Odds and Ends: Defensive and Tight End Recruiting

When Dadi's gone away, who's going to come out and play? - Rob Kinnan-USA TODAY SportsVirginia Tech has never been much of a place to recruit tight ends, nor use them as planned. As of now, be thankful for Bucky Hodges and Ryan Malleck- we had some thinner years with a bunch of average or converted tight ends like Greg Boone, Chris Drager, Eric Martin, and Randall Dunn. When Drager was probably the best of those and he was a former defensive lineman, you know that things have been stretched terribly thin. In the past two years, Tech has done a manful job of restocking the lines with new talent, making us deep in numbers but incredibly shallow in experience:

Tight End:

Ryan Malleck (R-Sr.)

Bucky…