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Alex is set to talk with him today.

That's not always the case. Some kids announce a signing day decision because they want their moment (good for them) and sometimes there one or two schools in the mix for some intrigue.

And typically if you are making an announcement when you are already committed to a certain school, that usually means you end up signing with a different school.

Half-assed effort from Hulk Hogan

Fox is supposed to announce on national signing day.

We are focusing on the wrong part here. It was moreso a comment on the picture of the 4 guys who Fuente took to the airport. I included him because he was one of the guys in the picture. Regardless, I don't think we will lose him, context might not make that clear. Belmar's name was the least important part of my comment.

I cant put last night on the officials because they were calling the game consistently. It may have been consistently different than what we have been used to the rest of the ACC slate so far, reducing our free throw attempts significantly and forcing us to actually hit our shots (which we didn't do and Pitt did). We have to be able to realize how a game is being called early on and adjust our approach to accommodate it. This is where lack of experience comes into play and shows how we are a developing program. Most of our players don't have the ability to change up the game plan completely to ensure we are getting open shots rather than trying to flail our way to the basket. Part of this is because of how few players we have that can score consistently as it is. We continue to get no production from two spots on the floor for most of the game. Typically its one guard and one big man spot on the floor, the only four that consistently score game in and game out is Bibbs, Allen, Leday and Hudson. Last night we lost to their bench. Their bench outscored ours 29-4. 25 point difference when starters are not on the floor. That's part of the growing process in a program though, when you develop the depth beyond the starters on the floor.

Think how ugly this game would have been if Allen had been normal from outside in this contest. He went 5-5 from outside, that normally would have been 1-5, which would have put us 12 more points in the hole. Not being able to shoot from outside is a critical weakness for this team in terms of being able to stage a comeback late in games. Buzz doesn't have a lineup he can put on the floor to create opportunities for clean shooters. Best group out there would likely be Allen(28%), Hudson(35%), Letrey(43%), Bibbs(50%), and Robinson(26%). Essentially three subpar shooters even with that group from outside the perimeter. Definitely a challenge when any of these players cant contribute at the end.

The other item that continues to raise its ugly head is how our bigs struggle to move and position on defense. Their struggles effect every spot on the floor like an anchor causing drag on a boat. Pitt feasted on open shots or open approaches to the basket last night. We allowed them to get 30 assists (18 is their season average), essentially 60-65 points came on wide open looks for the Panthers. Two thirds of their scoring. Even if we held them to their season average, you are looking at the potential to change the score by 24-26 points and we lost by 19.

This positioning issue also impacts us significantly on rebounding. Our bigs too often get beat to the point of attack for balls coming off the rim, allowing smaller opponents to get inside and put shots back up for quick points or ugly fouls. Pierce, Hamilton, Henry and Blackshear got us a total of four rebounds last night in 38 minutes on the floor. That's ridiculous. They need to learn how to earn their spot down low and provide us better control of the boards against smaller players. Devin Wilson pulled down three rebounds last night to show how poor this is on our bigs.

Blackshear seems to have lost a step somewhere in the last three games. Not sure if its a freshmen wall, the early fouls he has gotten or just something else going on but he definitely has lost confidence under the basket and moving top to bottom of the lane. High ball screens seem to create the biggest drag on our defensive rotation, which likely is because its the longest distance our bigs have to move on the floor. We cant recover as a team because we are waiting for these bigs to rotate back and the other team is continuing to move while we wait.

Belmar and Fox are very close friends beyond just typical teammates. I believe Fox is leaning VT and Bailey is pretty solid. D'Andre Plantin is also close with Belmar and Fox from HS days.

I don't know if Fox will announce before signing day or not though. I personally think Durr might be the next of the "Fuente Four" to commit this week but that's just a guess.

Disclaimer: Opinion. I am not a member of any recruiting service or message board other than TKP.

There is no way Belmar flips, he is the one driving recruitment of Fox to VT

Aware of that, but we don't have the NLI yet.

The same thing is going to happen over and over again. He signs in with a new username, says stupid stuff, gets down voted into oblivion and then he's gone for awhile and we carry on. It's almost fun just waiting to see when he's going to show up again and what asshattery he's going to come up with.

I don't understand the point if the end result will always be the same. It's not like he can take over anything or change anything. And by now all of us frequent visitors basically know what to expect when somebody starts talking out their brown eye.

Apparently Maryland got a QB this weekend....

http://247sports.com/Player/Max-Bortenschlager-75772