2016 OL Pete Leota Picked USCe over VT

By: Joe Lanza
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on September 17, 2015, 11:46 AM | 37 comments

The Gamecocks got the better of the Hokies with 2016 Asheville, North Carolina OL Pete Leota.

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10Techman01's picture 10Techman01 | 10 years 9 months #

Well, poop. He said such nice things about us, though.

8300A_Hokie'12's picture 8300A_Hokie'12
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| 10 years 9 months #

I couldve sworn he was alluding to picking the good guys...

"The Big Ten is always using excuses to cancel games with us. First Wisconsin. Then Wisconsin. After that, Wisconsin. The subsequent cancellation with Wisconsin comes to mind too. Now Penn State. What's next? Wisconsin?" -HorseOnATreadmill

HouckieVT's picture HouckieVT | 10 years 9 months # ^

I had that feeling, too. But for me, it was insinuating

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The Lunchpail.
The Hammer.
BeamerBall.

VT_Fencer's picture VT_Fencer | 10 years 9 months #

Shoot, chalk one up for The Visor. Best of luck to Pete down in Sackerlina.

The Orange and Maroon you see, that's fighting on to victory.

Leonard's picture Leonard | 10 years 9 months #

Easier for Mama to drive down I-26 to Columbia, I guess?

Leonard. Duh.

Alum07's picture Alum07
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| 10 years 9 months #

"When I was growing up, Virginia Tech was a school that was kicking ass and taking names, and it's time we get back to that" - James Franklin

vtfly's picture vtfly | 10 years 9 months #

I give this news 3 sad UVA fans.

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

HokieJeep's picture HokieJeep | 10 years 9 months # ^

I'll back you up here, since I've got them saved in my history.

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TheSpiritOfTech's picture TheSpiritOfTech
#RUBBERBANDBANKS
| 10 years 9 months # ^

I think this is my new favorite rating system haha

Also, keep up those photoshop skills and UVA may come calling to put you to work (can't remember who did this/which thread this showed up on, but a quick Google search did the trick):

VTGuitarMan's picture VTGuitarMan
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| 10 years 9 months # ^

Tag-team between myself and Alum07, I believe. I did the text modification, he labeled the repeats in the stands after that.

"Exit light..."

VTGuitarMan's picture VTGuitarMan
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| 10 years 9 months # ^

My bad, dude. I knew it was one of the usual suspects, just picked the wrong one.

"Exit light..."

Alum07's picture Alum07
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| 10 years 9 months # ^

Hey now, don't go phreakin out that my image was the one that went viral and not yours...

"When I was growing up, Virginia Tech was a school that was kicking ass and taking names, and it's time we get back to that" - James Franklin

fernleyhokie's picture fernleyhokie
🌏MAN OF MYSTERY🕵
| 10 years 9 months # ^

No worries... if I cared about that beyond making a circular phreak twitter rant joke I would have brought it up a long time ago. You cleaned it up and lolUVA fail as big as that had to go out into the interwebs. well done.

Alum07's picture Alum07
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| 10 years 9 months # ^

lol I know... I mainly just replied so I could drop in the shit eating grin of a gif

"When I was growing up, Virginia Tech was a school that was kicking ass and taking names, and it's time we get back to that" - James Franklin

HokieJeep's picture HokieJeep | 10 years 9 months # ^

"What we got here is a real dude. A real three-sad-uva-fan recruit."

I say we use this system to rate recruits that come to VT over UVA.

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vtfly's picture vtfly | 10 years 9 months # ^

Thanks for the assist. I photoshop like London coaches football.

"We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior" Stephen M.R. Covey

“When life knocks you down plan to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up, if you fall flat on your face it can kill your spirit” David Wilson

bluehokie2006's picture bluehokie2006 | 10 years 9 months # ^

At least that means you can open files in Photoshop.

(Sorry, I don't have anything for calling timeouts prematurely.)

HokiesFTW123's picture HokiesFTW123 | 10 years 9 months #

No surprise. Hopefully the staff zeroes in on Merritt and Dickerson.

In Sam Rogers we trust.

knawaz03's picture knawaz03 | 10 years 9 months # ^

should have been doing that anyways hopefully. both of them are much better prospects.

kff17's picture kff17 | 10 years 9 months #

For those of you who don't follow recruiting heavily, the OSU weekend put us in a great position for our '17 class and the two top '18 players in a way I don't remember us ever being before. I know its a long way away, but interest like this hasn't been around Blacksburg in a while.

Edit: Nevermind I see Alex posted an article this morning

knawaz03's picture knawaz03 | 10 years 9 months # ^

We've had elite kids interested in us early for years. It comes down to closing them and that's where we've had issues. Josh Sweat, Da'shawn hand, clelin Ferrell, darvin taylor, korren kirven, etc. etc. etc. were all considered elite players and early VT leans around the same stage in the process. Hopefully we land some of these kids, but it's going to be tricky with a potential HC'ing change during their recruitment.

kff17's picture kff17 | 10 years 9 months # ^

Yea I'm worried about the HC stuff. Whatever the decision is, I hope its done swiftly.

As for past failures, we'll definitely whiff on some of these kids, but I guess I'm optimistic that these kids are being recruited under our new efforts and that will show. Either way I'm just glad we're at the top for these kids, because the '16 class never had a shot

knawaz03's picture knawaz03 | 10 years 9 months # ^

Agreed if you aren't in the top group you aren't going to land them anyways. Just hope we can get over the hump and quit getting silver medals.

dmt260's picture dmt260 | 10 years 9 months #

Can't win them all

-Semper Primus

AXD1985's picture AXD1985 | 10 years 9 months #

Need to be ABC

Always Be Closing!

Hokie in F'n Clemson's picture Hokie in F'n Clemson | 10 years 9 months #

Must have been because of Beamer's age....oh wait

Hokie Fireman's picture Hokie Fireman
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| 10 years 9 months # ^

Don't you just hate it when these young coaches at top programs that keeping getting into the playoffs get these kids. It's too bad the only factor in recruiting is age of HC and winning NC.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

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papilgee4evaeva's picture papilgee4evaeva | 10 years 9 months # ^

Yeah, I'll say. That young boy Saban has a machine down there in Tuscaloosa.

No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

NitWhitt's picture NitWhitt
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| 10 years 9 months #

Clark did the same thing last year...hopefully he flips in the next couple of months!

We put the K in Kwality

FudBoster's picture FudBoster
| 10 years 9 months #

"What are you going to do, stab me? - Quote from Man Stabbed

Bragghokie's picture Bragghokie
| 10 years 9 months #

This is how I feel about early commits to other schools......

If you don't want to recruit clowns, don't run a clown show.

"I want to punch people from UVA right in the neck." - Colin Cowherd

HomebrewHokie08's picture HomebrewHokie08
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| 10 years 9 months #

Dang Nabbit! Hating Ass Spurrier aught to be a little kinder next week

Plan for the worst and hope for the best, not the other way around.

Hokies semper liberi's picture Hokies semper liberi | 10 years 9 months #

Might still be in the running for him. After losing to UK (their first road win in 5 years), I imagine Spurrier is starting to feel that seat warming up

West Virginian by birth, Hokie by choice

Blue Collar Hokie's picture Blue Collar Hokie | 10 years 9 months #

Was it the paper airplanes Pete?

"That kid you're talking to right there, I think he played his nuts off! And you can quote me on that shit!" -Bud Foster

Xhurler19's picture Xhurler19
| 10 years 9 months # ^

via GIPHY

But that was a good one.

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"

Twalex's picture Twalex | 10 years 9 months #

I would be upset if it was Landon Dickerson that snubbed the Hokies!