Things I Can Safely Surmise Following The Weekend
November 2nd, 2009 by David Scott (UVA91 DUKE89)Atrocious, appaling, detestable, vomit inducing, unforgiveable … it’s fair to say any of those statements accurately describes UVa’s second consecutive loss to Duke on Saturday afternoon in Scott Stadium. Perhaps it was the 424-196 advantage the Blue Devils had on us in total yardage that caused the loss. Or maybe it was the 34% completion percentage our two quarterbacks had on 38 passing attempts; it could have been the fact that only 41,300 fans showed up to cheer the Hoos on. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact area that ultimately cost UVa the victory on Saturday. What’s not hard to pinpoint, however, is that there is an obvious problem with the current state of Virginia’s football program.
BUT, thankfully for us all, the weekend lasts 72 hours and UVa football only took up a lousy 3 1/2 of them. Here’s what I can safely surmise from the other 68 1/2:
- After seeing him in person, Thaddeus Lewis is the best quarterback in the ACC. You could argue Josh Nesbitt or Jacory Harris mean more to their teams, but Lewis is the best pure quarterback in the league.
- When I was sitting atop my section on Saturday, I scanned over the empty Scott Stadium crowd and it dawned on me just how far we have fallen in the past few years.
- As I’m sure you’ve seen already, Brandon Spikes definitely went for the ever classless eye gouging move at the bottom of the pile in the Gators’ win over Georgia on Saturday.
- While I have been pleasantly entertained by the World Series thus far, I would still much rather see a Sunday night NFL game on TV in its place.
- Is it just me or have there been no real “epic” college football match-ups so far this season? I feel like every week they hype up a big game (see USC/Oregon and Texas/Ok. State this weekend) and every week the games are a snooze-fest.
- As much as I try to hate on him for retiring and “un-retiring”, I’ve got to hand it to Brett Favre. The guy can flat out ball. Even in his 40’s.
- Even though the Baltimore/Denver game was pretty one-sided it gave me a chance to watch Ed Reed in action, which is always a treat. He and Troy Polamalu are by far the best safties in football today.
- After receiving one vote in this weeks AP Top 25 Poll, is there any reason why we shouldn’t hire Richmond’s Mike London to be our next coach? If my math is correct, that’s one more vote than our current coach has gotten us in the same poll this season.
- If any of you “C-villians” haven’t checked it out yet, the new Irish pub on the corner, Trinity, is a pretty cool spot. It’s got tons of space and a bazillion flat-screens and it also seemed to attract UVa’s top talent on Friday and Saturday night.
