Justin Fuente's staff put on all the trappings of a traditional college junior day this past weekend, from campus tours to one-on-one meetings, but they also took a few minutes to stuff their faces.
In between the more serious conversations with the gaggle of juniors (and a handful of sophomores and freshmen) in attendance about things like the direction of the program and VT academics, the coaches challenged the recruits to eating contests. Whether it was donuts, pies, or hot dogs on the table, the Hokies' staffers undertook the very brave effort of trying to outeat the adolescent football players they'd convinced to come to campus.
Perhaps most surprising is that a few even came away triumphant in the culinary challenges.
"Coach (Zohn) Burden won the pie-eating contest, and I think Coach (Charley) Wiles won the donut-eating contest," said 2017 DE Jordan Williams of Virginia Beach's Cox HS. "They were competing with other recruits, it was great."
Williams admitted that it was his "first time seeing" college coaches indulge in junk food in such a fashion, and 2017 WR Austin Connor of Irmo, S.C.'s Dutch Fork HS couldn't help but agree.
"I've never done that on a visit, but it showed that, although the coaches are serious about football and school and our future, they also like to have fun," Connor said.
The coaches also set up a quick cornhole tournament pitting the players and coaches against each other, and it would seem they emerged triumphant from that competition as well.
"Me and (2017 LB) Justin Foster won the players' cornhole frame, but we got beat by the coaches," said 2018 LB Dax Hollifield of Shelby (N.C.) HS.
Between Fuente's efforts to show off his love of modern rap in the team's last hosting weekend and these most recent quirks, it's increasingly clear that the new crop of Hokies coaches are trying to differentiate themselves in a big way when it comes to recruiting.
The stakes were certainly high for the Hokies this weekend, with 2017 RB Khalan Laborn of Virginia Beach's Ocean Lakes HS (who's rated the state's top recruit by the 247Sports composite) headlining a star-studded group of visitors.
To Laborn, at least, Fuente and company's efforts are paying off so far.
"It was a great trip," Laborn said. "I had a lot of fun."
Laborn's visited Blacksburg several times now, so he's quite familiar with campus, but he said he valued the visit for the chance to spend some more quality time with Burden, Fuente and the rest of the staff. He'd gotten to meet the new head Hokie briefly when he swung by Ocean Lakes a few weeks back, but this was his first in-depth chat with Fuente.
"He's a cool coach," Laborn said. "I think he'll be a great coach, I think he'll be a great fit for Virginia Tech."
Burden and Laborn have been talking for some time now, given the pair's shared 757 ties, and Laborn says that they have a "great relationship" that was only further cemented by the recent visit and Burden's recent change in position focus.
"It makes our relationship much stronger, knowing that he'd be my running backs coach if I were to go to Tech," Laborn said.
He even got a chance to spend some time with one coach who notably isn't on Tech's staff anymore, snapping a quick photo with Frank Beamer.
"I see him as a Hall of Fame head coach," Laborn said.
#Legendary pic.twitter.com/kq2N2xnahM— 4KayAllDay_ (@Khalan2012) February 7, 2016
Williams may not be quite as highly rated as Laborn (the DE was recently upgraded to a 4-star prospect in the 247Sports composite ranking), but there's no doubt that the Hokies were eager to impress him as well on the trip.
Beyond the aforementioned eating contests, Williams said he got a full look at campus, after just seeing the athletic side of things like he did on his prior camps at Tech.
"It was really different, we were able to see more of the facilities instead of just the indoor," Williams said. "We were able to go in the locker room and try on jerseys and equipment, it was all fun."
Williams also got a look at the team's mockups for its ongoing overhaul of the football facilities, which he said were shaping up to be "real nice," and hung around the players' lounge a bit where he "played video games with the other recruits."
This all came in addition to meeting with the bulk of the coaching staff. In particular, he says he was glad to sit down with Wiles and Bud Foster, and, like Laborn, he too got to spend his first extended time with Fuente after a brief meeting at his high school.
