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Lead Analyst and Columnist @TechSideline . I've been covering Virginia Tech football and basketball since 2002.

Blacksburg, VA
Joined May 2011
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5 years
Mike Young has now beaten Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, and Roy Williams in the same season. Gotta imagine the list of guys who have done that is pretty small.
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Beck to VT is the best way possible.
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Elite coaching job by VT tonight. And props to the players for getting over ND so quickly. Such a turnaround since Duke.
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4 years
Good news of the day: by default, the Hokies move from No. 24 to No. 15 in the AP Poll.
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5 years
Hearing that the roughing the passer call on Eli Adams was turned into the ACC by VT, and the ACC has said that the call on the field was incorrect. It negated an INT by Chatman. ND didn't score on the drive, but... Oh well.
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4 years
Tech's long-snapper tonight, Enzo Anthony, transferred from UVA in the offseason. He was the snapper for the Hoos in 13 games last year. He's a direct descendent of Thomas Jefferson, he was starting at UVA, and he transferred to Tech. You can't make this stuff up.
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2 years
MLB scout in Bburg last night told someone that Tech has one of, if not the best, collection of college hitters he had ever seen
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2 years
Enter Sandman!
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6 years
Texas women's soccer was unbeaten at home...before tonight's NCAA Tournament game against Virginia Tech.
@NCAASoccer
NCAA Soccer
6 years
AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! #NCAASoccer
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4 years
Virginia Tech's defensive ends had 7.5 sacks combined the entire 2019 season. They have already combined for 8.5 sacks this season.
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1 year
The original Lane Stadium, East Stands. I had never seen this pic until today.
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4 years
Is Logan Thomas the best tight end in Virginia Tech history?
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3 years
Wild pic from last night. How in the world was this punt not blocked?
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5 years
Tapp is pretty much the embodiment of the Lunch Pail mentality. He'll basically serve as 10th assistant, recruiter, and somewhere down the line could take over as the lead DL coach. I like that hire.
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5 years
Caleb Farley has the No. 1 coverage grade of any Power 5 cornerback in the country per PFF, minimum 300 snaps. All-American level this year.
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5 years
Babcock on Fuente: "He has turned down a number of other opportunities for a lot of money. His loyalty is probably not as widely known as it should be."
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3 years
Whole staff in Highland Springs High School today. Pernell will sign with VT. Head coach is former VT CB Loren Johnson, and the DL coach is former VT DT Derrick Hopkins.
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Rashaud Pernell
3 years
🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
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3 years
Honestly, could you ever imagine a day when Virginia Tech hired the Wisconsin offensive line coach? On paper, based on previous resume, this is one of the best assistant coaching hires in VT history. Right up there with Kevin Rogers and Cav.
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3 years
Armani Chatman leads the nation in passing yards allowed when targeted. The number is -5. And he's the only corner in the top 4 to have played over 20 snaps in week one.
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5 years
Look closely and see that he says "Virginia Tech" and not "Virginia Tech University" or "The University of Virginia Tech." I like this guy already.
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5 years
Average number off/def snaps per true freshmen who have played in in the ACC this, per team... VT: 169.7 FSU: 119.3 Duke: 109.4 NCSU: 98.4 UNC: 83.8 Wake: 78.7 Miami: 77.3 GT: 76.1 Clemson: 49.1 BC: 38.8 L’Ville: 35.8 Pitt: 30.5 UVA: 26.7 Cuse: 26.5 VT number is staggering.
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6 years
Virginia Tech remains undefeated with College Gameday and Seth Greenberg in the building at the same time.
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11 months
ODU targeted Delane and Strong eight times for one completion for 6 yards. Strong returned his INT for 32 yards. That means that the Hokie defense actually outgained the ODU offense when the Monarchs targeted VT's corners. That's crazy.
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5 years
Chamarri Conner is part nickel corner, part safety, and part linebacker. And guess what? His PFF grade is No. 2 among corners, No. 2 among linebackers, and No. 2 among safeties (minimum 100 snaps, all ACC teams included) He's really having an All-ACC season.
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2 years
50% of UVA's home baseball losses this season have come to Virginia Tech.
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2 years
The fact that UNC went for it on 4th and 7 from near midfield shows how little respect they have for the VT offense.
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5 years
Gonna tell my kid this was Bud Foster
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5 years
By the way, the fact that Tech had the 1st and 2nd highest rated coverage corners in the league this year means that cornerbacks coach Brian Mitchell did a great job developing those guys.
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4 years
Last season against Michigan State I felt like there was some luck involved. Didn't feel like that tonight.
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8 years
Noteworthy: Tech's players didn't celebrate after the game. They just walked off the court like they expected to win.
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1 year
Gotta be happy for Kenny Brooks. One of the legit good guys.
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2 years
Liberty targeted Mansoor Delane six times yesterday. They completed one pass for a total of -1 yard.
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3 years
Loren Johnson, man. That's why Highland Springs is great.
