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IMO, it's closer to truth than fiction unfortunately. The team will likely be improved or equal to this years team in most facets. LB play will take a step back, but every team has losses somewhere. However the rate limiting factor will be QB and that's a huge rate limiting factor. Leal is probably the starter by default -- unless Motley surprises big time or some unknown transfer shows up in Blacksburg. Neither of the incoming recruits will be ready for the field in any meaningful way in 2014.

Unfortunately, I think the story will be similar in 2015. While the team will have quality experience at a number of positions (a lot of this years overmatched Frosh will be Jrs) and the recruiting efforts (especially at OL) will begin to show dividends, I'm afraid that a Motley or r-Fr 1st yr starter at QB could be a rate limiting factor again.

I suspect 2016 is when things will start to come together.

Plot twist: Logan Thomas enters the draft as a PUNTER!

Another plus about Logan being a QB is that he'd be a legitimate receiving threat if his team were to run a wild-cat every now and then (Sorry Joe Flacco).

Obviously, this reason isn't enough to keep at QB, but if you see him line up wide, someone better go cover him.

The reason why he was seen as a top 5 pick as a QB was because of his potential. He has the measurables and has the physical ability to make every throw. The reason why NFL teams would consider moving him to TE is because it takes much more than measurables to be an NFL quarterback. You have to be extremely accurate, have extremely good decision-making ability and reads to not turn the ball over, have excellent pocket presence, have the ability to improvise and throw touch passes when needed, etc... It's no wonder why there are so many busts when college QBs go to the pros. Quarterbacking is a skill that few are ever able to master.

But with TEs, more athleticism is more strongly correlated to success at the position. From the examples earlier in the thread, we know that the requirements to be a great TE are something like... really tall, athletic, physical, and be able to high-point the ball. That's it. You don't need to read the defense every play. You don't have to decide on the fly whether to throw the ball, hand it off, or keep it. A lot of the issues that have shown themselves repeatedly throughout LT's career will not be a factor if he moves to TE. Instead, his success will be more dependant on pure physicality, which has always been his strength.

exactly. And well stated. Turkey leg for you, sir.

I would hope Grimes would stick around for more than one season

I have no idea whether he is coming to VT or not.

But, IMO, of all the RBs we have and of those coming in, I thought Harris (pre-injury) was the best of all of them in his HS film. Having said that, I have no idea 1) how much the injury affected him and 2) how good he would be at the more cerebral aspects of the game, i.e. pass protection.

My guess is that if he had been admitted (and the injury didn't significantly hamper him), Trey Edmunds would be at LB right now and Harris would be clear #1 guy and we'd have the opportunity to redshirt most, if not all, of the incoming guys.

There's also a reason he was seen as a top 5 pick as a QB after his sophomore year. We won't know until this spring how much that perception has changed. My guess is less than most think.

LT's deficiencies can be improved upon with coaching and repetition. But you simply can't teach 6'6'', 250lb with mobility and arguably the strongest arm in football.Why on earth would an NFL team consider moving to TE a guy with the prototypical body and physical skill set as a QB and is the career leader in most passing categories at a major college team (with little talent and coaching around him for the better part of that time) without giving him a good hard look at QB?

Will he succeed at QB in NFL? I don't know. So much depends on things that aren't even performance based. But this notion that NFL teams would/could/should think TE first, QB second is as ludicrous as the calls for a "QB competition" with Leal.

It's going to be VT or FSU.

I assumed he was the RB's coach, should have looked that up.

Latest is that Franklin is going to get $4.5mil annually from Penn State but the article makes no mention of his separation costs from Vanderbilt.

didn't know he was taking it easy...