"He's definitely a great guy, and I think he'll be able to build up Virginia Tech," Williams said. "I don't want to say turn it around, because Virginia Tech's at a good state right now, but I think he'll be able to build onto it with what he was able to do at Memphis and his prior coaching history, I think he'll be able to have a big impact on the program."
With all those activities on the docket, Williams says he missed the first half of the Tech basketball game against Clemson, a planned activity for the recruits on campus for the visit. Since the game was already half over, he chose to head home, but others stuck around to get a glimpse at the packed Cassell Coliseum.
"Their fans were loud and chanting and their student section was standing up the whole time I was there, it was a great experience," said 2017 LB Rayshard Ashby of Chesterfield's Lloyd C. Bird HS.
Ashby says the overall trip was "great, as usual," but the Hokies' thrilling win over the Tigers wasn't even the highlight of the visit. Instead, he found the group's tour of Lane Stadium, complete with a familiar musical accompaniment, to be the best part of the trip.
"Walking through the tunnel to Lane Stadium as they were playing 'Enter Sandman,' it was just an amazing feeling with the song being played while I was walking in," Ashby said. "I could just imagine myself playing there."
Fuente, Foster and assistant head coach Galen Scott were Ashby's prime escorts around campus, and Ashby was especially keen on getting to know Scott, since it was his first time meeting him in person.
"He's real cool, seems like a real good dude," Ashby said. "I like his vibe, I like all the coaches vibes, he just seems like a really good coach."
Ashby says he also got to talk to plenty of current players and prospects on the visit, including 2016 signee Tavante Beckett and 2017 QB Alex Faniel of Richmond's Glen Allen HS, a school not far from his own.
But not all of the big-name recruits on campus hailed from Virginia. 2017 OT Marcus Minor of Hyattsville, Md.'s DeMatha Catholic HS also made a return trip to Blacksburg after camping at Tech and earning an offer this June.
"It wasn't a bad ride, and I loved the place overall," Minor said.
Minor (who's rated a 4-star prospect by the 247Sports composite) says he'd gotten to meet Fuente and some of the rest of the new staff at his school before, but he valued the chance to tour campus with new OL coach Vance Vice to start building a relationship in earnest.
"He knows what he is doing," Minor said. "He looks passionate about his job, he shows he wants me, all positive things."
The Hokies also welcomed several prominent juniors from the Carolinas, including Connor, Hollifield and 2017 TE Drake DeIuliis of Charlotte's Providence HS.
"It was great," Connor said. "The campus is beautiful, the coaches are great. Just a great college in general."
When he wasn't busy watching the coaches stuff their faces, Connor says he got an extensive tour of campus courtesy of WRs coach Holmon Wiggins and offensive coordinator Brad Cornelsen, and he thoroughly enjoyed the sit-down meetings they had over the course of the weekend.
"Just sitting and being with them for the limited time we had, I knew they knew exactly what they were talking about," Connor said. "They just want the best for their athletes."
DeIuliis came away similarly impressed with his talks with the coaches, and he says he tried to focus on the future in his meeting with Fuente.
"He's gonna do great things at Virginia Tech," DeIuliis said. "We talked about the future of the program, me going there one day possibly, the upcoming season, all the positives coming their way at Virginia Tech."
But DeIuliis also spent plenty of time with TEs coach James Shibest, since he'd be his position coach if he were to be part of those positives hopefully headed the Hokies' way.
"Coach Shibest is a great coach, he knows exactly what he's talking about," DeIuliis said. "I look forward to possibly playing for him one day and seeing what he does otherwise."
As a linebacker, Hollifield wouldn't necessarily be playing under Shibest, but he'll be Hollifield's area recruiter going forward, so the pair spent plenty of time together.
"I like Coach Shibest a lot, he's a great guy, really nice," Hollifield said. "Him and Coach Fuente turned it around at Memphis, so they should be good there."
