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Something in the same vein. This blew my mind when I stumbled across it on Reddit.

If the moon were the size of a pixel.

Yeah that's where I thought we were. Put Saban in Blacksburg and we're easily top 15, routinely top 10, IMO. We have everything except a big whistle that's obsessive about recruiting.

Perhaps, but winning helps, and having people who are good at recruiting and salesmanship helps.

If not the head coach, some of the other coaches have to be good at it.

This absolutely should be a priority when Beamer retires.

I don't entirely know either, but admitting there is a problem is the first step to evaluating what we do and how we can better ourselves.

And for your other statement about how much one coach can affect recruiting, take a look at what Chip West has done at UVA. http://247sports.com/Coach/Chip-West-135

That's a pretty damn good list for one coach at a terrible program.

So what should we do then? What do you suggest to change so that we can fix this? All I have ever heard is that our coaches are "bad" or "don't care" about recruiting, but never have I heard any evidence or examples of this, apart from when Frank Beamer couldn't make a visit because he had surgery. All I see are high school kids making a seemingly irrational choice. I don't know what they should do, and if we suggest anything, they may already be doing it. It seems very circumstantial to me.

That's a great what if game you're playing. But here is the fact. Out of 11 higher end football players, 9 chose UVA. One player is an instance. 9 is a trend

But, what if Frank Beamer/other Tech coach personally visited Blanding every single time he was allowed and Blanding still chose UVA? Is that a failure on Beamer's part? I don't believe it is. Just because you can't fathom someone choosing UVA over Tech doesn't mean it can't happen or isn't reasonable under a specific mindset.

That's why I always liked Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot (taken from Voyager 1, 3.7 billion miles from home). It gives a little bit of perspective. Hint: halfway down the brown band on the right.

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

- Carl Sagan

OK pump your breaks now. I want that to be true as well for my fellow Hokie, but let's give credit where credit is due Wilson has gone to back to back Superbowls and is 1 out of 2...should be 2 for 2.

In my head, I have been imagining a hard outside zone fake and a Y-Veer Release Pop pass, or a play action fake and a circle route from the H-back all day. I didn't focus as much as I wanted to on their safeties to see how risky it was, but if the linebackers have responsibility for the running backs I think it could be effective.

Short passes outside are not recommended this week. Their corners are good players.

The OL is going to look bad at moments. Purdue is so aggressive that they will guess right on occasion and make some plays. You live with that if they respond with big plays when the Boilermakers are out of position.

2010-23rd
2011- 33rd
2012- 22nd
2013- 20th but a ton of top recruits didnt make it/attend VT
2014- 30th
2015- 24th
2016- early ranking of 43rd

so yeah late 20's..