šŸ€ 2024 Men's Basketball Offseason

I found by not clicking on anything that Graham writes I am generally less dumber for it.

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I agree and that’s a calmer way of expressing it.

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Ratcliffe has aligned himself with Jerry Miller and Chris Graham, probably the two fakest journalists in Virginia

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Jim H and Walter K. F?

Behind a pay wall but if you open it in Firefox and quickly hit reader view, you can bypass that.

Love the use of ā€˜fringe media’ in this quote:
" While fringe media in recent months has made much ado about Bennett’s contract status, multiple sources told the Richmond Times-Dispatch, it’s much ado about nothing."

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Fringe media has responded…

… this article doesn’t help his cause on being considered mainstream media.

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The AFP article is basically a complaint about not having relationships with sources at UVA. Now if he could just take the next step and engage in some introspection about why that’s the case…

You know, instead of having to go to your stenographer to clean up the mess, the folks at UVA Athletics could have just addressed me straight up when I first reached out to inquire about Bennett’s contract status way, way back on May 6.

Perhaps if he reads the first half of the sentence he wrote there, he would better understand why the answer to the second half is ā€œhere’s a link to the FOIA process.ā€

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Not long ago, the Augusta Free Press referred to LRA as ā€œjust a blogā€.

Paramount Network GIF by Yellowstone

*I actually didn’t mind. I literally write blogs.

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Curious as to how you had that GIF at the ready sir…

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People’s ability to pull out just the right GIF for seemingly any situation in 10 seconds has always struck me as inexplicable magic.

Edit - I guess it comes down to, paraphrasing the author of Fooling Houdini (a really fun series of essays on card magic turned into a book), people would not believe how much effort other people are willing to put into their side interests.

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Virginia still in talks about the 2025 NIL tourney in Vegas.

https://x.com/mattnorlander/status/1800878430009053658?s=46&t=TLtc0ruA8RdBi8KFTrhv5Q

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Florida hosting UVA in the ACC/SEC challenge next season

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https://x.com/JonRothstein/status/1800950370413445631

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Nice. Torvik has them at 36th, solid comp that’ll boost our NCAA tournament resume.

i’m just bitter that Clemson somehow gets to host UK, a game we’d seemingly never get. And based on us both being away, unlikely we’ll get one with them moving forward.

based on that rotation, I suppose our best hopes would be to host someone like OU or Tenneessee next year, as UK, Arky, Bama, Auburn, and Texas are all due for home games.

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Cory doing that game?

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I think hosting UK has the possibility of being a Q2 game…so in some ways at UF is better (obviously the harder game though). Agree that Tennessee is probably the best one possible for next season. Not sure about Oklahoma, they’ve had a lack of continuity from season-to-season and that doesn’t look like it’s improving. Maybe Miss St?

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very true - i was looking at it purely from a ā€œprestigeā€ perspective, and the fact that regardless, UVA hosting UK would become a very hot ticket.

similarly, OU and Tennessee just felt like the best brands of the options to host (i.e., ā€œhelmet gamesā€ as they’d say for college football), and each has at least some history. Mississippi State could well be better, but frankly nobody is ever seeing ā€œUVA vs Miss St.ā€ and getting excited to the same degree.

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We hosted A&M this past season so I assume we are mandated to go on the road. The only other home SEC team that I’d prefer to play is Tennessee. I think we got a top 2 opponent amongst SEC hosts

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Handlogten likely out all next year.

Duh, yeah, I just realized this is NOT the flip of last year. Our Florida game was neutral site.

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