After a 2004-05 season that saw a football player moonlighting as a critical
off the bench role player down the stretch for a first division ACC team, one of
the first priorities of Head coach Seth Greenberg and his assistants was to
replenish the front line for this season with additional bodies, and especially
size.
In 6-8 Forward/Center Cheick Diakate and 6-7 Forward Terrance Vinson, the
Hokie staff found two players who can hopefully provide the depth that was so
sorely lacking lack season, when Jeff King meandered over from Lane Stadium and
became a trusted member of the playing rotation in February. The Hokies had
hoped to have a third frontcourt freshman this season, but 6-9,230-pound Hyman
Taylor has run afoul of team rules, and the program has announced that he will
transfer out.