Virginia Postgame

[Marsh01]

I still dont know why they just dont cut Red loose now. Rip off the damn band aid and start building this program back up brick by brick.

 

[RCDICK44]

My dad served from 1952-1956. Staff Sergeant and MP.

I served from 1955 to 1959 and was a Sgt and a Amphibian Tractor and Tank Mechanic.

 

[tbonezone]

It's about whether they play well enough together to win games. They don't.

just like a puzzle. when the pieces all fit together you get a nice picture. when they don't you're looking at chaos.

 

[Scooch]

Devo said on the radio this past week that the teams he was on would be fighting at practice regularly- that’s how competitive they and the practices were. I cannot picture this team doing that.

It's been reported a multitude of times that in JB's later years he didn't want to coach any more Devos. He wanted compliant guys who made his life easy.

Personally, I think the mistake JB made was equating guys who were off-the-court headaches (e.g. Louis McCroskey) with guys who were on-the-court dawgs (e.g. Trevor Cooney).

If you look at his last few rosters it was evident he largely eschewed both of those kinds of players. We haven't been a tough team in a long, long time.

 

[eastcuse]

Devo said on the radio this past week that the teams he was on would be fighting at practice regularly- that’s how competitive they and the practices were. I cannot picture this team doing that.

Are we sure Devo didn't misspeak? I'm thinking instead of "practice" he meant "Chucks."

 

[Blanko97]

I do wonder how much better this team would be if we had put JJs minutes and money into someone whose jumper wasnt (seemingly) irreparably broken

 

[Blanko97]

It's been reported a multitude of times that in JB's later years he didn't want to coach any more Devos. He wanted compliant guys who made his life easy.

Personally, I think the mistake JB made was equating guys who were off-the-court headaches (e.g. Louis McCroskey) with guys who were on-the-court dawgs (e.g. Trevor Cooney).

If you look at his last few rosters it was evident he largely eschewed both of those kinds of players. We haven't been a tough team in a long, long time.

I think AAU ball has killed the Cooney's at the top level of high school and prep basketball. Its not rewarded to be an in the trenches type player. You're starting to see some resurgence with the portal because players who got overlooked for not being AAU ball hogs are getting a chance to shine at the lower levels and then move up.

 

[RF2044]

On Saturday, my daughter had a dance competition that morning, and it didn't get done until right after 11 CST [noon eastern]. When I got outside, I slapped the game on Sirius XM -- I'd only missed the first 6 minutse or so, and we were up something like 10-2, but then promptly gave up a 14-2 run. Awesome.

So as I drove home, I listened to most of the first half in the car. The broadcast team was from UVa [the only broadcast I could find]. Their color guy made a comment that was something like [paraphrasing]: "when we play teams like this, all it takes is to make the extra pass, and the defense breaks down and we carve them up. This is too easy."

Spoke volumes.