(02-04-2016 04:54 PM)cp44fla Wrote:  

(02-04-2016 12:08 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  

(02-03-2016 05:32 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(02-03-2016 05:28 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  

(02-03-2016 05:24 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  Didn't they have a top 30 class last season

Yeah 29 or so, nothing to write home about.

30 last season 22 the season before and 17 the year before that calling that no good in recruiting is kinda silly. VA Tech isn't going to give him a couple of seasons to get his footing.

17? C'mon man, they haven't had a class in the top 20 in... a long time. Their best classes were low 20s. Compare that to the best classes of Miami, FSU and Clemson (the programs VTech is competing with to win the ACC). Those programs are routinely in the top 5- top 10 (Miami not so much under Golden). No body who wants to compete for P5 championships is getting jazzed about a 21st ranked recruiting class.

Virginia Tech recruits poorly for a team that wants to compete for conference championships. When BeamerBall was riding high, it wasn't because they were lining up and out talent-ing the other teams like the Bamas and FSUs and Clemsons do, it's because Beamer built up a system that created edges in the defensive and kicking games, and an offense that prevented gving those edges back to the opposing team. He had some good recruits here and there, but it was never a breeding ground for NFL talent like the other big programs in the ACC or SEC.

I think Mike Vick qualifies as "out-talenting" the competition.

The Dogfighter?

(02-03-2016 01:41 PM)Crazier Wrote:  Also Fuente will need recruits in the ACC. Not gonna survive on diamonds in the ruff or walkons with Florida State, Clemson, and Miami with Mark Richt

Yup. Harder to hide weaknesses in a P5 conference.

(02-04-2016 12:08 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  

(02-03-2016 05:32 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(02-03-2016 05:28 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  

(02-03-2016 05:24 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(02-03-2016 01:38 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  Virginia Tech never really recruits well, I don't see what their fans are so pissed about.

Didn't they have a top 30 class last season

Yeah 29 or so, nothing to write home about.

30 last season 22 the season before and 17 the year before that calling that no good in recruiting is kinda silly. VA Tech isn't going to give him a couple of seasons to get his footing.

17? C'mon man, they haven't had a class in the top 20 in... a long time. Their best classes were low 20s. Compare that to the best classes of Miami, FSU and Clemson (the programs VTech is competing with to win the ACC). Those programs are routinely in the top 5- top 10 (Miami not so much under Golden). No body who wants to compete for P5 championships is getting jazzed about a 21st ranked recruiting class.

Virginia Tech recruits poorly for a team that wants to compete for conference championships. When BeamerBall was riding high, it wasn't because they were lining up and out talent-ing the other teams like the Bamas and FSUs and Clemsons do, it's because Beamer built up a system that created edges in the defensive and kicking games, and an offense that prevented gving those edges back to the opposing team. He had some good recruits here and there, but it was never a breeding ground for NFL talent like the other big programs in the ACC or SEC.

247 had the 2014 class ranked 17th. They'd come closer to getting jazzed about low 20s then high 40s

Hopefully we can get a home and home with vatech in the near future, we could drop one of the cupcakes and draw a great crowd.

(02-04-2016 07:13 PM)memphisike Wrote:  Hopefully we can get a home and home with vatech in the near future, we could drop one of the cupcakes and draw a great crowd.

That would be fun.

I need to break out my old Roger Miller LP..... Trailers for sale or rent. Rooms to let fity cent. No phone, no pool, no pets. I aints gots no cigarettes.... and so on.....