Not just saying this because he’s a Hoo, but absolutely love what the Commanders have done over the last few weeks. After 25+ years it feels like we finally have ownership and a front office that knows what they’re doing.

Ton of free agent signings, that will probably result in 8-10 starters, not even including special teams, where upgrades were made as well. All reasonable contracts, and still have a mountain of cap space.

Next step is the draft where we have 6 picks in the top 100, and another probably 4-5 starters. The #2 pick will be a QB…likely Daniels or Maye. Other early picks need to focus on OT & DB.

Culture of a severely damaged organization won’t get fixed overnight, but I do have hope for the first time since the night RG3 got injured that we might actually contend in my lifetime again.

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Interesting list. Doesn’t include private schools but nice to see we are ahead of plenty of SEC and B1G schools and 2nd in the ACC.

It would also be interesting to see where we’d fall in a football and basketball only ranking. I imagine we are probably not as concentrated as mamy other schools. Pretty sure we are near (or at?) the top in NIL for multiple non-revs

Carnevale scored 5 goals and Hoeg added 4 to allow reserves to play a good portion of the second half.

Both teams went deep into the bullpen. After six innings neither team had scored on a total of five hits. Virginia finally broke through in the 7th inning when after two outs, Anderson was hit by a pitch and came home on a single by Hanson. The Cavs added three insurance runs in the 8th. Ferrence and Saucke led off the inning with solid singles. After a sacrifice bunt by Didawick, they both scored on a triple by Ford into right field. Ford then scored on a single by Godbout to reach the final score.
Savino, Barker, Woolfolk, Osinski, Kampschror, Augustin, Coady, and Teel pitched for Virginia. Only Coady, who was the winning pitcher, went as long as two innings. He struck out all six batters that he faced.
Ford, Goutbout, and Hanson each had two of Virginia's eight hits.

Three-star CB Aydan West talked to @Dylan Callaghan-Croley about his recent trip down to UVa, his plans to return for an official visit in June, and what stands out about the Hoos.

Is this really going to happen?
Filipowski fouls out, NC State up up 56-44 with 4:45 left?

While having great guard play is essential to getting to the final 4, each of the remaining teams have a center that is a significant scoring presence. Something UVA hasn't had for at least the past 4 years. I think Buchanan can get there by his 3rd and 4th year.

Coming off a strong sophomore season, in-state 2026 guard Styles Clemmons talked to @HoustonWilson about a recent trip to Charlottesville and what stood out about UVa.

WRs coach Adam Mims had an impressive first year at UVa in 2023. Now, @justin ferber writes, his group looks to build on the depth it’s amassed both among guys from its room and those added from the transfer portal.

I wonder if we would be interested. Crazy times.

Nm

Played for Ohio for two years. Was on the team with BVP and Preston that beat us a few years ago. Crazy.

Basketball is a bummer, but after two days, UVA Women in the lead by 47 points and ahead of last year's dominant pace, even without Kate Douglass

Gretchen Walsh already smashed her own American 50 Free record - or as SwimSwam is now calling it - her "New Everything Record"

Alex Walsh becomes the 2nd woman ever under 1:50 in the 200IM, behind only Kate Douglass last year

Race videos if you're interested - https://swimswam.com/2024-w-ncaas-watch-gretchen-walsh-breaks-all-her-records-in-the-50-free-day-2-race-videos/

8-1 with 4 out of 5 in the final 16. Where are all of Jimmy Dyke's powerful ESPN darling SEC teams?

Has 2 teams in elite 8. Maybe a third.

Virginia scored 4 runs in the 2nd inning, 1 run in the 3rd, and 2 runs in the 4th to jump out to a 7 - 1 lead. Noons got the last two Cavs out in the 5th and did not allow a hit for the rest of the game. Blanco started on the mound for Virginia and pitched the first 4.2 innings. He was charged with 7 hits and all 3 runs, 2 of which scored after the home plate umpire missed what my old eyes believed to be strike 3 on a Duke batter, Hungate pitched the last 4.1 innings and allowed no runs on just 2 singles to lock down the victory.
O'Ferrall was the only Hoo to get 2 hits, which created 3 RBI. He and Godbout made several defensive plays which prevented a comeback by the Devils.

Has he really done enough to get drafted? Or his he looking to transfer?

It is easy for me to watch a game and allow the results of that game extrapolate into my perception of the entire season. I decided to look at our results so far in 2024 to see how the Cavs were actually performing in our first 25 games. Virginia has scored a total of 272 runs for an average of 10.88 runs a game. We have scored more than 10 runs in a game 14 times and less than 5 runs twice. Virginia won our second lowest scoring game 4 - 3. Our opponents have scored 158 runs for an average of 6.32 runs. They have scored more than 10 runs 6 times and less than 5 runs 11 times.

On Episode 555 of the CavsCorner Podcast (“Excited To Be Here”), we discuss the rough way UVa’s season ended, what the Hoos need to do in the transfer portal, and what likely lies ahead.

Site: https://virginia.rivals.com/news/cavscorner-podcast-episode-555

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First of all, both are legendary coaches. Both are the best we have ever had and both are sure fire Hall of Famers.

When BOC started his amazing reign, he loved small ball. He loved the purity of a 3-2 win. And we were GOOD. But then the game started to change. Other teams would roll into down with a bunch of sluggers and erase our small-ball lead with one swing of the bat. I am sure that Coach hated it, but he evolved and we were able to win the occasional 15-12 game. I am sure that recruiting doors were opened and we are still damn good.

For several years, I have been waiting for Tony to have a similar evolution. A 78-74 win counts just as much as a 58-54 win. Instead we are still bogged down with a bunch of frustrated looking players and a bunch of kids who visibly regress on the offensive end. Recruiting doors are closing and they will only be reopened when Tony LOOSENS UP. As one of the greatest basketball coaches of his generation, surely Tony can change and still win. But will he?

Just read baseball article from VirginiaSports.com. Earlier in the season we lost two of our weekend starters for the year. Bradley Hodges and Jack O’Conner. If interested go read the article as it is very informative.
Wife and I were at the early games they were suddenly taken out. We couldn’t figure out what was amiss.

Guys I will have a an article out tomorrow digging into the transfer portal. Will discuss who could possibly leave and a few targets we have reached out to. There are a lot of different things being floated around out there but I will try and answer to the best of my ability.

Beruvides started on the mound for Virginia. After retiring the first Richmond batter, the second batter reached on a swinging bunt. The next two batters walked before the next batter sent the ball into the left field bleachers to give Richmond a 4-0 lead. Woolfolk came in to pitch in the second inning. He gave up a walk and a RBI double in the 4th inning which ended to scoring by the Spiders. Kampschror got the final out in the 4th and was the winning pitcher. Augustin pitched the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings; Teel pitched the eighth, and Osinski pitched the ninth.
Virginia's bats came to life in the second inning, and the team scored at least one run in six of the next seven innings. Didawick led off in the second with an infield hit. He went to third on a single by Ferrence and scored on a sacrifice fly by Gotbout. Ferrence scored on a home run by Anderson. The Cavs knotted the score at 4 in the third when Didawick waked, stole second and came home on a single by Anderson. After Richmond took a 5-4 lead in the fourth, Virginia scored three runs on a home run by Didawick to take a 7 - 5 lead. Virginia scored once in the 6th on a RBI single by Didawick, A walk and three singles produced four more runs in the seventh. Consecutive singles in the eighth by Ferrence, Godbout, Anderson, and Hanson led to the final four runs.
Every place in the lineup produced at least one hit with O'Ferrall, Didawick, and Anderson each having three hits.. Didaiwck and Anderson both drove in four runs.