The
Silly Season of college football is completed for another year. Coaches praise
their classes, recruiting junkies weauxf about the perceived high quality of
their school’s class or despair about the lack thereof, and those who provide
so-called insider information on the destinations of who they determine to be
the top prospects quickly move on to rating the next class in the hopes that
people will continue shelling out bucks to access it. And, best of all, in these
days of instant information, people will only have to wait a mere 2-3 years to
find out exactly how good was their school’s recruiting class.
By the accounts of pretty much everybody, Virginia Tech had a pretty good
class. Certainly Frank Beamer said so in public. Of course, Frank’s
description of his recruiting classes never varies a word from how he describes
each and every new crop of Tech football freshmen. Whether he and his staff have
brought in a large number of players with a large number of stars affixed to
their names by the recruiting services, or a bunch of guys who would be better
suited manning the Hokie Club parking lots on game day -- and he has brought in
classes of both -- Frank always praises them as a fine group who will make
wonderful additions to the Tech football program.