Based on Rivals, by Power 5 offers
1. DT Tim Settle 35 P5 offers
2. WR Isaiah Ford 27
3. RB Shai McKenzie 25
4. DB Khalil Ladler 22
5. DB Duwayne Johnson 20
6. DE Darius Fullwood 18
6. DT Ricky Walker 18
6. DE Tyjuan Garbutt 18
9. DE Ken Ekanem 17
9. WR Joel Caleb 17
11 more Hokies had at least 10 offers from Power 5 teams.
12 only received a P5 offer from Virginia Tech, 9 of those on offense.
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The name on that list that really sticks out to me is Joel Caleb. It's a shame we couldn't find a place for him to contribute. Really good athlete.
Didn't you know he is competing for starting QB again!
Wonder if he can make free throws?
Is it ridiculous to think Fuente might find a way to get the ball in his hands with the new offense? He's got experience and is still a great athlete. Can anyone weigh in on this? I've heard nothing about this so far.
I believe his football career is over. Was one of the players honored at senior day.
Caleb's still on the roster?
He may be athletic but he never was able to put it together at the college level
I thought Duwayne "The Rock" Johnson would have raised a few more eyebrows.
Thinking positively, most of them signed within the last two years.. Trending up?
More likely increased recruiting visibility in Virginia, making power schools from other states more aware of our talent
That was my thought, too. Only 1 contributing senior on this list so, presumably, it will look that much better in a year. And after we go 15-0 this year, it will presumably be a longer list.
I like tables...
You might want to check your math. I see 11 regular season games, plus ACCCG and two playoff games.
Remember that the powder puff game over Thanksgiving break doesn't count.
Bold prediction. We will win our Spring game leading to our first 15 win season.
Oh of course! That game would meet the minimum required level of competition!
Just a quick update to your notes column from the NoVA recruiting night notes that I took yesterday and posted here: http://www.thekeyplay.com/comment/394292#comment-394292
What is the overall health of the RBs
I read that in your update, but decided to leave this as is. Marshawn was a go too, if I remember correctly. I'm trying not to get my hopes up for Shai, but will be ecstatic if he returns to form.
Engineers who like tables? How odd.....
I'm a chart man, personally. I like pie charts.
How I Met Your Mother is always good for a leg. Seriously love that show.
I thought Fullwood and Johnson both redshirted, thus making them r-Fr.
I was going off this year's roster and adding a year. Didn't take into account redshirts unless the roster listed it already. Fixed now.
Johnson and Fullwood will be r-Fresh next season.
Thanks for posting, that demonstrates our lack of elite talent on the roster. Two of the top four are recovering from ACL injuries and our #1 is a "conditioning project." Big dropoff between 4 an 5, not many think of Johnson or Fullwood as elite talents.
We have had single recruiting classes in the past with more elite talent than that. We have a long way to go. I bet if you list out Tennessee or Notre Dames top talent like this, Settle isn't in their top 10. Maybe UNC and Miami as well.
What about Mook Reynolds??
8 offers, according to Rivals
This is an interesting perspective to consider. I have been coming around more-and-more to the "number of P5 offers" camp vs. "Star rating" camp. I wonder how our current roster (as a whole) would look compared to our peer group.
Taking it one step further, if you took out the top-5% and bottom 5% (outliers) and compared.
They are basically the same metric. Not often you have a guy with 30+ p5 offers who isn't a 4* or better.
What is dangerous about looking at it like this is that it doesn't take into account their offers at the time they committed. This could manifest in a number of ways:
1. Kid gets hurt, big offers back off. (Ladler?)
2. Kid doesn't look to be eligible, big offers back off (Settle?)
3. Kid commits early before camps, doesn't get offers because he's really solid to his school (Williams?)
4. Kid is assumed to be a non-qualifier all along, gets offers late in the game
5. Kid has huge senior year, gets major offers in January but very few (Wallace)
6. Kid has a non-committable big boy offer (Parks)
7. Kid misinterprets "interest" as an "offer." Or flat out lies about his offers.
More and more you are seeing offers be a limited time basis. A kid may get an early offer but the school stops calling him. I can't remember the details of the Gaines/UF thing, but they could have offered him in April but by August, had others at his position and effectively stopped recruiting him.
All offers aren't equal. Lots of conditions that we can't possibly know about.
Thats a good perspective to take. I Also thinj fit can be important for certain positions as well, especially for us.
I understand that we want to put numbers to everything and this perhaps appears objective but this is a truly awful way to measure the quality of a given recruit. Since schools never publicly comment on who they offer and who they don't, this information mostly depends on the recruit or people close to the recruit reporting the offers. Point being it's usually third hand or worse information. Not to mention you have to account for the fact that the number of offers correlates to the amount of reciprocated interest shown by a recruit (i.e. a recruit commits early on or a team contacts a recruit who says he isn't interested that likely wouldn't get counted as "making an offer"). if you recall both Ford and Settle made their decisions very close to signing day, which supports the idea that they were open to offers for a longer period of time, which resulted in them receiving many more offers than someone who narrowed down their choices much earlier on.
Walker is a Soph coming off of elbow injury.
Yes, I think he took a RS last year.
Dwayne Lawson? On a Rivals sight, I saw 17 offers. https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/maple/152186
2 of those aren't Power 5
17 are.
UCF and South Florida are AAC, not a power 5 conference. Louisville and Wisconsin did not offer.
I stand corrected. 15