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Well said.
I would definitely like to take an opportunity to welcome all the young dudes who sent us a fax this morning. You won't regret it. Now..get to work.
I'm going to disagree and say that Scout is by far the worst. Any recruiting site that doesn't have Ricky Walker ranked as a 4* is definitely the worst, and that would be Scout. Scout also has our class rank at 36-- the lowest by a decent margin of all the services...
Couldn't have said it any better myself, French. Welcome to our new class of Hokies. We may lament the recruits we didn't land, but that does not detract from my personal excitement at seeing what these new guys will do. If all goes according to plan, they will be a new wave of excellent Hokies for whom all of us will be cheering.
W.I.N.
Hmmm.. Scout is absolutely the worst recruiting service of the big 4. They have a class ranking of 36 for VT at this time. They don't even have anybody that really looks at the state of VA prospects.
I believe ESPN has these guys as 4*: I. Ford, X Burke, T McMillan, R Walker. I think they have 1 other VT committ as a 4*, but I cant remember...
Agree. I tried to put an OR In there but the editing/caching wouldn't behave so I just left it.
ESPN? not worth much! ;)
I love create a prospect! I made a DT who was 7'0" and 400lbs named Hodor Hodor. It's excellent.
But... when we have a 2-QB rotation, we make the most of it it. Unlike that other school.
Because it's probably true.
Good list overall, but I'd be really surprised if both frosh QBs take the field.
ME NEITHER!
It matters some, but not a lot. The point about fitting a system is important. I also believe that VT has historically had an advantage at identifying talent below the radar, but that advantage has been somewhat lost over the years. For one thing, a VT offer now means more than it used to, which hikes a kids ranking up, which makes our ability to find under-the-radar kids more difficult.
But the important thing to remember in recruiting rankings is small sample size, SSS. That was the issue with the poor recruiting the last few years, we had too many kids flame out. Generally, there is a 1/3 rule for recruiting classes: 1/3 of kids will be starters, 1/3 will stay in the program and be productive, 1/3 will flunk out/fail drug tests/blow out their knee/knock up their HS teacher/shoot themselves the leg. 1/3 of your class are just fuck ups, nothing you can do about it.
So it doesn't take but 3 or 4 kids to totally wreck a recruiting class. So when Michael Cole gets a concussion, James Farrow follows a rap career and Robert Lockhart can't get his shit together, that's 3 kids from the first group to the last group.
I look more at how VT does in respect to their own history (top 25-30 classes), goals (recruit the state, expand footprint since 2012) and class balance. This class is remarkably balanced, we did great OOS and we have a a ranking in our normal range. We obviously had a chance, a chance that comes around once every decade, to land a few in-state difference makers. And we didn't close.
oops, you're right. Pfaff delayed his enrollment. Taraschke is the guy who is coming back.
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I have a Kurt Fuller but I had to create him in the create a prospect menu during the offseason. Scared the hell outta me cause after i created him he didnt even consider Tech but I swayed him.
More like Free Safety. Reavis is the Rover is this class, and McMillian could wind up at FS, ROV, WR or QB
FWIW, Xavier Burke is a 4-star TE prospect according to ESPN.
Why do you have Holland Fisher listed as LB?? He is playing Free Safety.
He's very similar as a WR. Good size, explosive big playmaker. Depending on the service he's actually rated higher than Harrison.
Why does this comment make me cry?
Doesn't show him getting hit, but I don't know if such a video actually exists.
I think the problem in the past was that we were recruiting athletes who were talented but the offensive coaching staff didn't seem to have any kind of plan for said players. We can recruit the 7 best TE's in the country but when they get here and we convert them to OL or QB that doesn't necessarily translate to W's on the field. I think people are particularly excited about this years recruiting class because the offensive coaches seem to have targeted players whom make sense in their scheme. We're actually recruiting OLs and QBs instead of trying to get the best athletes and converting them.
Yea, he's listed as a DB on hokiesports.
