i’m curious what you thought was worse? i grew up in cville and graduated with my BA in '08, and with my folks still there i’m back fairly often. It feels mostly the same to me, still lots of restaurants, and honestly a lot more to do with the concert venues (pre COVID, not sure how that will look now). You’ve always had the interesting townie population there, a lot of the more “unique” individuals Cville has to offer hanging out there, but i remember that back as far as the mid-90’s.
i do agree i’m not 100% sure a 17 year old would be as blown away by it, but with the corner pretty quite, it still has value in showing Cville.
Damn that’s awful
Spent a ton of time there as a teen
Loved playing against the college kids and again when there use to play in between summer sessions a lot
Saw a bunch of homeless people
Lots of business’s gone
No longer a destination spot at all
To each his own
Embarrassing question I’ve been meaning to ask for a while - has “the hook” always been a thing? I spent all four years at UVA and graduated and - unless I’m just blocking it out for some weird reason - don’t ever remember anyone using “the hook” in the time I was there. What exactly does it reference? And is it still in use among the students today, or was it more of a thing back in the day?
The question with Bobi will be “Can he play on the perimeter” defensively cause otherwise he overlaps with Traudt. Also if he “explodes” explodes, with his intangibles like wing span, there’s a chance he could even be a player who doesn’t play college ball. Especially since I think he is already or near turning 18 soon (he could have 2021 reclassed if he wanted).
The Hook was common terminology for Charlottesville in 1974 when I started - I’m told by slightly older Hoos that the term originated more from the gentleman’s C that was considered to be the lowest grade pre-1969 and the substitution for C’ville.
Back in the day when UVa was all male undergrad, it had more of a reputation as a “finishing” school for gentlemen rather than the rigorous academic environment of today and the past 50 years. In other words, if you did your time, showed up in class somewhat regularly, and made a bit of effort, the unstated lowest grade you would receive was a C, a gentleman’s C, or the hook. C’ville, sharing the same letter, became referred to as the Hook by said “gentlemen”.
I know because I was just past the cuff of that era . I went to the Dean of the College for a recommendation to law school and she, after perusing my “academic” record, looked at me much as Dean Wormer looked at Flounder just before Flounder proceeded to vomit on Wormer, and stated “Mr. Traylor, it appears that you have wasted your four years here. Although nothing in your record commends you to continuing your education in an even more competitive environment, I will find it somehow to say a few kind words about your apparent enthusiasm for making it up at the next level.” I thanked her for receiving the equivalent of a gentleman’s C when it came to recommendations.
To add some information, a faculty member who taught both during the time that only men were admitted to UVa and also after women were admitted, told me that the gentlemen’s C ceased to exist very quickly once women were present in the classroom. The women were not willing to settle for a C, sought much higher grades, and academic standards at UVa rapidly changed within a few years.
