🏀 Virginia's Portal Recruiting is Underway

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Someone we were mentioned with. Seems like a good landing spot for him, thought he was just ok.

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Clemson keeps stealing our bigs. Do something!!!

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Lots of portal to play out and guys might still enter. Plus a few targets still out there.

But at this point, you do have to wonder if we are looking JuCo, D2, D3, International. Like, where does one go to find a Khaman Maluach? Have we checked swimming pools in St Thomas?** Has worked for the Odom fam before

** Wikipedia claims this may not actually be how Dave Odom found Tim Duncan

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Meanwhile, Kyle Guy has no problem signing big guys

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Yeah that has Kyle Guy lead recruiter written all over it lol

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2,215 D1 transfers
475+ Commits (22%)

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Too lazy to look it up - what’s Odom’s buyout after year 3?

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No commits since Friday and now we’re worried about Odom’s buyout?! Lol

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Can we just put random old Kareem and Hakeem big man clips in the portal tapes thread? Maybe outtakes from Pete Newell’s camp?

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Danny out there gettin cooked

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Don’t really think this is a relevant stat. Once you get past the top 200 or so it’s not the level of player we’d need. So break down top 200 or so, then it becomes useful for UVA.

Fwiw, here are some Passmore highlights from Kansas’s scrimmage against Arkansas. Nothing amazing, but he looks like he belongs, in terms of athleticism, pace of play, etc.

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He looks solid. Sign him up

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Have these prices always been this high or is this us paying those big $alaries the players are getting? Because even the single game tickets were often pretty steep for me last year. Heck of a time to raise costs of attendance as we come off a less than stellar season with an unproven coach (as far as UVA goes) and a team full of players none of us know.

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The payroll for the current roster is estimated over $6M and will grow well past that. That combined with the expiration of 20-year seat licenses is the reason you’re seeing this. I will tell you right now that college athletics as currently set up has no hope of surviving and sustaining this current financial system without getting a lot of money from a lot of different and novel spigots. It’s not like VAF was sitting around waiting for TB to retire and to have our worst season in over a decade. This was always going to happen it’s just the amount of increase that is staggering.

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Tapes thread update:

  • deleted Kareem
  • added Carter Lang HS tape. If anyone knows of a decent Vandy-era tape, please add it or let me know!
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If you want to sit in the upper bowl… just post on here… there are quite a few that have them. I dont go to all the games and there were several games no one used my tickets at all.

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I was looking at that, as well. A riskier investment usually comes with lower prices.

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