Borrowed from Facebook.
Two West Virginia football players were walking in the woods.
One of them said, “Look a dead bird.”

The other one looked up into the sky and said,
Where?

The men finished behind UNC and Syracuse, and the women followed NCSU and Notre Dame..

Great tweet I saw. This is what recruits should really be looking at rather than what likes of UK and Duke put in NBA. You could put the cutoff lower, say 50, and I suspect we’d be #1.

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Preview: @BigGriff gets you ready for tomorrow afternoon’s clash in Miami Gardens as UVa hits the road once again, this time bound for a matchup against the Hurricanes (3:30 p.m., ACC Network).

On Episode 534 of the CavsCorner Podcast (“Something to Talk About”), we look back at UVa’s incredible win in Chapel Hill and how it changes the narrative before we preview the game at Miami this weekend.

Site: https://virginia.rivals.com/news/cavscorner-podcast-episode-534

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Josh Sborz (Texas) and Pavin Smith (Arizona), both members of the 2015 national championship team, will be playing in the World Series.

Coming off his first official visit, four-star wing Jacob Wilkins (2025) talked to @HoustonWilson about his time at UVa, what stood out during the trip, and what it’s like being recruited by his brother Isaiah, now an assistant coach with the Hoos.

Virginia scored the first 3 goals before High Point converted. Cavs offense was not huge, but it was effective. High Point had 13 shots to 6 by Virginia, but both sides had 5 shots on goal.

Justin is tied up today, so we will not have a real time transcription of the press conference. We will post the video once available. If any notable news is broken, I will add it here prior to the video becoming available.

Three-star guard Ishan Sharma talked to @HoustonWilson about his comfort level with UVa following his official visit and what made him commit to Tony Bennett and the Hoos shortly thereafter.

With the Blue-White Scrimmage now in the rear view, @HoustonWilson looks back at several takeaways and what they mean for UVa ahead of the season opener early next month.

Before this season started, I was willing to give Elliott the benefit of the doubt because I believed that he had been dealt a very poor hand in terms of returning talent and depth, and this was very evident in the 2022 games and the first six games of the 2023 season. On the other hand, I was discouraged because of the poor performance on the field and the obvious recruiting results. This indicated to me that 2024 results were not likely to be significantly better. In addition, it seemed to me that Elliott was constantly hoping to win by drawing to an inside straight when it seemed to me that some things needed to change.
The first change that was obvious to me was that our Oline needed to be retooled. This process began a couple of games ago, and the results have been incremental until yesterday. The second related change was that it had become obvious that we were not successful in short yardage offensive plays with our backs seven yards behind the line of scrimmage. Against William and Mary we bought in Osterhaus at QB and put him under center in the tush push situations; it worked then and worked again against a much better UNC team. It also seemed to me that our passing offense would not be successful when we relied almost exclusively on Fields and Washington, regardless of their talent as receivers. I had hoped that we would make better use of our tight ends and running backs in passing situations.
Yesterday Wood (TE) was targeted 4 times with 3 completions for 62 yards, and three different backs each caught one pass for a total of 11 yards. Washington was still able to catch 12 passes for 115 yards and 1 touchdown. With better blocking and additional passing threats, our rushing was able to gain 228 yards and average 4.2 yards. Lastly, our special teams play also improved. Bettridge made a 45 yard field goal and has not missed since his first kick of the season. Sparks punted 5 times for 251 yards (50.2) average, and Ganyard kicked off 6 times for a 63.2 average.
For all of these reasons, I am willing to put my obituary in my sock drawer for at least a couple more games. I am not expecting a dramatic change, but today almost every friend that I saw commented on our performance against UNC. It has been quite a while since this has happened.

Virginia women received a commitment from Sylvia Roy, in the 2025 class. She is from Pittsburgh, PA and qualified for the Olympic trials in the back stroke.

UVa men’s swimming team landed multiple high ranked commits in the 2025 class, including the #1 and 2.

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Malik Washington for wide receiver and James Jackson for linebacker. Congrats to both!

Seems like something is imminent.

On facing UNC's offense and whether they're the best team UVa has faced this year, Elliott said it is the best team they've seen thus far, and they play complimentary football. Their defense looks different than it did last year, and the group is cohesive and plays with energy. They have a better understanding of their scheme which allows them to create turnovers. Elliott said Drake Maye is as good a QB as he's seen, and is the best QB in the country. He always has his composure, and knows the offense well, and he doesn't put the ball in jeopardy much. Defenders are very rarely able to get a clean hit on him and he knows when to slide. And UNC can run the football, too. Omarrion Hampton is a big runner that goes forward, and has almost no negative plays on the season. Elliott said UNC was already good at WR and now Tez Walker is in the equation and he's special. UNC can mix in different personnel groups and challenge a defense with different formations.

More coming.

About 25 minutes from the kick down in Chapel Hill as the Hoos look to pull off an upset against the 10th-ranked Heels. I’ll have updates in this thread shortly.

As always, have at it folks…

Take Two: @justin ferber looks back at UVa’s improbable and impressive 31-27 win at No. 10 Carolina, grading out the various units following the massive victory in Chapel Hill.

Woke up this morning and was in the mode with a double smile on my face with that fantastic, History making win last night!

Turned on the Washington game and really can't figure out how Rivera, Team make it a point to under perform against a Chicago and now to two slob Coaches on the other side of the field with a losing team like NYGiants.

Howell looked horrible with what 5 sacks and was rattled. Then Rivera took too long to adjust Howell to the 6 men rush coming at him.

The O line; ALL need to be fired! This squad is on pace to have their QB to be sacked 90+ times this year. You had two Moronic O line guys on instant replay blocking an incoming DB, A FREAKIN DB and letting a D line guy and LB run right passed to stuff Howell in the ground.

St. Juste is flat garbage as a cover guy. On a floater pass, he is watching coming toward his man down the sideline and actual stops and speeds up, misjudging the flight and was burned on a 3rd and long, he constantly is targeted and he gets away with PI all the time. Rivera's judgement on him being tall says it all cause St. Juste, Davis and Mayo are all Poor cover guys out in the open field.

This team is poorly coached on Special teams and Secondary. Who runs out of bounds voluntarily to get a stupid penalty?????? Just coaching staff not take care of the small stuff.

My got to go team: Rivera right out of the gate. Our Kicker should be on the seat beside him. Then:
Leno
Charles
Gates,
Wyle
St. Juste
Fuller
Mayo

In fairness, NYGiants got away with all kinds of holding. That late flag, then uncatchable pass thrown to McLaurin was ridiculous because he was being mauled three separate times before the pass was thrown his way and the zebra didn't throw it until Howell had to dump it over McLaurin's head cause he WAS being held.

Then numerous other calls, and it should have been an unsportmanslike conduct flag on the play where Payne was grabbed after blown dead and it was a dirty grab of his leg/throw take down that got him injured and they ran the clock out on that right after that.

We killed ourselves cause that line is beyond pathetic with TONS of false starts that just killed drive after drives. Stupid players voluntarily running out of bounds to get a dumb penalty.

Jaylin Lackey - DB from Georgia has announced he is now committed to Vanderbilt.

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Preview: The Wahoos come off their bye week and get set to head to Chapel Hill. @BigGriff has our breakdown as UVa and No. 10 North Carolina renew The South’s Oldest Rivalry tomorrow night (6:30 p.m., CW Network).