1) Considering how this year has played out and getting some tidbits from insiders on the message board, what kind of time table would you put on righting the ship to at least be a consistent top 25 team again? – VTMONEY94

Chris Coleman: Right now I’m operating under the assumption that Virginia Tech will not be in a bowl game this year.  If that happens, I’m not going to even be thinking about top 25.  I’ll just want to have a winning record again.  And please, nobody ever say the phrase “College Football Playoffs” to me ever again. 

But in all seriousness, that’s a good question.  It won’t be next year, most likely.  I think the Tech coaching staff wants to add two JUCO defensive tackles, plus Kuony Deng at Backer (which would move Dax Hollifield to Mike most likely).  If all three of those guys turned out to be absolute studs, then the timeline could be accelerated.  But that’s one big if.

If Tech does go the JUCO route, they’ll have to do a really good job recruiting high school players behind those guys in the next couple of classes, because those JUCO guys will only be here for two years.  When you start signing a bunch of JUCO guys at a certain spot, that means you really need to overrecruit the position for a couple of years, because those JUCO guys will be gone quickly.  Tech has three high school defensive tackles committed for 2019.  They’ll take five total defensive tackles, if they can find a couple of JUCOs.  And in my opinion, they’d need to sign another 2-3 defensive tackles next year

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