AS THE VA TECH PROGRAM CONTINUES TO GROW...... Healthy, Prepared & Humble ... We Don't & Won't Buy Into The HYPE.... This Year's Football Season's End Will Show The Final Result... Loud & Proud... GO HOKIES GO !!!
Great video guys. The only part I disagreed with is the statement that VaTech is a hard place to recruit. If you go back to the Frank Beamer days, VT's team routinely recruited 5-star players and was loaded with 4-4.5 star players mostly from Virginia, NC, MD, DC, SC, PA, Eastern Tenn and KY, and believe it or not even FL. Those Frank Beamer teams were always ranked and consistently were top 15 teams. As with most things, recent history is what shapes opinions in CFB and the dark years under Justin Fuente are what prevails. You mentioned his early successes, but I would argue that those success were mostly due to remnants from Coach Beamer. Early on Fuente did have some recruiting success (think Justin Fields and Hendon Hooker), but neither of them got to start and and had very little playing time, ultimately both transferred out and we all know what they did. As a Hokie Fan, I'm excited for this season. I was hoping for the Hokies to ride under the radar until midseason, but i think that cat is out of the bag. One thing that wasn't mentioned in the Video was the improved linebacking corp. This is where the Hokies really struggled, especially early on last season. All in all, I believe the Hokies will be much improved this season on both sides of the ball and I believe they absolutely have a chance to compete for the ACC Title this year. The games I'm worried about most are, Clemson, GA Tech and Syracuse. Tech has shored up the Defensive line with transfers from Alabama, Oklahoma and Duke and beefed up the OL as well with transfers from GA State. Last year, the defensive finished ranked in the top 20 overall and was ranked 10th overall for sacks, all of this without a true mike linebacker. They brought in Sam Brumfield, a mike linebacker from Middle Tenn. He gave Alabama fits last year. GO HOKIES!!
In the Frank Beamer days, VT always played way above their recruiting level. They were well coached, but if you look back at the number of elite players they recruited out of HS, that number is relatively low compared to the competition. According to 247, VT has only had four 5 star players going back to 1999. Hell, Mike Vick was only rated a 3 star player coming out of High School. I sure do miss the 10 win seasons of the Frank Beamer area, but I must say recruiting was always a weak spot. It was player development and finding the diamond in the rough that allowed VT to excel. I don't think VT ever broke the Top 20 in recruiting, consistently staying in the mid 20's through mid 40's.
I don't know where you got your information, but Virginia Tech DID NOT "routinely" get 5 star players. Since 2009 around the time CFB started showing Stars in recruitment, VT was always around the 34 to 45 recruitment rankings during the Beamer era. The only 5 star player Beamer got was Tim Settle who only stayed for 1 season. Which is why Beamer and Bud was known to get the most out of 3 star players or lower. Because they didn't get alot of 4 star kids. Fuente was the only HC who got VT ranked in the top 25 in recruiting, even as high as #16 even though he didn't capitalize on it nor did VTs out of date Football facilities help during that timeframe. Glad Pry is here, Fuente cutting ties to the recruitment in Virginia hurt us, not winning games, losing to ODU, UVA and who could forget the time out that would of beaten Liberty only made things worse. Go Hokies.
Doesn’t mean I can’t cheer for them. Based on your comment I can tell being a Hokie is a much better life to live than the negative world you apparently live in. lol Go Hokies! :-)
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AS THE VA TECH PROGRAM CONTINUES TO GROW...... Healthy, Prepared & Humble ... We Don't & Won't Buy Into The HYPE.... This Year's Football Season's End Will Show The Final Result... Loud & Proud... GO HOKIES GO !!!
No mention of wide receivers? They're loaded.
Go Hokies!
Great video guys. The only part I disagreed with is the statement that VaTech is a hard place to recruit. If you go back to the Frank Beamer days, VT's team routinely recruited 5-star players and was loaded with 4-4.5 star players mostly from Virginia, NC, MD, DC, SC, PA, Eastern Tenn and KY, and believe it or not even FL. Those Frank Beamer teams were always ranked and consistently were top 15 teams. As with most things, recent history is what shapes opinions in CFB and the dark years under Justin Fuente are what prevails. You mentioned his early successes, but I would argue that those success were mostly due to remnants from Coach Beamer. Early on Fuente did have some recruiting success (think Justin Fields and Hendon Hooker), but neither of them got to start and and had very little playing time, ultimately both transferred out and we all know what they did. As a Hokie Fan, I'm excited for this season. I was hoping for the Hokies to ride under the radar until midseason, but i think that cat is out of the bag. One thing that wasn't mentioned in the Video was the improved linebacking corp. This is where the Hokies really struggled, especially early on last season. All in all, I believe the Hokies will be much improved this season on both sides of the ball and I believe they absolutely have a chance to compete for the ACC Title this year. The games I'm worried about most are, Clemson, GA Tech and Syracuse. Tech has shored up the Defensive line with transfers from Alabama, Oklahoma and Duke and beefed up the OL as well with transfers from GA State. Last year, the defensive finished ranked in the top 20 overall and was ranked 10th overall for sacks, all of this without a true mike linebacker. They brought in Sam Brumfield, a mike linebacker from Middle Tenn. He gave Alabama fits last year. GO HOKIES!!
In the Frank Beamer days, VT always played way above their recruiting level. They were well coached, but if you look back at the number of elite players they recruited out of HS, that number is relatively low compared to the competition. According to 247, VT has only had four 5 star players going back to 1999. Hell, Mike Vick was only rated a 3 star player coming out of High School. I sure do miss the 10 win seasons of the Frank Beamer area, but I must say recruiting was always a weak spot. It was player development and finding the diamond in the rough that allowed VT to excel. I don't think VT ever broke the Top 20 in recruiting, consistently staying in the mid 20's through mid 40's.
Crazy Vick was only 3 star qb, he is the athletically gifted player to ever play.
I don't know where you got your information, but Virginia Tech DID NOT "routinely" get 5 star players. Since 2009 around the time CFB started showing Stars in recruitment, VT was always around the 34 to 45 recruitment rankings during the Beamer era.
The only 5 star player Beamer got was Tim Settle who only stayed for 1 season.
Which is why Beamer and Bud was known to get the most out of 3 star players or lower. Because they didn't get alot of 4 star kids.
Fuente was the only HC who got VT ranked in the top 25 in recruiting, even as high as #16 even though he didn't capitalize on it nor did VTs out of date Football facilities help during that timeframe.
Glad Pry is here, Fuente cutting ties to the recruitment in Virginia hurt us, not winning games, losing to ODU, UVA and who could forget the time out that would of beaten Liberty only made things worse.
Go Hokies.
Drones reminds me of a young Logan Thomas, who absolutely CRUSHED it for us
Not too many teams with a top 20 offense and defense.
Well, they’re not this is not a good team
Go Hokies!
They suck
Doesn’t mean I can’t cheer for them. Based on your comment I can tell being a Hokie is a much better life to live than the negative world you apparently live in. lol Go Hokies! :-)