Steve Marino finished 19th on the Web.com regular season money list and earned his PGA tour card for 2015/2016.

Senior wide reciever and team captain Canaan Severin is eager to get back on the field ahead of UVa's season opener on Saturday in the Rose Bowl against No. 13 UCLA.

In this video interview, he talks about his memories of playing the Bruins last year and Matt Johns coming in at QB. Severin also talks about this year's team with Johns at the helm of the offense and how the Wahoos have to not only sustain drives but also finish games. He also gets into his views on why this preseason has been different for the Cavaliers and different for him personally as he dealt with a shoulder injury early in training camp and continued to tutor some of the younger wideouts.

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Getting ready to go on the first ACC telecon of the year. UVa's Mike London will go at 12:10 p.m. each week. Check this thread for notes in a few.

Has the TV coverage been announced for the UCLA game?

Scott was an outstanding end in the era of two-way football in the early 50s. He went on to have a very good career in the NFL.

Got a chance to meet him tonight because he is friends with a few of my players and came to our workout. Even though he is going to 'Cuse he had nothing but great things to say about Tony Bennett and how much he loves our staff.

Getting ready to start here with RB Taquan Mizzell. Check this thread for notes in a few...

This is Tony Covington, former Virginia DB. I'm hosting a new Virginia podcast with my former teammate Tyrone Lewis. We are both huge fans of the Hoos Next? Forum and Cavs Corner and would love for you guys to be a part of our podcast. You can find it at the link below:

Virginia Huddle: http://www.huddlecasts.com/#!virginia-huddle/cq1p

Virginia Huddlecast on iTunes: Click Here

In episode 7, we brought on Dave Koehn of the Virginia Sports Network to preview the 2015 season and ranked the top 5 teams in recent program history

Like I said, we are huge fans of the Hoos Next? Forum and we would love to get your feedback and find out what teams you guys rank as the top 5 in recent program history.

Thanks,
T Cov

Since there does not appear to be much problem selling basketball and baseball tickets, and tickets for the Olympic sports can almost always be purchased through the ticket office or at the walk-up window, it appears that there is only one reason for this partnership. I cannot help but wonder if the athletic department is hoping that a second source for tickets will increase football ticket sales. I would think that it is obvious that the greatest increase in sales would come from fans of the opponents and perhaps some neutral fans. Whatever home field advantage that our football team would have when playing at Scott Stadium is likely to be diminished.

Finally got around to watching the Washington pro football game I recorded. After watching McCoy in the 2nd half and Cousins in the 1st half, I am not sure which of the two I would pick first. Cousins was going against Baltimore's first teasers, Cousins against the 2nd team, but he had 2nd teasers himself but was very impressive and showed maneuvering prowess, poise and accuracy and was able to see the field and lead his receivers really well. One thing I am certain of that RG III SHOULD NOT BE THE STARTER, AS HE DOES NOT HAVE POCKET PRESENCE AND INJURIES HAVE NEGATED HIS SCRAMBLING ABILITY. RG II should be history, but he is Snyder's guy so he will probably start the first several games and only when he cause the DC bunch to lose 4-5 games will the HC be able to make a change. Book it. I think RG III is done.

Just rolled into JPJ for the first game week media day of the season. We'll be live with head coach Mike London's press conference in about 15 minutes.

I have two in section 121. Will be going on vacation Thanksgiving week and will not be able to attend. Want UVA fans in my seats. Face is 75 each.

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Just saw the Demantha kid, 5 star, #23 Markell Fultz of the 2016 has committed to University of Washington.

What the heck is Coach Lorenzo Romar doing to get 4, four star players in the 2015 class and already a five star kid from the east coast to go out there at University of Washington? He got 4 star Noah Dickerson from Fla, last year, along with 4 star PF Malik Dime from Iowa to go out there and picked up 4 star PF Marquese Chriss from Ca. Also got local Seattle kid, 4 star Dejoute Murray to come. The 2015 recruiting class had 8 total recruits!