Hollifield also came away impressed with Foster, marveling that he's about to enter his third decade of coaching in Blacksburg.
But, more than anything, he came away highly impressed with the campus in his very first visit.
"It was the best one I've seen yet," Hollifield said.
The coaches invited him to come camp at Tech this summer to give him another chance to get acquainted with the school (a priority once they offered him on his visit), but they also told him that he "can come back any time I want."
Others are on the visit this past weekend are planning more immediate returns. Connor says he's planning on coming back to see a spring practice, and Ashby and Minor both expect to do the same.
DeIuliis is less certain, but it's certainly not because he doesn't want to visit Tech again.
"We've just got to see if we've got a perfect time on the schedule, because I know me and my family would love to get back up there," DeIuliis said.
In the meantime, he'll be heading to South Carolina this weekend (and could be joined there by Hollifield).
Williams is also still trying to figure out the logistics with a busy spring approaching — he says he's hoping to see Wake Forest, UNC and Pitt in the coming weeks.
"They were telling me about spring practices, I just haven't decided whether I'd be able to make it down there yet, with other visits coming up," Williams said. "I told them I'd let them know."
Laborn will also be doing plenty of campus tours in the immediate future (he says he's planning on visiting FSU at the end of February) but he definitely plans to visit Blacksburg again before he makes his decision. As of now, he's hoping to commit on his birthday, June 1, which doesn't give him long to see his various suitors in person.
"I'm not sure yet when I'll go back yet, but it'll probably be soon," Laborn said.
Whenever he does, the Hokies will surely roll out the red carpet, and maybe even include a few feats of intestinal fortitude and the odd round of cornhole once more.
Comments
So when did they have a cake eating competition. TEAM CAKE!
You get outta here with that shit!
TEAM PIE!
BUT IT'S FOR CROOTIN'! WE ARE MISSING OUT ON THE VAST MAJORITY OF LOGICAL AND INTELLIGENT RECRUITS BY NOT HAVING A CAKE EATING CONTEST!
THINK OF THE O LINE!
Clearly O-line recruits need to engage in a pancake-eating contest.
Which firmly resides in the cake domain.
Is a hotdog a sandwich?
Might as well turn this debate to 11
A hotdog is the John Daily of the sandwich community. It may share some of the same characteristics, but it plays by its own rules.
As Tyrod said in his recent AMA: "A hot dog is not a sandwich. A hot dog is just a hot dog. I understand it's on a bun, but a bun doesn't make it a sandwich. If you go to a restaurant, you have a burgers section and a sandwich section. They don't fall under the same section. So that theory of "a bun makes it a sandwich" is incorrect and false. So, no. A hot dog is not a sandwich. Neither is a hamburger."
I believe that should settle that.
Lets not forget the rigors of enduring a brainfreeze with an ice cream eating contest.
Team IC!!
T-Mobile is a great QB but I'm not sure he's the best delineator of food types. A hamburger is 100% sandwich. I'm with him on the hotdogs though.
What about a patty melt, or when you add a hot dog (sliced side ways) to a grilled cheese sandwich? Or if it is a brat instead of a hot dog? I contend that if you are drunk, and put a cut up hot dog on a hamburger patty with cheese, pickles and chili in the middle of a roll you made a sandwich. I mighty fine one at that.
Meat on bread is definitely a sandwich. Shape of the bread doesn't matter. I know, we don't know what's in a hot dog, but they call watercress between two pieces of bread a sandwich, so in my book, even the lowly hot dog is indeed a sandwich.
But a hotdog is between two pieces of bread only when you rip the bun. Otherwise, it's a single piece. So if you want to call it a sandwich, is it an open faced sandwich? Otherwise, it is in a class of its own.
I'm really confused about the concept of an open-faced sandwich. I thought the whole concept came from the meat or contents being "sandwiched" between two pieces of bread. How can something placed on a single piece of bread be sandwiched?
