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My apologies gentlemen, to you and to young Mr. Brown. Sometimes the capriciousness of the system and the desire to see VT successes leads me to feel frustrated. Just scratching my head wondering what leads us to fail on many of the best recruits in our own home state. Oh well, just have to enjoy the victories on the field more and the whims of teenagers less. Thanks for running a great fan page that self-corrects in a gentle and fair manner.

As a lurker last season and a newly signed up hokie, I appreciate you posting this. It's always great reading your posts but this should definitely help me out, and others too I'm assuming.

1. Recruiters need to overlap. I've worked in outside sales for 5+ years, and I can attest to the power of many. The more faces, names, and personalities that customers (players in this case) get to know, the stronger the relationship. If a recruit only knows VT as Bud or Cornell, and there is any wavering in their perception of said recruiters longevity, it will dramatically impact the relationship and decision--for the worse.
2. Develop stronger ties with highschool coaches. In many scenarios, the highschool coach is a second father (or first) to these kids, and if the coach is impressed, the kids will get a sense of confidence from a trusted advisor. The Ford kid is a classic example.
3. Start early. If we're the team that brings them to the dance, there's a stronger possibility they'll go home with us. Recognize talent early, make offers once you identify the talent, and stay in their ear.
4. Be confident. People buy from those that they feel sure about. No need to be "braggadocio", just exhibit confidence. Men, mothers, HS kids, all feed off that mentality. We need to walk into these living rooms across the state and act like we are the champions that we are. No need to display disrespect, just an assuredness of who we are and where we are going...to the top.

Everything is perfectly fine...we have seen this time and again. I wouldn't be surprised if UVA has landed more high star recruits then us over the last 15 years but our classes generally ended up ranked higher...plus we nearly always beat them...and will continue to do so. I am not concerned in the least...I liked the comment about our coaching staff offering kids that attend camps at Tech and seeing them first hand, I too trust their judgement and I think we all should. We've been very good for a long time, and were gonna be pretty darn good this year too I reckon.

I say go for it. Heck, John Madden made a living with pearls of wisdom like, "The team with the most points is going to win this game."

UVA just did... with a worse record.

Ehhh I dunno about that. That sounds like something a recruit would tell his mom to keep her happy about his school decision. I seriously doubt Brown picked UVa because he thinks he'll have a more successful post-grad business life if there is no post-grad football life, or many other recruits for that matter.

I think we just need to play football better.

This isn't really something we can change, but I think another big thing is the perception of academics (at least in the UVA situations). VT really has excelled in the last few years of being a very good academic school (nowadays, the average high school GPA is like a 3.9 and a roundabout 1250 SAT score for the incoming freshmen classes). I still believe people think that VT isn't a good academic school (except for engineering, of course). I think UVA tries to preach that a degree from their school will hold a lot more weight and if a player doesn't go to the NFL, that he will still have a good chance to be successful.

what years were the two of you? and when I got the sweater this past fall pretty sure I wore it for about a week straight regardless of UOD, best 200 bucks ive ever spent!

If we handle out business on the field we control va and control things off of the field. ..we wont get 5 stars going 7-6!!!!