Conversely, we should be starting 10.5 points up.You do realize we won't actually start the game down by 10 1/2 points?
Conversely, we should be starting 10.5 points up.You do realize we won't actually start the game down by 10 1/2 points?
Sitkowski on the road is a scary prospect.I feel better about this game than I did the last one.
I’ve experienced pretty much the same…people saying they went to UVA like it’s Harvard Law. Not all, there are, as you say, those who laugh at the pretentiousness of their own alma mater, but the smugness and disdain for other schools certainly does exist.Yeah. That's about the size of it. I've lived in and around DC off and on for 25 years. UVa puzzles me. Its alums are inexplicably insufferable, apparently believing that the mere fact that Thomas Jefferson founded the university bestows elite status upon them. (They refer to the place --- I'm not kidding --- as "Mr. Jefferson's university.")
I'm curious about my fellow DC-area Loyalty posters' opinion of the place. Coincidentally, I'm taking my daughter (a high school senior) down there this Friday for her second visit. Perhaps I can see the Illini practicing during the afternoon. She loved VA Tech and Blacksburg.
You won't find it. Comcast doesn't carry the ACC Network.For those with Comcast Xfinity, what channel is ACCN for the game Saturday? I'm not seeing it.
I'm not really sure about that.You do realize we won't actually start the game down by 10 1/2 points?
UVA grads are like people who have lived in NYC, do crossfit, and/or are vegan - each will instinctively figure out the most direct route to "casually" mentioning the fact in conversation upon meeting someone new.
That their diplomas are the size of a standard sheet of posterboard isn't a coincidence.
UVA is a legit team nowadays. Mendenhal, their coach, reminde me of what I am seeing in BB. He took over from a pretty deisasterous coach in '16 who absolutely could not rectuir in state, giving way the VT on the very good player while great players went out of state all together after Beamer retire at VT. The team lacked discipline and Mendenhall definitlely got them back to basics. They went 9-5 in '19, losing close games to Miami and Louisville and were competetive until the 4th quarter with ND. They got blown out in the ACC champioship game to Clemson, but that was to be expected. I'd like to see the Illini there 3 years into the BB era. The fifth loss was to I think Florida in the Orange Bowl.On to the next one, and can honestly say I know nothing about UVA football..
Actually, it kind of felt like that was exactly what we did against UTSA. 14-0 before we got our act together even a little.You do realize we won't actually start the game down by 10 1/2 points?
* past performance is no guarantee of future results.Ah the University of Virginia. The history. The architecture. The Vineyard Vines.
My freshman year, Jeff George and company beat them in the Citrus Bowl in a game that wasn't really as close as the 31 - 21 final margin.
Nine years later Kurt Kittner was the MVP in a 63 - 21 romp in the Micron PC Bowl. (Rocky Harvey ran for over 100, too.)
Those are the only two games I could find, and maybe the only two times they've met.
That said, I'd feel better if the game were in Florida.
This is huge. We have to dial things up and get off the field. I think having film on UVA will help. Coaches seemed to have the ability to adjust but having current film to make those adjustments might help us not "start slow"If the defense can stop UVA on third down, we can win this. Big “if.”
I don't wanna be that guy, but defensive stops on third down is key to winning just about any football game at any level anywhere.If the defense can stop UVA on third down, we can win this. Big “if.”
I agree with this. I noted a a defensive improvement after Witherspoon and Adams switched sides.This is huge. We have to dial things up and get off the field. I think having film on UVA will help. Coaches seemed to have the ability to adjust but having current film to make those adjustments might help us not "start slow"
We have to get our OL to compete. They got whipped by UTSA and anytime out team had the DL playing on our side of the ball we are going to lose. So I hope we get the the bull dozers warmed up and ready as they are the most important part of this team.
I think we mix it up here and surprise them. Come out throwing the ball - they’ll expect the opposite. If it works we get an early lead then start eating clock.
And that long term potential would be what?