04-09-2026, 05:32 PM
Interesting how many people here are related to people at UVA. My son was an athlete at Navy and harbors a desire to run an athletic program somewhere, someday. As part of his coursework he's been shadowing Virginia's AD and has met Carla Williams numerous times. If she was on thin ice after Bennett quit and while Elliott was floundering, she seems to have safely escaped without falling into the cold water below. Apparently UVA has gone all in on players, so no surprise that Mox (is that short for 'Moxie'?) was pushed out even after such a good tournament run. They upped their player payments by herding the donor cats and surprise, surprise Elliott becomes a genius and they should have been ACC champions in football (can't figure out how they let Duke beat them) and finished second in hoops to Duke (again). Baseball team is decent under a new coach (from Duke! with all their players transferring in) after O'Conner went to Miss State and dominate "Stanford sports" like swimming and diving.
Players vote with their feet. Sort of shocked that a coach who has been at Stanford for 17 years and was always the heir apparent would just suddenly turn toxic out of nowhere. Hard to know whether this is the coaching staff or soft Generation Z players (that need to stay off my fake lawn! "Zoomers" apparently) without being around the program on the regular, but again, players have plenty of options now. Many schools start over year after year.
NIL isn't paid by the school, is it? I know the school facilitates that now, but there can't be contracts that forbid disparagement against Stanford because someone with a contract would be an employee of the school, wouldn't they? So murky - there must be multi-year NIL deals with conditions based on the donors wishes. Don't know. I'm not a lawyer; I just spend hours searching depositions for smoking guns that I thought the actual lawyers are supposed to find.
That football X account is impossible to follow. I wish Paye well in her defamation suit if that's what does her in. Pretty flimsy reason to fire for cause. Players not praising coaches in their 'that being said' messages is also pretty flimsy.
Yes, all we know is that players are in the portal, which closes April 20, and there are rumors, so Lindy Laroque is the Messiah. Or maybe the OSU dude.
Tennessee and Stanford should just swap teams. Always a greener pasture somewhere else.
Players vote with their feet. Sort of shocked that a coach who has been at Stanford for 17 years and was always the heir apparent would just suddenly turn toxic out of nowhere. Hard to know whether this is the coaching staff or soft Generation Z players (that need to stay off my fake lawn! "Zoomers" apparently) without being around the program on the regular, but again, players have plenty of options now. Many schools start over year after year.
NIL isn't paid by the school, is it? I know the school facilitates that now, but there can't be contracts that forbid disparagement against Stanford because someone with a contract would be an employee of the school, wouldn't they? So murky - there must be multi-year NIL deals with conditions based on the donors wishes. Don't know. I'm not a lawyer; I just spend hours searching depositions for smoking guns that I thought the actual lawyers are supposed to find.
That football X account is impossible to follow. I wish Paye well in her defamation suit if that's what does her in. Pretty flimsy reason to fire for cause. Players not praising coaches in their 'that being said' messages is also pretty flimsy.
Yes, all we know is that players are in the portal, which closes April 20, and there are rumors, so Lindy Laroque is the Messiah. Or maybe the OSU dude.
Tennessee and Stanford should just swap teams. Always a greener pasture somewhere else.