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Apparently UVA's admissions office refused to accept 8 of 24 football players who signed letters of intent last February. That's 33.3% - a pretty bad ratio. Coach Al Groh said it was not unexpected and part of the "plan". Some of these players will go to Military school (non-qualifiers) and some will go to other schools (partial qualifiers). Perhaps we should look into signing players who will never be accepted to create some buzz about recruiting and then not admit them. Ooops that would violate our recruiting policy.

I still can't figure out why the 6-5 (regular season, including wins over Temple and Duke) Virginia's staff was so coveted that their OC and DC both got IA coaching jobs.

Firstly, I'm a UVA fan. Secondly, their admissions restrictions are bad for athletes. However, they can still find ways to have players not graduate. We had a 100% graduation rate last year.

And Al Groh better turn that program around or he will be run out of Charlottesville, alum or not. Bring back George Welch!

After Groh lost Golden (Temple) & Prince (KSU) this offseason, I think this will be his last year. Those two raided Jersey for all of UVA's talent. They seem to be on the decline.

SMU Football Blog wrote:I still can't figure out why the 6-5 (regular season, including wins over Temple and Duke) Virginia's staff was so coveted that their OC and DC both got IA coaching jobs.

Golden--Temple
Signed
D'Brickashaw Ferguson (Long Island)
Ahmad Brooks (Jersey, I can't remember for sure)
Wali Lundy

Prince signed that QB who graduated. These were all huge surprises. In years past, Penn State would have gotten all of these players. That was the major shock out here.

McClown27 wrote:

SMU Football Blog wrote:I still can't figure out why the 6-5 (regular season, including wins over Temple and Duke) Virginia's staff was so coveted that their OC and DC both got IA coaching jobs.

Golden--Temple
Signed
D'Brickashaw Ferguson (Long Island)
Ahmad Brooks (Jersey, I can't remember for sure)
Wali Lundy

Prince signed that QB who graduated. These were all huge surprises. In years past, Penn State would have gotten all of these players. That was the major shock out here.

The QB was Marques Hagans.

Groh's offense requires a pocket QB (see Matt Schaub) and that's why Hagans didn't have as much success as he could have. Christian Olsen will be their QB (think Matt Schaub) this year, he will be successful if he gets some good blocking. Next year's QB will be Vic Hall who is more like Marques Hagans. Groh can't figure out what type of player works best in his system...

Groh can still recruit in Hampton as well as getting talent out of the DC area and DeMatha. He will be hurt by the loss of Jersey talent though.

BRING BACK GEORGE WELCH!

Where is Portland? You must have that college football package.

McClown27 wrote:Where is Portland? You must have that college football package.

Corpus area, and no, I don't actually. I do follow UVA pretty closely though (almost as closely as I do SMU).

My favorite UVA quote...Marquis Weeks, after returning a punt or interception or something for a touchdown...

"It was all instinct, kindof like running from the cops."

How did he not end up at Miami?

Did your parents go to UVA?

McClown27 wrote:Did your parents go to UVA?

No but lots of family history there. My parents went to what most Texans think is Harvard-on-the-Colorado.

CalallenStang wrote:

McClown27 wrote:Did your parents go to UVA?

No but lots of family history there. My parents went to what most Texans think is Harvard-on-the-Colorado.

*LOL* I love it. SMU will soon be getting $$$ from Longhorns when you begin attending school here!

"Harvard-on-the-Colorado"? Now that's funny!