The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Gator Bowl: UVA (10-3) v Mizzou (8-4), 12/27; Missouri 7-Point Fav On 12/16; O/U Is 48.5 pts

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

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Good Tuesday morning, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the Jerry and Jerry show. It's great to connect with you guys through the I Love Seville Network on a show that spotlights and features a household name. Jerry Rackleff, a Virginia Sports Hall of Famer, and the namesake of Jerry Rackliff.com, your source for anything UVA athletics related. It's great to connect with you guys on any social media and podcasting platform you're watching this show a pod. Goodness gracious, do we have some big time football and basketball on the very near horizon? It is exam period on the grounds of Thomas Jefferson's University. So athletes have been focused on textbooks and tests instead of touchdowns and points score.

Virginia basketball returns to the hardwood against the Maryland Terrapins on December 20th, And we have a Gator Bowl matchup guys in sunny Florida about 11 days away from now. We'll talk all those topics and we'll encourage you, the viewer and listener, to join us in the discussion by putting your comments in whatever chat box you're watching upon. And I will relay those comments live on air to Jerry Rackleff. Judah Wickhauer is the man behind the camera. He's the Elmer's Glew. His production may not show up in the box score, but he is absolutely paramount to team success. our pursuit of victory lane, Judah Wickhauer, if you can go to the studio camera and welcome

a man who needs no introduction, who is looking quite dapper, and from what I can tell, 100% ticking across the board. Is that a fair analysis? I wouldn't go to 100, but... We're going to go 90% here, really? It's a lot better than it was this time a week ago. Let's put it that way. We missed you last week, Hoots. Yeah, I apologize for... I came down with something in Charlotte, and it knocked me for a loop. Please don't apologize. It's that time of year.

My friend, we start every program with the same way, with scattershooting with Jerry Rackleff. You've made the word scattershooting famous in the Mid-Atlantic and across Wahoo Nation to show is your scatter shooting on any topic you want to cover. Well, you know, it's pretty quiet on the Virginia front right now, and everybody's just gearing up to get restarted once the exams are over. with. And so there hasn't been a whole lot of news filtering out of there since they entered this period. And just giving everybody kind of a chance to breathe and reset. They have a football game of tremendous significance on the 27th, the Gator Bowl. Right now, Virginia, depending on where you shop, and the line moves, folks. So this is the line as of Tuesday, December 16th, as

Missouri is a seven-point favorite. The over under at 48 and a half. Missouri is a tested team from the Southeastern Conference. We'll talk about that. We'll talk, Chandler Morris, transfer portal, three guys already in the portal. It's important to emphasize, although you've entered the portal,

that does not mean you cannot come back. True. And there's a defensive back that's entered the portal right now that fingers crossed, he does return to Charlottesville because he was in all-ACC selection. And we've got to talk some basketball as well. First, this Gator Bowl matchup, where do you want to begin? Well, they're going to have their hands full because they're facing the SEC's top rushing team

and the ACC's top rusher. And that's nothing to ignore. We all know the quality of football in the SEC and to be able to be the leading rusher in that conference that's built on not only physical toughness but speed, that says a lot. And so Missouri has lost their offensive coordinator in the last couple of days. He's taking the head coaching job at Washington State. So he will not be around to call the plays for the Gator Bowl. Eli Drinkwich, the head coach, or perhaps the wide receivers coach, will be calling plays.

So that could have some influence on their offense for sure. But that's something that I'm sure John Ritzinski is focusing on right now, is taking a look at how to slow down that running attack. The break is a time to get healthy, and it's a time to focus on the next opponent. Can you put in perspective the health of this Virginia football roster? Well, the last time we had an opportunity to talk to Tony Elliott was, I think, a week ago, a little over a week ago, right after the ACC Championship game, they had a Gator Bowl Press Conference, and at that point, he declared his team pretty healthy. They were waiting to see more imaging from Trell Harris who got injured in the game.

