{"id":316870,"date":"2025-11-27T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316870\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:49:00","slug":"top-targets-are-buying-into-the-future-at-virginia-tech-under-james-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316870\/","title":{"rendered":"Top targets are buying into the future at Virginia Tech under James Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/virginia-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virginia Tech<\/a> suffered a tough loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami<\/a>, 34-17. However, all eyes are on the future under new head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/james-franklin-56\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Franklin<\/a>, a future that has visiting recruits fired up.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the Hokies made a strong impression on some visiting recruits, including McDonald (Pa.) Fort Cherry Top247 safety and <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penn State<\/a>\u00a0commit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/matt-sieg-46144296\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Sieg<\/a> (2026), Knoxville (Tenn.) Catholic three-star cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/xavier-bowman-46154622\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Xavier Bowman<\/a> (2028), Woodbery Forest (Va.) High four-star offensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/junior-saunders-46143047\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Junior Saunders<\/a> (2027), Dodge Center (Minn.) Triton three-star tight end and <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penn State<\/a> commit <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/pierce-petersohn-46152551\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pierce Petersohn<\/a> (2026), and Nashville (Tenn.) Brentwood Academy three-star cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/romel-koon-46157460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Romel Koon<\/a> (2027).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the latest from a few visiting targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, Virginia Tech suffered a tough loss to Miami, 34-17. However, all eyes are on the future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-316870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}