Thereās no way they could have hired an assistant after least season. The brand was completely trashed. I believe if TB thought Sanchez would have gotten the job after this season, he would have stayed. Not saying thatās the only reason he left now but it was a nice bonus for him, the only way his guy could get a tryout.
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Or we could have hired a good coach. Iām a pretty negative poster here but not even my impossible hypothetical scenarios involve us sucking
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The whole situation doesnāt align with his 5 pillars
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The man abandoned his five pillars years when he stopped performing one of his key job duties when he stopped hitting the recruiting trail.
Then he fucked the program and his players to hook up his best buddy
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And do not forget in the process he brought in his best buddy while demoting his long term assistant
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They were both associate head coach. There was no demotion for Williford, just a second AHC was brought in when Getter left for ND.
āSanchezās title is associate head coach, as is Jason Willifordās. Williford, who joined Bennettās staff as an assistant in the spring of 2009, was promoted to that position when Sanchez left for Charlotte.ā
āBennett asked Williford and Vandross for their input, and they both said, āThe home-run hire would be if Ron would ever want to come back.ā ā
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Yeah letās shit all over the greatest thing to ever happen to this basketball program just because he wanted to go out his way. He deserves to do whatever the fuck he wanted to do after what he brought us.
This program was going back no matter when he retired. Blaming the best thing that ever happened to us because he wanted to go out his way is utterly ridiculous. Saying he abandoned the pillars and fucked the program is just a bunch of whining.
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Maybe if the greatest thing that ever happened to this program didnāt want to get shit on then maybe he shouldnāt have done something that actively harms the program and his players. Pretty simple honestly
I do think itās fair to criticize the health of the program he left it in, even with his success.
He did take the program to heights unseen but then left it in a Leito like purgatory/NIT bubble program that is lucky the ACC is in such a putrid state where such a program can still be a top 5 team in the league.
When Tony actually retired, I felt a pit in my stomach like experiencing the death of a loved one. But the program was on the decline not once Tony left but within the end of the Tony tenure: we were approaching if not already in Jim Boeheim territory.
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Newsflash, the program was getting harmed in the way you are thinking no matter when he left. Check back in in 4 years.
And he doesnāt care a thing about getting shit on from people like you, I assure you. But Iām not going to sit here and let whiny babies like you take pot shots at the guy who freaking brought us a natty. Something unimaginable even to the wildest of fans 15 years ago.
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Is not in a Leitao like purgatory lol. We went to the freaking tournament last year. And would have been on the bubble if he stayed. But he didnāt want to, and that was his right and now we see that Ron aināt it.
Iām sorry how is it getting harmed? Because we wonāt be embarrassed during nationally televised tournament games anymore? Iām sorry but the Tony Bennett from 2019 checked out the moment he cut down those nets in Minneapolis. Check the tapes on that one
And sorry tough guy but you have no say as to whether or not I rag on Bennett for hurting this program
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The fact that you think last year was a success tells me everything I need to know lmao
You got two people on completely opposite sides of a problem going at it here lol.
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Looks like it drops to just $7.5 million on April 1.
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No clue if or to what extent UVA would be willing to cough up a large buyout. $10M does seem to be the standard for new contracts though. I havenāt given up the Byington dream. Easy to say when itās not my money, of course.
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Agreed.
Because of how weak the ACC was that we could rack up enough wins to get there. Tony wouldnāt have made the tournament this year. Both of his previous NIT teams were better than this team even with Warley. Tony built this roster and would be playing Buchanan even more. Tonyās team this year, last year, 2021-2022, and maybe even 2019-2020 wouldnāt have made the tournament if it was 2000sā ACC that Leito played in.
Tony last year was getting blown out by Notre Dame.
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2019-20? You serious, Clark?
The league had four teams inside the AP end-of-year Top 16 (including UVa) that year (FSU-4, Duke-11, Louisville-14, Virginia-16).
Leitaoās last two years the league had two top 10 teams and a top 25 (2008) and three top-16 teams and two top 25 teams (2009). The league was absolutely not any stronger when Leitao was there vs. the 2020 season.
Youāre just too young to remember how bad Dave was.
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Norfolk is without question one the most negative UVA fans Iāve encountered. Wakes up negative, but heās not wrong. Heās just going about it in his normally abrasive way which is sure to ruffle feathers when it pertains to the legacy of a coach we all revere
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