Fresh off his OV to UVa this past weekend, four-star forward Jacob Cofie talked to @HoustonWilson about his time in Charlottesville, what stood out to him about the staff and players, and when he’d like to make his decision.

He’s going to fit right in

On Episode 528 of the CavsCorner Podcast (“Doing Some Stuff”) we discuss the good, bad, and ugly from the JMU loss, the play of UVa’s rookie QB, and how we see things playing out tomorrow night in College Park.


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The initial 2026 Rivals100 was just revealed. Take a look at the coverage:

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Will we not be getting the PFF grades following each football game this year. Colandrea’s performance brought that to mind. I think those evaluations were informative and interesting.

Gelof has played 34 games in the minor leagues with a .236 batting average, but his production picked up when he finished the final week of the A league season with a.360 average and his second grand slam home run. He was named the Minor League Player of the Week.

Take Two: @justin ferber looks back at UVa’s disappointing 36-35 loss to JMU and grades out the various units coming out of Week 2.

We had two talented recruits here over the weekend - Cofie and Dixon. Crickets. I'd love to take my mind off that abysmal football game with any news whatsoever.

Germany wrapped up an undefeated World Cup by topping Serbia, 83-77, in Sunday’s gold medal game. Team USA, which had been favored to win the gold, left without a medal after falling to Canada in an overtime thriller in the bronze medal contest.

First off Mark Few stinks as a coach in this arena. He lost to several inferior teams way back coaching team USA in the Pan Am games that had Brogdon on it. Steve Kerr was also coaching this squad.

USA players are not the same players we had representing 10 or 20 or 40 years ago. Bird, Magic, Jordan, Robinson, Barkley, Wilkins were all gym rats that would not settle for subpar play especially in these games.

The days these guys just show up and win are over. The foreign players are now passing up the US players for alot of reasons; more heart, drive and more testosterone.

Now that the team is playing games again, inevitably we've got folks posting stuff they know they shouldn't so I'm going to do what I do basically every year and share a disclaimer:

Mute people you don't want to hear from.

Don't respond to people you don't like.

Don't attack anyone, including calling specific people out about literally anything other than their points (even if so and so did it first; you're an adult not a 3rd grader).


Talk about UVa sports, not each other.


And if you don't like any of this or anything else around here, feel free to take your business elsewhere. I genuinely mean it. If you're unhappy, there are plenty of places where you can yell at folks. This isn't going to be one of them.

There's potential for this being another long football season and anybody who pays money to be here shouldn't have to deal with people acting a fool while their team is playing like crap.

Talk. About. UVa. Sports.

Leave the rest out of it or get gone. Your call.

Thanks for your time.

Looked pretty bad. Albeit against ND but he had two pretty bad INTs and they had to rely on him in the run game significantly

Greetings from a picturesque Scott Stadium where James Madison and UVa will kick things off in about and hour and 20 minutes. As a reminder, the pre-game ceremony to honor the lives of Lavel Davis, Devin Chandler, and D'Sean Perry will start at 11:30 and is being streamed on VirginiaSports.com.

I'll be back with notes and updates soon.

As always, have at it folks...

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Just saw that he has signed with Memphis who we play in Memphis on Dec 19. He is well traveled but still pretty talented. The Memphis roster of 14 has 2 holdovers (one of which is Coach Penny Hardaway’s son), 4 class of 23 recruits and 8 transfers. Lots of individual talent and alphas in that bunch, but Memphis has been in that situation before without significant success. Melding the talent with the egos and producing a team is a challenge. I think by December that Tony will have a well oiled team in place and can get us a W.

Kansas just committed $300 million to a huge football oriented development project. UVA better get it together and understand the ROI on football related capital investments or we might as well close up shop.

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Forced into action due to an injury, first-year QB Anthony Colandrea had a huge day in his second collegiate game and first start. In this video interview, the UVa signal caller talks about the game he had, the team's loss to JMU, the week of practice, and much more.

The defense in my opinion was by far the most disappointing aspect of this game. The biggest strength of this team going into this season was supposed to be the strength and depth of the d-line. They were manhandled. No pass rush, and we’re gashed up the middle on the run. The secondary wasn’t much better. Receivers were wide open all day. I would have bet a lot of money 35 points would have won this game!

Looks like the odds have Virginia as a 6.5 point underdog Saturday.

Last read was maybe separated shoulder, maybe broken collarbone

hoping for former

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Great to see Gertrude in the clip (as I believe he had been held out of scrimmages initially). I always look forward to every new season, but really am excited for this season to start with so much change in the program not just with new players coming in, but also with returning players in much more elevated roles (and of course no Clark for this first time since Beekman has been here to see him finally be able to run the team).

Preview: @BigGriff has our breakdown of tomorrow’s home opener as UVa hosts James Madison in what promises to be an emotional afternoon in Charlottesville (noon, ESPNU).

Is about to take out Clemson. Seems like Elko was a pretty good hire 👀. Duke has a lot of talent. Very impressed with their size and speed. Defense is much improved

On Episode 527 of the CavsCorner Podcast (“Slinging That Thing Around”), we look back at UVa’s season-opening loss in Nashville and then focus our attention on Saturday matchup against James Madison.

Site: https://virginia.rivals.com/news/cavscorner-podcast-episode-527

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The 3-2-1: Following yesterday’s presser, @justin ferber has a few things we know, two questions, and a prediction as the Hoos get ready to host James Madison on Saturday (noon, ESPNU).