Football team reports to campus

Members of the Hokie football team reported to campus Sunday, checking in and having a team meeting the day before the team's first practice. Players were required to check in by 6:30 p.m., registering their vehicles, checking in with the training staff and filling out certain forms. 
All players had their heights and weights taken, as well as other vitals. As in many years past, many freshmen were a few inches shorter than their high school recruiting bios listed them at. But many freshmen were also shorter than they first checked in at a few weeks ago after it was discovered early Sunday that the wall chart used for measuring heights was off an inch and a half. This was figured out after Sean Glennon checked in at a monstrous 6'5 1/2" setting off an alert of the mistake since Glennon is only 6'4".
Many of the bigger guys also checked in a little bit slimmer than when they last took official weights for the media roster. Among them were Nick Marshman, Greg Boone, Cordarrow Thompson and Ryan Shuman, who all dropped about 20 pounds.
The freshmen ate dinner at 7 o'clock and the veterans ate at 7:15 and then the whole team convened for a welcome meeting. Among those speaking were head coach Frank Beamer, athletics director Jim Weaver and compliance officials.
The team will begin meetings and orientation Monday with the first closed practice beginning in the late afternoon.