Really hope Scott is full on Saturday. Itās a 7:00 kickoff and the weather should be decent. Top 15 team working on potentially the best regular season in school history. No excuses for not showing up and being loud.
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Chandler Morris wants you to be there.
(Although, it does seem like he forgot he was supposed to encourage non-student fans to show up as well and tacked it on at the end real quick. 
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https://twitter.com/uvafootball/status/1985737257744286048?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
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General football question, but last weekās failed fake FG attempt got me wondering- why donāt we have a more athletic (sorry, Daniel Sparks) player holding on field goals? Wouldnāt someone like Davis Lane (former dual-threat QB) make more sense in that spot? I assume thereās a good reason, but Iām not a huge Xās and Oās guy
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Great question. Schaub as holder in 2004 was big when we faked VT.
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Every staff has their own reasons on who they pick.
Personally I like using a former QB whoās also taking reps on practice. They are used to catching and handling a ball in a tight spot and generally have quick hands.
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Itās usually a practice time thing!
Saban always used backup QBs because he wanted the threat of fakes out there, but many gumps at the time blamed Bamaās kicking woes on them not getting enough practice time with the special teams units.
Punters have plenty of time to practice holding with the long snapper and kicker, back up QBs often donāt.
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The Athletic named Sparks to their Top 100 list of football āfreaks.ā From the writeup: āOne of the ACCās best punters looks and moves like an ACC power forward. Sparks, who averaged 44.6 yards per punt and had 25 percent of his kicks pinned inside the opponentās 20 last season, is 6-6 1/2, 223 pounds. This offseason, he broad jumped 10-5 Ā½ and vertical jumped 33 1/2 inches. Only four DBs at this yearās combine ran faster than his 4.25-second shuttle time.ā
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Sparks: punter/TE/DB
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Same thought. Donāt like how good I feel about this oneā¦
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Good call, I totally forgot about this- that shuttle time is insane
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I didnāt mind Sparks taking the ball on the fake FG, but calling for a fake FG bothered me. If you wanted to go for it, I think youād have had a better chance getting six yards with your actual offensive players on the field. I thought the fake was too cute.
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I didnāt mind a fake per se but would have liked a run-pass option.
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4th and 6 is a long way to go on a fake FG and even with that he damn near made it.
I get why some donāt like the call.
I liked it being aggressive in that spot with the way the D was playing i get it
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So curious where Miami comes in. Could be anywhere from 10-18
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Lindell Stone was the holder for most of the Bronco years. He was the backup/3rd QB. I donāt remember ever running a fake with him though.
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CFP rankings reveal starting now on ESPN.
I was not aware of the fact that Carla is on the CFP committee this year.
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Itās hard to go across the country and win a football game and the win against Cal was very gutty. Seems like all the wins recently have been won on guts as execution has been off.
Would love to see the team put it together and execute for four quarters against Wake. I think winning at Duke is going to be very, very hard and we donāt beat VPI no matter who coaches or what group of deaf and blind one legged orphans they run out on the field. Need to get this win number 9 and I would feel pretty good about winning a bowl game with roughly 4 weeks for our guys to get healthy.
Who knows, maybe this is the year we donāt collapse against VPI.
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