Another perspective regarding recruiting and Fu's success/failures…….Prior to the pandemic we had significantly improved our recruiting. The past two years are years where recruits effectively had no chance to visit the campus and/or meet players to get a feel for what it’s like to play at Virginia Tech. I do a lot of recruiting to a market that is not a top tier market and by far the most successful approach to our recruiting top talent is through visits to our firm and our location….it’s almost impossible to recruit top talent “sight unseen” if they have never been local.
I think it’s telling that this year is showing a significant uptick in recruiting again.