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He also got the university purse string holders

off their asses. I agree Fuente didn’t recruit very well. I’d also argue that VT as an institution and athletic department were asleep at the wheel for 10 years.

Since we’re pointing out what people “did” to VT, let’s not forget how craptastic our facilities, support, etc have been relative to top 25 programs.
Posted: 04/24/2022 at 11:11 AM ET
(In response to this post by Mercury)

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PSU has commits from 4 out of top 5 VA athletes or 5 out of the top 10.
Hoakie82 • 04/23/22 10:59 PM ET
Pry's going to have to roll up his sleeves. There is much work to be done.**
VTfan2019 • 04/26/22 10:37 AM ET
Some kids do not want to stay close to home
fordham • 04/25/22 10:17 AM ET
The money behind the logo means more than the person behind the logo**
marcbvtgm • 04/24/22 08:38 PM ET
These days ya just buy your players. The burg needs more
fordham • 04/25/22 12:52 PM ET
Sugar daddies, to be precise.**
NokieHokie • 04/25/22 08:47 PM ET
Even whn the mascot falls off of his horse 🤔**
TomTurkey • 04/24/22 09:29 PM ET
Going to take some time folks **
VaTechHokiesACC • 04/24/22 06:59 PM ET
Portal back once they lift a few years**
DaveVT • 04/24/22 04:22 PM ET
We were in a deep hole, that ironically Pry put us in, but with time he can
Stech • 04/24/22 03:43 PM ET
No …
VPI63 • 04/24/22 07:45 PM ET
Lots of dead horse stuff around but do you realize what you just said?
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 07:45 AM ET
The negative 757 stuff
crazylane • 04/25/22 12:30 PM ET
The coaches did have respect for Frank, but they didn't have control of the
NokieHokie • 04/25/22 01:15 PM ET
Agree on that**
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 08:36 PM ET
For the last several years of Beamer, 757 blue chippers
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 12:36 PM ET
You saying FU recruited VA hard? get out!**
OldRetiredHokie • 04/25/22 08:53 AM ET
So you are saying Pry didn't land kids from Virginia at Penn State?
Stech • 04/24/22 07:51 PM ET
Thank you do have another comment
Mercury • 04/25/22 02:07 PM ET
Agreed, I'm skeptical of new coach bump, often built on early PT promises.
Stech • 04/25/22 04:03 PM ET
This one has stuff and points I can agree with
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 07:55 AM ET
Yeah I agree that went on, but it’s like fighting technology, adapt or die
Stech • 04/25/22 08:00 AM ET
True but the handlers aren't like technology, which can be adapted to.
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 08:20 AM ET
Agree Pry is beginning with us at a time of huge change. That might be
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 08:05 AM ET
I’m saying that FU didn’t compete and..
VPI63 • 04/24/22 07:56 PM ET
More like PSU and the bluebloods had been there all along
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 07:50 AM ET
I agree.**
Stech • 04/24/22 08:01 PM ET
No offense meant what so ever but how did Pry put is in a deep hole? **
SCHokie1103 • 04/24/22 05:44 PM ET
I'm presuming because he recruited them to PSU**
TomTurkey • 04/24/22 06:09 PM ET
He recruited and landed a bunch of Virginia kids while at Penn State, now
Stech • 04/24/22 06:08 PM ET
That assumes that the reason PSU won those battles is due to something
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 08:03 AM ET
We'll never know because Fu hardly tried**
OldRetiredHokie • 04/25/22 08:55 AM ET
Fear you bought into coachspeak and playerspeak
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 12:15 PM ET
What's that have to do with the schools that never heard from him?**
OldRetiredHokie • 04/25/22 04:06 PM ET
I know PSU’s always recruited VA but I don’t recall any one school getting
Hoakie82 • 04/24/22 06:29 PM ET
Talk about old news.**
Stork • 04/24/22 03:18 PM ET
Test
Mercury • 04/24/22 02:57 PM ET
Talking to yourself again I see
OldRetiredHokie • 04/24/22 06:38 PM ET
For someone who purports themself to be educated, he has terrible spelling
NokieHokie • 04/24/22 06:41 PM ET
"Get close to every player handler in the state"... sticky 1o1.
bourbonstreet • 04/24/22 04:54 PM ET
Catch up in the biggest relation$hip**
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 03:48 PM ET
Doesn’t work that way. PSU got there by building relationships. 4-5 months
VTizzle • 04/24/22 12:51 PM ET
Lol I don’t know why people don’t realize this is how it works. Heck even
uvabasher • 04/24/22 01:03 PM ET
Nick Saban @ Bama, or Nick Saban at first job?
HWA • 04/25/22 04:06 PM ET
Referring to first job but even that class although top 10, wasn’t on to
uvabasher • 04/25/22 07:20 PM ET
We have a lot of posters here who apparently didn’t like the hire
sacramento hokie • 04/24/22 09:12 PM ET
Exactly right Basher and neither did Dabo turn it around over night. **
SCHokie1103 • 04/24/22 05:47 PM ET
People just don't want to face reality, PSU is a national blueblood
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 11:58 AM ET
They are a blueblood but not at the top of the list.
