Iāll miss Tony as a great steward of the menās program and as a coach who won a ton of god damn games. I will not miss his offensive philosophy and inability to adapt. That said, Iām not excited at all about Sanchez continuing down that same offensive road. I hope we see pretty substantial changes in offensive sets this season ā¦ if not, I would prefer to move on from Sanchez at the end of the season.
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Iām torn. I donāt feel any particular attachment to Tonyās schemes, even the Pack Line (gasp). However, I love the way that he built and led the program, and I donāt want to see that type of leadership fall to the wayside. I imagine that Sanchez follows Tonyās example in how he leads, so I want him to be successful on the court, but his results at UNC-C donāt leave me too optimistic.
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I have no attachment to any schemes or pillars, just the school and success to be honest. I donāt want to get too hung up on trying to replicate Tonyās success-- Iām not sure itās possible.
If the best coach available for us next year is someone with a drastically different style, Iād be totally fine with that!
I will keep going crazy for shot clock violations though. That part will be imprinted forever.
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UVAās record at Christmas?
- 10-2 or better
- 9-3
- 8-4
- 7-5 or worse
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I think the biggest loss will be having Tony be the de facto national representative for UVA sports. When a casual sports fan heard UVA or Virginia Cavaliers, Tony Bennett was the first thing that came to mind. And what better representative could you possibly ask for? Itās a huge void and it will be interesting to see who fills it over the next handful of years
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Thatās a tough one but with the ACC likely to be underwhelming yet again, no worse than 8-3 outside of the league is probably a must to have realistic NCAA Tournament hopes, which means winning 2 of the 5 major nonconference games. Anything worse than that and youāre probably going to need 14-15 regular season ACC wins to go dancing.
Can we get 2 of those 5? Youād like to think we can pick off Memphis at home, especially since itās a bit later on the schedule. Beyond that though, it wonāt be easy. The Villanova game looms large.
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Iām the only eternal optimist.
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@jazznutUVA huge believer
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Maybe Iām naive, but I just donāt see a mass exodus from the players as long as Sanchez and Tonyās crew are the staff.
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There was a mass exodus from Ohio State even though they named an assistant to replace Holtman and he coached almost half of last season.
Again, I could be very naive on this, but Virginia is different.
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Agree. But I am also naive. Guys go to Virginia for the reasons you go to Virginia, mainly. Recent transfers have been guys that see they wont play or have girlfriends in Nebraska.
I am also gullible sometimes
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Makes me wonder if Tonyās been making calls to the playersā families to apologize and reassure. Sounds like something he might do.
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Absolutely has been yes. And I am not Matt Norlander
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Something we havenāt talked about much yet is what level of involvement with the program is appropriate for Tony going forward. Obviously weāre never going to show him the door, but it will be a delicate balance. He needs to give Ron some space so that itās clear itās his job and his team.
But at the same time if things go sideways and Ron doesnāt end up being the guy, I hope that doesnāt impact Tonyās support of the successor or the program in general.
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Message board Poster. Would also accept Tugard reply guy
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TB becoming a LRA regular would be the most incredible thing ever. Even more epic if heās like Hooz123 level negative about the next coach lol
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If new user starts giving daily quotes then we will know
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Whatever his role we will know very little about it. We all know Tony well enough that he will remain deep in the background and behind the scenes.