This is with a record of 2013-2014 season of 17-15 and a 2014-2015 season with a record of 16-15. The previous years are no better and it really is a head scratcher when you see they play in a WEAK to Average conference and their out of schedule is flat out CUP CAKE teams. Here is some samples of their power house schedule the last couple of seasons:

Hartford,Mississippi, Idaho State (they even have a team???), Stony Brook, Pacific (real national contender), Grambling State, Jackson State, Saint Martins, Sana Clara, to name a few on their rotation. They don't beat UCLA and Yes they play an overrated Utah like Gonzaga who plays nothing but tons of cup cakes out west.

Utah also only is ranked like Wichita State and N. Iowa due to flat out joke of a schedule both in conference and out of conference. There should be a rule that if 90 percent of your scheduling is Div II level competition you should not be ranked preseason or during the season in the top 10 EVER! I have been retired for good now for three years and have got to watch Gonzaga late night games, Wichita State, N. Iowa and figured out their school's deal. Also, After watching Few coach at the Pan American games he was inept at best. However, I don't know why he had a blank stare on his face when Gonzaga and Wichita State play that same type of rugby, push, grab, and have your big men just lower their shoulders/heads and shove the smaller competition out of the lane for easy put backs. The Pan American game reminded me a lot of watching Gonzaga and Wichita State home games with the number of missing whistles, obvious arm bars underneath the basket that the officials can't see. Both star guards get away with traveling, extra steps, and reaching. Sorry, but after I watched these squads on a regular basis it made Duke refed home games look honest in comparison.

Both Gonzaga and Wichita State coaches and schedulers are smart. They play their toughest teams in the beginning of the year/season and then when UVA, DUKE, NC, Louisville, ND, Miami, NC State are beating each up until the ACC tourney, these teams are reeling off 23 straight wins against flat out 100 and below ranked teams and moving up the rankings. Wichita State had to play N. Iowa at the end that was their ONLY competition and they stumbled (only two spots). So when NCAA tourney selection comes around the Gonzagas and Wichita States get a #1 or #2 seed, stay out west and play more of the same cupcake competition the first two rounds until Sweet Sixteen or Eight and hope to sneak pass a slumping good team to advance. Meanwhile UVA, NC, DUKE, LOUISVILLE, NCSTATE are paired up playing each other in the NCAAs by round two knocking each other off.

I really believe that Romar knows if he can get two or three players to come out there, he can turn around this lousy 17-15, 16-15 records, playing average conference teams and that stacked deck of stiffs/cupcake non conference schedule could have his team being the next overrated Gonzaga and Wichita State. With year in and year out preseason ranks in the top 10 or 15 playing 2 tough teams, 2 or 3 competitive teams and 16 to 20 weak and flat out lousy teams! Maybe that's what Romar is selling these recruits that this Team could be the next Gonzaga or Wichita State with guaranteed 25 or 28 wins a year! I sure hope University of Washington is not another west coast rated team drawing players out on a sham, stacked schedule! I guess if we played liberty, Norfolk State, Virginia State, Middle Tennessee, Furman and other local teams 2 or 3 times a year we could pad out schedule with 28 win seasons to have recruits drop in our lap, and we didn't have Power House in conference teams like Duke, NC, Louisville, ND night in and night out we could walk into a top ten preseason every year....oh yeah we are doing it against top competition night in and night out and are ranked in the top 10!

Getting ready to go on the line with senior captain David Dean. Check this thread for notes in a few...

I am convinced of it

We had just played our most complete game of the season versus Miami and Eli Harold was talking about "going down to VT to save our coach's job" and then ....