My experience is an open-faced sandwich often is served over 2 pieces of bread, thus the former sandwich is decomposed into an open-faced sandwich.
de...constructed?
Put a piece of turkey and a slice of cheese on a single piece of bread, fold the bread over and it's still a sandwich. The fact that the hot dog is enveloped by the style of the bread is the key, here. Is a sub a sandwich when the sub roll is still intact on it's hinge side? A burger? Why am I hungry now?
A hot dog is not a sandwich. #canesauce Back me up Fireman.
You have invoked the #canessauce so IT MUST BE TRUE WHAT YOU SAY! A hotdog is not a sandwhich.
Who cares? I'll take six of what you got there.
http://www.hot-dog.org/culture/hot-dog-sandwich
I give up. You and the internet have won this round. I don't have to like it, though.
I actually started on the sandwich side, but when I went to the Internet to prove it discovered "facts" that changed my mind. Thou if we had team burger vs hot dog, no-one could convince me team burger is not better, whether either is a sandwich or not.
A sailor sandwich is a sandwich, but because of the pastrami, not the included knockwurst(hot dog, depending where you are). Hot dog(or any other emulsified meat product) alone, not a sandwich. I stand with tyrod.
Take your bullshit elsewhere Jolly.
That one got a good laugh out of me man. If you still have my number text me what games you're going to next year. I'll see if we can meet up.
Absolutely my friend!
If you're ever in DC have your people call my people
always loved the snoopy reference in this gif/scene.
I think the entire scene is supposed to be Peanuts..not just Snoopy, but Charlie Brown too
Many of us relate to Charley.
delete
Preach it brother!
I'm glad someone else reads it as Shibe ST. Kickin' it like it's 2010
I read it as comparative. Shibe < Shiber < Shibest. He's definitely the Shibest based on what we know so far.
On a serious note this is great!
The new staff is really trying to demonstrate that VT is the place to be!
Whether it works or not is somewhat of a side note to the fact that they are breathing life into our recruiting game.
Indeed. Bringing some new energy into the program, without having to resort to tree climbing, sleepovers, or driving tractor trailers, is a welcome change.
All that shit seems fake as hell to me. It's the Hollywood version of recruiting.
I never want to see tech do any silly shit like that.
Biggest thing to me is that nearly every single recruit believes that this program is going to be great. We're setting up the dominoes to fall and Tyjaun is the first to fall. Players are going to want a part of this vision we just gotta keep VT in the spotlight
EDIT: WHAT WHAT?! I'm over 1000 legs now!
Care to share the secret to your leg success? As a newbie to the site, I'm still unable to vote on comments until I get my "leg" game up.
Emma Watson gifs
Natalie Dormer get the job done too.
Holy moly. I'm just gonna look at this gif until it's time to go home.
This will ruin it. Alabama Hot Pocket. Hey you brought it up.
Touche.
I wish I knew that when I first joined
You're new? Have a leg! And welcome.
EDIT: You do have to explain why you are in Charlottesville though.
2nd year living here. Elem PE Teacher/HS football Coach. Always wanted to work in urban school setting. My job offers out of college were Cville City, Richmond(John Marshall HS), Petersburg HS and an Elem school in Williamsburg. I'm from Bedford and better half is from Harrisonburg. Having a toddler, we felt it best to stay relatively close to both grandparents which landed us here in "The 'Ville." I was expecting "Hooville" to be just that but in my experience, just as many non UVa fans around here as there are Hoos which is nice.
Good choice staying out of Richmond and Petersburg school systems. So many issues and not just with the kids.
Hmmmm.... Judgment has been passed.
actually, there are way more non-uva vans than uva fans.
source: I grew up in C'ville.
welcome to the boards. What high school in the city? CHS or one of the private ones? WAHS grad here...
CHS
Soooo it's just like a typical gameday?