HokiePail • 04/25/22 09:34 AM ET
Yep. Bama doesn't want most of the VA talent
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 12:19 PM ET
Agree w/ the first part, but we have beaten all those schools for recruits
Stech • 04/24/22 03:47 PM ET
I believe he can because he’s been at a blue blood and he gets it and what
SCHokie1103 • 04/24/22 05:50 PM ET
I agree.**
Stech • 04/24/22 06:10 PM ET
Seems to me that PSU and UNC have pretty much taken whom they have wanted
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 03:52 PM ET
We have beaten both of them many times with Virginia kids, but not the last
Stech • 04/24/22 04:35 PM ET
Not entirely accurate......
2hhoop3 • 04/24/22 03:59 PM ET
For a little while and maybe not the volume but still garnered big names.
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 05:20 PM ET
Given that the era of college football when Dooley came to Blacksburg
VTHokie2000 • 04/24/22 04:47 PM ET
I am not sure....
2hhoop3 • 04/24/22 06:04 PM ET
I know the money
crazylane • 04/24/22 01:37 PM ET
You still don't get the point, its not about royal football or Bball
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 03:45 PM ET
You have violated the rules of sensibility
HOKIEGOBBLE • 04/24/22 04:49 PM ET
Let me know where VT beating anybody means squat on the national scene
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 05:28 PM ET
If VT had done a better job of carpe diem the momentum that was gained
VTHokie2000 • 04/24/22 05:01 PM ET
Different time so maybe. **
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 05:29 PM ET
If you look at the blue bloods, then you will see they struck when the iron
VTHokie2000 • 04/24/22 05:33 PM ET
I don't disagree that VT did not maximize the success on the field way back
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 05:38 PM ET
College football in the 1980s wasn't that different than college football
VTHokie2000 • 04/24/22 05:43 PM ET
I totally get the point
crazylane • 04/24/22 04:40 PM ET
Look how long big media continues to affix their lips to the posteriors of
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 05:35 PM ET
I think everyone recognizes that Nebraska is lost.
Truthahn • 04/25/22 12:13 PM ET
Point is, Neb has been like Miami backness
VTCALS72 • 04/25/22 12:17 PM ET
UVa is a national blue blood in sucktitude.**
NokieHokie • 04/24/22 12:04 PM ET
Like Bruce Smith said during the Spring Game-VT must recruit VA first!!**
STEAMBOAT • 04/24/22 11:50 AM ET
This will be a losing strategy & I bet Pry’ll mostly pay lip service to it**
marcbvtgm • 04/24/22 08:41 PM ET
I think most have identified the problem but how do we fix it?
VTCALS72 • 04/24/22 03:56 PM ET
It will take time which may not be on VT's side. Also, VT may have to pass
VTHokie2000 • 04/24/22 05:08 PM ET
There are plenty of busts in the top 10. Wait and see who is good.
Flanker • 04/24/22 11:19 AM ET
Gonna take some time… new staff is working hard to change **
Polito1 • 04/24/22 11:04 AM ET
^^^THIS^^^ Gonna take longer than 4 months. 🤔😁**
91HokieBob • 04/24/22 12:50 PM ET
Agree, four (4) years is probably a much more accurate time frame. Remember**
FLKEYSHOKIE • 04/24/22 04:48 PM ET
Agree, four (4) years is probably a much more accurate time frame. Remember**
FLKEYSHOKIE • 04/24/22 04:48 PM ET
Given the role the Portal now plays in college football, it could be done
VTHokie2000 • 04/24/22 04:56 PM ET
The portal might be a very positive route to a quicker turnaround for the
FLKEYSHOKIE • 04/24/22 05:19 PM ET
I do agree with you that Pry is probably a better judge of (silence)
VTHokie2000 • 04/24/22 05:25 PM ET
Will VT get a new coach recruiting bump or is it all about NIL**
hokeyhokie • 04/24/22 08:23 AM ET
Some schools are getting recruiting bumps with new coaches.**
Jeffroww • 04/24/22 12:47 PM ET
Good question, I guess a bump relative to what? I think yes relative to the
BG Hokie • 04/24/22 10:24 AM ET
In retrospect
crazylane • 04/24/22 05:03 PM ET
Recruiting is a 4 year effort
Mercury • 04/24/22 05:18 AM ET
He also got the university purse string holders ◄
Pride_and_Joy • 04/24/22 11:11 AM ET
Respect for PSU and Franklin
WOJO • 04/23/22 11:35 PM ET
Doubt that. If he knows the kids and thinks they're open, he'll call
Vienna_Hokie • 04/24/22 07:29 AM ET
That’s absurd…If he can flip a good player that would help us win games….
CrystalCoveHokie • 04/24/22 12:50 AM ET
Obviously u are uninformed
Mercury • 04/24/22 05:33 AM ET
Obviously you didn’t read my post……..
CrystalCoveHokie • 04/24/22 09:52 AM ET
Goodness.
JRHokie • 04/24/22 02:32 AM ET
Obviously you didn’t read my post either….See above**
CrystalCoveHokie • 04/24/22 09:53 AM ET
I Sure Did.. And Responded .. PRY is For VT..
JRHokie • 04/25/22 05:44 AM ET
So you would be ok with your new wife sleeping with her ex?…….
CrystalCoveHokie • 04/25/22 12:24 PM ET
I think he meant to respond to one you replied to first....**
TekkNerd • 04/24/22 11:56 AM ET
FYI I read it and don't understand their responses
OldRetiredHokie • 04/24/22 10:52 AM ET
And wasn't the idea of firing Fuente mid season and paying him
Maroon Baboon • 04/24/22 01:46 AM ET