Lotta competition for this one:

New Virginia Tech football offer: Jonathan Odom

And a kid who's already visited:

New Virginia Tech football offer: Jayland Parker

Includes VT:

Sophomore receiver Blackwell names top six

Virginia Tech among the programs in hottest pursuit:

Virginia Tech among those recruiting Simon the hardest

Let's chat during today's games. The first one up is the most relevant to our purposes: Miami and Wake Forest are playing for the right to take on VT tomorrow.

Hard to decide which way to root in this one. Wake Forest seems to be playing much better down the stretch with a near upset of Duke in Cameron and leading FSU for much of their final game in Tallahassee. However, beating the same team (Miami) three times in one season, including twice in the span of five days is also difficult. I think I'm leaning toward taking our chances with Wake.

Among the updates from the Alhambra Classic:

Alhambra Classic: Hokies in close contact with Williams and more

Lamareon James:

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Like with other recent prospects, you don't need to land 'em all (and I think VT had mostly moved on from James), but the perception starts to get bad when you're messing around in Alabama while kids from Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina are making early commitments to conference rivals.

The strategy could still pay off (and I remain pretty comfortable in predicting that UNC will lose some commits when they struggle on the field this Fall), but for the time being, it's not going to generate positive buzz around VT.

I hope to god he is ready to play for the NCAA tournament or it will be a huge disappointment. I wish he could have at least played one game to get back some timing and in shape!

Certainly it's no secret that I'm very high on him:

From the film room: Keshawn King

For NC DE Myles Murphy:

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I wouldn't say anything definitive, but it really does seem like the North Carolina pipeline is drying up a bit (through both the Hokies' choice to not pursue some guys heavily, and through their inability to gain as much traction with the ones they do want).

I like the chances here early, especially because VT is also pursuing his cousin:

New Virginia Tech football offer: Marquez Bell

A couple more to write up coming, too:

New Virginia Tech football offer: DJ Lundy

It may be small consolation (especially because it makes a potential run to the ACC Tournament championship less likely), but it's consolation nonetheless:

Hokies miss double-bye opportunity... but could it help them?

If the motivation from last night's loss helps them knock off Florida State in the second game in Charlotte, it might be even better.

New Virginia Tech football offer: Solomon DeShields

Quick side note here: I know some of these offers he reports are a little fuzzy (and alluded to that in the story), but that Virginia Tech's is indeed a solid offer.

Have to imagine an offer'll be hard to come by if they hold onto everyone on the current roster, but he's still in close communication with the staff:

Fast 7v7 Tournament: New Texas prospects on the radar