Greetings from a neighbor! My 2 kids were products of the Cville school system (last one graduated two yr ago), so quite familiar with it. Glad they have a Hokie on staff. Perhaps you can help them improve the football program. It's been a tough uphill slog the past few years. And I agree on the number of anti-hoos in the area. It manifests itself in many ways here. One of my favorites is comparing retail. If you go shopping in the Blacksburg area, you see all kinds of Hokie gear. Rarely anything blue and orange. If you go shopping around here, you see a fair amount of O&M. Kinda gives me a nice warm feeling. Again, welcome to TKP!
I'm not proud of this, but I've been tempted before to claim to be new just to see how many turkey legs I would get.
This is the first comment i have ever posted and i am totally lost with all this leg talk.
http://www.thekeyplay.com/community-guidelines (the part at the bottom, but do read all of it).
Have a leg as well!
Came out of the womb a TKP'er, eh?
And already commenting at a a level higher than top Hoos
Or decepticons.
Well he ( I assume "he" since his profile says he has a wife and I'm just old fashioned like that) already has more legs than fans at a LOLUVa spring game...
Also, coincidentally, more legs than LOLUVa has put up on us in any game since the streak began...$20 says this will be true by the time anyone actually looks this up
Everything checks out here. We're good.
Downvoted to offset :)
NerdMagic has that shit down....
2200 legs in just under 6 months.
Gotta get some gifs and pretty woman lined up for posts son, or you better bring the pun
2000?! This calls for celebration!
Nah man, legs really don't mean anything. Rumor is that VTGM will perform "favors" for enough of them though. I just love you bastards.
I'm not always proud of what I've done.
/cries on pile of virtual "approval"
It's ok, no matter what you know Team PIE has your back
You dirty, dirty pie lovers.
Don't mention a certain former WVU, Mich Coach.
You mean Rich Rod, right?
I like the dog, like, WTH?
YOU LACK DISCIPLINE! TRAIN HARDER!
Anything that we can do to keep the likes of Dumbo and Franklin from sucking up all the prime recruits is great. I like the attitude and innovation of the new staff, and doing events like these are awesome for exposure to the coaches, facilities, and the beautiful campus.
I think they need to add a pizza-eating contest, and bring in a guest eater, like Furious Pete. Now that would be a scene!
According to the all-knowing crystal balls on 247, FSU feels very good about Laborn.
Based on their recent 757 recruiting, it is understandable.
I really want to down-vote this. Not what you said, and not the way you said it. I want to down-vote the fact that it's true.
I thank you for that. You are doing life right.
The FSU guys said themselves they were predicting it off of opinion, most likely because of FSU's recent success in the 757 with guys like Laborn.
At this point in time, all CB predictions are strictly opinion. They start meaning something a few days before Signing Day or a right before a scheduled decision, that is when stuff starts leaking.
Dalvin Cook's immediate and significant success certainly doesn't hurt their chances.
I got the feeling we were out when he said this:
You wouldn't really word it like that if you were considering being a part of it. Could be reading into it too much but still.
The wording stuck out to me as well, but I'm trying not to read into it too much.
As long as he's also talking about FSU in the 3rd person, so to speak, and not like, "That Coach Fisher, he's great. I'm excited that he's adopting me tomorrow..."; we're still in the game.
Yeah, don't read into how recruits word things at all. Remember, Dominique Ross worded things as if he were a lock to flip to us and we all saw how that ended up.
Heck, I wouldn't read into anything a recruit says or tweets.
Burden might prove to be a good one for us but going up against Odell Haggins is a very steep battle
that moment when beamer becomes the closer now that he isn't HC..
will be having a chat with one of the recuitniks/good friend of mine from tomahawk nation later this afternoon about Laborn... will report later.
Chop that wood, man. Split it, stack it up good and let us know how that chat goes!
NEWSFLASH>>>>>>>>> FSU will be taking 2 RB's in the 17 class. They have their eyes on 5 and the list goes like this, cruising down the street in my 64..
