By my count, Virginia Tech offered four more St. Frances Academy (Baltimore, MD) players over the weekend. St. Frances is a somewhat new school on the radar, but it’s rapidly become important to recruiting in this region, so I wanted to go over it in a little bit more detail today before we get into the four new players offered by the Hokies.

St. Frances was founded in 1828, and according to Wikipedia, it is the first and oldest continually operating Black Catholic educational facility in the United States. The football program only recently began making headlines in the past few seasons, and it’s a somewhat similar story to Bishop Sullivan in Virginia Beach. The main difference is St. Frances has a lot more talent than Bishop Sullivan had and is more successful on the national scale.

Here’s an interesting quote from Wiki…

“St. Frances’ football program has become the subject of controversy within Maryland in the late 2010s. After former Gilman School coach (and current Michigan assistant) Biff Poggi took over as head coach, he began aggressively recruiting talented players from inside and outside Maryland, to a greater degree than other private schools in the state did. Within a few seasons, St. Frances became effectively unbeatable by their traditional opponents in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA), regularly defeating them by wide margins.^[10]

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