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Quick and Dirty, looking at 247, Rivals and Scout, we have 14 guys who were considered a 4 Star prospect by at least one of them...not the worst class in the world!
Andrew Ford, QB, 6'3" 193 Lbs from Camp Hill, PA (247 4 Star)
Chris Durkin, QB, 6'3" 230 Lbs from Poland, OH (247 and Scout 4 Star)
Travon McMillian, ATH/QB, 6'0" 200 Lbs from Woodbridge, VA (Scout 4 Star)
Marshawn Williams, RB, 5' 11" 226 Lbs from Hampton, VA (247 and Rivals 4 Star)
Shai McKenzie, RB, 5'11" 215 Lbs from Washington, PA (247, Rivals and Scout 4 Star)
Tabyus Taylor, RB, 6'1" 215 Lbs from Hopewell, VA
D.J. Reid, RB, 6'0" 190 Lbs from Chester, VA (247 4 Star)
Colt Pettit, OL, 6'4" 260 Lbs from Deschler, OH
Billy Ray Mitchell, OL, 6'4" 280 Lbs from Westwood, NJ
Eric Gallo, OL, 6'3" 285 Lbs from Richboro, PA
Tyrell Smith, OL, 6'3" 260 Lbs from North Brunswick, NJ
Kendrick Holland, WR, 6'3" 190 Lbs from Winter Haven, FL
Jaylen Bradshaw, WR, 6'1" 180 Lbs from Chesapeake, VA
Cam Phillips, WR, 6'1" 185 Lbs from Laurel, MD (247 and Rivals 4 Star)
Isaiah Ford, WR, 6'2" 180 Lbs from Jacksonville, FL (247 4 Star)
Xavier Burke, TE, 6'3" 245 Lbs from Lawrenceville, VA
Vinny Mihota, DE, 6'5" 252 Lbs from Fredericksburg, VA (247 4 Star)
Kevin Bronson, DE, 6'3" 258 Lbs from Boynton Beach, FL
Ricky Walker, DL, 6'2" 265 Lbs from Hampton, VA (247 and Rivals 4 Star)
Steve Sobczak, DL, 6'1" 285 Lbs from Milford, VA
Melvin Keihn, LB, 6'2" 215 Lbs, Towson, MD (Rivals 4 Star)
Raymon Minor, LB, 6'3" 215 Lbs from Ashland, VA (247, Rivals and Scout 4 Star)
Holland Fisher, LB, 6'2" 210 Lbs from Richmond, VA (247, Rivals and Scout 4 Star)
Greg Stroman, CB, 5'11" 165 Lbs from Bristow, VA
Terrell Edmunds, DB, 6'1" 185 Lbs from Danville, VA
C.J. Reavis, DB, 6'0" 190 Lbs from Chester, VA (247 and Rivals 4 Star)
Shawn Payne, DB, 6'3" 176 Lbs from Chesterfield, VA
Michael Santamaria, K, 5'8" 150 Lbs from Athens, GA
*757 is more than a neighborhood but your point is well received.
Salute to da 757 ....neva forget where I came from ...love yall pic.twitter.com/9PKTRd8ndw— Percy Harvin (@Percy_Harvin) November 16, 2013
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" But they are not paying the 7v7 coach to act as an intermediary, they are paying them as a fee to participate in the league. The fact that the coaches have relationships with NCAA coaches and influence their players to go to places whose coaches with which they have a strong relationship is literally no different than HS today. Also, this happens in literally every sport. This has been happening in basketball forever, and it happens in other sports without as strong of a College-HS infrastructure as football.
Coaches, both High School and private, help players with aspirations of playing at the college level in literally every sport all the time. You're never going to change that.
Getting ready for next year:
Isaiah Ford - so committed to VT, we signed him twice!
Someone make a meme of the picture of AJ standing over that Miami guy that says "Who said you could sign a punter?"
Yes! Now that it is official, in the immortal words of Sean Connery, "SUCK IT MUSCHAMP!"
Just ask The U.
I'll give you a leg for your creativity with working in the F-150
Best thing I have seen all day..in all of this Signing Day Madness we have AJ Hughes wondering about....
Anyone do yoga???— AJ Hughes (@AJ_HughesVT) February 5, 2014
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" No, you're dead on. Coaches should not be influencing kids in any way. But the sad reality is that, very much like what is happening in AAU basketball, this very much is going on in 7on7 football, and the NCAA, the organization in place to govern and regulate these endeavors is far too spineless to do anything about it.
So while we stay inside our home looking out the window watching all our siblings get dirty in the recruiting mud during the rainstorm while our parents went out to the store telling everyone not to leave the house, we're completely missing out on all the fun because we're more content with telling ourselves that we're doing the right thing instead of going out and getting dirty, having fun, with the full understanding that even if we get caught, there is very little our parents could do to punish, cause everyone is doing it.
Yep. People seem to underestimate Nnadi, he's the best DT recruit FSU got. Dude's gonna play.
(I have seen it mentioned a few times that FSU is interested in moving him to OL)
We didn't want to make AJ angry. Nobody likes AJ when he's angry.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" ditto
To the VT Recruiting Class: Welcome to Blacksburg!!
There's absolutely no competitive balance if you do things N-S like that.
The South is a Meat Grinder, and the North is a Dumpster Fire.
No Old Big East Division. We left the big east for a reason. All you did was re-create the BE but make it worse by taking Miami away.
er...uh..Williams
He's a Ford, not a Lincoln.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" Coaches, no matter whether they're high school coaches, or from one of those programs, shouldn't be influencing kids one way or the other. They should be there to train, and prepare, and when the time comes, to be as informative as possible for ANY school that is looking at the kid. No saying this school is bad, go to this school instead. It should be "Here are the facts. Make your own decision. Go to whichever school you feel is best for you."
The moment it becomes, "You should go to UVA because..." or "You should go to Virginia Tech because..." you have become a booster, whether you accept money or not.
That's what I think, anyway. It may be high and mighty, and completely unrealistic, but BECAUSE of the influence coaches have over kids, they shouldn't be allowed to use that influence.
I don't think that will work, because no one is going to want to make their 12th game an unknown, especially if it's not a neutral site game.
Yes, he was the only Kicker offered a scholarship. The others were offered preferred Walk On status
yes, If I am not mistaken only scholarship athletes sign NLI's
Nnadi
For VT:
For Michigan:
I disagree. The South is Clemson and Florida State plus five. Miami and the Carolina schools haven't exactly been tearin' it up. Georgia Tech is an empty shell its former self.
The North has parity. Louisville is likely the toughest team there and the rest of them will all make a solid run at the division title in many years. Syracuse didn't always suck. Neither did BC or Pitt. And I think we'll be getting pretty good again pretty soon.
Consider that it really wasn't that long ago that Clemson was a middling program and losing by 70 points in a bowl game, and Florida State had their own rough patch. Hell, I remember a time not very long ago at all where the SEC East was the greatest division in college football and all those losers in the SEC West could never touch 'em. You can't just ASSUME that one division will always be a meat grinder while the other is a dumpster fire. Only four years ago all the toughest teams were in the Coastal and now they're in the Atlantic. It's constantly changing.
What needs to be done is the logical step of splitting into geographic divisions and letting things sort themselves out. And in the ACC... North-South makes the most sense.