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The end of this recruiting class could make a huge impact on the QB job going into the spring. If we can close Harrison and Isaiah Ford to go along with Josh Stanford it would go a long way towards giving Ford those mismatches that he was able to exploit in high school.

I'm pretty sure the head under armor guy is a Maryland graduate so he is probably just tossing them an extra bone. Or million...

He's a good kid who's enjoying the process and realized he made a questionable decision. Takes a lot of character to make a public statement about making a mistake. Really hope he decided to be a Hokie.

On many of those seam throws, Hershey is playing man coverage. Ford comes to the line and checks the play to go routes where a safety or a linebacker has a one on one match up without deep safety help. He knows the capability of his talent, and he knows the weak links in the defensive coverage, which is a product of preparation and great film study.

Meanwhile, as you will recall from my Sun Bowl film review, Mark Leal was in the same situation on several important plays. Twice, he had Joel Caleb split out wide with Jordan Zumwalt one on one in coverage. Once, on a critical third down, he had Willie Byrn all alone against Zumwalt in the slot running a crossing route. He looked over the defense at the line and should have immediately checked to one of those guys, or looked to them as the primary route runner. Instead, once the ball was snapped his eyes never directed towards either guy. You can't win in big boy college football without taking advantage of coverage mismatches, and Ford (unlike every other guy on the roster) looks to be strong in that area.

I know folks are going to ask about Durkin (and potentially McMillian, who I watched film on last night.) Durkin is going to be a run-first guy; a Blake Bell style fullback playing quarterback. His mechanics are really out of whack on some plays even in his highlights, but he can be a big time weapon day one in the running game. McMillian I think will probably play defense, but he has a much better arm than given credit for and he is a very good runner in the option game. I think his height (6'0) coupled with the recruitment of running backs that are more power/pro style oriented means he is destined for defense.

I think one big take-away from this is definitely his touch. Granted a good chunk of these are deep balls, how many times did we see open receivers get overthrown in the past year here. Accuracy is huge as we all saw with Logan this year, he had good games then ok games then omg games. Will be an interesting QB battle in 2 months

First, I'm going to apologize for making personal jibes. I followed you down that rabbits warren when I shouldn't have.

We are arguing the semantics of a case that doesn't exist. The question is whether there is a First amendment consideration in regards to Social Media and the NCAA rules. I say yes, as do people who specialize in the field do. You say no. I believe the fact that they are writing about it in law journals and publications says it's an issue and does not need a court case.

Yes, the existing state is a fact, but that doesn't mean that the existing state makes your argument. People used to argue separate but equal because it was the existing state, as well as same sex marriage. Did the fact that a court case had not happen mean that those existing states didn't have a constitutional implication? No. It didn't.

I'm not clinging to anything. I am just using evidence to support my argument. Again, I have limited resources to do so yet I am still finding them. And they are commenting on the fact that NCAA rules (whether to casual fans or athletes) have constitutional implications. I believe they know what they are talking about.

NCAA makes their rules. Not rules for everyone. Again you cite a booster offering something to a recruit. I have already said that I agree about that. What everyone is talking about is the casual fan tweeting something like: "hey man, Virginia Tech is awesome! you should totally be a Hokie." That is not offering anything to anyone. That is conversation by one individual to another on another corporate entity's privately owned product that puts messages in the public domain. If that same fan followed with "And I totally will buy you a car when you get here." Then yes this could be a violation. But then the NCAA would have to prove that a) this is a booster or someone affiliated with the program and b) someone the University has not taken measures to disassociate with. The NCAA has no right to do anything regarding the first message. if they did try to do so, then there is an issue with the First Amendment because the NCAA has no right to enforce blanket rules for the entire population. And they have no right to ban you from using the private property of another incorporated entity.

The NCAA can't stop individuals, but they can and have punished schools for the misbehavior of fans who cross the line. The schools are absolutely liable, which is why they make a point of telling people don't talk to recruits. Do you agree that fans calling recruits to get them to go to a school is a violation?

Yes, this is my point. this is the only thing the NCAA can do. Punish it's members (schools, coaches, athletes, boosters). Tweeting a kid isn't actually like calling them and that's precisely where the problem lays. I don't do it and I recommend others not to do it, but that doesn't mean you can't or that if you do it's a violation because a phone call is different than Social Media.

The NCAA was established by the schools and operates at the pleasure of the schools, not the other way around. Do you think if the NCAA started punishing schools for every tweet by the casual fan to a recruit that they would accept that? No way. Universities will never accept absolute liability for individuals they have no hope or means to control. As you say, if the schools don't like it they will move to change the rules.

There is a reason why the NCAA has not punished for casual tweets like this. There is a reason why they never will. Because they can't punish a non-member and members will not allow them to do so.

I realize virtually all textile production has moved out of the USA, but is there an up-and-coming Virginia-based athletic apparel company with Hokie CEOs that we could connect with and kick off their rise like the UA-MD scenario...just sayin', lol. Maybe that would have saved Dan River Mills years ago!

I wish I could be in the war room on Feb 5th as the faxes start coming in...

Simple explanation: to get that rate you have to spend a night in Lynchburg. Ba-dum-bum.

Perfect GIF!

I picture Beamer giving him the "disappointed dad" talk. Not angry, just disappointed. You know, the kind of disappointment that reaches right into your soul.

Yup. More money, closer to home, in the SEC. At the end of the day this is a buisness, and VT is a part of that buisness. I think we've just been spoiled over the years because we had sub par coaches nobody else wanted with Bud being the exception. Grimey had no ties to VT or Beamer. I don't think he came here with one foot already out the door, I also don't think he planned to retire here either. He made our rag tag line better and Miles must've thought that's on hell of a coaching job and broke out his check book.