Saw that Mike Groh is the new OC for the Philadelphia Eagles....ended up at Al Groh's Wikipedia page. Check out Al's coaching tree: Assistant coaches under Al Groh who became NFL head coaches: Todd Bowles: New York Jets (2015–present) Todd Haley: Kansas City Chiefs (2009–2011) Mike Nolan: San Francisco 49ers (2005–2008) Ken Whisenhunt: Arizona Cardinals (2007–2012), Tennessee Titans (2014–2015) Assistant coaches under Al Groh who became NCAA head coaches: Bob Diaco: Connecticut (2014–2016) Al Golden: Temple (2006–2010), Miami (2011–2015) Mike London: Richmond (2008–2009), Virginia (2010–2015) Ron Prince: Kansas State (2006–2008) Yikes.....
In fairness to Al Groh, his head coaching tree at the NCAA and NFL level appears to be 8 greater than Frank.
Charlie Weis can credit Al Groh too. Groh got him hired when he was an assistant at USC and then later in the nfl under parcells.
I saw on rivals that Trae Young has taken more ft this year than our top 6 guys combined.. really incredible lol..
Lots of signs point to Ron Sanchez getting a head coaching job after this season. I would be really happy for him. There was a time that would have bothered me but I think our program is established enough now that it won't have a negative impact on the court. Losing assistants to head coaching gigs is like having players declare early for the draft. It's a loss for the program but a sign of success and a really good pitch to their potential replacements. Excited to watch how the Bennett coaching tree grows. McKay hasn't exactly lit the world on fire but I'm not sure what expectations are at Liberty.
The article I read earlier this morning said they offered and he declined but I have no clue if that's actually true.
Interesting. I assumed Rowe was the guy they wanted and were just making a terrible decision not offering it to Sanchez. If true I wonder it was a money thing or he knew he could probably do a lot better.
This is a weird game. Seems we’re making a really good effort to correct some of the deficiencies in our offense by scoring inside and getting to the foul line but the defense has been uncharacteristically bad.
3 ACC season championships in 5 years is pretty good huh these kids at the school don't know how good they have it
I was thinking the other day about how sad I am that I graduated law school the year of our NIT run. I was always able to get tickets though, so that was nice at least.
I don't know how we put up with this bullshit playing style though. We should go back to running the floor and losing in the NIT because we'll never win a championship this way. If only we could have gotten Tubby instead.
Real talk though I was pretty happy with how aggressive we were on offense last night. I'm all for waiting for a good shot but we get into real trouble when we're passing around the perimeter and playing pure sides. Our FT rate is atrocious and we don't get the calls we should in the rare event we actually do drive. Got some good looks in the paint last night, we'll need to continue that to make the Final 4. I'm not one of those stupid message board posters who says "I want us to lose a game before the tournament" but I'm pretty happy we've seen some adversity in our past couple games. I think the ability to battle from behind and gut out a victory when an inferior team just wont go away is an area where other Bennett teams have lacked. Our end of year schedule is pretty perfect. I'm still convinced this Pitt game is going to be closer than it should be. They're atrocious but our game against them is everything to that team. Chaminade 2.0.
you could argue the team's looked pretty blah the last 4 games even with a big road win/response game in there
Yeah we're for sure not the best team in the nation right now. But I'm actually feeling better about our chances recently than I have all season. The road game at Louisville is going to tell us a lot.
Was out yesterday but just watched replay mostly to see how Anthony and Huff looked. Huff is so skilled on offense but seems totally flat footed on defense. Couple nice blocks that he makes look easy but he was out of position so many times
Sometimes we do pass on good shots only take some desperation heave at the end of the shot clock or we have a big run down the court and post up with good position only to ignore him. There are times when I wish we took advantage of those opportunities and I wish we worked on our weaknesses more like we did yesterday. We really pounded the paint yesterday.
We just took a double commitment from 2 kids from the same high school, both 3* ATH. One of them is 5'6.
Sorry he wanted to come to the Coastal where he could have a chance at playing in an ACC Title Game Spoiler When the whole Coastal goes 4-4 and we get to go on some kind of academic tie breaker or something that I just made up
https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/1/...-virginia-cavaliers-san-antonio-spurs-of-ncaa great fuckin article - especially the Justin Anderson quotes
Glad ECU Tulsa is on ESPN while I can’t get the game on any channel and it’s blacked out on watch ESPN
This is the first game in a long time I felt the officials controlled the game on the 2nd half. We won’t make it past the first weekend in the ncaa with our offense
Great article. Thanks for sharing. If there's one thing that can give UVa football fans hope under BM, it's this quote right here: "Bennett has built a national powerhouse through selective recruiting, methodical player development, and a sustained culture of valuing team goals over individual ones. " Between Bennett and O'Connor (whose approach is equally as fascinating) it's pretty telling that a methodical, grind it out approach to defense is a winning recipe at UVA, in multiple sports. Time will tell but the blueprint seems to be there.
Being a good program is annoying as fuck sometimes. So many fans of irrelevant programs talking shit about Virginia when they’d slap their mother to have half the success we’ve had over the past 5 years.