Rob Harrington, Editor of the Recruiter's Handbook and PrepStars.com, provides a final perspective on Virginia Tech's 2007 men's basketball recruiting class. Despite the loss of Gus Gilchrist, PrepStars will still rate Tech's haul as "one of the four or five best classes" in the ACC, Harrington says, with three signees ranked in the final top 100 list.
Let's begin with the recent news with 6-9 center/power forward Gus Gilchrist. For those who don't know, Gilchrist recently decided not to enroll at Virginia Tech for the upcoming academic year, citing concerns stemming from the April tragedy (though, as Will Stewart wrote, there is more to this story. Gilchrist has not publicly ruled out re-signing with the Hokies in 2008, but it is expected that he will head elsewhere.