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# | Bitter blog - Corey Marshall will go through spring drills, working at DT 
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"when you're running at me, and i'm running at you like that... it's gonna be a bad scene"
Link to the SI story on Freeze's coup:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130207/hugh-fre...
I can see the advantages but honestly it's a numbers game. When you're talking about 5 or 6 kids that's a big gamble. If you really only want 2 of them and the other 4 are really not suitable then you've burned a lot of scholarships.
VT has done this before, see Jack Willenbrock for Drew Harris. So far Beamer honored the scholarship despite Harris never arriving and Willenbrock not contributing, so even though in recruitment the strategy worked it turned out to be not such a successful one. Given the numbers games VT needs to play this year to get all the new recruits on board we could see his scholarship getting pulled as well. Just speculation.
Anyone know of any instance where 2 or more legit D1 kids were package together like this?
I think one of the coolest things I have seen was with Ole Miss' recruitment during Hugh Freeze's first year. They were able to quietly package together a whole bunch of disparate kids together with a sold vision of top recruits playing together and starting early. Then managed to have those recruits keep their commitments silent and firm throughout the season. This is also what LOLUVA does with their recruiting, remember they are the new U after all, but Ole Miss actually has good coaches.
Actually didn't frequent TOTS during my time.
TOTS
Coolest Hokie moment was meeting Dustin Keys randomly in North Carolina. We both stopped and looked at each other (neither of us had Hokie gear on) and had the strangest "I know you from somewhere" moment. Once he told me his name, I knew immediately. I still have no idea where/when he would have known me from though.
Dang it French! Getting a guy all amped up before Monday! Now I'm ready to Kool-Aid man the side of my house!
The hell you talking about?
Actually I would prefer that schools are prohibited from contacting younger kids. I think that schools should not be able to formally, or formerly in LOLUVA's case, contact or offer a kid until his Junior year of high school.
The pressure of recruiting is already intense on 16/17/18 year old kids and a lot get into trouble with the "ride". I can't imagine a 12/13 year old making great decisions at that age or one that they won't want to reconsider 5 to 6 years later.
And if the NCAA wants really to be about the STUDENT-athlete then the amount of sports program information should be limited, say once a month at most, up until this time as well. Keep everything mostly school centric. What is campus life like? What is the daily schedule of a football player like? What your major will be like? Campus housing/food options (which we rock) are like? etc...
That way when a recruit finally has opportunity to commit they at least have an informed knowledge of the school that they will live at for 4 years.
Finally, I would like to see verbal commitments done away with altogether. After you start your Junior year you can commit at any time you want, but must be a LOI. But if you are Senior you must commit by the national LOI day we have now. Once you submit your LOI then follow Horse's rules above.
moved Corey Marshall to DT per Bitter's article...man that's a game changer
what
American Honey> all
that was a good ending. I've caught myself up on the show in the last week and the finale didn't disappoint. cant wait for the next season, I wonder if it'll still be about the cult or if it will be a completely different case. either way bravo hbo.
Im OK with the national signing day as is - mostly because its a hard deadline. If they start changing things its just going to evolve into something else that nobody(or few) want. I cringe envisioning lawyers suing schools to get commits out of early signings. I also think they should restrict how early a recruit can verbally commit.
you watch your mouth
Well...
As a cowboys fan, I'll just shrug and turn the other cheek...
Aaaaaand pretend like I didn't see this. Burying this one..deep.
*Beer > all
Cheerwine>all
Fair enough. I definitely don't want to come on here to get into spitting contests - I created that kind of environment.
Ready to move forward.
ashtray > pepsi
Hey uh, OT but what's the deal on the Int'l Dating Site advertisement for men 30+ to meet Azn women (like meng, 31 from guangDONG, China)???
And you would know because Bender has made Frye lick ashtrays before...just for fun of course.
You're right.
I'm going to apologize here. I didn't mean to start a flame war like this. I disagreed with your joke, that's it. I'm sorry I dragged it out like I did. I let my emotions get the better of me, and that was wrong.
*REMOVED*
RE: Fisher
I think you are right on with this. I actually had this same conversation with some Hokie friends over email last week. Myself and another guy both said he would make a helluva Mike. Dude has the vision and mobility.