{"id":331954,"date":"2025-12-05T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331954\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:49:34","slug":"virginia-tech-2026-signing-day-blue-chip-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331954\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech 2026 Signing Day: Blue Chip Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IVM.251203.FB_.Signing.Day_.1536.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9312684 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IVM.251203.FB_.Signing.Day_.1536.jpg\" alt=\"James Franklin, Virginia Tech\" width=\"2100\" height=\"1400\"  \/><\/a>James Franklin held his first Signing Day at Virginia Tech on Wednesday. (Ivan Morozov)<\/p>\n<p>James Franklin just signed his first recruiting class as Virginia Tech\u2019s head coach, and if Wednesday is any indication, Hokies fans have a lot to look forward to when it comes to future signing classes.<\/p>\n<p>Tech had the No. 124 recruiting class in the country when Franklin came aboard. I knew he would make an impact. I knew he would flip PSU guys. But I didn\u2019t know he would make this big of an impact and flip this many PSU guys. I thought a top-50 class was very doable, and a top-40 class would have been exceptional. Instead, we got better than that:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 247Sports Composite: No. 23<br \/>\u2022 Rivals Industry: No. 25<\/p>\n<p>If top 40 would have been exceptional, what about top 25? I don\u2019t think I have a word for that one. He exceeded my expectations in every way, shape and form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/christine-shepard-tsl2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Christine-Shepard-800x160-1.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Shepard\" width=\"800\" height=\"160\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Franklin held his first Signing Day at Virginia Tech on Wednesday. (Ivan Morozov) James Franklin just signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-331954","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\/331954","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=331954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}