Recruiting

ESPN analyzed 10 years of recruiting trends to determine 6 characteristics to predict a playoff national champion. 29 of the 30 total occurrences (6 characteristics × 5 playoff national champions) held up.

(Spoiler: The Hokies are a long way off. Although, they apparently didn't recognize QP as an ESPN 300 quarterback.)

Following up on last year's post, I went back through and added all of this year's signed players into my spreadsheet and ran the the numbers (based on 247 composite) through 2007. Without further ado,

Best Recruit by Position Group (by Fuente)
QB: Taylor 2007, .9914, (Evans 2016, .9109)
RB: RMFW 2008, .9787, (King 2019, .8925)
WR: Payoute 2019, .9326
TE: Hodges 2013, .9049 (Mitchell 2018, .8914)
OL: Nester 2019, .9519
DE: Ekanem 2012, .9285 (Proctor 2017, .9235)
DT: Settle 2015, .9512 (Pollard 2019, .8622)
LB: Hollifield 2018, .9376
DB: Fuller 2013, .9923 (Hunter 2017, .9799)

Based on the information available at 247, there are 173 reported offers distributed by Virginia Tech.
The highest rating offered was .9987, while the lowest was .8215. The average rating of the offered prospects was .9045, while the median was .8925.

Our highest rated signee is the 25th highest rated player we offered. The next highest is 36th. Two of the three of our lowest rated offerees are also signees.

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I am not sure that I like that this news is being broken ahead of his announcement in the wee hours of the morning, but Grant Traylor (reporter in Huntington, WV and beat writer for Marshall football) has confirmed that Doug Nester will pick VT.

The almost top 100 athlete is a 4* composite and is a huge pick up for the Hokies.

The article linked in the tweet below sheds some light on how mature Nester was during the process. He also talks a lot about how much Blacksburg just felt right to him. I think it is definitely worth the read.

247 reports the QB prospect has committed to Virginia Tech.

The 6-3 188 lb signal caller was rated .8315 by the Composite.

COMMITTED‼️ HOKIE NATION...START JUMPING, I'M COMING HOME‼️ pic.twitter.com/tV3XkMPmVW— Jalin Hyatt (@jalinhyatt) February 2, 2019

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I could not be more impressed. Just as personable as Wiggins. I hope he sticks and moves up the coach buying staff. Best story: when he was recruited he got a half page story in his small town town newspaper about it. The Kevin Jones committed and was on the front page of his own home town newspaper.

100% COMMITTED #GoHokies #Itstartsnow 🦃 🔥 pic.twitter.com/jZ4iOL9NBx— Jaden Cunningham (@Jaden_C53) January 31, 2019

With just 1 week until NSD I figured it made sense to make a new thread to keep the information more organized (and because the January thread is really big).

Remaining Targets
Doug Nester - 4* OT, FEELING GOOD!!!.

Eugene Asante - newly minted 4* LB/Destroyer, OV to UNC this weekend

Kai'Trel Clark - 3* DB, ???????

Jahad Carter - 3* DB, hopefully he qualifies

Knox Kadum - 3* QB, HOKIE

Braxton Burmeister - Oregon QB Transfer, family ties to VT

Jaden Cunningham - JUCO DT Committed to VT on 1/30

Mike Danna - CMU DE Transfer

Brock Hoffman - CCU transfer, immediately eligible, Jr.

Jerrion Ealy - 5* RB, I can dream right?

Playing in the International Bowl on ESPN3 right now. First three Team USA drives:

-Payoute 65-yard screen pass TD
-Payoute 15-yard screen pass TD
-Payoute 35-yard reception; another 25-yard TD reception called back for holding

By far the best offensive player on the field so far.

JR Walker, Adarious Jones, and Ben Smiley are also all playing.

Edit: 45 yard TD reception for score #3

Edit #2: Named MVP

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Jalen Hurts just put his name in the NCAA transfer portal... any chance we go after him while we give QP an extra year to develop? 26-2 as a starter and former SEC Offensive POTY

Cameron Roseman-Sinclair, a top Virginia Tech 2020 target, committed to North Carolina. Up until now, recruitniks had considered the 4-star Myers Park HS product a Hokies lean. He visited Blacksburg multiple times and was teammates with 2019 Tech signee Elijah Bowick. Tech was well positioned to land him.

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[0] If someone would like to make this thread from month-to-month, let Joe know, he is apt to forget and pressed for time. Or simply copy the boilerplate and start a new thread.
[1] New offers, commitments, decommitments, etc... deserve their own thread. Please read the brief best-practice tips at the top of the recruiting forum.
[2] New Year New Me

It's time to move on to 2020, right? I've done a similar post for the last couple of classes. Here would be my ideal list of a class to sign next year, that would also be somewhat realistic. I'll share some more thoughts on the class below, but here is who I am keeping track of:

I posted this thread last year and people seemed to enjoy it, so I will (somewhat reluctantly) oblige to those that requested that I write one for 2019.

As follows are my thoughts on today's signing class, and I how I would rank them as prospects. Keep in mind that these rankings reflect what I think about a player overall and how they fit in to Tech's system, but not based necessarily on present needs. Here we go:

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[0] If someone would like to make this thread from month-to-month, let Joe know, he is apt to forget and pressed for time. Or simply copy the boilerplate and start a new thread.
[1] New offers, commitments, decommitments, etc... deserve their own thread. Please read the brief best-practice tips at the top of the recruiting forum.
[2] I don't want to see anybody not drinking this semester.