Letās imagine we have an absolutely godawful season and somehow lose every game for the rest of the year. Who do we believe has a better chance of turning the program around?
The answer is 1. By a landslide. (And this is entirely apart from everything he means to the university in terms of character, etc., which is significant. You couldnāt ask for a better representative for UVA.)
As many of you know I am very much a staunch Tony Bennett for lifer and think the recruiting has been really well (outside pg) for the 2022 and 2023 class/that kind of recruiting momentum is what will help us get back on track as we bide time with the ādependent on transferā era.
That being said, I figure this is the thread for jaded topics/hot takes and there is something that has always been on my mind (itās not a slight to tony at all but it could be seen that way and therefore I will put it in this thread).
Not looking at the roster construction of that season and how they would fit in but in a vacuum, would Tyler Herro have been a one and done at UVA?
Of course itās a hypothetical so the actual answer canāt be known, but I do wonder what other people think
Where would he have fit in that lineup in 2019?
Would it have been we donāt sign Clark or we donāt sign Key?
I surmise the pitch would have been that he would have played a ton in 2020 ā¦ and boy howdy would that have been a good team.
In a vacuum dave
Well I was a no in the poll since I donāt see him getting enough minutes that year.
I have a hunch having Dante Harris be able to practice against the rotation guards will help us over the next 6 weeks.
And help him immensely for next year!
Watching some Mexican League soccer to brush up on my Spanishā¦ Cory Alexander has nothing on these announcers for words per minute
With subtitles in Spanish is a great great way to learn a language more fluently
Though you have to be careful. A lot of times the subtitles are truncated paraphrases of what is said.
But still, much better than reading English subtitles for training your brain.
Oh for sure. Sometimes hearing AND seeing words makes it make more sense in the brain, I think
Absolutely. At this point in my Italian, I try to find podcasts with transcripts. I listen to twenty to forty minutes, then read the transcript, then listen again.
I took 3 years of Spanish in HS and two courses of Spanish in college but felt I learned the most when I actually got the opportunity to apply it in a real world setting. For 12 years I worked in the food & beverage/hospitality industry and got to use and learn it with people from El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, etc.
It was cool to be able to further my Spanish in real world settings, while also being able to help them with certain words and phrases in English.
Same for me. Studied spanish in Hs and college and was really good at reading writing conjugation etc BUT i never spoke it with spanish speakers. So when I started learning portugues through speaking (not studying) I am positive that having studied spanish helped a lot
Then living 4 years in Brasil am fluent in portugues but trying to speak spanish is like some creole mix up for me
Very cool and smart. Next level is songs/ music
LOLāI canāt even understand lyrics in English! 
But yeah, living in country is ultimately the best way to learn a language. Spent two months in Kazakhstan in 94. Similar to your Spanish experience, I was good at the classroom stuff, but never spoke Russian with native speakers. However, when nobody speaks English, and you need to speak the language to eat, ride the bus, or participate in class, you learn real quick.
Needing to eat gets you there real quick. My favorite was playing on a āproā team in Salvador Bahia around age 33. Our team was dudes age 19 to proly 33 and learning/ inventing talking shit on the court in practice and then in games was awesome. Especially going into another teams gym arena in far reaching places like Alagoas or Juazeiro Bahia
My one invention that caught on in Bahia was post game ācade a cerveja rapaz!ā Which my boys there hit me with to this day
Lol yeah man, for some reason after three years of Spanish, I made the dumb decision to try taking German my first semester in collegeā¦ every time I had to speak it was this weird mix of German, Spanish and my own southern English mixed in.
Needless to say I had to drop that class.
Being from Tennessee I totally get that
If you ever want to know how bad college officiating is just watch the last two minutes of a ton of games and how many times they go to the video review and have to correct the wrong call.
Three reviews in the Duke Boston College game and two they had to overturn it for wrong calls.
And then just a terrible call to put Filpowski at the line for the go ahead FTs with 12 seconds left when BC should have had the ball with a 1 point lead.
So 25% accuracy on whistles in the last 90 seconds.
D1 officials are supposed to be at 93-95% accurate.