2014 recruiting board

You were promised it this week and here it is: the 2014 recruiting board.  It is perhaps a little smaller than it might have been.  The coaches are being a little choosier because there isn’t as much space this year.

The names you see here are not every prospect UVA has offered; mainly the ones that don’t show are those I figured that UVA had no chance at all.  The list ranges from likely to mildly conceivable that listed name could pick UVA, with you knowing the drill by now about the colors.  (Even if you don’t, it’s pretty self-intuitive.)  UVA has already picked up one commitment: DT Chris Nelson, who did so back in August.

Don’t totally give up hope, by the way, on a name in red.  Since I’m being more judicious with names than I was in the early days of doing this, red names, at least to start with, are not completely absurd longshots.  Last year’s original look put Zach Bradshaw in red.  He moved up quick, but the point is it’s an imperfect art.  A lot of these recruits don’t even know yet what they want to do, so don’t go bugging me to know that with a certainty either.  As usual, it’s a probability thing, and grains of salt are standard issue.

Anyway, I’ve talked enough.  Here’s the long-awaited list.

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