1) If you were able to advise Devin Farrell or Tahj Bullock back in high school, would you have told them it was in their best interest to come to VT and plan to sit on the bench for a year or two hoping to get their shot at working their way up the depth chart, or would you have told them to go to a mid-major (or smaller school), get playing time sooner, hopefully become a hot commodity and then portal into a Power 5 program with leverage? Do you see a trend where hot prospects purposely start out with smaller 4-year schools just to make a name for themselves sooner with the intention of moving up in the portal after a year or two (in sense like JUCO)? – BRAL Shed Rat

Chris Coleman: I’m not sure what I would have told them had I been their coach. Here were their 247 Composite rankings coming out of high school…

Bullock: 3-star, No. 922 player nationally, No. 63 QB
Farrell: 3-star, No. 828 player nationally, No. 48 QB

Both players were mid-level 3-star recruits. There’s has been a small narrative going around the boards at times that Bullock was some kind of hotshot QB recruit, but that’s simply not true. He had a nice offer list of Boston College, Duke, UCLA, Rutgers, Syracuse, and a few smaller schools, but it’s not like multiple major programs were beating down his door.

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