šŸˆ 2024/25 Virginia Football Off-Season Thread

I’m excited for this years team. Going to the spring game on Saturday first time in years I’ve felt cautious optimism about the team. Mills injury does suck a lot though

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It’s going to be one to remember.

Agreed. There will be total fan revolt if he sticks around on 5 next year.

I think we should fire him on 6 wins, 7 is a very reasonable bar to clear, but I’ve accepted making a bowl will keep him around.

I am skeptical about this. I think we will need more than a good year or two, and we could get in a death spiral if the apathy sets in too much-- which a couple more years of Elliott at or below .500 would absolutely do.

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Jeff White: UVA’s football program has implemented a front-office structure to assist head coach Tony Elliott

This was known already I think, but more on the structure of the front office model for FB:

[Deputy AD Tyler] Jones played both football and basketball at Eastern Michigan University, where he set two NCAA records as a wide receiver. Jones serves in a general manager capacity at UVA, with Justin Speros, the program’s director of recruiting, functioning as assistant GM.

More details in the article about how they are approaching things.

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Monroe mills update or something else? I don’t have a sub anymore.

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Nope. Jam Jackson is on crutches. Not sure of severity.
There’s a portal WR visiting today.
Sadly, it’s not a slew of DBs visiting.
Desperately need some DBs in the portal.
The Jeff White article said they are looking at bringing in 6+ portal entries this spring. That’s very surprising as it would be hard to see where cuts are made.
I really like where the roster is right now with veterans, seasoned, and developmental young players, so I would be surprised to see us lose 6 + current players on roster.

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DB and 1-2 OL seems to be what we need.

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Yeah though I’m sure those are two of the biggest needs for every team haha

That Stanford kid would be a massive pull though. He’s really good

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Been so hyped to take my daughter to the Spring game this weekend. Not even the shitty weather in the forecast is going to put a damper on this… until … I made the grave mistake of showing her an adventures of Cavman video. Thought she would love it, but turns out she’s deathly afraid of Spiders (it was the Richmond spiders one where Cavman killed a lot of human sized spiders). She now is terrified of Cavman and doesn’t want to go to the ā€œgo hoos go gameā€. She’s now trying to pawn off her baby sister to go with me since she is firmly OUT.

The ultimate fumble… gonna need to polish off the bribery skills to pull this off.

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Will not be the last time–parenting is a crap shoot!

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In her defense, those spiders are kinda scary. The cheerleaders really nailed the ā€œwe’re in imminent danger about to get eaten by human sized spidersā€ acting bit.

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Wait, did CavMan free those cheerleaders? He killed all those spiders and then was like ā€œOh, I gotta get to the game before kickoff!ā€

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Season 1 Episode 10 GIF by Rick and Morty

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If he didn’t free the cheerleaders under the spider web, then the other cheerleaders by the Amphitheater and the ones in the stadium tunnel were shockingly unconcerned about their colleagues. In the other hand, if he did free them, they went back to performing really quickly right after a traumatic event. And also got to the stadium on foot way faster than Cavman on a horse.

Also where was Cavman starting from? It looked like he was sharpening his sword with the Rotunda in the background, but then he rode his horse down 29. Was that Monticello that I didn’t recognize? And I guess if so that couldn’t be 29 since that’s the wrong direction.

What am I doing? I should be working…

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Michie Tavern and then Belmont

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All those coaches back then were so great to all of us. Really special. Also I was pretty close to his son in early NYC years. And that hat was so bad it is great now!

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Thanks for dropping by, coach, but aren’t you kinda busy with the portal?

Nah I got a Griff for that. You should get one, really frees up your time.

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