Littlepage makes the announcement that London is safe, all the progress, blah blah blah. I really hated the timing of the announcement then, and after reading this article it irks me just as much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...123d98-4e82-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html

ESPN News is reporting that CB Ishmael Adams was charged with robbery and in jail with a bond of $100,000 set in the matter. Have to guess he won't be in uniform Saturday afternoon. He started all 13 games last season and had a pair of pick six's and a kickoff return of 100 yards. I am guessing one of those pick six's was against us but did not take the time to revisit the game statistics.

Georgia’s starting quarterback competition has a winner, and it’s an unexpected one: Greyson Lambert, the transfer from Virginia.

Lambert will start in Saturday’s season opener against Louisiana-Monroe, coach Mark Richt announced after Monday’s practice.

Brice Ramsey, who had been the presumed favorite since he finished last year as the No. 2 quarterback, will share second-team snaps with Faton Bauta this week in practice.

“There may be other or others who get in the game. But right now the thing that I know that he’ll start the game,” Richt said of Lambert. “Very, very close competition. Still being contested in my mind. But at this point we felt it would be wise to name a starter and get him ready to play in this ballgame. … We’ll start playing ball that way and see how it goes.”

The quarterbacks were notified prior to Monday’s practice, and the team was told after practice, just before Richt announced it to the media. Richt said he and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer were “pretty sure” on Saturday, then gave it a couple days before finalizing it.

The fact Richt named a starter at all was a surprise. The competition had seemed to be moving towards the first game being a split of reps, with the Louisiana-Monroe game serving as a de facto tryout.

“If I was a betting man I would probably say I didn’t think there was gonna be one named up until the game,” senior offensive tackle John Theus. “That’s how things normally are around here. So coach Richt announced it today. We didn’t know it was coming.”

It’s quite a turn of fortune for Lambert, a 6-foot-5 junior who transferred from Virginia this summer after dropping to No. 2 on the Cavaliers’ depth chart. He started nine games for Virginia last season as a sophomore, passing for 10 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

“Anything that happened at Virginia had nothing to do with the decision for him to start,” Richt said. “It might have had something to do with the decision to have him come on our campus because that’s what we had on him to go by. We didn’t invite him blindly. We watched his film and felt like he could function and do the things that we’re going to ask the quarterback to do here at Georgia. But we didn’t say: ‘He’s gonna come in and be our starter’ by any means. We told him he would compete for that job and legitimately have a shot to compete for that job.”

The competition isn’t over yet: Richt said that the coaches are “very interested” in another quarterback getting first-half snaps on Saturday. He didn’t specify which one, but Ramsey has consistently shared reps in practice with Lambert.

“I think they all can get us in the right plays. They can all get us in the right protections. I think they can all function extremely well and help us win,” Richt said. “That’s what made it extremely tough.”

Lambert played at Wayne County High School in Jesup, though he grew up an Alabama fan. (He was born in Mobile, Ala.) Lambert was recruited by Georgia and then-offensive coordinator Mike Bobo, but when Ramsey (who was a year behind him) committed, both Lambert and Georgia moved on from each other.

As a redshirt freshman at Virginia, Lambert appeared in seven games, completing 33-of-75 passes for 340 yards, with one touchdown and three interceptions. Last year he made his starting debut in the opener against then-No. 7 UCLA. He completed 16-of-23 passes for 112 yards in that game. Eventually Lambert would start nine games, completing 59 percent of his passes for 1,632 yards. He missed three games with an ankle injury.

But this spring, after being listed second on the depth chart, Lambert chose to become the seventh scholarship quarterback since 2011 to leave Virginia.

Another of those ex-Virginia quarterbacks, Phillip Sims, on Monday was named the starter for the Arizona Cardinals’ preseason game this weekend. (Cardinals starter Carson Palmer is sitting the game out.)

Theus agreed that it was nice to have a starter picked, at least for this week.

“Who knows what will happen in the future. Who knows what will happen tomorrow. But to know who’s back there, and to be able to get reps, and to be able to gel with whoever’s back there, it’s a cool thing,” Theus said “And if it wasn’t the case, honestly this whole fall camp we haven’t missed a beat whoever’s back there. Each guy has shown their strengths and played well. So it’s not really a big deal if somebody else gets put back there.”

