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What I love about working in the media – being sarcastic here – is how tone-deaf my colleagues are to all of this.
Schools have press conferences on signing day to go over their recruiting results, and at the one held for Elliott on Wednesday, a reporter actually asked this question:
“A lot of in-state kids. What does it say about the movement and the progress you have made?”
And they consider me “fringe media” over there.
Cue the Tony Elliott Word Salad answer.
“I think it’s progress,” Elliott said, and to be fair to him, that’s what these press conferences are all about; he’s selling something here.
“Man, I want to get guys on the 804, I want to go to 757, I want to go up into Northern Virginia. I want all of the best players to stay in the state of Virginia, and we understand the work that we got to do, like, we got to make it, make them want to stay. And I think this is a good step in a direction. I feel like we hit on the right players, because again, as many as you want to stay, still got to be about fit. Make sure that that it’s a fit.
“Six guys, and we went after more, there were several other guys that we battled, and obviously we lost a couple of in-state battles to some high-profile guys, and we also lost some out-of-state battles as well. But we’re going to try and keep the best players in the state of Virginia, and I’m excited about kind of the direction we’re heading this offseason.
“Hopefully we can just make a compelling argument. You know, we got the academics, I know what we got to do as a program, from a football standpoint, the new facility, I think, you know, going forward, we have an even stronger, you know, you know, component of things to be able to sell, to keep these guys, to keep these guys home