Committed- 4* Zaquandre White Nationally ranked 216 in nation <-- probaby not a take will be told to look elsewhere if Swift and Laborn want to commit.
1- D'Andre Swift 5* .983 ranked 31st in nation
2-Khalan Laborn 4* .980 ranked 39th in nation
3- Kyshaun Bryan 4* .924 ranked 186 in nation --> ALSO HAS VT OFFER
4- CJ Cotman 4* .892 ranked 311th in nation
Fair to say Fuente and Company will have to battle it out because Laborn is definitely a take for them if he wants to go.
I like our chances in a battle with Coach Fu
Excuse me, sir. I believe I have the rights on all asian gifs. We will settle this like gentlemen
You didn't like that? Lets try it again, this time from longer distance
Sometimes outside perspectives just put your mind at ease
I'm all for trying new things to connect with the kids these days, but lets make sure that we don't rise to Harbaugh levels of ridiculousness
Maybe not the levels of his ridiculousness, but I wouldn't be adverse to rising to the levels of his recruiting class...
The real question, were they Carol Lee Donuts?
Would have to be. Might as well go with the best. And that would be in the cake category, I would think.
Put puddin', cream or jelly inside and that makes 'em pie, though, right?
I feel like we haven't gotten feedback on the coaches like this in the past. Maybe it was assumed, but a lot of recruits talking about knowledge, how great they will do at VT, and how much they care about the kids. Also heard a lot of looking forward to playing for a coach. Anyway, that to me was the majority of comments. Definitely brightens ones day.
...we're also getting better intel since this ragtag band of ne'er-do-wells @TheKeyPlay (product placement!) have been upping their game in the interviews departments these past few years.
'Murca thanks you.
That is all.
There are dozens of us... DOZENS!
This is a rigged system. There are 31 pages worth of team PIE. Of the top 10 posters, like 6 are team pie. Team cake has only 17 pages of users. One of the two main stakeholders. Team ICECREAM however has 15 pages worth of traitors. The system is rigged.
(after first loss)
"Well this is what you get when you focus more on eating contests and cornhole tournaments when recruiting rather than actual football skill." - Future TKP/TSL Commenter
Much like the Beamer Barn made them too soft to play outside!! /s
I reserve the right to rescind this leg if the first loss is to ECU.
If the first loss is to ECU, that means we would have won the Battle at Bristol.....
Hmmmmm.... Not sure how I'd feel about that. Would you take a loss to ECU if it guaranteed a win over Tennessee?
Yes.
...it feels like we've been down this road before....
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Those f'n shirts....
Game of Thrones gif?
But... but... this logic is based on the idea that we're going to lose to ECU. Let's just assume we beat ECU and not worry about these types of situations.
No. I'll take my chances against both.
In 2017
It is nice to see the excitement in the players comments and I really feel that we have the best of both worlds with the mix of the old guard and the new regime. VT is looking better everyday. I just wish I could go back to school, it seems a lot more fun than the late 70's. Maybe I'll get that MBA in retirement.
While reading your comment, this is all I could think of.
These made me LMAO thanks
Unfortunately, you'll have to look at other Masters Programs. The on campus MBA program was phased out a couple of years ago. They still offer an MBA but they are the 'Professional MBA' and the 'Executive MBA' both primarily based out of NoVA.
#sauces - former member of VT MBA Alumni Advisory Board and http://www.pamplin.vt.edu/info/graduate
I received my MBA from the Northern VA program back in 1983. It started out in a building out by Dulles Airport, then moved to a Fairfax location off of Route 50. It was a damn good program...they flew most of the professors back & forth from Blacksburg each day.
The NoVA program is still a great program. The format has changed a bit but the professors are still excellent. Executive program has some good perks and the Professional program does a good job of rotating around the state for in person sessions to meet a variety of learning styles. They just couldn't get a competitive population of students to be on campus for a full time program. It always struggled to get professors to teach the classes.
Eating contests are great, but given recent comments, I expect there to be a bear pit involved in recruiting soon. Whoever can get out gets a scholarship.
