2024 DE from North Carolina:

Gus Ritchey looking to get to know coaches

2023 DE wants to get to know the new staff better:

Tyler Thompson rekindling relationships at Virginia Tech

Bryson Tucker is a nearly 6'8" SG out of Mount St. Joseph High School in Baltimore. He is currently ranked #8 by ESPN in the class of 2024. Hokies have offered. The kid doesn't even turn 16 until July.

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They didn't exactly give him a ton of airtime but hey, it's still cool to be on TV:

WATCH: Lance Williams commits to Virginia Tech

Interesting that he visited WVU and they are now one of the three schools he will choose from. I wonder if we reached out to him?

Forgot to post it here earlier, apologies. Freshman DE from the 757:

Ari Watford interested in Virginia Tech

How do y'all feel about this? I'm either at the games or watching with TV commentary so I don't have a ton of exposure to his work.

Bill Roth will return in the Hokie broadcast booth

What’s the noise like? Seems like recruits are loving our energy and coaches. If everyone that says they can’t wait to come back actually do come, then we have to making up a lot of ground rather quickly? It would be interesting to know some of the in state coaches reactions to the relationship building. To me it def feels like we are getting somewhere though. What are y’all hearing and your thoughts?

Getting started in about 10 minutes. Updates to come from Brent Pry, assistants, and players.

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2 for UNC and 1 for Kansas, and 2 Virginians on Duke's team.

2022 OL Chase Sweigart picked South Carolina:


"Passed up Virginia Tech scholarship offer" doing a lot of work here (he didn't have an active offer, but was interested in a PWO opportunity at VT, as well), but worth noting where he ended up.

Forgot to post this one in here earlier, my apologies. 2024 WR from Richmond Collegiate:

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The other board is posting a rumor that Aluma and Mutts are signing NIL deals to return next year. Always weary of news on April 1st, but they claim this not fools, although they haven't confirmed it yet. Anyone else hear anything. Our cup would be over floweth wouldn't it be?

Virginia Tech has informed me it does not have room at this stage, so it's almost certain to be ECU:

Winstead's decision coming tonight, with a final three

Virginia Tech's coaching staff knows that there's plenty of turnover coming to the hoops roster this offseason. Mike Young lamented it in his pregame press conference for the NCAA Tournament game against Texas, noting that three of the key players (Keve Aluma, Storm Murphy, and Justyn Mutts) were grad-transfers in their final year on the court in Blacksburg.

There's a really good core of recruits coming in, with PG Rodney Rice and C Patrick Wessler leading the way (while wings Darren Buchanan and MJ Collins are going to be very good pieces in time, too). But the Hokies only had 11 recruited scholarship players this season, so there's room for another addition... and the most obvious place for such a player is the Transfer Portal - and of course looking at playing-time projections for some of the returning players, there may be outgoing transfers, too.

One player to keep an eye on is Eastern Michigan center Mo Njie

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He was a three-star recruit who at one point had Dayton and Xavier offers, but ended up at EMU where he just finished his freshman season. He developed into a starter very quickly in his lone year in Ypsilanti, and got just under half the available minutes all season. He's a traditional big: rebounding, shot-blocking, and two-point finishing are what he provided to EMU. As you may expect with such a player, a year in college adjusting to the level of play (and an up-transfer in level) could mean he takes another big step forward.

That has the Hokies poking around, but BYU, Pitt, and Tulsa have also reached out since Njie entered the Portal, too. One to keep an eye on, particularly if the Hokies lose any of the existing depth, or feel like it'll take a little bit of time for Wessler to be ready to contribute.