VT football camp

VT received 2 commitments today from WR Patrick Terry who shot up the charts over the summer and should be top 10 in VA by the end of the season if not this summer...he is out of Halifax, VA and ran a 10.4 100m in his high school meet this spring

the other is from a DE/DT out of Bailey, NC...Kwamaine Battle...he was being pushed to UNC by a lot of people and prob would've committed to them at their camp next week but apparently had a good enough time at this camp to commit

i got to see a little bit of the camp, Tyrod Taylor is just plain sick...some others who looked good were a RB out of Georgia but i didnt catch his name, william alvarez, jamar jackson and patrick terry...tech should get at least 3 more verbals by the end of the week to bring the total to around 8

once Tyrod commits, look out, it should be a landslide of recruits coming in...he bonded with everyone and talked to everyone he could...apparently he has worked the phones with a bunch of prospects too so we shall see...

Last year Myron Rolle got on national TV and told all the top players to follow him to FSU. I kinda doubt him saying that was a deciding factor in any players decision.

All recruits chat each other up, doesn't really matter, hell Vidal Hazelton was at Hargrave with 3 FSU guys, and they were constantly on him to be a Nole, didn't happen...

the thing about Tyrod though is that apparently some big ones are listening

Mark Barnes
Jay Smith
William Alvarez
DaNorris Searcy
Patrick Terry

Tyrod isn't making a blank plea to kids across the nation to join him, he actually has people approach him about where he is going when he goes to camp and then he talks with those kids

simply put, without Tyrod we are not in the picture for Jay Smith, Mark Barnes or William Alvarez...and those are only the ones who are being public about it...go check Smith's and Barnes' updates and you can see for yourself

If Tech finishes inside the top 15 in the final recruiting rankings we'll talk.

With VT moving to the ACC has it help any with recruiting and exsposer or is it the same ole same ole with them?

Here are their last 5 classes

2002 45th
2003 27th
2004 41st
2005 14th
2006 32nd

I'd expect them to finish in the 20's this year.

it's helped a lot, and it didn't hurt that we won the conference the first year we were in it as well as winning our division this past year

the thing about recruiting rankings is that you take a look at those numbers and youd think tech would finish around 30th in the polls on the football field each year, but yet we prob avg around 12-18 each year...says something about talent evaluation

on another note, 30% of UVA's recruiting class didnt make it through admissions. They are ncaa elgible but not uva elgible. Its almost like getting put on probation when you lose that many players in one signing year.

and then realize they also lost 3 starters on defense to being kicked off the team...it should be an interesting year in charlottesville

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Says more about coaching IMO. Bud Foster does a great job with defensive talent. Or is Bud Foster a player? I still can't remember. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

hahaha i had about forgotten about that

here's a video of the camp from the local tv station

Tyrod

He looks good. Good arm, his body looks trim, it looks like he's in really good shape. There's no way in the world he's 6' 1" though.

actually a legit 6'0, i got to stand around with him on campus and he isn't very short

Rivals had him listed as 6' 1". I knew there was no way that was right.

How many 'ships are VT working with this year?

19-20...but usually they will tell the kids who arent gonna make an immediate impact to come in jan of '08 if they are runnin low on schollies

That sucks for UVA...

FSU didn't have that problem this year, all but three are on campus including Marcus Ball.

The ones that haven't made it are
1. WR - Brent Brewer, Drafted by Milwaukee Brewers in the 2nd round 60th overall pick. Said he had a "million reasons" to play baseball instead of College Football.

2. TE - Brandon Warren, not qualified, taking summer classes to improve GPA all signs point to him being on Campus at the end of July.

3. LB - Tim Rawlinson, same situation as Warren.

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Sounds like a real problem at Alcoa. UT got Dustin Lindsey and he's going to Coffeyville. Rae Sykes the DE from their this year, who most people says is better than Warren, is probably not even going to be able to play this season due to his grades. That has got to be the dumbest bunch of football players from one school in history. 3 D1 athletes and none of them are going to be eligible.

the ones for VT who didnt make it were

Olufemi Ajiboye - prepping at Hargrave

Mike Gee - transferred high schools midway through his freshman year and Don Bosco doesn't send out transcripts for half a year...so he has to get that worked out

Melvin Alaeze - currently tending to a list of things he and his family must do in order for him to be admitted to VT, bt he won't be at VT before Jan '07 if he completes the tasks at all

Well you can knock Warren of FSU's list of guys that didn't make it, he recieved the test score he needed today. Warren will be on campus this weekend and will start workouts next week.

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