I found this interview & spotlight on Gurdak pretty insightful. It's from June '23 so old, but actually provides some key takeaways: - He's a BIG boy, as in strength/weight. Gurdak says he weighed 288! in January '23 & by June '23 was down to 252. Losing 36 lbs in a 5 month span is impressive (half of that was in-season too) so seems like he's got great work ethic. I'm curious if this will be something to monitor in the future, as well as how CMY wants to use him, continue to slim down? or bulk up to bang in the post with ACC bigs? - VT was on him EARLY... specifically CMY himself. This was over a year ago and he made it clear we were the school talking to him most. The host specifically asks Gurdak who his primary recruiter was at VT since Mike Jones left, and he said "Mike Young himself, the head coach". Big props to CMY on this one building a strong relationship early, interesting to know it wasn't a pure 'assistant coach get'. - He's from West Virginia and said he loves the outdoors/rural area, what a rare/refreshing take as that usually works against us, someone should link him up with Sergio Render lol. - He played at Paul VI his Freshman/Soph years where they won (& he contributed to) a championship. So this guy has been fully immersed in highly competitive basketball at the national level the past 4 yrs on top of the AAU circuit. - I'll try to catch 1 of his games up here this season against a WCAC opponent. Which i recommend to anyone who can go to 1. I went to a Dematha - O'Connell game 2 yrs ago to see Rodney Rice (RIP) play & holy smokes that was an intense atmosphere w/ high level play, Mike Young & Mike Jones even showed up haha. - Curious what the staff's long-term plan is for Gurdak & Ryan Jones together, you'd love to have them both on the floor but I don't really know if that's feasible or realistic, wonder what GC34 or Rev think about this.