Looking back much of our past success was based on the players we recruited
We had some dogs. One thing I will never understand is the drop off in RB recruiting, it's like we forgot how to recruit that position. Overton is the first HS recruit running back that we landed in a long time that looks like a good P4 back. Most of our HS RB recruits haven't been anything special, ditto on QB. Don't get me wrong, we were able to find guys like Tuten, Hawkins, and Hebert.....but they were transfers, and looking at where we pulled them from, we could have landed them out of high school. It wasn't like there weren't good RBs out there, we just started picking the wrong ones. Players like JC Coleman, Deshawn McClease, Keyshawn King, and even Steven Peoples (I liked him though) should never have been season leading rushers if we were recruiting that position well. Hopefully this changes with Franklin. Time will tell but Mickens certainly looks like a return to the type of RBs that we used to recruit fairly regularly. If you have to go to the portal for your starting QB and starting RB all of the time then you're recruiting poorly IMO.
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Watching the 2010 ACCCG vs FSU… did we really have
-- TM86it
Feb 22, 2026 at 09:35 PM ET
TM86it
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02/22/26 09:35 PM ET
Yet started 0-2 and got pummeled by Stanford in Orange Bowl.**
-- marcbvtgm
Feb 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM ET
marcbvtgm
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02/23/26 10:10 AM ET
Yep, but we also had the same OC since 2001 who shouldn't have been an OC
-- Hate2SeeItEnd Hokie
Feb 23, 2026 at 09:41 AM ET
Hate2SeeItEnd Hokie
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02/23/26 09:41 AM ET
you're talking about Stiney, right?**
-- lazarus1
Feb 23, 2026 at 02:48 PM ET
lazarus1
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02/23/26 02:48 PM ET
Looking back much of our past success was based on the players we recruited
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-- TekkNerd
Feb 23, 2026 at 07:08 AM ET
TekkNerd
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02/23/26 07:08 AM ET
loved that game...and then came the Orange Bowl**
-- furnulator
Feb 23, 2026 at 06:28 AM ET
furnulator
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02/23/26 06:28 AM ET
That Stanford Team was really good
-- Virtual Hokie
Feb 25, 2026 at 11:44 AM ET
Virtual Hokie
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02/25/26 11:44 AM ET
all I remember about that Bowl was weirdo Harbaugh calling us GA Tech
-- Scream_On_D
Feb 23, 2026 at 09:34 PM ET
Scream_On_D
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02/23/26 09:34 PM ET
Harbaugh love him or hate him just out classed Beamer that day
-- Hokiefied
Feb 23, 2026 at 08:06 AM ET
Hokiefied
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02/23/26 08:06 AM ET
He clowned Bud til the very end with those endless pre-snap shifts. **
-- Pride_and_Joy
Feb 23, 2026 at 09:52 AM ET
Pride_and_Joy
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02/23/26 09:52 AM ET
Yep, it exposed the hidden coverage
-- Seikoh_04
Feb 23, 2026 at 03:14 PM ET
Seikoh_04
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02/23/26 03:14 PM ET
3 tight end alignments with 2 shifting sides on any given play.
-- Hokiefied
Feb 23, 2026 at 11:10 AM ET
Hokiefied
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02/23/26 11:10 AM ET
Their DC also clowned our OC. 284 total yards and 12 points. **
-- Hate2SeeItEnd Hokie
Feb 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM ET
Hate2SeeItEnd Hokie
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02/23/26 10:10 AM ET
Yeah, but who didn't clown our OC? Bud is a HoFer. Stiney is not. **
-- Pride_and_Joy
Feb 23, 2026 at 10:57 AM ET
Pride_and_Joy
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02/23/26 10:57 AM ET
True that.**
-- Hate2SeeItEnd Hokie
Feb 23, 2026 at 12:39 PM ET
Hate2SeeItEnd Hokie
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02/23/26 12:39 PM ET