Board Meeting: Hokies 77, NC State 69
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David Wilson -- A gentlemen's gentleman.
Editor's Note: A lot of Hokies are feeling frustrated today after all the recruiting misses and this sums most of it up. We'll never endorse any of our coaches to be fired, but as long as their goals remain to recruit the best players in Virginia and win a National Championship then they must step up and do that.
A few weeks ago I was at work having a conversation with an Oregon alum who was fired up for his upcoming trip to Arizona.
He wore Oregon gear to the office literally two weeks in a row, and who could blame him? I was oozing jealousy.
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Robert Lockhart rose as quickly as anyone in the recruiting ranks this winter. And on Monday, he ended a late-January recruiting frenzy for his services and picked his college.
Lockhart (6-1, 180, No. 36 on the Big Board) verbally committed to Virginia Tech, choosing the Hokies over Kansas State, Nebraska and Vanderbilt, among others.
“I really got close to Coach (Frank) Beamer,” Lockhart said late Monday night.
The senior receiver, who didn’t play football his junior season so he could focus on basketball, transferred from Boca Raton to West Boca Raton after his sophomore year. He had a breakout senior season at West Boca, catching 34 passes for 686 yards and six touchdowns. He earned Palm Beach Post All-Area First Team honors.
His senior season brought about late interest from several BCS schools, and he visited Kansas State, Virginia Tech and Nebraska all in a span of five days. All those visits took place after Lockhart’s MVP performance in the Palm Beach County-Treasure Coast High School Football All-Star Game, formerly known as the Outback Bowl. He scored two touchdowns in that game and made the play of the game with an outstretched, over-the-defender catch.
Before the season started, Lockhart was considered a better basketball player than football player. He’s still a fantastic hoops player — he’s second in the area in scoring, averaging 21.4 points a game for seventh-ranked West Boca — but football emerged as his best meal ticket to college. Lockhart, who plays wing in hoops, had basketball scholarship offers from Jacksonville and North Florida.
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I initially wrote this article a few weeks back, but lost it to the HTML sharks.
The hot topic around Hokie Town and its blog-o-sphere has been what changes should/need to be made in light of the thrashing we experienced at the Orange Bowl. Posts have run the gamut from “Fire Frank Beamer” to “Spread Offense FTW” to “Why the hell does Coach Newsome have a job”. What I’d like to do is take a second to address the potential changes we could see in the off-season and determine just how likely they are.
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Virginia Tech Hokies football, basketball, athletics blog and forum featuring: unique columns, breaking news, film studies, in-depth analysis, recruiting, videos and jokes.
Virginia Tech Hokies football, basketball, athletics blog and forum featuring: unique columns, breaking news, film studies, in-depth analysis, recruiting, videos and jokes.
Virginia Tech Hokies football, basketball, athletics blog and forum featuring: unique columns, breaking news, film studies, in-depth analysis, recruiting, videos and jokes.
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Virginia Tech Hokies football, basketball, athletics blog and forum featuring: unique columns, breaking news, film studies, in-depth analysis, recruiting, videos and jokes.
Sunday night, the #4 ranked Hokies wrestling team took on Clarion at Cassell Coliseum. In my preview of the match I said that the match should be fairly competitive. I said this based on the team I watched lose to #25 ranked Iowa State at the Salem Civic Center in November. The Hokies could not have proven me more wrong. With only a few changes in the lineup and one starter out (Tommy Spellman), the #4 ranked Hokies blew Clarion out of the Cassell with a dominating 39-3 win.
Stephone Anthony, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound linebacker from Anson County High in Wadesboro, N.C., was elevated today from four-star status to the select five-star group by the Rivals.com recruiting website. He's one of just 26 high school players in the country to be given five-star status by the website.
It's good timing for Tech for Anthony to get the bump, considering he's one of a dozen players expected to visit the Blacksburg campus this weekend. He's considered by most recruiting analysts to be one of the nation's top 10 linebacker prospects, and top 50 recruits overall. Rivals has him rated No. 24 overall.
He's the cousin of current Tech linebacker Barquell Rivers, who also attended Anson County High. Anthony is looking at scholarship offers from Tech, Florida, Clemson, North Carolina State and UNC, but Rivals.com national analyst Mike Farrell told me last week he didn't think Florida is a major player for Anthony anymore. Here's a story I wrote Sunday about some of the remaining recruiting targets for both U.Va. and Tech, which included comments from Farrell.
When Tech opens spring football practice in 2 1/2 months, it will have three new faces vying for practice time and trying to move up the depth chart in a hurry.
Tech's football program will have its first full team meeting of the 2011 calendar year tomorrow. In the meeting, previous signees Caleb Farris and Justin Taylor will be formally introduced as team members, along with recent high school graduate Adeboye Aromire. Farris is entering as a grayshirt, while Taylor is coming out of prep school. All three players will be true freshmen this coming fall at Tech, and will each have one redshirt year available to them.
Farris, a 6-foot-4, 315-pound offensive guard from Rockbridge County High in Lexington, signed a letter of intent last February with Tech. He spent this past fall at a community college. Coming out of high school last year, he was considered by most recruiting analysts to be one of the nation's top 100 offensive guards.
Taylor, a 6-3, 225-pound defensive end from South Stanly High in Norwood, N.C., went this past fall to Hargrave Military Academy. He was considered one of the nation's top 110 defensive ends by most recruiting analysts coming out of high school.
Aromire, a 6-foot-0, 195-pound cornerback from H.D. Woodson High in Washington, D.C., is regarded by most recruiting analysts to be one of the nation's top 65 cornerback prospects. Since he's enrolling his month, he doesn't have to sign a letter of intent in February.
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