And for the recruiticorns whichever coach gets out of the bear pit gets the player's commitment. That'll spice up the offseason! Think of all the great match ups! Fuente vs. Mendenall! Saban vs. Miles! Bielema vs. Kingsbury! Harbaugh vs. anybody!
Well we would officially have our pick of the defensive recruits if this were the case...
May God have mercy on their souls because Bud sure won't.
I'm kinda expecting a Band of Brothers Episode 1 scenario where the troopers (players) gorge themselves, then, in comes Maj. Sobel (Coach Hilgart) surprising everybody by ordering an immediate run up Currahee.
my track coach in HS did that to us. One of our seniors got a full ride to Iowa St. for the hurdles, and we had a signing day party that day complete with cake and ice cream and soda. As soon as everyone finished eating he made us run stairs for 45 minutes. It was absolutely brutal.
I didn't run track in high school, so I may be missing some of the nuance, but why did he do that?
Because he was a dick.
Pretty much.
In all seriousness though, he was a nice guy just a very intense coach and it was about 2 weeks before the County tournament so he didn't want to miss any practice time. Overall it was a fairly simple day, just wasn't fun after eating cake. Luckily there weren't any messes (that I remember) that had to be cleaned up afterwards...
Somebody must have pissed coach off and put chees whiz on his ice cream. Yeah, dick move by coach, but some coaches feel the need to show the players they're in charge, and maybe he planned it that way, or else somebody pissed him off. Regardless, it would be a dumb move.
Who cleaned up the stairs?
Screw Sobel. That guy sucked goat balls. Friggin Ross....
I remember reading that the Sobels weren't too happy with the way that Captain Sobel was portrayed.
Mmm hmm, nor were the families of the pilots who flew them into Normandy. Ambrose's only source was the oral histories given by Winters and his Non-Comms. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Band of Brothers, but it was pretty shoddy historical research by Ambrose.
I agree. I read that Blithe didn't actually die from his wounds, but that he recovered and had a successful military career.
Wow. I always thought Ambrose was pretty thorough and accurate with his work. The stuff he wrote always lined up well with the other reading and research I've done concerning D-Day. However, I have always been interested more in the 29th rather than the 101st, which everybody worships and thinks beat back the Nazis from Normandy single handedly.
Why would anyone in Virginia care about the 29th /s
In all seriousness, the 29th was pretty chewed up, especially A/116.
I had two distant relatives in A/116th. My grandfather's mother's family are the Abbotts from Bedford. That's how I got interested. I had always heard stories from family but after Bedford Boys came out in 2003 I read that and developed a new hobby.
Last member of the Bedford Boys just passed away the other day. Last Member of Bedford Boys passes away
Everyone know Ambrose is an unhinged lunatic who will absolutely ruin the WWE if he is champion... Wait... what? We aren't discussing pro wrestling? History?... Really? Shit...
After the Eisenhower controversy a lot of Ambrose's work has become heavily discredited
I'm not familiar with that. Care to elaborate or link me some info?
I wonder know that Beamer isn't a coach how that affects his recruit access. It is very nice to have a hall of fame coach just hang around the program.
I believe his contract lists him as a special assistant to the Athletic Director upon retirement which, I assume, means he could be used in official university capacities.
Seriously I am so glad to see Frank acting as ambassador for VT football. Wanted this 2 years ago. Really good to see. Wait until he hits the HOF! USCe just appointed SS their ambassador. Really you need a title?
I just want to give Alex some props for his phrasing of the article title, although "HOKIES STAGE CORNHOLE, EATING CONTESTS TO IMPRESS 2017, 2018 RECRUITS ON JUNIOR DAY" would have probably seen a million clicks in 2 minutes.
Commas are important.
for example:
Jordan Williams has been bumped from his 3* grade to a mid-level 4* sitting over a 93 on the 247 composite.
He also received offers from UGA and UF