Written by Bart Doan at The Comeback
You know how when you go to the grocery store for a full haul shop and if you’re smart, you put the heavy stuff in the trunk first and not, say, the bread and yogurt?
Let’s get the heavy stuff out of the way regarding Virginia football after head coach Mike London resigned this weekend following another close loss to Virginia Tech that capped a 4-8 season.
1. You can win at Virginia;
2. It won’t necessarily be easy.
The smoke coming from Charlottesville seems to be billowing the way of Mike Sanford, Jr. offensive coordinator at Notre Dame. Sanford, a Boise State grad, shares that distinction with Jon Oliver, associate to UVA athletic director Craig Littlepage.
The first thing about Virginia is knowing that there is no sacrifice of academics to build an elite football program. UVA is cut from the rare FBS cloth in that while they’d prefer to win football games, maintaining their status as an elite academic institution will always usurp winning athletic events.
UVA might be wise to look the proven head coach route too, though, before making a quick hire. The ‘Hoos have struggled to find that identity hire since George Welsh retired. Al Groh wasn’t going to be there forever. The London bus just ran out of gas.
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