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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class During Fuente's time at Memphis, according to Rivals team rankings:
2012: Virginia Tech had the 22nd ranked class, Memphis 71st.
2013: Virginia Tech 23, Memphis 89.
2014: Virginia Tech 25, Memphis 88.
2015: Virginia Tech 24, Memphis 76.
The win-loss record the last two years at Memphis does not reflect those poor recruiting rankings. I think we will be just fine with our middle-of-the-pack class this year, and eventually the results should speak for themselves and recruiting will improve as the win totals increase.
The graduate assistant at the heart of this scandal had moved on to become an assistant coach at another school. When the prostitute at the center of this came out on TV several months ago, the GA/now coach "left" his job to deal with this. He won't be getting his job back more than likely and may be done as a coach for good.
This issue is still being investigated both by the NCAA and criminally is my understanding so you could still see criminal charges come about. As far as Pitino is concerned, the school is saying they couldn't prove he was involved in this incident but they are acknowledging the events in question did probably happen thus the self imposed ban. It's merely an attempt to mitigate any punishment the NCAA might hand down. It's at the discretion of the NCAA to hand down punishments in the event of coaches maybe not being involved but should have known what was going on. There is unfortunately no time line from the NCAA on when they might rule on this issue.
So she received the benefit of being of unusual gender for the field and from being of another state over other students that performed better?....well that sucks. I know this happens in many facets of American life, but it still sucks..
STOP.
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10 years 5 months
# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Anyone that is judging Fuente based on this class is a fool.
That being said, it does concern me that he's in a situation where he is very much behind the 8 Ball due to the previous staff and neither he nor his staff are necessarily known as top notch recruiters. If you were to make a pros and cons list of his hiring his previous recruiting experience would be more on the con side, but it should be more of an incomplete at it's hard to judge anyone who is recruiting at Memphis. Perhaps with the current Virginia Tech facilities, tradition and recruiting budget he can become an ace recruiter...but only time will tell.
I'm still very happy with Fuente's hire, and I think that he needs several years before anyone can make any judgements on anything.
This is just self imposed. I don't believe the NCAA has made any decisions in regards to punishment.
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10 years 5 months
# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class What's the specific concern with Denmark?
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10 years 5 months
# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Excellent work, Joe. The number and talent of the early enrollee's is remarkable. I think we had more than anybody in the ACC. That's better than getting them in February but less splashy. As Fuente molds an offense around the current players, we may see a better deploying and development of players already here. Adding otherwise non-contributors from previous years through development, is a key component of why Whit recruited Fuente so hard. We have a lot of not-quite-yet unlocked potential. That's what made CJF an "A+ hire." Hopefully most fans are happy with that as a starting point to turning things around.
TEEMING WITH INTEL
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class How about "LADLER!... TO THE HOUSE!"
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10 years 5 months
# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Do you ever just hear a name and get a feeling that he is going to be a difference maker? "Khalil Ladler in on the tackle for the Hokies" has a nice ring to it.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class We know Bud has a history of developing talent on defense, do you think its fair to assume Fuente at least has potential in this department given his time turning Memphis around? Clearly he can coach up a quarterback, does that extend to the rest of the offense?
Yes, I think he took a RS last year.
Isn't buying hookers for a minor a crime in Kentucky?
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10 years 5 months
# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Amen!
Go check out https://twitter.com/NoEscalators. His timeline is from the perspective of someone who writes a UCONN blog. I agree with a lot of what he says. The timing especially. The Protection of the financial portion of season tickets, etc.
How the F does Pintino get off with no punishment at all? I understand the post season ban I'm in the minority in that I support them but how does a coach not even get a reprimand from this?
Sounds familiar.
Caleb's still on the roster?
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10 years 5 months
# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class 
It was a joke...of course there is great talent in California.
You'll normally see backups and redshirting wrestlers compete at opens and other various tournaments around the country just to get mat time and adjust to the college style. As to the other part of the question of you have a top guy at a weight 9 times out of 10 he'll be your guy no matter what the only instances I can think of where it would be different is if the starter is injured or the coach is resting him during a blowout dual.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class It's not even his class: it's Beamer's class.
You've got to hate that for the two kids that transferred in (Lee & Lewis) so they could have a solid chance in the tourney. However, they knew there were storm clouds on the horizon.
Here's my beef with this whole deal. The kids are the one's who will suffer the most here. The coaches get to keep doing their thing with no real ramifications while these young men miss out on some key opportunities to continue to showcase their talent and work for a National Title.
And a possible head start on, if not completion of, a Masters.
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# | Justin Fuente's Recruiting Prowess Shouldn't Be Judged Solely On His First Class Which recruit killed a bear?
I think it's worth digging up an old thread on Conner to let you all know that he's apparently doing well. Here's a statement from Narduzzi.