There has been no official update on him since then, so we're not sure what his status is at this point or how serious his injury may or may have not been. But other than that, he declared the team pretty healthy. Trell Harris, a key wide receiver for this Virginia football team. His health and questions about his health are all over the comments section right here. Will there be more insight on Trell Harris prior to kickoff or is this a wait and see? Yeah, I'm sure there'll be at least one, if not a couple of opportunities to meet with Elliot and players as soon as the exam period is over.

So we will get an update on him. I'm just not exactly sure when. I haven't checked my email today, but I'm sure we'll get an update on his status. You mentioned Tony Elliott, the ACC Coach of the Year? Yes. Is the drawing a lot of attention? He was on the short list for the Arkansas job by two.

media outlets. He was interestingly on the short list for the Michigan job, which I'm not necessarily buying on ESPN. This was a couple of days ago. That outlet was reporting, Elliot is one of the candidates for the Michigan job, which is one of the most significant jobs in all college football here. Fan base. What's the word of wisdom you offer to the fan base? As Tony Elliott, your words, not my words, has gone from outhouse to penhouse in coaching circles. Yeah, well, I'm not surprised that some schools haven't taken a look because, you know, he posted a 10-win season at a school that's only done that once before in a legitimate power for a conference. It took a while to turn the program around, but he showed what he can do

when he has the talent available. And if you're Michigan and Arkansas, certainly you have NIL money to change your rosters I'm sure in Michigan they're looking for somebody who it's funny with coaching changes because sometimes you want a guy who can come in and you might not expect

him to win 10 or 11 games a year but you expect him to get your program in order so that four or five years after that if he hasn't turned it around then the next guy can, but you want somebody to

clean up your program. And certainly it sounds like Michigan has some issues, but over the past several years. But Arkansas, they've just kind of floundered down there in the SEC, and I don't know what it's going to take to turn that program around,

but that's a tough league. Once you lose a little ground, it's hard to make it. up because there's there's no there's no letting up by the other programs in that conference they're always seeking to upgrade their coaching staffs or their rosters or their facilities are all three so once you fall behind in the SEC you're you got to perform some magic to get back up near the top would you make of that Michigan debacle this head coach I mean the that was bizarre The scuttlebutt and the direct messages and the rumor mill is gaining significant momentum.

All the Tom Dix and Harry, I guess I should call them Jennifer, Carolines and Sarahs are coming out and saying this coach is sliding into their DMs, offering them season tickets for, it's a PG show. I'll leave it at that. The viewers and listeners can read the National Outlets. What'd you make of that stuff? I've never heard of anything quite like it. It's certainly puts a black island football, college football, and particularly the Michigan program. Not that the administrators had anything to do with it, but, I mean, you don't know when a coach may go rogue like that and just do things that will embarrass the school and embarrass his family and everything else.

but I've never heard of anything quite like that before. I've heard of coaches having extramarital affairs with co-eds or department employees, associates, et cetera, stuff like that. But that's been going on for 40, 50 years at least. but nothing to this degree. This opens up a whole new portal, I guess. Jeremy Wilson's watching in eastern Tennessee. He says the one that he's following most closely is Davey Sweeney and Death Valley.

If he leaves Clemson, then Virginia fans should be worried with Tony Elliott. That's the job that could intrigue Tony Elliott the most. Well, it's his alma mater, and so certainly that would be a huge pull on his, on his heart I don't know I don't know if Dabo's going I think if Dabo was going

somewhere he would have gone by now but I don't think anything's going to change I could be wrong we could walk out of here an hour and the whole world might change but it seems like to me that if

Dabo was leaving he would be gone already whether by a choice are not by choice. I 100% agree. You look at these major programs, Clemson's a major program. A lot of the change in the carousel happens before the season's over now, before the bowl season's over now,

because these marquee programs are going after marquee talent and don't want to wait. Yeah. And you know, outside of Tony, who would be an automatic candidate, who else are you going to get? I mean, there's been so much of a

musical chairs in the coaching industry I think 25% turnover and head coaches in power for football, which is significant. And I mean, who hasn't been selected already to go somewhere else? And how many guys are actually out of jobs right now that you would want to hire? How does a Gator Bowl victory change that in any capacity? or if it's the same now with Tony Elliott and the intrigue around recruiting him away from Charlottesville as it would be if he gets a Gator Bowl win?

