Key Players Here’s a look at the players who will be making plays all over the field during Saturday’s season opener.
Virginia football fans have long awaited the first Saturday in September, and rightly so, as head coach Bronco Mendenhall’s new, streamlined product will finally be on full display against Richmond in his team’s opener at Scott Stadium.
As per decree of the Bronco Mendenhall administration, “The Adventures of Cavman” is dead.
Leading the way with stingy defensive play is certainly familiar for Cavalier fans.
Ahead of the season opener against Richmond on Sept. 3, the Virginia football coaching staff released its team’s official depth chart Monday afternoon.
Coach Bronco Mendenhall has announced Virginia’s 10th starting quarterback in the last 11 years.
Just as the arrival of Mendenhall added a great deal of excitement to the 2016 Virginia football season, so too does the naming of Benkert as a starter.
There were numerous hallmarks of Virginia football under coach Mike London, both positive and negative.
The start of classes Tuesday signals an end to fall camp and two-a-days for the Virginia football team, and a transition to morning practice outside the McCue Center.
The former Brigham Young coach has a clear vision for the program. From day-one, his vision was explicit.
As spring camp drew to a close Saturday with the Spring Football Festival, Mendenhall was pleased with the progress his players have made.
The scene at the McCue Center Thursday morning was nothing short of energetic although there was a peculiar combination of coaches yelling, whistles blowing, players shouting encouragement and, in the background, reggae music.
“Nothing was worse than spring football practice,” my dad, who suited up for Vanderbilt in the ‘70s, used to say.
At the end of last year’s football season, many people looked at the Virginia program with disappointment. Across the country in Provo, Utah, Bronco Mendenhall looked at it as something quite different: a challenge.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Saturday the addition of eight assistant coaches to his staff.
To Mendenhall, football is more than just X’s and O’s.
After years of pleading, the “Fire Mike London” campaign finally fulfilled its mission last Sunday. The movement started quietly after a 4-8 2012 season and steadily garnered a larger and larger following — myself included — after the three losing seasons that followed.
The University athletics department announced Friday evening BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall will become the 40th head coach in program history after reaching a five-year, $16.25 million agreement.
Coach. Mentor. Father-figure. These are just a few of the words some of the Virginia football players used to describe coach Mike London following the announcement of his resignation Sunday.
It was a somber scene Sunday morning when Mike London addressed the Cavalier football team for the final time as head coach. Both he and his players reportedly were brought to tears. That’s not typically how football firings go.
