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clearly didn't go there for early playing time. I expect him to transfer out of the program after a year or two anyways.
For what it's worth, Gray's twitter page has him listed as University of Florida Defensive Back Coach
As a high schooler here at Blacksburg, the impact has definitely been felt. Here are some of the events that our basketball team and Help Save The Next Girl club are doing to honor Nicole.
Her favorite color was blue, and favorite animal was a panda -- hence the shirt design and push to wear blue to the games.
Help Save the Next Girl sponsors this Friday's basketball game in honor of Nicole Lovell. pic.twitter.com/9oaQ5vH0Li— BHS Help Save (@bhs_hstng) February 3, 2016
Come out this Saturday for the Battle of the Burgs. Both teams will be wearing shirts in memory of Nicole Lovell pic.twitter.com/lf2UnUxdDQ— Brad Shelton (@bradhokie33) February 4, 2016
screw your glass half full. Everything is awful. I'm going back to bed. Wake me when spring ball starts...
only half /s
Totes. I felt like he was restraining his excitement for the movie. I could kind of catch a glimpse internally he was like "the movie was awesommmmeeee have you seen it?" But realized he was on a football talk show promoting the hokies. #hokiesRespect (used out of context but in context it works)
This would be the best scenario in my opinion. Evans wins the starting job and Lawson and Jackson redshirt. The competition between those two after Evans leaves would be epic and I think Evans is good enough to help improve the our national perception.
But is the visitor locker room going to be less than a three minute walk away? I can remember halftime and watching the team walk and walk and walk to the locker room. Then they had to break from locker room three minutes earlier than they normally do to get back for the second half.
I have been wondering when somebody was going to stick a couple of RFID chips in each end of the football and a sensor across the goal line.
Are you a Florida fan by chance?
That's what you took out of that?
You can visually enter "one of the" in front of that statement if you wish. I think it was main campus, Minnesota and UT Austin are near the top. Some of the other schools have multiple branches, like PSU does. I'm not sure about OSU. Anyway, in case anyone didn't know, Minnesota is a huge school, 63k students. That was my point.
More Torrian Gray stories hahah these stories crack me up. Who goes to a movie theater with the cup for free refills?
Maybe my previous rant about it only being a 5% paycut holds zero water if he's a penny pincher, I guess I never even took that into consideration. Maybe he just liked the people who worked there and just wanted an excuse for a 'pop in'? Either way. I want more.
just out of curiosity: what grade stainless (304, 316, 440, 17-4H, etc)?
I think we were out coached.
I also don't think this class was terrible. Sure some more 4 or 5 stars would be great, but I think the team addressed some needs. The WRs look great on film and 3 of them already enrolled is awesome.
I was hopeful that we'd get the 2 UNC guys, but it didn't work out. Fuente had them interested enough for VT to be in their top 2 on NSD after being recruited for only 2 months. I think that is an encouraging sign and hopefully we'll seal the deal on players like that after being recruited for a year or two.
Pigrome would have been nice, but I wasn't worried about losing him. He wanted to play QB and we got some good prospects at WR.
The Bailey thing was just weird. It was obvious it was a family decision and didn't he say he was going to ISU "because of the woman behind me"? He wanted VT but did what was best for the family.
Heck, I thought Rutgers had one of the biggest enrollments at over 100K.
If this is true, and I hope it is, what does it mean for Wiles? Seems like if you are going to give TG a "raise" you have to take care of Wiles too. He took a bigger cut than TG did
Yea but I don't see him getting much on field action!
put this also on the TG thread-
but some talk that Torrian might be in salary talk now with VT and may not be leaving.
I actually took Fu's comments as this is likely. He TG was gone- I think it would have been more of "we wish him well and thank him for his time here and he'll be great at UF"
To be honest I'm in the minority here and see our recruiting as pretty good considering:
1) VT football was a lame duck for half the season while on the Beamer's retirement tour
2) an unimpressive on the field display for most of the season (offensively and defensively)
3) Saving face with already committed recruits with new staff
4) Two month recruitment period
5) Black out period (No visits, and limited contact)
6) Winter Snow storm
7) New Coaching Hires and Moves
Shit if you think about it, the new guys had more like a month to make an impression on new recruits (who already had established relationship with other schools) and build a quick relationship. Our coaching staff hasn't been in their offices long enough to use a whole roll of toilet paper yet!
I completely avoided coming on this site yesterday because I knew "the sky was falling" mentality would be everywhere. I am majorly disappointed in the reaction by our fan base, we sound like the boHOOS. In every situation in life, change brings obstacles and if you didn't think there was going to be some obstacles then you need to go outside and stick you head in the nearest hole.
Now if the ball is dropped in 17 &18 with all the buzz players are already giving us then we can reevaluate but cool your jets and let the man do his job before we throw him to the wolves.
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# | Hokies Point to Encouraging Early Enrollees on an Otherwise Dreary National Signing Day The only reason it was a dreary NSD was the rain. We had a good first class for Fuente. Much better than any class he had at Memphis. Give it another couple years and it will be considered to have been a great class! Think positively, dammit.
Are there any decent uncommitted players out that we can go after? We grabbed Kline after the signing period a few years back. I would think some of the guys that "lost" their scholarships from schools right before the deadline may still be looking around to land somewhere.
Talk that there may be some salary negotiations going on right now and Torrian may not be leaving
In many respects recruiting is a sales job.
Clients buy because they can afford it (they can get an offer) and like the product (the school/team potential) and/or the salesman (the coach). Usually this is a relationship that's taken years to build before the buy comes. Getting someone who's buying brand X to change to brand VT requires them to internally admit that their evaluation process was flawed- they made the wrong choice. Barring external events this is something this is difficult to do- folks don't want to admit that they made a mistake even if it really wasn't.
Asking a new coach to come in and in 2 months and convince a HS kid of this is a tall order. That JF was able to get some very talented kids to even consider switching is; I feel, a good sign of his recruiting ability and what he's selling.
That's what Joebama said.
Evans stepping in as the #1 JUCO transfer is potentially another Brewer waiting to happen, heck they are both from Texas. This means we are going to have a potential real competition for the start between Evans, Motley (underdog), Lawson, Jackson, and Durkin (if he doesn't move to TE). The great part is if Evans wins the start and Motley takes the backup again, Lawson and Jackson can redshirt. Lawson's shirt getting burned was a mistake, they gave in to him.
That's a pretty recent change too, as of about an hour ago it still said VT