Ocean Lakes (Virginia Beach, VA) quarterback Lafonte Thorougood has taken unofficial visits to Notre Dame and Virginia Tech this fall. A North Carolina coach stopped by to watch a game and West Virginia was represented at school. Recruiting continues to be busy for the 6-2, 215-pound senior, who is now in the process of scheduling official visits.

“The certainties [for official visits] are Arkansas, West Virginia, and Virginia Tech,” Dolphins head coach Chris Scott said. “There are other places he’d probably like to see, but he is seeing how everything develops on each school’s side as well as his side. Those three we have concrete.”

Thourogood has not scheduled specific dates, though the trip to Arkansas is likely to come in December and the official to Tech may well come before the end of the football season. Prior to these visits, is Virginia Tech the school to beat?

“He is most familiar with Virginia Tech because they have people from the area and the coaches are around here more often,” Scott said. “With West Virginia, the conversations he has had with Coach [Chris] Beatty and the phone calls have gone well. I don’t know if there is a favorite, but he is most familiar with the Tech staff and the campus because of how many times he has been there.”

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