Rivals250 DB Damar Hamlin is trying to do his homework on the schools that have offered him. He is in touch with as many schools as he can and spends a lot of time messaging with coaches over Twitter. He mentions schools like Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Clemson, Penn State an Virginia Tech as some of the ones he is in touch with most. Hamlin is also in the process of planning some visits farther away from home.

Article: The latest with R250 DB Hamlin

In the article linked below 2017 4-star DL Fred Hansard talks about his recent offers from Virginia Tech, Arizona State, Iowa, Ohio State, Michigan and Boston College. He also has some visits in mind.

Article: Hansard on fire

This came out yesterday, but any thoughts on VT in the challenge next basketball season? Hokies will play Northwestern. I wasn't sure if VT would take part, since there's one ACC team and usually the worst team from the previous season gets left out. Georgia Tech is the one left out, though.

Date Game
Mon, Nov 30 Clemson at Minnesota
Wake Forest at Rutgers
Tue, Dec 1 No. 4 Maryland at No. 2 North Carolina
No. 5 Virginia at Ohio State
Michigan at NC State
Purdue at Pittsburgh
Northwestern at Virginia Tech
Miami (Fla.) at Nebraska
Wed, Dec 2 No. 14 Indiana at No. 7 Duke
No. 21 Louisville at No. 12 Michigan State
No. 13 Notre Dame at Illinois
No. 25 Wisconsin at Syracuse
Florida State at Iowa
Penn State at Boston College

Story up on the pilotonline site. A lot of good players we are interested in at OLHS. It briefly mentioned recruiting and how players may have been steered to certain schools. Maybe Nnadi and the recent commit had a little encouragement from coaches to attend FSU. Not saying this is true; however, Virginia Beach School System has reason to believe something is shady and another school or two may be next.

Guys, last night and early this morning, the Hokies made a pair of offers to a 2016 Michigan State commit and a 2017 rising receiver:

ATH Daquon Green, (2017) Tampa Bay Tech (Fla.)
RB Abdul Adams, Woodson (DC), three stars, No. 8 in DC -- Michigan State commit

In the article linked below, 4-star LB Jaquan Yulee breaks down his top five (Alabama, Florida State, Michigan State, North Carolina and Virginia Tech). He is set to announce his commitment on June 4.

Article: Four-star LB Yulee previews decision

JUCO SF Ty Outlaw ??

Twitter says maybe not confirmed?

JS?

VT has offered 2017 DE Damion Barber

The Hokies put out yet another big offer tonight, to 2017 four-star DT Grant Gibson from Mallard Creek, NC. Gibson also has offers from Tennessee, NC State and Vanderbilt: http://sports.yahoo.com/virginiatech/football/recruiting/player-Grant-Gibson-167550

saw about 4 COMMITS posted on hoo "sabre" website with familiar names of mutual recruits showing decisions still undecided /pending on our site. Can't help be concerned about Beamer pending/unknown retirement date being used by everyone else to undermine our recruiting.

What do you think the real reason was for Roth's departure?

Guys, I mentioned this last week, but this week's chat will be moved up a day, to Thursday, but still at our regular time of 12:30 pm ET. There's plenty of recruiting going on, from new offers, to the Rivals Combine, to the false reports of a new VT basketball commit. Come get answers to those questions and anything else you're curious about, by getting the very most out of your subscriptions for the chat!

This week's chat link: http://bit.ly/1PiZwBf

Guys, here's my story and video with Northwest Guilford (NC) safety Zach Welch, who badly wants a VT offer. He's very good friends with Mook Reynolds, but it remains to be seen if the Hokies will jump in. I love Welch a lot. Great kid who plays extremely hard, but he's a 'tweener' in size, which is why he doesn't have any offers at this point. He'd been playing linebacker, but is short for that spot and has moved to safety to try to help that:

http://rvls.co/1ATGkhD

Guys, here's my full story on Ashley. The teams really in play here besides his latest offers, Alabama and VT are Auburn, Ohio State, Michigan, Louisville, Miami and South Carolina. He said he doesn't remember all of his 24 offers, but when I asked which ones should I make sure were on his profile, he said those. Auburn though is the overwhelming favorite at this point, as he visited there for the spring game last month (only visit this spring) and will be back May 30 for a camp there. But he did mention wanting to visit VT. Plenty of time here.

http://rvls.co/1E3BpKY

VT has offered 2017 LB Nathan Proctor

Guys, I just talked earlier with 2017 four-star DT Fred Hansard, who just picked up an offer from VT today, his ninth overall. Hansard transferred from Camden Catholic (NJ) to Hun School (NJ) last fall and reclassified from the 2016 class.

It sounds like that move has proven very beneficial so far. He didn't have many looks before, but now has Ohio State, Miami, Iowa and others.

