1) Why don’t we ever seem to get the new hire recruiting bump? And how do you think Pry feels recruiting is going? Harder than he thought? – jjhokie2

Chris Coleman: I have a few thoughts on this. First off, Tech did get a slight recruiting bump under Justin Fuente. Here were the last few recruiting rankings of the Frank Beamer era…

2013: No. 21
2014: No. 28
2015: No. 30
2016: No. 42

The 2016 class was affected by Frank’s impending retirement, though it was also positively impacted with Fuente’s signing of Jerod Evans, the top JUCO quarterback in the country. The general point, however, is that Tech’s recruiting rankings were trending down when Fuente first arrived. Each year, they dropped a little bit. Tech was understaffed, Beamer was close to retirement, Tech was behind with facilities and the Hokies weren’t winning as many games.

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