Sunday, September 13, 2009

I Am Covered In Shame....

....for choosing to go to Charlottesville yesterday to watch the Al Groh-coached UVA football team stumble around the field. I should have been in Washington. I should have been there with the Tea Party crowd.

UVA lost 30-14 to the #19 TCU Horned Frogs. A couple of things:
1. The fourteen points all came at the end of the 4th quarter against the second team defense
2. TCU is good, but not that good. Our play calling was atrocious. Our offensive line is a sieve. And we chose to run out the clock with 90 seconds left in the first half from our own 40.
3. Listening to Al Groh after the game, I got the sense that he was fine with the effort and we just lost to a power-house. No sense of responsibility for a defense (he's the D-coord too) that can't tackle, or that blows coverage. No sense of responsibility for an unprepared team.
4. We did start Sewell at QB and stayed with him. I'm in favor of this. He won 9 games two years ago and can play--he's just saddled with this ridiculous "spread" offense, one that hasn't yet figured out that "spread" also means spreading short passes around the field to open up the running game.

I am not only publicly calling for Al Groh's firing, I'm calling for it to happen NOW. Don't wait until the end of the season. Get it over with.
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1 comment:

  1. "The Hammer"September 13, 2009

    I watched the first half in my favorite sports pub. UVA seems to have the kids but they just can't get it done. A clear indication they have a leadership problem.
    I'd like to address a wider problem with college athletics, and that is the cheerleader problem. It used to be cheerleaders were cute and curvy and hot. I can remember the wonderful times I had as a teenager (and later) leering at the cheerleaders through my binoculars. Now, it seems every girl out there looks like Mary Lou Reeton or more precisely Olga Korbut. They are gymnasts and acrobats, not cheerleaders. I say bring back the hot cheerleader. Down with tiny, skinny, homely, flat-chested waifs. One school has maintained tradition, Southern Cal. and in conclusion I say "I wish they all could be California Girls"!

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