I don't think it would change. If you're interested in a coach, you're looking at other things as to whether he can win a bowl game or not because you don't know heading into a ball game if your team has been weakened by guys who want to see. out or guys who are transferring or your opponent for that matter like against

South Carolina a few years ago when several of their top players opted out of the plate in the bowl like Debo Samuels and some of the other outstanding players they had and Virginia just had its way with that

Gamecock team but I don't think from an AD percent perspective that it changes that much. Virginia football has Missouri. Fans are asking about the health of some of the Missouri players, specifically Missouri's quarterback. That's something to follow.

We'll follow the storylines. I don't have much insight on the Missouri quarterback to offer personally. Yeah, I don't either right now. We're getting into preparation for that starting today. So I'll be delving into that a little bit more as the week goes on. But I've heard there's some issues, but I don't know to what degree at this point. Tigers 8 and 4 overall, Virginia, 10 and 3 overall. This is a dog fight.

And Vegas has Missouri a 7-point favorite with the over under at 48 and a half as of December 16th. Chandler Morris all over the feet here. This one comes from the panhandle of Florida. Chandler Morris, six-year college football, will he be the starter next? year in Charlottesville well if he's here he will be uh it's hard to determine what the NCAA may come up with i mean at some point you see an appeal for an extra year of eligibility and you think it makes all the sense in the world and it'll be denied and then um you'll see another that you think there's no chance and uh he'll get cleared but there's a lot of

lawsuit going on right now by a player, and I can't remember what school he's from, but who applied for an extra year of eligibility and was denied. And so he went out and hired an attorney and was suing to try to get that extra year of eligibility. I don't know if Chandler will go to that extreme, but that seems to be where we are in college sports now. it's all legalities, et cetera. But I don't know. I thought originally probably wasn't a high percentage of him being cleared for another year. That would be seven years.

And I'm guessing it goes back to the year he played in only three or four games at TCU and hurt his knee to where he's trying to claim an extra year. but I guess you never know with the NCAA these days. And, you know, I don't blame Chandler Morris looking for another year. Oh, I don't blame him either. Yeah. Let the guy get paid. And if there's some great area in college football, pursue the gray area.

Because the chances of playing professional football are not the best for Chandler Morris. Here's a tough question for you. Is it best for Virginia football to have Chandler Morris return for a six year? I think it would be pretty darn good to have a guy with that kind of experience leading your team. And not only from the performance standpoint, but just from the leadership standpoint, I think I would think Tony Elliott would be delighted to have him back for another year. I don't see any negatives about that. He might make somebody else on the roster look around a little bit.

That's the question. What's the influence this has on like Danny Kalen? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure Kalen would, well, I'm not sure, because I don't know him that well, but you would think he would probably, at least investigate what other options are available to him and who else might be interested. All these guys have agents now, and as soon as any kind of news like that filters down to them, they're looking elsewhere. But I don't know, Kaelan might be the kind of kid that's happy here and knows that his role is secured.

for another couple of years afterward. William McChesney, thank you for sharing the show. The Mayor of McIntyre, Chad Wood is watching the program in Crozze. He asks about Marcus Hagan's, no longer at Penn State University. Penn State gone through some significant coaching change. Biscuit Higgins,

one of the all-time favorites, one of the best players in Virginia football history, punt returner, wide receiver, quarterback, played in the National Football League. Any chance he returns to Charlottesville? Well, as far as I know, there's no opportunity here at this point. There's no vacancies on the coaching staff.

I haven't heard of anybody that's looking to leave. And I'm not sure that when Biscuit left here, that I know publicly that they all said they have respect for one another and all that stuff, but I think there might have been some issues that caused him to leave Virginia, which I'm not sure that I ever thought I would see him do. But I think there was some maybe some sort of friction that led to his departure.

And the friction was ties to Tony Elliott bringing in his own guys and his own staff. Well, he brought in some of his staff. Biscuit was owned in the staff for a year, or two. Two years, I think. I believe that's correct. I know it was at least one year, but I was thinking too. But I think maybe there was just a disagreement on how to handle things coaching-wise or philosophy-wise. I think there was a clash there. James Franklin, the former Penn State coach, the fire Penn State coach, now at Virginia Tech.

