“We got here and we couldn’t get some guys in school because of some of the academic issues that we had,” Foster said. “When we lost Herman Moore, he was a guy that wanted to come to Virginia Tech, so they were able to get some guys in school there that we couldn’t even get into school here.


God I hate them. Happy thanksgiving!!!!

The WAR ROOM is back and this quick-hitting edition is full of football recruiting scoop! The Cavaliers finish up their 2015 season tomorrow afternoon in Charlottesville, as the annual clash for the Commonwealth Cup returns to Scott Stadium. And no doubt, when UVa host arch-rival Virginia Tech, there will be a lot of folks watching both in person and at home with a great deal of interest. Virginia is expecting to a host a number of recruits tomorrow and considering the circumstances, it should make for an interesting time.

As always, what's said in the War Room, stays in the War Room. Let's go!


Committed players pepper list of visitors

UVa isn't expecting to host an incredibly large number of players tomorrow when the Wahoos faces the Hokies but there will be a number of commits there this weekend. Sources says Sonny Abramson, Cole Blackman, Darrius Bratton, Christian Brooks, Holland Corbett, Nick Grant, Bryce Hall, Tre Harbison, Aidan Howard, Jordan Mack, Chris Moore, Stephen Moye, Joeseph Reed, Stephen Spanellis, Matt Terrell, and Landan Word are all expected as is 2017 commit John Kirven.

The Hoos are also expecting to host a few other key recruits including four-star Rivals250 defensive end TyJuan Garbutt. Needless to say, the Wahoos (regardless of who the coach is) will want to be on the 6-foot-3, 222-pound Riverbend standout's mind and given t he offer list he has so far, that's going to be a tall order.

Also expected in town tomorrow is Daniel Horne, a 6-foot-4, 300-pound offensive lineman from C.D. Hilton in Woodbridge. His is another name to file away going into the camp season next spring. He's an excellent student coming off a solid visit to North Carolina a few weeks ago and this won't be his first time at UVa since he was there for the Notre Game game earlier in the season.

The other intriguing visitor of note is Brooks' younger brother, 6-foot-3, 205-pound end Caleb Brooks because the Centreville standout is going to see his offer list explode in the next six to eight months. And it's great for UVa to already be the school he's seeing and hearing about the most.

Others among those expected include junior Dominion defensive end Tommy Christ, Hampton junior DE Elijah Conliffe, junior linebacker Walter Haire from Indianapolis, Hampton's Dazz Newsome, junior TE Griffin Sestili, the Ocean Lakes duo of Jalen Smith and Justin Smith, and Parkview (GA) defensive back Derrion Warner.

That is it for this week, and as always, what's said here, stays here!

By 11 w/6:22 to go. Oops, down to 5 with 4 to play.

I've said something like this a couple of times in various threads over the past few weeks but I thought, given how crazy things are going to get around here very soon, it might be best if I do this again.

Please keep in mind what I've always said: The board works better when folks reply to points, not each other. Keep any and all personal stuff out of your posts. And if someone you don't like posts something, feel free to disagree with their content but don't do it if you can't ignore the "who" involved. And I don't much care if somebody else did it first. We're not children. Please act like it and don't add more on my plate by responding to someone you know you shouldn't. Let me handle it if it needs handled.

I think by this point, you all have a feel and respect for the job that I have to do. You understand that this is, in fact, a job. So, keep in mind that there are going to be a lot of new voices in this room here shortly and I'd like it if their first introduction to the site wasn't 15 people bickering about things that have nothing to do with UVa sports.

Despite what is prevalent around the internet, we can disagree with each other without being jerks about it. And that's what is going to happen here whether I have to edit, delete, or ban until my keyboard breaks.

Do me a solid and think about all of that before you post.

Thanks.

In the game thread there was reference to CML being retained if we beat Tech next week.


Regardless of the outcome of the game, that ship has sailed. There is an active behind the scenes coaching search going on. It's not feelers or prep work. The process has started. You do not reverse gears on that kind of machine once it's in motion, even over a big rivalry victory.

Don't waste a moment thinking there's anything to save CML's job.

Also, he's gone. Firing him this week or the first half of next week is meaningless. Don't let your frustrations eclipse your common sense. He's gone after next week. That's enough.

Also, we almost surely are not going bowling with a 5-7 record. There aren't that many 5-7 spots available and Tech has one of those all but sewn up if we beat them next week. They travel well and there's a built in storyline/point of interest to sell on an otherwise meaningless bowl game you had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to fill. Of the handful of 5-7 bowls left over, there's nothing that would make us desirable to a bowl. We don't travel particularly well, we don't have a particularly strong football tradition, our coach is on the way out, we don't have marquee players.

This week is finally here. Last game of a LONG season.

And soon no more threads about weather ML will stay or go.

Proud of this team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is my score.

Good guys 27
Bad guys 24

Go Hoos

Any reason he wasn't on the bench?

I wanted to ask -- of our freshman and sophomores (true and redshirt) who are you most excited about seeing develop over the next 2-4 years?

As we have been assured, regime change is coming and I wanted to analyze where the program is at with young players. So who are you most excited about in those classes and at what positions do you think we have some talent/depth?

Thanks.

