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    Hargrave coach Robert Prunty said Friday that Gibson had no offers out of high school and came to a Hargrave combine as a 260-pound defensive end. "Then he shows up and he’s 6-6 or 6-7 and he weighs 290 ... I told him, ‘Son, we’ve got to talk.’ We sat down for about two hours and I said, ‘You’re going to be an unbelievable offensive tackle. You remind me of Branden Albert and Jared Gaither.’ He said, ‘But, coach, I’m a defensive end. I convinced him to try it, and now he’s got offers from all over.’ He’s just a physical specimen." Prunty said that Tech has made an offer to Gibson and that Virginia has offered Josh Watson, a 6-3, 285-pound defensive end who was a qualifier coming out of high school in Newark, Del. Full Article at Roanoke.com
    Then he shows up and he’s 6-6 or 6-7 and he weighs 290 ... I told him, ‘Son, we’ve got to talk.’ We sat down for about two hours and I said, ‘You’re going to be an unbelievable offensive tackle. You remind me of Branden Albert and Jared Gaither.’ He said, ‘But, coach, I’m a defensive end. I convinced him to try it, and now he’s got offers from all over.’ He’s just a physical specimen.
    SOURCE: Roanoke.com 1 month ago
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With latest Tech loss, chopping talk dies down - roanoke.com
  1. You have to make a decision in a split second. Sometimes, they flag it and the low block misses, and it’s possible you call something that’s not even there.
    SOURCE: Roanoke.com 1 month ago
  2. He stands in there where the linebackers are, 7 or 8 yards behind the line ... and we ask him, ‘Watch the guard-center-guard holding. Help with the tackle on the side behind the referee. In this combination where one block is high and one block is low, it’s a chop.
    SOURCE: Roanoke.com 1 month ago

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