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Sean Robertson
3 years
Highland Springs ( @gohshsfootball ) standout Rashaud Pernell ( @Rashaudd__ ) signed his NLI to officially become a Hokie ( @HokiesFB )! Also some strong words from HC @Coach_LJ_ . @CBS6 @RecruitingHSHS #SigningDay #FinalScoreFriday #FSFCBS6
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5 years
Career win No. 300 for Mike Young. No. 1 at Virginia Tech.
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5 years
Wyatt Teller, ladies and gentlemen.
@WeAreBigGuys
WeAreBigGuys
5 years
I call it.. the ninja block technique!
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5 years
Hearing that Mike Young will be in NOVA tomorrow to see former VT signee Anthony Harris in hopes of getting him back in the fold.
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6 years
Was it worth it?
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3 years
Big, big recruiting win for VT. South Carolina went all in on him and got the last visit, yet VT still won the battle.
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3 years
All the vibes
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5 years
NET Rankings, ACC schools... No. 3 Duke No. 14 Louisville No. 15 FSU No. 36 Virginia Tech No. 55 NC State No. 73 Virginia No. 74 Pitt No. 82 Miami No. 85 Syracuse No. 86 Georgia Tech No. 87 Notre Dame No. 92 Clemson No. 105 Wake Forest No. 116 UNC (Ha-Ha!) No. 152 Boston College
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Tuten was originally committed to BC outta the portal. Later flipped to VT.
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5 years
Mike Young's first recruiting win.
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Mike Barber
5 years
Landers Nolley, the highly touted freshman forward who redshirted this past basketball season, will remain with #Hokies ...
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2 years
Somebody just threw a random celebratory beer on me. And I love it.
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5 years
Heard that Farley has a concussion. Props to Armani Chatman for playing well in his place. I thought Farley's first half was the best of his career.
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3 years
Over their last 3 games, the VT defense has held opposing QBs to 54% passing, 662 yards, 4 TDs and 6 INTs In case you're wondering, that was against first round pick Trevor Lawrence, Brennan "Steve Young" Armstrong, and future first round pick Sam Howell.
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5 years
VT's national defensive rankings for the month of November... Total defense: No. 11 Yards per Play: No. 6 Rushing defense: No. 6 Yards per Carry: No. 5 Opposing QB Rating: No. 8 Scoring defense: No. 2 Tackles for Loss: No. 17 Sacks: No. 13
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3 years
TBH I'm as excited to find out who the new strength coach is. That's weak.
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7 years
Congrats to Josh Jackson on coming out of nowhere to beat out Benkert.
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5 years
4-straight 20-win seasons for the Hokies. First time they've done that since they had 5-straight from 1981-86.
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3 years
Example No. 1 of shirts that should not exist.
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Huge
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Virginia Tech Football
8 months
Guess who’s back 👀 #ThisIsHome
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4 years
Over the last week in Blacksburg we've had a tornado, hail, flash floods...and tonight, snow. If this last week doesn't sum up Bburg, then nothing ever will.
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3 years
In 1986, a Roanoke Times columnist described the Beamer hiring as a kid waking up on Christmas Day expecting a new toy but getting a sweater instead. As it turned out, VT needed a sweater and not a shiny new toy, even though they didn't realize it at the time.
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3 years
With Ryan Willis promoted to the Chicago active roster this week, did you realize that we're a couple of COVID cases away from watching Willis hand the ball off to Khalil Herbert in an NFL game?
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4 years
I've never been so nervous about a game Tech never trailed.
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8 months
Tech has offered at least a dozen OL portal guys, and Bowen flew all the way to Cali to visit one this week. Improving the talent/depth on the OL seems to be a major focus of this portal window.
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6 years
Here's a random (and awesome) pic of Ben Hilgart leading the team down the tunnel for pregame warmups.
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5 years
Dax. Geez.
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2 years
Last year we would have lost that one due to lack of post depth when Mutts picked up his fourth. Not this year. Basile and Poteat were massive pickups.
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2 years
Madhouse
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4 years
Lol, Justin Fuente said on TTL last night that his first game as offensive coordinator for TCU was the game Cavman fell off his horse.
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5 years
Honoring Alan Tisdale
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4 years
That was the best shot clock violation in the history of basketball.
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4 years
Cassell would be rather loud right now.
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2 years
Yes there was couch on Main Street tonight. I guess the cops saved it before it got set on fire.
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5 years
Virginia Tech is the first team to score 30 points against Kentucky this year.
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5 months
Meet your new mike linebacker.
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6 years
As of today, Virginia Tech's in-conference strength of schedule ranks No. 1 in the ACC, meaning no ACC team had a tougher league schedule than the Hokies. Tech is 10-7 against that schedule.
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1 year
Massive. That's the DT I wanted to go along with the guys who are already committed.
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3 years
Virginia Tech wide receiver Keli Lawson. That's one tiny football.