The athletic department in Blacksburg has now announced an anonymous $20 million donation. This news just broke. Yeah, I saw that. $20 million for Virginia Tech, anonymous donation, the most significant donation in Virginia Tech Athletic Department history, Franklin making waves in Blacksburg. Any additional thoughts on James Blacksper, James Franklin and Bracken? Blacksburg, Goody Ratcliffe. Well, you know, they've, they, uh, had those meetings and, uh, et cetera with donors and,

and explained where they are or where they were and how necessary it was to gain those kind of funds if they wanted to be competitive, stay competitive in the ACC and, uh, sort of a come to Jesus. meeting just like Virginia had the year before that and somebody took it to heart just like they did here and I'm sure just about every university has some donors that are capable of doing that. It's just a matter of whether you can convince them to take that step and I'm not surprised that Virginia Tech is throwing money into the ring just to I'm sure this year didn't sit well with their major donors and big football fans.

And so that's the only answer out of this mess, really, under these present conditions. And so good for them. We'll follow that very closely. This comment comes in from Buckhead, Georgia. We have a lot of viewers and listeners there. The downside of Chandler Morris coming back for a six, year is the Virginia football team probably will be a focal point for a lot of the quarterbacks of the transfer portal, the Florida guy, the Nebraska guy, for example.

Well, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they brought in another quarterback if he leaves. Just because you need, it's good to have two experienced quarterbacks. and Kaelin doesn't have a ton of experience, plane experience, and not to say that they wouldn't start him regardless, but I'm sure as a safety measure, if nothing else, because nobody else on the roster has any playing experience, really. And it's always a good thing to have somebody back there who has been around the block a few times.

And so I wouldn't be surprised if they went out and found another quarterback in the portal should Chandler Morris not return. You got Jonathan Washington in Harrisonburg. He asked the question, and Renee Peddeford, I promise we'll get to basketball in the Maryland game here in a matter of moment. She's peppered us with questions. We love Renee. We love what she watches the show. We know she's a basketball fan. Jonathan and Harrisonburg is asking your thoughts on JMU making the college football playoff.

That's tremendous for their program. it's probably tremendous for the state of Virginia and football to have another program that's doing well and it's probably unfortunate that they're going to be playing Oregon at Oregon to open up with because what are they like three 24 points or something like that underdogs I'll find that

I think it's great news for Virginia as well but it's I think it's good for football in commonwealth and it gives kids another option and it'll be interesting to see how they fare in that in that game and it's a shame that Virginia couldn't have pulled that off to make it in but you know they just got outplayed and out-coached I think by Duke in that ACC Championship game. You know, with the take I gave, I think last week on the I Love Seville show, is I'm frustrated that Virginia did not play well against Duke. They were listless.

They seemed to at least emotionally not get off the bus. I think there were a couple of suspect play calls. Will Betridge clearly has an accurate leg, but that accuracy is 40 yards and under. and to go for a kick that I think was 47 yards, the track record would suggest he would miss this, and he did. The gimmick gadget play and the overtime, head scratcher for me, especially after the second half you've dominated the game with the run,

and you just had a full length of the field drive to set into overtime, why go gadget? The fourth quarter or the second half, go for it on fourth down instead of kicking the field goal and taking the points, scratch my head is, no, scratch my head, head as well. And I was frustrated with Virginia's performance and frankly with the coaching, some of the play calling with the coaching staff, but I don't hold that bitterness and frustration against JMU. I'm happy for JMU getting in the college football playoff.

Sure. Because as you said, it's great for football and the Commonwealth across the board and JMU's earned it. Now, if the roles were reversed and it was, say, a Virginia Tech team instead of JMU that got into the college football, of course I'd be angry. Yeah. But UVA fans, JMU is not the arch nemesis. That's how I see it at least. I don't know how the Virginia fan base

sees JMU. I know there's a lot of crossover. Yeah. For sure. A ton of crossover. A lot of people who grew up Virginia fans went to JMU.

