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Aromire Verbals to Virginia Tech by Chris Coleman, TechSideline.com, TSLMail #437, June 18, 2010 Virginia Tech received their fourth commitment of the 2011 recruiting class on Friday, when H.D. Woodson (Washington, DC) cornerback Adeboye Aromire made his decision. He chose the Hokies over scholarship offers from Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia.
"Virginia Tech was the only school of the ones that had offered to go to several BCS Bowl games recently," Aromire told TSL recruiting analyst Chris Horne. "I'm going to play defensive back and they have a history of developing defensive backs. Bud Foster is a great defensive coordinator. He is wanted by a plethora of college teams. I'm comfortable with the Hokie nation. I thought it was the best fit for me, academically and athletically." While playing for Bud Foster is certainly an important factor, Aromire's visit for the Spring Game back in April also made a huge impact on his recruitment. "I left feeling pumped about the atmosphere and the relationship between the players and the coaches," Aromire said. "I loved the fans, the facilities and the people in the town. Even the spectators knew who I was when I was there." Aromire was the high school teammate of current Virginia Tech true freshman quarterback Ricardo Young. He plans to graduate high school early and enroll at Virginia Tech in January of 2011. For more information on Aromire's commitment, including more quotes, subscribe to TSL Pass.
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Several
readers have asked us to go a little more in depth about Boise
State. Today we'll take a closer look at the Bronco offense, and
next week we'll look at their defense. When we're done, you'll find
that this Boise State team is built from the same cloth as the team
that resides in Blacksburg.
Virginia
Tech has added another defensive piece to its 2011 recruiting class,
landing a commitment this morning from H.D. Woodson (Washington,
D.C.) cornerback Adeboye Aromire. As is the case with its
other 2011 defensive commits, Aromire was one of Tech's top early
targets.
At
last year's NBPA Top 100 Camp, C.J. Barksdale had just
finished his sophomore year at George Washington High School
(Danville, VA) and was considering a number of schools for his
college future. A year later, the 6-7, 220-pound forward is now a
rising senior and eyeing a future at Virginia Tech. He's also
preparing for his senior year, which will not be at GW-Danville.
One
of the biggest driving forces in the latest round of conference
expansion and realignment was the lucrative Big Ten Network.
Launched in 2007, the BTN has been wildly successful and is
projected to pay Big Ten member schools about $6.5 million each in
2009-10. That begs the question: can the ACC do its own network?
Before you answer yes or no, take a look at the numbers.
No
more football, no more basketball, and no more spring sports.
Conference expansion helped fill the void in the dead period for a
couple of weeks, but with that over, what do we talk about now? Time
for some recruiting.
Seth
Greenberg completed his coaching staff on Tuesday when Virginia Tech
announced the hiring of Dennis Wolff as Director of Basketball
Operations. With the hiring of Wolff, Greenberg now has a full,
working basketball staff.
Cave
Spring (Roanoke, VA) star Michael Cole had a good week last
week, scoring two more official scholarship offers. The 6-2,
200-pound linebacker/safety prospect now boasts five FBS scholarship
offers including Duke, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and Virginia Tech
with Maryland and Virginia being the two most recent.
Virginia
Tech track & field star Queen Harrison became the first woman to
win the National Championship in both the 400m and 100m hurdles over
the weekend. She led a women's track & field team that finished
fifth nationally, while the men's team finished 10th.
I.C.
Norcom (Portsmouth, VA) small forward Dorian Finney-Smith,
one of the top 2011 class prospects in the state, recently narrowed
his list to Florida, Maryland, Old Dominion, Virginia, Virginia Tech
and Wake Forest. The 6-7, 192-pound prospect visited one of his
favorites last week and will be able to check out another this week.