With VT, Hansard said he actually visited in December. He said it was for a junior day, but I believe it was for one of the official visit weekends the Hokies had for their committed guys. Others visited, too, but it wasn't officially a junior day. But Hansard said he loved seeing the construction on the new facility, meeting the coaches and also seeing the players' lounge.

Assistant coaches Charley Wiles and Cornell Brown actually visited Hansard at school today to make the offer. Hansard said he likes both and they've told him how much they like and want him to be a Hokie. Hansard said of VT, "They're definitely a team I'll stay with."

Right now, it sounds like Rutgers might have a slight advantage, if any of them do. Hansard said he's been quite a few times, as it's only about 30 minutes from his home. He said the DL coach, Jim Panagos, has the best relationship with him than any other coach.

No visits set yet, but Hansard said he wants to see as many of the schools that have offered him this summer as he can, like North Carolina, Miami, Iowa, Arizona State and Penn State. The Nittany Lions are the only one that has not offered, which is also something to watch.

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Guys, I spoke a little while ago with 2017 Dr Phillips (Fla.) five-star OL Calvin Ashley. VT just offered today, becoming his 24th offer.

Ashley said that while he's listed at 6'7" and 270 pounds, he's actually at 6'8" and 311 pounds. He told me that's the result of a lot of protein, like pork and pasta.

Assistant coach Stacy Searels visited Ashley this morning and made the offer to his coach, who relayed the news. Ashley didn't have a ton to say about VT as coaches can't contact him right now, but Ashley said he wants to find out more.

The other most recent offer for Ashley came two weeks ago when Alabama and Lane Kiffin offered. But the school to watch as the presumptive favorite here is Auburn. That's the only place he's visited this year, for the spring game and he spent the weekend there. He also is going back May 30 for the Big Cat camp. Without me even asking, though, the only other school he said he might visit this summer is VT, though no date set.

Hard to get much of a read past that he really likes Auburn, but if he does visit VT, that'll be the true indicator.

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Guys, this will be on our front page in a bit, but here's the full results of everyone who competed Sunday at the DC stop of the Rivals Camp Series presented by Under Armour. Remember, all the times are laser timed and are as accurate as is possible. The equipment and crew who operated it was the exact same as the NFL Combine the past few years, as Under Armour is also the NFL Combine sponsor. I think these times were a bit eye-opening for a lot of kids and parents who had run low numbers by hand time:

http://bit.ly/1HbUzmp

Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Michigan, UGA, Clemson, Ole Miss, Virginia, Penn State, N.C. State, Wake Forest, Maryland and Miami have offered big time WR Grant Holloway but the Volunteers, Seminoles, Bulldogs and Hokies have caught his eye. He is planning visits to Florida, Florida State, Clemson and Georgia. Offers from Florida, Florida State, Oregon or Alabama could be game-changers for Holloway.

Holloway has a chance to be a big time track athlete as well and he isn't considering any school that says he can't do track and football in college. He admitted that, out of all the schools he is considering right now, Tennessee has the edge when it comes to track. He does not have a leader yet on the football side.

Video: Holloway planning visits

Rivals250 LB Jaquan Yulee will be announcing his commitment on June 4 at 6:30pm at his school. His finalists are Alabama, Florida State, UNC, Michigan State and Virginia Tech. He is scheduled to visit Alabama at the end of the month, his only visit between now and his commitment date.

Three-stars now but for sure four stars when the next rankings come out, here's my story/interview with Grant Holloway at the Rivals Combine. Great kid and will be a huge gamechanger wherever he ends up: http://rvls.co/1IulrkS

Another big-time offer went out today from VT, to Dr Phillips (Fla.) five-star OT Calvin Ashley, who will be playing in the Under Armour All-American game: http://sports.yahoo.com/virginiatech/football/recruiting/player-162777

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Overall record despite controversial "stupid hand holding rule" which allowed UNCheat to get controversial win
putting VT bid in question....evidently record & history good enough for Lady Hokies to get bid..... missed the first half of announcement...so really didn't catch the brackets .....just saw vt' listed as being in
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now looking /hopeing VT sweep of UVA in baseball and UVa's unbelievably poor record will put hokies in and see the unbelievable poor Hoo record.....on the outside looking in.......

Check out my weekly baseball recap. Not a lot going on last week for VT baseball as they played just one game, but this three game set that starts Thursday is huge. They're in position to qualify for the ACC Tournament right now but need to take at least 1 probably to lock it down.

Mike Farrell tweeted not long ago, but VT has offered two 2017 big-timers from New Jersey:

OC Cesar Ruiz, Camden (NJ), four stars
DT Fred Hansard, Hun School (NJ), four stars

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