They thought it was the other Thomas
Predictions for Jon Rothstein’s future Ryan Odom era Virginia catch phrase?
Ryan Odom: From David to Goliath
Money can buy everything
Hometown hero!
Is that cheesy enough?
The one I saw on Rothstein’s post about Hall was “Virginia — more guards than Shawshank.”
RO Sparks: get hard, stay hard
Can do
Haven’t posted in a while (long time lurker/liker), but I have to say this gave me some feelings. Well done sir ![]()
Virginia Basketball: A thing of beauty
Ryan Odom: Changing of the guards
That’s actually good.
Virginia basketball: more threes than a Blacksburg bar at 2 am.
Virginia Basketball. Dash and Splash, No Interior Cache.
Or
Virginia Basketball. Guards on Parade, No Low Post Brigade.
Virginia basketball: we represent the lollipop guild
Griff is pumped to be here, I am pumped that he is here based on some of these quotes: Jeff White: UVA law school graduate Griff Aldrich has been reunited with Ryan Odom
Nerds are gonna win:
“I always really loved analytics, and that’s something that I naturally gravitated to. Ryan was certainly really intrigued by analytics back at UMBC and really started to grow in that, and now that’s a central part of his thinking and his philosophy and how he shapes his program.”
Yeah, I’m here for all of this:
As the Wahoos build their 2025-26 roster, they’re navigating the transfer portal and making decisions on Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) compensation every day. Aldrich’s background in law and business has made him well-suited to assist Odom in those areas, and he’s acting not only as associate head coach but as the program’s de facto general manager.
“Right now I’m probably wearing two hats,” Aldrich said during an interview in his JPJ office Tuesday. “In fact, I was just on the phone talking about caps and the amounts and all of that, and that’s a lot of fun, trying to be able to figure those things out. Where does this work and how does that?
“And so I’m trying to be able to support Ryan in that role, and the reality is we’re all learning new things. But the type of law I did was more deal work, where you’re structuring deals and figuring out how this can work, how this makes sense. There’s a lot of that that’s going on right now, no doubt, and I feel comfortable doing that.”
He’s finding this era of roster-building fun. He’s built different.
Virginia Basketball: It’s not the size that matters, it’s how you use it.
Already worried about how long we’ll have him on grounds to be honest.
It’s probably fun when you have a lot of money to spend and not so fun when you don’t