And so, yeah, there's a lot of people pulling for both programs. A lot of blended households with Virginia fans and JMU fans. Yeah, absolutely. And But I thought Duke's coaching staff had a brilliant game plan for that championship game and just go into ball control and shorten the game by keeping Virginia's offense on the sidelines. George Wells used to say there's more than one way to skin a cat, which I've never quite, I've always grew up with that.

Why do you want to skin a cat? I've never quite understood that. But anyway, but they showed it, you know, you don't have to do things the conventional way to try to win a football game. And then it worked. I mean, I'd skin an apple. I wouldn't skin a cat. What else do you skin, Judah?

I guess you skinned fish. Skin a fish. Yeah, it's skin a fish. I wouldn't skin a feline. No. I don't understand that coach. I've never understood that one. Interestingly.

It's an old-time he's saying, but I don't know where it comes from. from time to time. Maybe somebody out there in our viewer land will have an answer to that. Yeah, where's that come from, viewers and listeners? Very interestingly, you mentioned Coach Welsh. I, from time to time, have a cold libation or two at the mill room

at the Borset, brought our oldest son after playing some squash. He had some superhero juice while I had a Basque double IPA from Basic City. Superhero juice is basically his version of a Shirley Temple. And sitting next to me was a very chatty,

and conversationalists George Welsh's daughter her first name is I'm blanking on her first name but had about a 30, 40 minute conversation goodness gracious she enjoys the conversation. Oh yeah she's a great guy, great

conversationalist. I think you've interviewed her right? Oh I have yeah back back when George passed I did a several part series on his career here and even before he came here, and she gave me some great behind-the-scenes stories that added to it.

And, yeah, she knows college football. She's well-versed and all that. And it's nice to have her back in this community. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Rob Neal's watching the program. He is a huge GMU booster and is making the trip to Oregon. Rob Neal actually saw him yesterday. Looks like he was working on some spreadsheets yesterday.

Rob Neal says, that saying, how would you skin a cat or skinning a cat? Most likely came from Blacksburg. He's throwing some shade at Virginia Tech right there. William McChesney is watching the program. He says, how would you skin a cat without getting maimed yourself? James Madison and Minerals watching the program. Don't get me wrong. I hate losing in the ACC Championship, but a trip to Jacksonville sounds a hell of

a lot better than a trip to Oregon. And you asked the question about the line, JMU against Oregon, and you were on point, Hootie. It's 21 points. The ducks are favored over the JMU Dukes. The over under at 48.5, the line opened at 21.5.

It's moved slightly to 21, according to the ESPN odds makers. I've made that trip to Oregon. It's a long trip. What did you make that trip for? Virginia played at Oregon What year was that? Is that football?

Yeah. Yeah. And they got pretty much mauled. But I went out there for a number of reasons. One was obviously to cover the game, but they had built at that point in time the nicest football center in America. and I still I heard they've replaced it since

which is unbelievable. Is that that Phil Knight money? Yeah, that was a staggering facility. I've never seen anything quite like it. I got a personal tour of it. And I also went out there and played golf at Bandon Dunes and Pacific Dunes, so I made a little mini vacation out of it.

But it was quite a trip, but that's an awesome Austin Stadium, Austin, something like that. Really neat football facility stadium there. And it was a good experience. You're on point. Altsin Stadium. Autsons.

A-U-T-Z-E-N Stadium. The man is an encyclopedia for football. That kickoff is the 20th of December. Rob, when are you leaving, Rob Neal, for this trip? Are you leaving in the next 48 hours? And give us some insight into your trip here. The 20th of December, which is Saturday, TNT 730 kickoff, JMU and the Oregon Ducks.

Unbelievable story. I'm pulling for the Cinderella team. I'll be very straightforward. Comments continue to come in. Transfer portal, who should Virginia target if Chandler Morris does come back? That's a question for you from Pennsylvania. If he does come back? If he does come back, they're basically saying the quarterback position is full.

