Well look at that, our efforts has finally paid off and we can now say our roster is contructed perfectly!

We did the Geographic Centers of All Division 1 Rosters to find the Most "Hometown" Teams!THE TOP 10 HOMETOWN TEAMS IN FBSCONGRATS @TXSTATEFOOTBALL https://t.co/fb5gzY95qo pic.twitter.com/5H7F3w0YEC— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) August 26, 2025

Remember when we wanted to get rid of all the other recruiting pitches and just focus on getting players close to home? Well, we can now officially say we've done it. With an average distance of 14 miles from campus to the high school of our players, we have the #2 rated roster in the country according to our own plan, with only Texas St being ranked higher! We did it!

As a serious aside, I hope this shows that we can't just go all in on one thing or another when it comes to recruiting, especially in the NIL era. You have to be adaptable, you have to be able to pivot on the fly and challenge your own preferences in order to build out the best rosters you can. Hopefully after the BoV approves permanent funding levels at or around the Clemson's of the world, we won't have to be so suffocatingly insular with all of our efforts and we can start branching out again.

I'll repeat what I said the other day in another thread. This insular focus hasn't just been on football, it seems to have been across the board when it comes to even Hokie Club outreach. In Raleigh up until about 10 years ago we used to be included with the annual speaking tour of coaches and staff for fundraising opportunities, usually coinciding with 1, and in many years, 2 golf tournaments, the biggest of which hosted at a country club owned by one of our wealthier donors. Once we pivoted away from the whole NC2VT or TX2VT movements, they got rid of the annual stops down here and only focused on Virginia. Even for the Duke game last year, it was the first time since we joined the ACC that the school didn't bother helping us work something out to get an official alumni tailgate. From our perspective, VT just doesn't care about our involvement anymore, which I have to suspect has echoes elsewhere given the NC Triangle has one of, if not the highest (at one point it was the highest, but its been a while since I saw the data) concentration of VT alumni outside the Commonwealth.