Anyone think he should RS this year? He looks like he needs a year or two before he can be a factor and we have enough bodies in the front court where he will just waste a year. I am excited about his game, but just a few years down the road than next season. By his 3rd year with our 16 class he could be a mini Psycho T

Is the any insight what's going on with him. West coast visits no commitment ? Were there offers? As we have rolled into Spring season and word is that Coach Bennett may not be there on Friday...does anyone have a concise feeling what's going on with our recruiting him and feedback from him??

Ferber has a story up now on the front page and linked below on how, even though the Cavaliers haven't had the season they wanted but a run down the stretch isn't totally out of the question.

Link: Wahoos need to make a run in May

From UVa:

Malcolm Brogdon and Morgan Brian UVa’s Top Athletes
Annual awards dinner held April 29 at John Paul Jones Arena

Malcolm Brogdon (men’s basketball) and Morgan Brian (women’s soccer) were honored as Virginia’s top male and female athletes for the 2014-15 academic year at UVa’s annual awards dinner on Wednesday (April 29) at John Paul Jones Arena. Brogdon earned the WINA Award as the top male athlete, while Brian garnered the IMP Award as the top female athlete for the second consecutive season.

Brogdon led Virginia to its second consecutive ACC regular-season title and the Cavaliers matched a school record with 30 wins. Brogdon earned consensus second-team All-America honors after leading the Cavaliers in scoring at 14 points per game and free throw percentage at 87.9 percent. He scored in double figures in 27 games, including five 20-point games, highlighted by a career-high 25 points against North Carolina in the ACC Tournament semifinals. Brogdon earned first-team All-ACC accolades for the second straight season as the Cavaliers earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the third round.

Brian is the third consecutive women’s soccer player to claim UVa’s top female award and first UVa student-athlete to claim back-to-back honors since Amy Appelt (lacrosse) in 2004-05. In 2014-15, Brian became the fourth woman to repeat as the recipient of the MAC Hermann Trophy as national player of the year after tallying 10 goals and 14 assists during her senior season. Brian led the Cavaliers to their second consecutive NCAA College Cup as Virginia advanced to the championship game. Brian was a three-time NSCAA First-Team All-American and four-time first-team All-ACC selection. With 41 career goals and 43 career assists, Brian is the first Cavalier to be a member of the 40-40 club and ranks second in school history with 125 career points.
Brian has made 26 appearances for the United States Women’s National Team, scoring four goals, and was named to the roster for the 2015 FIFA World Cup in Canada. She was the overall No. 1 selection by the Houston Dash in the 2015 National Women’s Soccer League Draft and made her professional debut with the club in April.

Football player Alec Vozenilek (Richmond, Va.) earned the Ernest H. Ern, Jr. Award for outstanding contributions to student life at Virginia, while Tessa Dikkers (Pelham, N.Y.) of rowing was the recipient of the Ralph Sampson Scholarship Award. Emily Sonnett (Marietta, Ga.) of the women’s soccer team received the Virginia Athletics Department's Distinguished Student-Athlete Scholarship Award.

Faculty Athletics Representative Carolyn M. Callahan earned the Bus Male Memorial Service Award for his years of service to the athletics department. Jennifer Johnstone (Paisley, Scotland) of the field hockey team received the Craig Fielder Memorial Award for overcoming adversity and cheer team member Megan Maddox earned the Life Skills Scholarship Award.

Sean Knightly (Charlottesville, Va.) was the recipient of the Bob Goodman Memorial Award for his service to Virginia athletics as a team manager and Ryland Richardson (Newport News, Va.) of the wrestling program received the Tim Abbott Memorial Award for the second consecutive year as the student assistant trainer most dedicated to and possessing empathy for the student-athletes.

Nick Sulzer (Cleveland, Ohio) of the wrestling team and Courtney Swan (Vero Beach, Fla.) of the women’s lacrosse team received Virginia’s ACC Scholar-Athlete Awards. Wrestler Derek Papagianopolous (Burlington, Mass.) earned the Susan J. Grossman Memorial Award in recognition of outstanding service to student-athletes and contributions to the Student-Athlete Mentor Program.

Alison Haulsee (Glen Allen, Va.) of the women's swimming and diving team received the Jettie Hill Memorial Award as the fourth-year female student-athlete with the highest scholastic average through her four years at Virginia, while Ed Schrom (Harrisburg, Pa.) of the men’s track and field and cross country programs garnered the Gus Tebell Memorial Award as the fourth-year male student-athlete with the highest scholastic average through his four years at Virginia.

