Good: national championship
Bad: proliferation of bad takes by yours truly.
Was the trade off worth it? Discuss
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Iām going to be honest, after watching this team this past year, I sort of think he figured it out.
If Tony is coaching this yearās team theyāre bubble-ish right? Warley plays and Tony doesnāt let the defense slip to the massive degree.
Then next year youāre running a team out with:
Junior year Ames
Senior Mckneely
Senior Rohde
Senior Saunders
Junior Blake
Soph Cofie
RS Soph Robinson
Frosh Chance
RS Soph Gertrude
Soph Sharma
with maybe a massive bag to one of the best wings in the portal. Thatās a ā22-ā23 type leap at least Iād imagine.
Guess my point is, I think he was onto something, but just honestly didnāt have enough in the tank to see it through. Which as you said, is totally his prerogativeā¦. Even if that sucks for everyone involved.
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It was good.
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I think it was an intriguing idea, but itās so hard to do much more than just guess at where it wouldāve goneā¦
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It was the best this University will ever see in footbal or basketball
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-Teven was fouled
-The refs were out to put Akil Mitchell and Mike Scott in foul trouble vs Duke
-Our best teams resulted in the cream rising the to top and transfer outs
-Igor should have played more.
-Jay Huff played the appropriate amount in 2019
-Reece and Kihei should have never been played together at the 1-2. As a staunch Reece supporter, I would have taken Kihei starting only at the 1-2 if it meant less of them together on the floor
-The Jack Salt, Isaiah Wilkins was also both a really rough front court pairing and also the most underappreciated front court in UVA history
-Tony lost his way in trying to find gems and winners (never offering Silas Demary Jr but going after Austin Nunez when it was clear he was meh haunts me. And then adding Dante Harris)
-Tony also lost his way in trying to find the next DeAndre Hunter who had both skill and athleticism. Led to a lot of āskilledā but unathletic front courts and the pack line identity went to shit with out that versatile defender 4 man. We did get Dunn but then played him at the 5 the same year our guards were shit.
All in all I had fun. 2012-2013 was one of the more fun seasons I had even though it ended in the NIT. If not for Tony you wouldnāt have @Hooandtrue obsessing over fraudulent portal players. Would probably be on the Georgetown forums trying to hype myself up for Malik Mack and Thomas Sorber coming back in a season where they will ultimately fall short again. That seems way more depressing than current reality.
Also UVA won the last real national title in 2019 pre portal NIL and COVID.
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Correct
The fork in the road moments were 1) Losing Kirk Penney after the title and 2) not bringing in an outside guy/OC when Getter left. He probably would have squeezed 18-22 win seasons for quite a while (with some spikes in there), but the return to the upper echelon seemed gone without a major system upgrade. And that wasnāt happening.
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For me, I really think a major milestone on the way to āF thisā-ville was London Johnson. Not clear how good he would have been in college, but that felt like it denied us one of the key building block pieces we needed and we didnāt have a good plan B
Not to mention the āitās all becoming the prosā themeā¦
- Grayson Allen traveled.
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4 steps and landed
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My favorite twitter interaction of the Bennett era:
Jahvon Quinerlyās dad and a wily olā vet of the Nashville Banner newsroom have a discussion of facts:
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Should we tell Mr Quinerly?
Nahhhh
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Oh wow, I didnāt realize Mr howingdon had such a long history. Have only known about him for a couple years. Iāve viewed him as a pretty harmless mix of hootie/message board genius (the fodder, not the account) but I guess I donāt follow closely. I am not one of the 500.
Also, @haney charge your phone bro
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I love TB who was always great to me personally but TB did actually quit and I think he changed after winning the championship which was beyond amazing. The winning was amazing
Hashtag runonsentence
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I mostly think heās an amusing twitter sideshow but someone (@UVApride7 I think) reminded us that he was tweeting weird stuff during the football shooting story. Not cool
I stole that pic from the London Johnson thread. I charge when Iām below 91%
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Yeah fuck that guy.
He tweeted about Dontayvion Wicks being one of the players who got shot, Dontayvionās mom had to come on twitter and correct him, and then he just left the tweet up. There might have been something else too but thatās the only thing I remember clearly.
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Light mode bruh? Like srsly bruh, whatās wrong with you bruh? The hippest of the hip know that dark mode is where itās at bruh. And bruh, that hurts my eyes bruh. You kinda owe me an apology bruh. Switch it to dark mode bruh. Like now bruh. People are mocking you as we speak bruh. Iāll be waiting on that appology over here wearing my sunglasses bruh. Change it. Srsly. Now bruh.
Light modeā¦not it. Bruh.
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Agree. Warley plays, & I would assume Bliss does too. I think he needed another portal big that could have played immediately.
Assuming, (and thatās a big assumption) that everyone returns. I think Tony was probably caught off guard by some of the guys that left and might have skeptical he could keep it together.
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