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2 years
I really despise this. Big donors buying up a lot of the best tickets and then trying to sell them at a huge profit on StubHub. Just a crash grab from donors who don't even need the money screws over other fans who actually want to attend.
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5 years
Landers Nolley wins the Landers Nolley Award.
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Mark Berman
5 years
Landers Nolley II of the #Hokies has been named ACC freshman of the week for the fifth time.
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5 months
Jesus. Those are legit parallel squats.
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Kemari Copeland™
5 months
Love being a hokie 💪🏾🦃 635 x 3
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Transfer portal Mike LB target from Middle Tennessee.
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Sam Brumfield lll
8 months
What’s up Hokie Nation?!!!📍 @HokiesFB #ThisIsHome
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Huge, my No. 1 portal wish. Now add Copeland, Gilliam and Brumfield.
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Aeneas Peebles Commits To Virginia Tech Big pickup for the Hokies out of the portal. Peebles was one of their top targets, and at a huge position of need.
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6 years
I support this. The greatest VT uni of all time.
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2019 request @WhitBabcock - can @HokiesFB recognize the 20th anniversary of the 99 team with this look for a home game?
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3 years
Two transfer QBs committing at the exact same moment. Almost seems...planned?
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5 years
For those complaining about VT-UVA at noon, I ran the numbers yesterday, and ABC noon games draw more viewers than ESPN night games or ESPN 3:30 games. It's actually a sign of respect.
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5 years
I guess being ACC linebacker of the week 5 times isn't good enough for first team.
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Virginia Tech Football
5 years
Eight Players Earn All-ACC Honors Farley & Ashby headline group 👉 #Hokies 🦃 | #LPD 💼
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5 years
20 years ago today, Virginia Tech played Florida State for the National Championship. I could barely keep down a meal all day long.
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3 years
In the last year, Tech's facilities have been massively improved with the new weight room, SAPC, new dorm for athletes, and the upcoming new players lounge. Combine that with Ryan Smith and Adan Lechtenberg being very good recruiters, and boom, you have improved recruiting.
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10 months
Virginia Tech has a 100% winning percentage when @WillStewartTSL is out of town for a wedding.
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2 years
Yes! Bring Skipper to the baseball game today! The NCAA hasn't said anything about that...
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Rob Hale
2 years
@ChrisColemanTSL We fire a full on CANON after every score in Lane. Not sure if there’s an NCAA rule for football similar but like, c’mon. Just such a poor showing @NCAABaseball .
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The Elijah Brooks hire continues to pay dividends as well. Also, Mansoor Delane might be the best player recruiter VT has had in awhile.
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8 months
This 1-hour old Tweet has aged extremely well!
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Huge, my No. 1 portal wish. Now add Copeland, Gilliam and Brumfield.
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3 years
The "world wide leader in sports" had VT's record incorrect for the entire first half, and had the UVA logo instead of the VT logo on ESPNPlus.
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5 years
Gonna throw a punch at a DT then back up so you can be separated.
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Tyler Thompson
5 years
ESPN’s video of the Kentucky/Virginia Tech scuffle featuring Lynn Bowden
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10 months
Tech played 18 players on O on Saturday. All of them are eligible to return next year (3 listed as seniors, but they all have a COVID year). Point being, keep running the type of offense that they ran on Saturday night and let the players get used to.
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If the wide receiver says it, you probably should.
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Bro, just run the damn ball!
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3 years
I feel bad for whoever we play in a bowl.
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RedditCFB
3 years
In the last 24 hours, both Maryland Basketball and Virginia Football unexpectedly parted ways with their Head Coach, immediately after a loss to Virginia Tech.
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4 years
Mattheus Carroll just committed to Virginia Tech on his Instagram Live.
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2 years
So yeah, over their last 12 ACC games, VT is 5-0 when I eat a cheeseburger before the game, and 0-7 when I don't. Here's the chart. This is some real deep level analysis.
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3 years
More ammo
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7 years
Cam Phillips passed Danny Coale in career catches. Both had 165 catches before Sunday. Of course, we all know Coale actually caught 166.
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6 years
I just saw the shiny Minnesota helmets and thought it was Florida State. Then I said, oh wait, Florida State didn't make a bowl game this year.
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5 years
8 ACC games with Robinson: 74.7 ppg 3 ACC games without Robinson: 54 ppg In lieu of a Hokie Club donation this year, can I just donate my left foot to JRob?
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5 years
For the season, opponents have completed just 24-of-62 passes (38.7%) against Farley and Jermaine Waller. VT has the best cornerback duo in the ACC through the first 7 games.
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5 years
Last year's Tech upset of Duke in Cassell was played on February 26. Today is...February 26.
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1 year
Using the 247 Class Calculator, the three commitments today takes Tech up to No. 22 in the country.
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5 years
In all my 15 or so years covering VT, this is the first time I've seen a recruit commit in back of a Mazda pickup. I like it.
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Naquan Brown™
5 years
CONGRATULATIONS MY BOI @Keemie_lou 🦃‼️‼️ #HokieNation
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