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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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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline"
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" I'm getting the same sort of bad vibe when I read about all of the phone calls John "Black Santa" Blake was making while coaching the OLs at UNC.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" I know that UVA gets all this talent. BUt one thing that can be seen is that he doesn't have the ability to coach it up at all. It is really sad, these kids are good, and they are about as good as they are going to be going to UVA. I can only see the ones with the intangibles that can't be taught going to the pros, but they would go no matter where they go. I feel bad for these kids, London has no excuse being 2 and done for last year. He is a bad coach.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" TIME OUT! YOU!
He said earlier he was waiting on a source to confirm Nnadi to Tech. Guess he didn't get it and assumed FSU. Well 6 of 7 are still predicting Tech.
(I still think it's a best guess.)
It's a sad sad reality that football is a business more than a game. The NFL has plenty of money and resources to do the research but it seems to me they spend more time finding ways to make more money. The fact that the NFL is so far behind really drives that point home. I wish they would step up. I'm proud of VT for doing this work, but they really shouldn't have had to.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" "But London and Virginia assistant Chip West, both of whom grew up in the Tidewater area, exchanged at least 420 calls with Snead on their school-issued cellphones from August 2012 to August 2013, according to documents obtained through an open-records request." 420 calls over the course of one year baffles my mind.
One thought....This has a lot to do with why Mike London hasn't been canned yet, right?
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" I personally think Tech needs to stay as far away from that mess as possible. Sooner or later the roof is going to fall in on those people and I don't want to Tech to get caught up in it.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" I also don't believe for a second Stiney through Newsome under the bus. He's a standup guy. I could see it more the other way around but that'd be a long shot. It's just bad business.
DO OR DO NOT...
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" Sooooo they've had this "pipeline" since 2009 and only won 2 games last year! Yawn!
Mike Farrell has changed his prediction to FSU.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" 7-on-7 camps are growing by the year. Thankfully, our team, along with other schools, are run by the coaches of the schools. No outside influences. I can promise you regulations are coming for it and that many high school coaches are sick of outside pressures influencing the players.
No, no, no. Go past this. Past this part. In fact, never play this again.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" It seems the 7 on 7 teams have an influence on where recruits end up and I've heard around here that we don't really focus on that very much. Maybe we should. I know it's an NCAA gray area right now, but if it's impacting us getting top recruits because we don't have a relationship with their 7 on 7 coaches, maybe they should start to build one. Granted, I'm not saying make 420 phone calls with one of the coaches but just spend a little more time there.
🎸OG LEG KING 🎸
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" Wow. I never knew the real details about what was going on. Here's where I have a problem with it: these sports academies are accepting money to train athletes. The leaders of these academies/7-on-7 groups are then in discussions with college coaches (in London's case, hundreds of phone calls). At that point, these guys become agents or brokers. That's where the NCAA must step in. They can try to shroud themselves in nonprofit status or whatever, but it doesn't matter. They are accepting money from a high schooler or his parents, and then negotiating with college coaches. The only people that should be allowed contact with the college coach are high school coaches, teachers, and administrators. These players are allowed to seek whatever offseason training and preparation they wish, but those in charge of such training are in a business, and that business has now become representation on their behalf.
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# | Read and React: "National Signing Day: Cavs' Mike London looks beyond high school coaches to cultivate Virginia Beach pipeline" Ew. It's quite sleazy, and that's really all I have to say about it.
To be fair we were the winner of one of the bigger troll jobs in recruiting I can remember.
#2 when Kevin Jones made it seem as if he was picking PSU then revealed a VT shirt
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDIQ...
Stanford is a stud. I expect big things in the next couple years.
Willie is the man. I thought he was our best receiver last year easily. Stanford & Knowles don't really do it for me but they showed promise. Sucks to lose Harrison, I want Ford obviously, but we have a nice collection of true wide receivers and athletes in this class already.
For some reason, I'm more mad that Harrison is going to fsu than the fact that we lost him. I don't know, I'd rather lose him to the sec than to the stupid noles. Nothing's final until tomorrow though.
Glad to see VT working hard to prevent things like this.
Do they have a study regarding how likely you are to get a concussion when a player from UCLA delivers and unnecessary and illegal helmet to your face mask?
Yeah, I'm going to reply to my post. If you want to win a national title, you need a complete team and you need game changers. We need guys that make all the difference.
That said, Andrew Ford could be a game changer. Shai and Marshawn could be game changers.
Derrick Nnadi could be a game changer. So could Ricky Walker.
We'll see, gents!
This is an awesome article. I just wish Easterbrook had made more of a connection between Kam Chancellor wrecking people and VT's concussion/helmet research. I mean, c'mon, it's the least we can do to make sure Kam's victims are wearing the safest equipment.
I really don't think that was the case. He got hurt in high school anyways.
The real issue is that the VT coaches allowed themselves to get flanked by UVA on the Thoroughbred part. There is no excuse for having the crappy UVA program be the destination for elite Virginia talent.
Whether or not Beamer likes the idea of non-parents having an important voice in a young recruits decision process, it's a part of the game. The coaches on the staff who didn't reach out and make the Thoroughbred staff feel as though they had advocates in Blacksburg weren't doing their job good enough. Plain and simple. Of course young men are going to trust the opinion of their coaches, and of course those coaches are going to have favorable opinions of school which reach out to them. As long as those men weren't getting paid to steer their recruits towards a particular school, I see absolutely nothing wrong with what's going on.
I guarantee that there are plenty of high school coaches who steer their kids (intentionally or not) towards Frank Beamer's program because they have a good relationship with Frank's staff.