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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" 
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12 years 5 months
# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" 
The system may be different but if you have talent, are a force, and are disruptive then the NFL scouts will want you. GT puts WRs into the NFL with a system that doesnt bode well for WRs because they are highly talented guys.
That being said, do we actually have a shot with Settle?
Highly ranked recruits don't always pan out, for sure. But they are much, much more likely to pan out than lower ranked recruits. There's a reason they are ranked as high as they are, and there's a strong correlation between early round NFL draft picks and recruiting ratings.
Shai is rehabbing his knee. So most people are expecting him to redshirt and make sure that knee is solid before he steps on the field.
After reading French's comments in his "Gut Reactions" post, I've learned to temper my hopes regarding any Very Highly Touted (VHT) Defensive line recruits. The system we run under Foster is not only not widely used in the NFL, it's a different skillset than what they have traditionally been learning their whole pre-college football career. So they would have been learning one thing all the way up until VT, then have to learn something completely different, and then what they've learned wouldn't apply to their ultimate aspirations of playing in the NFL. Quite honestly, it doesn't make a lot of sense for VHT DL recruits to come to VT, if their ultimate goal is to play on Sundays. This Battle is already been labeled a first round draft pick, frankly, its not in his best interests to come here. Sounds like whomever does pick him up, though will have a good one if he can find more consistent motivation.
ouch.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" I would suggest you take a look at the AAU system and the seediness that goes on there. To compare a trained educator, well versed in the rules, with accountability to a school system to these alleged 'coaches' whether they be FB 7 on 7 or BB AAU is laughable.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" 420 is London's code for "YOU!" An ex-cop knows these things...
Last year we were run and gun, which work ok since we had Green. This year we have chances for transition and instead we slow down for half court sets...which we apparently don't have/do well. There is no identity on offense and we chase the ball around like children on defense. I've been giving the benefit of the doubt to JJ so far, but it seems like we are getting worse. Most of our offense comes from throwing up 3 pointers, and since Smith is gone for the season, most of that offense is gone.
"Kam, dont' them change you into a linebacker" said Torrian Gray, to the best strong safety in the NFL.
Holland Fischer will be a rover in Bud's defense.
The whip is going away ya'll. We'll be a base nickle look with with 1 Mike and 2 Backers or 1 Backer and 1 Dadi vs run-heavy teams.
Yep, 5 out of the top 6 and 10 out of the top 20.
I noticed something while I was watching a little bit of their coverage yesterday. I don't have firm numbers to prove it, but it seems to me that their rankings tend to heavily weight the the presence of any 5* recruit (with 5* being determined by them, of course, and we all know how that works - offer from top SEC team = 5*, so it's a self-fulfilling prophecy). That leaves a huge spread in the rankings of individual players. Some teams, like Kentucky (football powerhouse right there) got a high ranking for landing like one 5* guy and having everyone else ranked at #40 or below in their position. Meanwhile, there's steady-handed VT landing guys ranked #10 - 20 at their respective positions, evenly across the board. No "top recruit" at any position, but everyone is highly ranked. I'd rather have consistently solid athletes all over the field rather than a couple of gems with the rest being much lower ranked. Of course, performance is all about utilizing skills, so these rankings mean very little to me at this point. Just an observation from what I saw yesterday.
No Shai?
I second the above. G-hog Phil deals with more pressure than the average person, yet he does not seem smug and we never hear about him getting arrested, or doing naked videos, etc.
I think if you put sunglasses on G-hog Phil, he might be mistaken for London. Not looks wise, but coaching style.
I meant the fact that they reacted to him not going to UF. Like the article said, if he would have chose Florida do you really think those charges would have came out? I don't. They could have charged him once it happened but they so conveniently waited for signing day, after he announced he wasn't going there.
As I said, I'm not justifying his actions or saying he shouldn't have been charged, just saying the timing was pretty petty of them.
At least the Bismarck had the Fjords of Norway to quasi keep it upright while it was blasted into oblivion....next year this team should at least have a Ford to stabilize it a little
This threads exponentially out of combobulation already.
Big time in-state recruit who shows initial interest in tech....
Did they do the same with Motley? If he can compete with the QBs then I'm all for it, otherwise, I hope he's open to a position change since his athletic ability can help this team somewhere.
I like the sound of that, but the NCAA is firm on divisions, so how about this.. keep the divisions, but schedule the teams like you proposed.
- 2 divisions of 7 teams
- Play 4 games against 4 'permanent' division rivals.
- Play 1 game against other 2 division opponents
- Play 1 game against 'permanent' cross-division rival
- Play 3 games against the other 6 cross-division opponents.
Every team plays each other within 2 years, and plays home & home within 4 years - which happens to be the typical time a player spends in school. The downside is that this is a 9-game schedule and with Notre Dame rotating through the conference there winds up being 10 'ACC' games some years. FSU, Clemson, GT, Wake (play vandy alot) may not go for that.
Then when/if we go to 16 teams, some permanent match ups would have to be eliminated to keep the 2-year rotation going...
- 2 divisions of 8 teams
- Play 3 games against 3 'permanent' division rivals.
- Play 2 game against other 4 division opponents
- Play 4 games against the 8 cross-division opponents.
I'm always looking up with a shocked expression.
That's who I am, it's not an avi.
I think Tim would Settle in on our defense just fine.
Please excuse.
This post was a duplification.
I think the word you are looking for is either diversabiggening or colorifying.
While I think we had some misses i think this is a class that will help us to continue to improve and get us going in the right direction again (10+ win seasons, ACC title contention, etc)
I'm assuming you mean a real X-Wing that operates; not a toy.
If so, I wished for the same thing.
The AAU System that has been around for decades now and is not only a, but the reality of the College Basketball recruting world? I'm familiar with it, and it's come to the point where it's much more important for a College coach to maintain strong relationship with AAU coaches than it is HS coaches. So, for all the people saying "Do nothing in this changing recruting environment and wait for the NCAA with their sterling record of doing anything about anything to put the proverbial hammer down" I say not so fast.
Which is my whole point, being dismissive of all 7v7 coaches as "seedy" and "corrupt" and whatever other sour-grapesie terms people want to throw around is a fallacy and damaging to the program in the long term. There are hundreds of legitimate AAU programs out there, just as many and likely more than there are "seedy" ones. There are "seedy" HS coaches out there in all sports. There are "seedy" parents.
The fallacy is dismissing all people who participate in any one aspect of the recruting process as inherently "good" or inhereantly "bad." Identify the people who are good, kids, parents, HS coaches, 7v7 coaches, and cultivate relationships with them. Leave the "bad" people to the "bad" programs, but don't cut off your nose to spite your face.