🏀 2024 Men's Basketball Pre-Season

Thought that first clip was a big. It was Sharma. That dude’s got some legit size

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Ish is gonna be giving us some big lifts in games and get meaningful minutes. Book it.

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Latest update…

Single-Game Tickets
Non-conference games excluding Memphis will go on sale Tuesday Oct. 15 to season ticket members and Virginia Athletic Foundation donors of $100 or more and the public on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 9 am. Please note, Memphis will only be available as part of a multi-game package. Games in January, February and March will go on sale later in the year. Tickets prices vary based upon the opponent and seating area.

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J-Willy needs to stay frosty; looks like Sanchez is coming for the throne.
#kingclapper

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That’s an away game, right? You should probably go ahead and contact VAF by phone. It may be too early to actually get them, but they might keep a list (just speculation). That number is 434-982-5555

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Strange time to let David Teel go w/ football midstream and basketball ramping up…

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They let Mike Barber go yesterday, clearly just budget-driven layoffs. Hate to see it, especially since both those guys have kids at home.

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Oh, wow. They let Barber go on Tuesday. Seem to be gutting the sports department.

Edit - Which sucks, but the reality is that newspapers, other than maybe USAToday, WSJ and NYT, are all dying before our eyes. My younger daughter wants to go into journalism, but I hope she doesn’t end up in newspapers because her entire career will be slowly dying doom and gloom.

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I mean, I realize I’m part of the problem as someone who doesn’t subscribe to either the RTD or DP, living out of state it’s hard to justify, and even when living in the 757 I was only a sporadic Pilot subscriber.

Wonder if there was ever some way to sell a sports-only subscription to subsidize those guys for those of us who’ll drop $10-15/mo on sports website subs but don’t want the whole paper.

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Well, shit. I still have an online sub to the Roanoke Times and it’s been gutted so much that half it’s stories come from the other state papers, which is how I would read Teel and Barber.

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Most of the major newspapers in the state are owned by the same company.

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I don’t remember the details, but I’m pretty sure The Athletic was hemorrhaging money before the NYT swooped in to buy/save it. Of course, NYT then went and gutted its sports department so there probably isn’t a good solution out there, which sucks.

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Solution: Being one of two or three national brands + Recipes + Games

It’s all very sad.

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How about giving Teel and Barber premium memberships in exchange for them doing a certain number of podcasts exclusive to LRA? Not mine to give away, obviously and I’m sure they’ll have other offers, but just a thought.

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Love having Guy back!

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Pretty cool to have him going hard in a drill and coaching guys up at the same time. I like the “don’t guess” advice he was giving to Rohde as well as chiding Ish for reaching into the driving lane.

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“We got big guards here” with Coleman vs Dai Dai is too funny

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I don’t believe what I’m watching. They posted full behind the scenes practice video with no music, full practice audio, Tony speaking and mics on players/coaches?? Is Tony ok?

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I think KG was a great hire by TB! Among the things that needed to be improved from last season is our competitiveness. KG brings that in spades.

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