFL starters is extremely telling.
HOKIE HOOPS WIZ
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class The only terrible thing in this story is Coach Burden's use of the YOU in his tweet. Makes me cringe thinking of Timecop.
L'Ville should sanction their own coach.
I wish the best for him. Love to see him fighting hard and keeping his spirits up!
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class I think this is true. Fuente has done more with less and now he has even more. I think we will compete well in the Coastal this season and will see an uptick in recruiting from that.
That's also likely, which concerns me that he didn't get any