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UVa Picked To Finish 11th In ACC UVa Athletic Media Relations Official Release The Virginia men's basketball team was picked to finish 11th in the Atlantic Coast Conference during the 2009-10 regular season on Sunday (Oct. 25) in a preseason poll of media representatives attending the ACC's 48th annual Operation Basketball. Duke and North Carolina tied for first place in the voting by media representatives participating in the preseason poll with 545 points. Duke had 25 first place votes, North Carolina 20, Georgia Tech two and Wake Forest had one first place vote. Clemson was third in the poll with 409 points followed by Georgia Tech (387), Maryland (378), Wake Forest (315), Florida State (314), Virginia Tech (273), Boston College (251), Miami (135), Virginia (116) and N.C. State (76). Duke's Kyle Singler was the selection as the conference's preseason Player of the Year and Georgia Tech's Derrick Favors was selected as the ACC preseason Rookie of the Year. The five-man preseason All-ACC Team included Greivis Vasquez (Maryland), Trevor Booker (Clemson), Kyle Singler (Duke), Malcolm Delaney (Virginia Tech) and Ed Davis (North Carolina). Virginia's Sylven Landesberg finished sixth in the voting. In other UVa men's basketball news, organizers announced that tournament passes are available for the Cancun Challenge. Read more here.
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This Week In Recruiting Despite the rain, recruits turned out in solid number on Saturday for Virginia's home contest against Georgia Tech. Headlining the group was big offensive lineman Landon Turner, a 6-5, 300-pound junior out of Harrisonburg High School (VA). Independence (Charlotte, N.C.) wide receiver Adrian Gamble, one of Virginia's two 2011 class commits, was also in attendance according to sources. We hope to have more on these juniors this week. Deep Run (Glen Allen, VA) offensive lineman Conner Davis was in attendance as well on Saturday. The 6-5, 270-pound senior, one of nine high school seniors to commit to the Cavaliers, plans to attend each of Virginia's remaining three home contests and remains solid in the commitment he made in July. We'll have more tomorrow on Davis, who updates his senior season, which offensive line position he expects to play at Virginia and more. Virginia's first commitment of the 2010 class has helped his team to a 10-0 record. 5-7, 190-pound running back Kevin Parks Jr. and his West Rowan (Charlotte, N.C.) teammates dominated East Rowan 41-7, capturing their 10th win of the season to zero losses. Parks rushed 21 times for 263 yards and four scores in the win. West Rowan is looking for a repeat of last season, when it captured the Class 4-A state championship. Last week, I profiled another 2010 class commit in 6-3, 185-pound defensive back Pablo Alvarez. The Belen Jesuit (Miami, FL) star reflected on his commitment to Virginia… "I attended the Virginia camp and something about their coaching staff sold me more," said Alvarez, who had been offered by Duke, Iowa and Northwestern at the time. Virginia came through with an offer at camp and he committed shortly thereafter. "I felt a good connection with the coaches. I like Coach Wilt, Coach Groh and Coach Poindexter. The coaching staff won me over." For more on Alvarez be sure to check out The Sabre EDGE story linked below. The news wasn't good for Virginia on the 2010 class target front last week, when the Cavaliers missed out on two of its top offensive line prospects. Lake Braddock (Burke, VA) standout Khamrone Kolb picked Penn State last Sunday while Linganore (Frederick, MD) star Robby Havenstein picked Wisconsin. Archbishop Carroll (Washington, D.C.) linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu, Bishop McNamara (Forestville, MD) wide receiver Brandon Coleman, DeMatha (Hyattsville, MD) offensive lineman Shane Johnson Jr. and Good Counsel (Olney, MD) cornerback Louis Young are among the top remaining 2010 recruits left on the board.
Basketball-wise, I was able to catch up with Virginia freshmen Jontel Evans and Tristan Spurlock, who discussed their first-year experiences and look ahead to the 2009/2010 season. Be sure to check out the latest on Evans, a 5-11, 185-pound point guard, and Spurlock, a 6-8, 220-pound forward. Today, Nichols School (Buffalo, N.Y.) forward Will Regan reflects on the official visit he made to Virginia on the weekend of Oct. 10. The 6-8, 220-pound senior, the first prospect to commit to Coach Bennett's 2010 class, had a great time alongside fellow commit Akil Mitchell.
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 ...
Miami Star Solid to Virginia
Mitchell Reflects On Official Visit More recent recruiting updates on The Sabre ...
