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We were losing an inordinately large number of players to the portal when


Fu was safe. The fundamental root causes of Fu's failure here were:
1) Failure to recruit P5-level talent
2) Failure to retain what talent he was able to recruit.

All teams sustain losses in the portal but we lost both numbers and quality we couldn't afford to lose, all while many in this forum blamed it all on "bad apples." Fu failed to convince key players to stay and failed to create a culture or identity where players felt any sense of loyalty or buy-in. You'll say "that's the way things are now," but I see a lot of coaches that are able to manage player retention much better than the Fubot 9000 did. You cannot look at the ridiculous churn at the QB position we had during Fu's tenure and say that was par for the course.

(In response to this post by AbsolutVT03)

Posted: 12/30/2021 at 04:14AM


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  VT appears to be the first extreme case of how the portal.. -- One4VT 12/29/2021 10:57PM
  Nah. There's more portal supply than demand. Just bad development. ** -- CPVT3 12/30/2021 09:30AM
  Several teams just said screw it - we aren't coming ** -- bigbadbird 12/30/2021 09:01AM
  It’s goes back to poor recruiting which lead to lack of depth in an already -- uvabasher 12/30/2021 01:06AM
  If you “out go” exceeds your income, you’re in trouble. -- Hokie_Dawg 12/30/2021 08:04AM
  Losing 4 QBs in less than 12 months will do that. Blumrick was never -- AbsolutVT03 12/30/2021 01:47AM
  Hooker left a below average QB. He is a damn good QB at Tenn -- UberHOKIE 12/30/2021 10:17AM
  You describe those loses like an unpreventable natural occurence, like a -- SDHokie 12/30/2021 04:34AM
  Two of them left after the coaching change -- NMB Hokie 12/30/2021 5:20PM
  I didn’t describe them like that all. All I said was that we lost 4 QBs -- AbsolutVT03 12/30/2021 3:06PM
  Exactly** -- UberHOKIE 12/30/2021 10:18AM
  Yea really! ** -- OldRetiredHokie 12/30/2021 06:40AM
  Still don’t get why they would get a guy that wasn’t a QB at his last stop -- uvabasher 12/30/2021 01:57AM
  It's happening other places. Ours seems extreme due to -- UberHOKIE 12/30/2021 12:27AM
  Your post sort of implies that Fuente had a choice with regards to leaving. -- AbsolutVT03 12/30/2021 01:08AM
  He went and brought the subject up. He was given the opportunity -- UberHOKIE 12/30/2021 10:07AM
  We were losing an inordinately large number of players to the portal when -- SDHokie 12/30/2021 04:14AM
  Not true. Other teams have losses of people -- fordham 12/30/2021 08:24AM
  Hooker. Look at him her vs Tennessee. Period ** -- UberHOKIE 12/30/2021 10:14AM
  #3 Failure to develop the talent we did have... -- EDGEMAN 12/30/2021 07:33AM
  Fuente definitely put us in this mess -- culpmania 12/30/2021 01:35AM
  How much blame do you put on AD? ** -- rtp_hokie67 12/30/2021 12:11PM
  Very little ** -- Bayside Hokie 12/31/2021 4:42PM
  Or we could have gotten worse under your plan. The fire coaches every few -- fordham 12/30/2021 08:27AM
  No way! Look at the state this program is in. -- culpmania 12/30/2021 09:41AM
  I suppose i should have added the specific context -- One4VT 12/30/2021 12:32AM
  How do we stack up with UVA? -- EDGEMAN 12/30/2021 12:57AM

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