Offensive report card: Virginia struggling to make the grade
By Matthew Wurzburger | September 30, 2015Entering the conference portion of the 2015 season the Cavaliers’ offense has been excellent, dismal and all points between.
Entering the conference portion of the 2015 season the Cavaliers’ offense has been excellent, dismal and all points between.
The 2014 rendition of the Cavalier defense was one of the best in the ACC in almost every category. But fast forward to 2015, and the Virginia defense cannot be trusted to stop the run against FCS opponent William & Mary, much less carry the team.
The Virginia volleyball team opened up ACC play with a rare victory over Duke and a loss against Wake Forest Friday and Saturday night in Durham and Winston-Salem, N.C.
Seniors Julia Elbaba and Danielle Collins won their singles brackets Sunday at the U.Va. Fall Invite, the only home tournament of the fall season for the Virginia women’s tennis team.
The Virginia men’s golf team picked up two individual wins at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Collegiate Challenge Cup and a second place team finish this past weekend in Nashville, helping the ACC claim the title at the tournament over the SEC for the second consecutive year.
How can senior wide receiver Canaan Severin average 13 yards a reception and 74.5 receiving yards a game, yet the Cavaliers have gone 1-3, with the latest game against Boise State ending in a trouncing of 56-14?
While I commend Berman for his desire to solve the major embarrassment that is the weekly migration of students before the final whistle, I submit that charging for tickets would only thin out the student section more. The real solution lies in changing the culture that surrounds Virginia football.
For the second time in as many years, both the men’s and women’s Virginia cross country teams took home team titles at the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational.
When playing a top-15 team in the country in a hostile road environment with just three days of rest, it is very tough to muster the effort and motivation to play your best game.
It took over 55 minutes for the Virginia women’s soccer team to break through Sunday against No. 19 Duke. The Cavaliers (8-1-1, 2-1-0 ACC) didn’t start Sunday’s match as coach Steve Swanson would’ve hoped.
Sitting at 1-3, Virginia needs to go 5-3 in conference play to reach bowl eligibility — the presumed requirement for London to earn a seventh year at the helm of the program.
The Cavaliers’ out-of-conference slate proved tough as advertised, and losses to top-10 programs UCLA and Notre Dame as well as the preseason-ranked Broncos (3-1) leave a tough road to bowl eligibility for Virginia (1-3).
After forcing overtime in dramatic fashion, the Virginia women’s soccer team suffered its first loss of the season Thursday night against No. 7 Notre Dame.
The Skinny on weekend action for Virginia’s field hockey, men’s soccer, volleyball, men’s golf, cross country and women’s tennis teams
Friday night, the Cavaliers will go up against a team ranked inside the preseason AP Top 25 for the third time this season, taking on Boise State (2-1) for the first time in program history.
Virginia tennis stars Danielle Collins, Ryan Shane and Luca Corinteli came up big last Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Malibu Racquet Club in Malibu Calif.
The day after that early morning in the gym, I interviewed T.J. (not Thomas Jefferson) by phone for this piece.
Having silenced Syracuse in its conference opener Sunday, the Virginia women’s soccer team awaits a home showdown Thursday night against now-No. 7 Notre Dame.
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