Virginia's ACC Top VI Award recipients included Morgan Blair (Long Valley, N.J., volleyball), Sydney Umeri (Acworth, Ga., women’s basketball), Heidi Velk (Murrieta, Calif., softball), Zach Wood (Aurora, Ill., men’s lacrosse), Papagianopolous (wrestling) and Vozenilek (football).

Team Awards

Baseball – Billy Word Memorial Award – TBA
Men’s Basketball - Sidney Young Memorial Award – Maleek Frazier and Rob Vozenilek
Women’s Basketball - Coaches Award for Excellence – Sarah Beth Barnette
Men’s Cross Country - Coaches Award for Excellence – Zach Herriott
Women’s Cross Country - Coaches Award for Excellence – Morgan Kelly
Field Hockey - Coaches Award for Excellence – Jennifer Johnstone
Football - John Acree Memorial Award – Miles Gooch
Men’s Golf - F. Dixon Brooke Memorial Award – Derek Bard
Women’s Golf - William C. Eacho Memorial Award – Briana Mao
Men’s Lacrosse – Henry Gaver Memorial Award – TBA
Women’s Lacrosse – Coaches Award for Excellence – Casey Bocklet
Rowing - Coaches Award for Excellence – TBA
Men’s Soccer - Stanley Lerner Memorial Award – Matt Mills
Women’s Soccer - Coaches Award for Excellence – Danielle Colaprico
Softball - Coaches Award for Excellence – TBA
Men’s Swimming & Diving - Brooke Maury Memorial Award – Eric Holden
Women’s Swimming & Diving - Diane Montgomery Greene Memorial Award – Emily Dicus
Men’s Tennis - Norton Pritchett Memorial Award – Mitchell Frank
Women’s Tennis - Coaches Award for Excellence – TBA
Men’s Track & Field - Henry Cummings Memorial Award – TBA
Women’s Track & Field - Z Society - The Lou Onesty Memorial Award – TBA
Volleyball - Coaches Award for Excellence – Natalie Bausback
Wrestling - David Senft Memorial Award – Nick Sulzer

Wouldn't mind seeing us go after Noah Dickerson again if Billy D. leaves Florida. I realize we shut down his recruitment after Reuter committed, but now we've got open spots.

Someone brought his name up in another post and had me posing this question to some of the older UVA fans- is he the best post player we have had in the last 20 years on offensive end of the floor?

In my opinion he is and it's not close. His SR year no one could stop him on the block and his first 3 years weren't shabby.

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Would be my Top 3 Uva post men on offense since 95.

when does your response show up to a thread ? this new format does not improve the my experience, It just has more bells and whistles for the computer literate to play with we old farts have a hard enough time transitioning from the abacus as it is.

UVa's post-spring depth chart is out.

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Hello Hoo's. UVA is playing ODU tonight for the second year in what I hope will become annual here at Harbor Park in downtown Norfolk. Game time is 7pm. The restaurant, "Hits at the Park" will open at game time and will offer a nice variety of Appetizers and cold beverages. If you come in and introduce yourself to the chef (Steve Gillette) as a member of this board, I will buy your 1st beverage and converse happily with you about UVA sports.

Hope to see a lot of local support tonight.

Goo Hoo's

UVa's Mike London will be on the ACC spring practice teleconference in just a little bit. Check this thread for notes shortly.

Our in-depth story with new UVa commit Nick Grant about his decision to pull the trigger and commit to the Cavaliers less than two days after being offered is now live on the front page and linked below.

Link: Grant breaks down his UVa decision

Watching some NBA playoffs reminds me how crappy for the most part NBA refs are - they are sometimes inept. I was watching Labron James today on one play late in the game after a Boston score, he steps out of bounds to quickly throw the ball in before the defense gets set full court, Kyrie Irvin has his jersey grabbed by a Celtic (his jersey was stretched out a good 18 inches) as he races towards the baseline, a Celtic player is six feet out bounds and behind Labron - I am not kidding! The Celtic player reaches around Labron, hacks him on the arm while still way out of bounds and then tips the ball out of Labron's hands into the court towards Irvin and another Celtic tips it because Irvin can not get to it (because his jersey was pulled), it goes off Irvin out of bounds and the ref on the baseline somehow does not see anything, even the guy out of bounds fouling Labron right in front of his eyes, and he gives the ball to Cleveland. On video review, they reverse the call and give it to Boston! Talk about incompetence!!! And you see this crap all the time in the NBA because the players are so far superior to the refs it is a joke. Sometimes I think these refs are even worse than ACC refs. (BTW - I still do not see what the Cavs see in Deladova - he made one three today that accidentally went in after bouncing around and it fell through, missed everything else, was open at least 4 times when Labron fed him for 3s, plays no D, and they are ALWAYS outscored during the time he is in the game, always.)

