Defense touted as one of best in ACC
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Spring football has arrived, and with it the countdown to the gridiron season can officially begin.
I've never written a eulogy before, but Saturday was the last Virginia basketball game of my college career, so I've decided to take it as an opportunity to do so.
Senior Night brings a special spark to University Hall, and the Virginia Cavaliers are hoping to use that spark to their advantage when they host the Wake Forest Demon Deacons tonight. Virginia (15-10, 5-9 ACC), once left for dead in the ACC cellar, has won three out of its last four games, and a win over Wake would put the Cavaliers back on the bubble.
The Virginia football program signed 18 players to letters-of-intent yesterday, marking an end to the 2003-2004 recruiting season. Coach Al Groh and his staff signed five players projected to play in the defensive backfield, an area the Cavaliers focused on.
Driving home from Chapel Hill Saturday, I was struck by a number of impressions from Virginia's 96-77 loss to North Carolina. Here they are in short, simple paragraphs. Perfect for Monday morning.
Virginia wrestling coach Lenny Bernstein has quietly moved the wrestling program forward for 10 years now. Note to Cavalier fans: Bernstein's boys won't be quiet for much longer.
After Virginia's 24-0 victory over Troy State last month, coach Al Groh praised his young defense for allowing only one touchdown in its last two games, a long pass play to Florida State's Craphonso Thorpe. Looking back, he may have wanted to wait a few weeks. Maryland embarrassed the "Orange Crush" Thursday night, giving Cavalier defenders their second shellacking in as many games. This time, Maryland back-up running back Josh Allen looked like a Heisman candidate, posting a career high 257 yards on 38 carries. Allen had 154 in the first half alone, including an 80-yard touchdown run on which he hesitated at the line of scrimmage before scampering untouched down the sideline.
A slew of upsets turned the Atlantic Coast Conference on its head last weekend, hurting bowl chances for some teams and improving ACC title hopes for others. With less than a month left to play in the season, three teams could win a share of the league title, and as many as seven could qualify for bowl games. As for the other two, Duke and North Carolina, they apparently can't be forgotten about either.
Rivers vs. Schaub. Schaub vs. Rivers. It won't get any better in the ACC this season. But as these two quarterbacks prepare to duel this Saturday, one question looms. It's a question that everyone wants answered, but no one will actually try to answer: Which one of these record-setting quarterbacks is better? When Virginia travels to take on N.C. State this Saturday, fans across the conference should finally get their answer.
Just when Virginia coach Al Groh began to lament his team's lack of takeaways this season, his Cavaliers responded, forcing three turnovers in Saturday's 24-0 shutout of Troy State.
Like so many of the other stars in Virginia's 2002 recruiting class, Tony Franklin watched last season from the bench. In Franklin's case, no special circumstances keep him off the field. No academic troubles. No back problems. Nothing but a logjam at running back, the position where Franklin starred at St. Peter Chanel High School in Cleveland.
After seven games, the 2003 Virginia football team stands at 4-3, one game worse than this time last season. The difference might be turnovers.
October 2, 1995 -- "Warrick Dunn takes the snap," Virginia radio man Mac McDonald shouted. "He's at the goal-line! What're they gonna say? They're gonna say no! No touchdown! Virginia Wins! Virginia Wins!"
Since February 2002, Virginia fans have waited to see linebackers Ahmad Brooks and Kai Parham line up side-by-side in the Cavalier defensive backfield. They finally got their wish last Saturday, as Parham made his first collegiate start, filling in for injured veteran Rich Bedesem. The start provided a sizeable challenge for the monster linebacker from Virginia Beach and marked the culmination of an extraordinary spiritual journey.
The Virginia Cavaliers have won three games in a row and have gained much of their success offensively on the ground. Sophomore Wali Lundy leads the ACC in rushing with 102 yards per game and has broken the century mark in each of his last three outings. Lundy scored a career-high three rushing touchdowns last week against UNC. The New Jersey native has developed into a bona fide work-horse for the Cavaliers, carrying the ball over 25 times three games in a row.
The ACC began its fall meetings Monday in Charlottesville, but uncertainty remains as to whether the league will add a 12th member in the near future.
The era of the Cavalier marching band unofficially kicked off Monday as future band director William Pease began a week-long visit to Charlottesville in hopes of sparking band interest.
Virginia President John T. Casteen,III single-handedly brought Virginia Tech into the ACC, and Virginia students are apparently bringing Hokie fans into Scott Stadium. For years, Virginia students have bought tickets for their Hokie friends, allowing them to invade the Carl Smith Center and cheer on their vaunted Fighting Gobblers. But according to a recent rumor, Virginia students have stepped up their undermining of Virginia's home-field advantage, selling their student guest tickets for the Tech game online. All this while new Cavalier coach Al Groh has tried to turn Virginia into a "football school."
Throughout his career at Virginia, Alvin Pearman always has had good hands. During his freshman year, he used those hands to scoop a Billy McMullen lateral out of the dirt and placed the "hook and ladder" in Virginia football history. Last season, Pearman was Al Groh's go-to running back late against South Carolina, when the Cavaliers needed a sure-handed ball carrier. In last year's victory over Duke, Pearman scored a touchdown and took a Matt Schaub pass 33 yards to set up the game-winning score
Two weeks ago, Virginia Coach Al Groh hinted that if his Cavaliers had to play without quarterback Matt Schaub, the results would be ugly. His prediction proved accurate Saturday, as Virginia fell 31-7 to South Carolina in Schaub's first full game on the bench. The Virginia offense struggled without their veteran quarterback, gaining only 170 yards of offense and often looking lost without Schaub. Freshman back-up Anthony Martinez, making his first collegiate start, threw two interceptions and completed only 10 passes for 54 yards. Martinez also lost 26 yards rushing. But Groh was careful to not place the blame on his young quarterback.