Ramsey was long considered the favorite after finishing last year as the No. 2 quarterback behind Hutson Mason. The 6-foot-2 Ramsey is regarded as having the strongest arm the program has seen since Matt Stafford, and he got game experience last season, finishing the Belk Bowl after Mason suffered a head injury.

But there were also concerns about Ramsey’s decision-making with his throws. During the spring he couldn’t get separation from Bauta, who is more mobile but has a weaker arm. Then when Lambert became available, Richt and Schottenheimer jumped at the chance to bring him in to compete.

Lambert, even while still taking classes at Virginia, studied Georgia’s playbook, preparing for his next team.

“I am a pro-style quarterback. I love the play-action pass,” Lambert said in June during an interview in Charlottesville. “I love to be able to survey the defense and try to figure out what they’re doing and get the ball to the playmakers. Because ultimately that’s our job as a quarterback, is to facilitate the football, get it there accurately, on time, and make the right decisions.”

Lambert arrived at Georgia on July 13. His first practice with the Bulldogs wasn’t until Aug. 4, but in less than a month he was able to beat out Ramsey and Bauta.

“I can’t sit here and say Greyson just pulled away from the pack. They were all doing well, in our opinion,” Richt said. “But he got the nod.”

It's been asked about in a host of different threads and rather than track it down and answer the questions that pop up, I thought I'd start a thread devoted to the possibility that Mamadi Diakite will enroll early at UVa. This way, everyone is on the same page.

Let's start with what we know: On Wednesday, a day after the four-star PF committed to the Cavaliers, Blue Ridge School put out this release:

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Note that it mentions being in consultation with the NCAA and UVa compliance. That's the key at this point. Diakite has, as the release mentioned, been working to make early enrollment a possibility. The basketball team is ready for him since the Wahoos have a scholarship to use.

The question to answer is whether he'll be able to get everything done in time (that part is expected) and then if the powers that be will give him the green light.

According to a source I spoke with today, that is still where it sits. A possibility. Everybody is working to make it happen but this is, after all, UVa. The process is as important on the academic side as on the basketball side. As such, there are details to work out and there has been no official word (despite some reports in the press that it made it sound definite). The fact that no press release has come from UVa should pretty much make that clear.

The secondary question we've all been discussing has been if Diakite gets the course work done and gains early enrollment and if the NCAA signs off (let's be honest: The NCAA tends to hate when kids change up plans late like this), will he play in 2015-2016?

According to our sources, that answer is still TBD but the likelihood is that he would redshirt. Not only was he unable to take part in summer workouts with the team (last year Wilkins put on 25 pounds between when he arrived and the start of practice in the fall) but he also hasn't played organized basketball in the states for very long. Asking him to enroll, get adjusted to college life, and be physically and mentally ready to play for a preseason Top 10 team without summer workouts is a tall, tall task. And let's not forget this is the NCAA we're talking about here. It's possible that UVa gives him the go ahead, he enrolls, and then we wait for a couple of months while the NCAA decides on his status.

As we hear more, we'll pass it along. Suffice to say, though, that there are still some details that need to be worked out before we can say that he's absolutely coming for 2015-2016.

Just got my hands on the game notes for the UCLA game, which usually would have the depth chart included. Per UVa's SID, there will be an announcement about the depth chart at the start of London's press conference.

As soon as I can get an image of it or link to it, I'll post it in this thread.

strong rumor out of Athens -- Greyson will be the starter. Not sure if that is bigger criticism of our coaching staff or of the other QBs at Georgia but would suck to have a guy come to UVA , fail to develop, transfer to a top 15 SEC program and then start ---- ouch

Brad, or anyone who knows, is there any chance we see Juan Thornhill in the return game? In high school, he was really able to make people miss.