UVa has offered 2017 LB David Adams

Since it's a while before football season starts (insert jokes here), I was having a conversation with a friend the other day because he knew I grew up around the time Curry was the man. I played AAU against him because we were a year apart growing up so I knew him sort of, but him decommiting from Uva still leaves me a sour taste. Understood his reasons for choosing that school because of basketball which was a sport I always thought he was only okay at. Do you think he would've been able to take us to another level had he stayed with his original commitment even if he didn't turn out to be anything special at UNC? Still remember his game at UVA as a freshman when we literally tried to kill the kid. Might've been one of my favorite games to attend of my life

Good stuff on three-star offensive lineman Michael Carney, who tells Rivals.com that UVa is currently his top school and he's looking to announce his decision this summer.

Link: Carney looking to announce in July

Per Adam Friedman, UVa is the latest offer for three-star ATH Jalen Elliott out of Chesterfield.

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Just read we were selected as the team losing the most next season among teams with players exiting early for the NBA. The reasoning is that with Anderson we were a legitimate consideration for the #1 ranking. Now without him were are ranked #6 going into next season. I don't see that as a huge fall off, but I guess losing out on the top ranking is the reason for our selection as the biggest loser.

UVa defensive end target Christian Brooks has picked up another ACC offer and is getting interest from several other schools in the league. He talks about the latest offer, which came from Miami, as well as when he thinks a decision might come.

Link: Centreville DE picking up more ACC interest

This board would light up last season over this and I am sure it won't stop anytime soon. What are your rational reasons for which quarterback you would prefer this year?

For me it's Johns for two reasons-

One- he can make plays with his feet when plays breakdown and that to me outweighs his lack of strong arm in today's college game.

Two- this offensive line will get a quarterback like Lambert who sits in the pocket straight up killed. If we had a better offensive line because Lambert has a better arm I can make a better case for him, but I prefer Johns with the line that we have because he can make plays with his feet and his lack of arm strength doesn't bother me too much because he at least will take shots downfield. Yes, Lambert made some throws vs. Tech, but he should be ahead of Johns by now and that could be one reason Johns is the number 1 going into the summer. Plus he plays with a swagger we need.

I know a guy who keeps asking me why I don't believe this claim. Not only are there no videos showing more than a few shots made in a row but the statistical improbabilities are astounding. Just calculating the chances of making ten in a row gives me a probability of .000976563. That is less than 1/10 of 1 percent. Please, tell me why the hell should I believe Curry made 77 in a row. The guy's major arguing evidence is, 'why would ESPN lie?'

From UVa:

Virginia’s Matt Thaiss Named ACC Baseball Player of Week
Sophomore went 11-for-23 with 11 RBI in five games last week

Virginia’s Matt Thaiss (So., Jackson, N.J.) has been named the ACC Baseball Player of the Week. Thaiss is the first Cavalier to earn a weekly ACC award this season. It also marks his first career accolade from the ACC.

Thaiss comes off perhaps his best week in a Virginia uniform, as he went 11-for-23 (.478) with four doubles, a home run and 11 RBI. He reached base safely in over half his plate appearances, with a .538 on-base percentage. Thaiss raised his batting average to a team-leading .342, which currently stands 12th in the ACC.

On Tuesday, Thaiss put the Longwood game out of reach with a towering three-run home run. On Friday against NC State, he drove in runs in three separate plate appearances, including a key two-run double in UVa’s win in Raleigh. He added another two-run double Sunday as part of a four-hit day during UVa’s doubleheader with the Wolfpack.

Virginia heads to Norfolk, Va., Tuesday to face Old Dominion at Harbor Park in a 7 p.m. game.

This coming football season and looking back on the Groh era really makes me wonder why have been so poor at QB?

Schaub speaks for himself even if he was a late bloomer
Hagans was ok
Sewell didn't kill us in 07
Rocco put up numbers

In between these guys has been poor mangament at this position. Is it recruiting, coaching or a bit of both? London saving his job comes down to Johns or Lambert taking a step we haven't seen in awhile. 11 wins in 3 years isn't all on the QB, but a decent QB should be able to get you 6 wins a year I would think.

Check the April edition of the Virginia Huddle report w/ David Dean and Tra Nicholson!

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

Keep an eye on this one: UVa is now the fourth school to offer Courtland ATH Nick Grant. Wahoos like him at DB I've heard.

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