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Monday Injury Report/UNC Game Time The Virginia athletic media relations office released Monday's injury report for the Cavalier football team and there was bad news for Virginia fans. The report, compiled by the University of Virginia Sports Medicine staff under the direction of Dr. David Diduch, listed two players that will not participate for the remainder of the 2009 season: Matt Leemhuis (clavicle fracture, no surgery needed) and Dominique Wallace (foot sprain, surgery to be scheduled). Wallace led the Cavaliers in rushing at Southern Miss this past weekend with 35 yards on 10 carries. The ACC also announced the game times for the games scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 3. UVa's road game at North Carolina will kick off at noon and be broadcast by Raycom on the ACC's syndicated network of stations. The following Oct. 3 games have set times and broadcast details.
Virginia at North Carolina, RAYCOM, noon The ACC announced that ESPN/ABC has declared a six-day option for two games that Saturday; the game times will be set by noon on Sunday, Sept. 27 for the Oklahoma at Miami contest (ABC, at either 3:30 or 8 p.m.) and the Florida State at Boston College contest (ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC at either 12 noon or 3:30 p.m.) |
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This Week In Recruiting And then there were two ... Well, at least at this point, this appears to be true. I'm speaking of serious targets in Virginia men's basketball's 2010 class. Virginia has received four verbal commitments to this point, and for now the top remaining targets are 6-11, 225-pound Cave Spring (Roanoke, VA) center Josh Henderson and 6-6 Provo (UT) guard Kyle Collinsworth. Henderson has scheduled an official visit to Virginia for the weekend of Oct. 10. This is slated to be his final official visit, with Davidson, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest also under consideration. Henderson traveled to Vanderbilt earlier in the month for an official and was scheduled to go to Wake Forest this past weekend. He'll take a weekend off before traveling to Davidson the first weekend in October. I hope to have more on Collinsworth's situation this week, so stay tuned. At last check, Virginia remained very much in contention and was still in contact with the versatile guard, who is also considering BYU, Stanford and USC. So, at this point, there is the possibility that Virginia uses up all five scholarships in the 2010 class. The staff can now begin to focus more on 2011, though, and we'll have more from the 2011 class this week.
Baseball article ... Sorry for the delay, folks, but the article on Virginia's 2009 baseball class will come out this week. As we reported last week, coach Brian O'Connor is pleased with his group of incoming freshmen, five of whom were selected in the Major League Baseball Draft before deciding to stick with the University of Virginia. "It was a long summer for us because five of our recruits were drafted," O'Connor said. "They each had the feeling that the best thing to do was to enroll at UVa and be students here. It's important to understand that it's not necessarily college versus pro. It's what best for the individual kid." In total, Coach O'Connor has 11 incoming freshmen. Stay tuned for the article later in the week.
E.J. Scott staying positive ... Good Counsel (Wheaton, MD) wide receiver E.J. Scott, one of Virginia's top commitments in the 2010 class, remains positive about Virginia's program and says his verbal commitment is "strong." The 5-10, 170-pound senior believes his future team will turn things around this season, especially after an encouraging effort against Southern Miss. Scott, who chose UVa over Rutgers and Wake Forest, among others, is a standout athlete with sub 4.5-second speed in the 40-yard dash. He hauled in two receptions for about 60 yards and a score in last week's win over Gilman, which put Good Counsel at 3-0 heading into conference play. For more on Scott, stay tuned to TheSabre EDGE.
Chris Horne, our resident recruiting expert, provides updates throughout the week for Edge subscribers about UVa's commitments and recruiting targets in football and men's basketball. To sign up for an Edge subscription, please check out the Sabre Edge Sign Up and Information Page. If you're already on board as an Edge subscriber, click the links below to catch up on recruiting. Sabre Edge recruiting updates from the past week ...
Q&A: Joe Harris Reflects on Official Visit
Regan Impressed with Other Commits
Johnson Discusses Commitment to UVa More recent recruiting updates on The Sabre ...
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Blog Banter: Wide Splits And More O-Line Talk The Good Ol Blog on The Sabre is free and often provides additional coverage of your Hoos! The following is a blog post from Sabre Editor Kris Wright last week: The EDGE message board has had a lot of chatter about the play of Virginia's offensive line this week. Among the hot topics: UVa's wider splits between the offensive linemen this season. What's the theory behind it? Well, KaHOOnah did some research for everyone and dug up a pair of articles. The EDGE thread features discussion while the two articles are linked here and here. As those articles detail, Texas Tech is the team most known for wide splits. Here's a tidbit from the first article (Chris Brown, Smart Football blog) above:
Of course, Virginia fans have watched the offensive line struggle with these wider splits at the beginning of two straight seasons now; UVa scrapped the spread midway through last season and pulled the linemen closer together. The OL issues so far have led some folks to consider keeping a tight end inside to help the blocking schemes. I asked coach Al Groh about that very thing this week. Groh's answer was surprising. He basically said it wouldn't help. "Well, around here certainly and in a lot of quarters, there's nobody on a team, on most teams, who practices pass protection less than the tight end. They practice run blocking and they practice going out in patterns, but really offensive backs who are frequently in your pass protection actually practice pass protection generally more than tight ends," Groh said. Of course, that theory runs contrary to conventional wisdom ... and, well, what Groh himself said in 2006 when he was asked why Tom Santi and Jonathan Stupar weren't more involved in the offense. The answer back then was that they were being kept in to help block vs. running pass patterns. This from a Sept. 29, 2006 News & Advance article:
I guess Santi and Stupar didn't need much practice to pass protect. I digress. Besides, it's possible that Coach Groh didn't want to tip his hand about using more in-line tight end sets before heading to Southern Miss. I guess we'll see on Saturday, but one thing is clear: if the Hoos don't find some answers up front, it could be a long, long time before the offense looks any better. Make sure to keep up with The Good Ol Blog!
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Issue No. 95 - July 11, 2003 Brian O' Connor Named Head Baseball Coach at Virginia Brian O'Connor, the associate head baseball coach at the University of Notre Dame for the last two years and a member of the Irish coaching staff for the last nine years, is the new head baseball coach at the University of Virginia. UVa Athletic Director Craig Littlepage made the announcement on Tuesday (July 8). "Brian O'Connor will bring energy and enthusiasm to our baseball program, and a great understanding of the landscape in college baseball," Littlepage said. "He will hit the ground running and make an immediate impact in all aspects of our program. Notre Dame is one of the country's most admired baseball programs. The experience Coach O'Connor gained in helping build Notre Dame's program will be instrumental in developing a plan to move the University of Virginia's baseball program forward."
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Coming Soon The Sabre has you covered when it comes to Hoo news. Here are a few of the articles to expect on the site soon:
In Case You Missed It ... Sabre articles since the last SabreMail
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Photo Gallery '09: TCU
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Game Preview 2009 - Southern Miss
Greg's Stock Report '09: TCU
Press Conference Notes '09: Southern Miss
10 Things I Learned From TCU
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