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Camp Wahoo's Food Drive The Sabre's good friends at Camp Wahoo - a tailgating group of Cavalier fans - are holding a "Hoos for the Hungry Food Drive" next month to benefit The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank was established in 1981 to help feed hungry people throughout Virginia and serves 25 counties and nine cities in northern and central Virginia. The bank has distributed more than 100 million pounds of food. The drive is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 14, the day of the Boston College game. It will run from 8 a.m. until kickoff of the game. Please visit the Camp Wahoo tailgate on your way to the game and drop off canned goods or other non-perishible foods to help reach the goal of donating 400 pounds of food to feed the area's hungry families. The Camp Wahoo tailgate is located on the corner of McCormick Road and Cabell Drive on game days. This location is just beside Clark Hall, near the UVA Bookstore, and the 'East M' parking lot.
License Plate section is up in Wahoowa! In earlier editions, we made a request for anyone who had license plates that reflected your status as a Hoo fan. The responses have started to trickle in and the Plates Photos are up and running in the Wahoowa! section of the site. The Wahoowa! section of The Sabre is dedicated to all things associated with UVa Fan-dom. There are various fan-related areas including desktop wallpaper, Fan of the Week photos, V-Sabres Worldwide, and more. If you have suggestions for new and interesting things in the Wahoowa! section, please email us at [email protected] with the header: Wahoowa! suggestion. We'd like to keep adding photos to the section so if your license plate shows that you're a Hoo fan, let us know so we can include you in our gallery. All you need to do is snap a picture of your license plate and email a jpeg version of the photo to [email protected] with the email header: License Plate Photo.
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Issue No. 213 - Oct. 27, 2005 Post of the Week In a week full of angry rants, here was a good factual analysis...
Subject: Analyzed the game riding out the storm south of Orlando. See inside it you wish. First off, the players deserve some of the fault especially the offensive line. I can't tell you how many times 4 UNC d-linemen blew up plays against our 6 to 7 blockers. I was shocked watching the game again. With all that being said though, the play calling was downright terrible. It was beyond clear that our coaches didn't put our players in situations to make plays and succeed. Here are some interesting stats for you:
Total plays called: 67
Here are two plays that still baffle me watching today. The first was in the first half. On 3rd and 3, we tried to run a screen. Of course, UNC blew that play up and Hagans scrambled for a first. Now, I'm not a coaching genius but aren't you supposed to call a screen if you think the defense is coming on a blitz or aggressive stunts? Instead, UNC played the run (go figure on 3rd and 3) and the play was easily defended. The second play is even more baffling. In the 2nd half, we had a 2nd and 2 from the UNC 43. As predicted, we run a sweep right with Hagans handed off to Peerman at the 50. That's midfield for you mathematically challenged fans, seven yards behind the LOS. As you can guess, UNC was all over the backfield and dropped CP for a 3 yard loss. Here is another interesting point, after the 30-yard attempt to Ogletree in the first half we ran 19 straight plays either running the ball or passing the ball within 5 yards of the LOS. The 3rd down attempt to MJ in the end zone ended that string. Since I'm so bored and everyone may not have watched the game, I was going to post every play and result but I don't want to bore you too. No need to spread my misery today. So, the takeaway point for me is that we have little imagination on offense (at least we didn't on Saturday). There were many of the exact same formations and plays. We didn't test the middle of the field enough. Do you remember seeing the TE stretch play up the middle that we've run so successfully lately? Our plays are very predictable for even the armchair QB. We didn't use all our weapons. We continuously ran the same sweep play over and over again. We ran the wrong play at the wrong time. It's also interesting to note that I didn't see one checkoff from Hagans. Do we ever see one? That could say a lot about who has control and calls the shots. I know we're supposed to be positive today. Don't consider this post as negative but more about the facts. If I come across negative then I truly do apologize to all who read through this entire post. All I want is to see my Hoos give every team its best shot, week in and week out. When we play not to lose, don't play with "all heart", don't take chances, don't seem to have fun, etc. than it makes it hard for us fans (read, me) to do the same. Here's to hoping for changes down the road. We have two weeks to make those changes and 1 "practice" game to test them all in real game situations before the stretch run.
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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
Yellow Jackets Hammer Hoos
UVa's Run Defense Falters Again
Priorities, Picks, & Power Players - GT
Randolph Adjusts To Life As Kicker
Freshman Report: Spurlock and Evans
Game Preview 2009 - GT
Greg's Stock Report '09: Maryland
Press Conference Notes '09: GT
10 Things I Learned From Maryland
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