Final day of player teleconferences starts in a few with linebacker Micah Kiser. Check this thread for notes shortly.

Offense is our calling card early. These new rules are affecting the way we used to play defense and it will take some time to adjust. 12 of our first 19 shots were 3's. We might want to slow that down just a tad. Inside Out

I like Salt starting. If nothing else Tobey seems to play better coming off the bench.

LP with no turnovers. Shot wasn't on tonight as it was the last few games, but he is the glue that gets us to the Final Four.

MB still not seeing much improvement in arch from his shot, but what a monster game from him and he was even able to knock down a few threes.

Teams are really packing in that defense against us and if we continue to knock down three's in the 38% to 40% range we will be more than OK.

This is weird for me to say, but like I said above just the fact we're able to get out in transition on missed baskets and put up close to 80 points a game means that giving up 60 to 65 with the new freedom of movement rules is just fine with me. Sometimes the coach has to adjust to certain things. Coach K used to put relentless ball pressure on you and doesn't do it as much as he used to, so coaches adjust their style to the talent that they have and the rule changes however they flow.

Defense in the second half was better, but I think this team will have a NBA philosophy to defense where we still play hard and disciplined, but we will play good enough defense at times to make runs on you where you can't come back. Once teams are forced to stop running their offense and jacking up threes without any flow to it they are dead in the water.

Need to be careful against Ohio State. They're not playing their best basketball and they are extremely young, but it will still be a loud crowd so we can't get complacent and come up flat because they aren't the same team they've been the last few years. I fully expect us to wear them down inside and win by 10.

This is a different team than we've had the last few years and honestly all the scoring is a welcome sight, but I still trust the staff to fix the defense to the best of their ability.

Six different UVA players had assists. Six different UVA players had a steal. Six different UVA players had a block. Nine different UVA players scored.

Getting ready to go with UVa's Tony Bennett here in the press room at JPJ. Check this thread for notes in a few.

Greetings from Charlottesville where No. 12 UVa will host Lehigh in about a half hour. Marial Shayok has a small wrap on his right wrist. That's something to keep an eye on tonight.

As always, have at it folks...

Kansas St. is the best unranked team I have seen this year. Their freshman guard Stokes made like seven three point shots from all over, some NBA range. They were big and physical but still didn't quite get it done. NC is going to be really tough when they get Paige back. This stretch has probably given their other guards some confidence and Justin Jackson has really come into his own this year. They still don't play defense for long stretches but when they do they play it well. They will be a tough one for us this year. The good part is that they are not a physical team down low so our bigs should be good against them.

Les miles might be getting fired from lsu I would love for the mad hatter to be considered for our position. I think he would find a job at a higher pedigree than UVA but man would it be fun to see what he could do with smoke and zacc. Next year on offense.

I'm leaving out early in the morning out of the area for five days to head out to my wife's family and will be off line for 5 or 6 days.

So Happy Thanksgiving to ALL!

While there is no doubt next Saturday should be CML's last game as his teams have both had losing records, he certainly had no help from JO and the schedulers. When looking at the numbers consider that two of the current top 3 teams, OSU and Clemson have not played a single 25 team on the road

UVA's past 23 games break down as follows

7 road games against Top 25 teams (2014 - BYU, Duke, FSU and G. Tech and 2015 - UCLA, Pitt and UNC).

2 home games against top 10 teams at home (2014 - UCLA and 2015 - N. Dame).

3 home games against much lesser opponents (2014 - Richmond and Kent and 2015 - William and Mary).

That leaves 11 games against teams that were roughly our equals. We won 6 (2014 - Ville, Pitt and Miami and 2015 - Cuse, G. Tech and Duke) and lost 5 (2014 - UNC and V. Tech and 2015 - Boise State, Miami and the Ville) Of those 5 losses, we played one dog of a game (Boise State), and played the rest down to the following possession. Interesting, of our 6 wins, only the Miami game did not come down to the final possession.

So in 2014 - we played 5 teams where we were heavy underdogs, 4 of them on the road (BYU, G. Tech, FSU and Duke) and one at home (UCLA). As a result to win 6 and go bowling, UVA needed to beat one or more those teams or win 6 of the remaining 7. UVA did win 5 and should have won the other two (UNC and Va. Tech). Bottom line, that season was designed to fail unless UVA played like a top 25 team, which we were not.

In 2015 we played 4 teams who were better than us, 3 of them on the road (UCLA, Pitt and UNC) and one at home (N. Dame). Therefore, to win 6 and go bowling, we needed to win 6 of the remaining 8, but only had one game against a lessor opponent. We have won 4 of 7 with Va. Tech remaining.

No coach or team trying to work their way back should have to face such a structural road block. 3 ACC wins should let you go bowling. This year we could win 4 in the ACC and still not go bowling.

These kids have deserved better from the coaching staff and they certainly deserved better from the schedulers. They have deserved to go bowling the last two years.

Dadi Nicolas has been suspended by Frank for the first-half of the game against us. I still think it should have been the entire game, but at least he did something!

I'm looking to buy two sets of two's tickets for the VT game four total they don't have to be together. I'm jusy trying to get the elders in for Reese's last game. The earlyer I can find them the better.

Thanks in advance.