When you look at the best individual seasons for players in the past four years, it become immediately stark how the poor recruiting 2014-16 really led to the struggles of the 2017 and 2018 seasons in particular:
Virginia Tech's All-Fuente team: Defense
A few obvious great players (Edmundses, most notably), but really mailing in the recruiting in those years - or a struggle to recruit immediate contributors in the transition year, even if some of those guys are proving to be serious talents after some development - was clearly one of the biggest issues.
Virginia Tech's All-Fuente team: Defense
A few obvious great players (Edmundses, most notably), but really mailing in the recruiting in those years - or a struggle to recruit immediate contributors in the transition year, even if some of those guys are proving to be serious talents after some development - was clearly one of the biggest issues.