Which would they target in the portal? I'm not sure that they would bring in another quarterback if Chandler Morris comes back. I think they mean other positions if he does come back. Oh, well, I'd have to go over the entire roster and see because they lose a lot. There's a lot of people that are going to be gone, not through the portal, but just because they've exhausted their eligibility, I think senior night down in Charlotte, they, or was it here?

I can't remember. I think, I guess it was here. They brought out, I don't know, it seemed like 30 or 40 people, that, them and their families, to recognize them. But I imagine they're going to be targeting a lot of people.

once I'm sure they've been at work for weeks if not months on this about what positions they may need to

strengthen and what they're in the market for and pouring over film and doing as much background checking as they can it would be an amazing process Somebody ought to do a documentary on how a coaching staff dissect all this information.

That's a college football version of a war room. It really is, maybe even more so because there's so many people involved instead of like 13 to 15 guys. You're talking about 30 to 50 in some cases. but I imagine they're going to be bringing in a ton of people and the portal is shorter this year so it could be a real busy month I guess what is it January 2nd that it opens I believe

I'm not sure about that but I think that's right and it's only open for like I don't know if it's 30 or 45 days this year I think they've shortened it but and I don't know that there's a second portal like there was a year ago after spring practice is over so I don't know if you have to get all your hay in the barn in the first month of the portal or if there's a second opportunity like there was before interesting questions come in from cliff daisy who's watching on the eastern shore and first he he loves giving the weather report and I love the weather report from cliff he says it's very cold here on the eastern shore saltwater creek is frozen over this morning

he's looking forward to the bowl the bowl game and the basketball game and he's concerned or he wants us to discuss if any of the current players will be not playing or lacing up the cleats in the gator bowl because of transfer portal or chasing other football teams and aspirations uh that's a good question i think once I'm trying to recall last year, not that there was a bowl game, but I think it depends on the coach. There were some programs last year where people had declared for the portal and they still were allowed to play in the bowl game. And there were other programs where once they were in the portal, they were essentially out of the program. so a lot of that may depend on the coach

but so far Virginia's been pretty fortunate with only three guys one of them obviously is Provard who was I would imagine would demand some pretty good attention in the portal because he's had some really good credentials this year with

all the interceptions and stuff that he created and all ACC defense are back yeah And he played one year here in Charlottesville, and he's already looking for a pay. I mean, I would imagine this is looking for a payday here. And corners are a premium.

100%. And so he could probably command a pretty good fee on the market. And I don't know if Virginia would, I don't know what their philosophy is on trying to keep a guy. I know they would certainly make an attempt to. Do you think this is a leverage play here? I don't know It's hard to say It could be

And you know That's again, that's the world we're in right now And you don't know what agents are Saying to these kids Some agents are Terrific And some are somewhat unscrupulous So

I don't know Really Not knowing the kid that well other than what we see after games and during the week for interviews it's hard to get a read on some of these guys um cliff also adds some color on the catfish skinning a cat he says the early written appearance on different ways to skin a cat is 1830s to 1840s and it's possibly involves from the catfish an american in american dialect or simply using cat for it's uh slightly grim imagery

through its exact source. He's offering a little color and commentary here, how it's skin a cat. Yeah. Ray would know that. Judah may know how to skin a cat over there. Rob Neal says the I don't think so.

The Dukes are taking 6,000 fans out to Oregon. And that Oregon and JMU will come down to JMU, the offensive line, James U's O-line surviving Oregon's rush and front seven

and the referees allowing James use defensive backs to play football. Comments are coming in extremely quickly here. We do have to talk basketball at the 1107 marker of the show here. Thoughts, additional thoughts here with football hooty.

Yeah. It'll be just interesting to see how Virginia prepares for this game and you know Tony has proven to be pretty good with extra preparation time he's what five and oh six five and oh or six and oh coming off of bye weeks during his career which you know it's an extra week of preparation so I would imagine the team will be as well prepared as they can possibly be it's just they're going to be facing a team that's

That's good. Serious football team. I mean, the four losses they experienced were all to ranked SEC teams at the time that they played. So you want to get a taste of SEC football. You're going to get that December 27. Eight and four, Missouri, 10 and 3 UVA. Tiger's seven-point favorite over under 48 and a half, December 27th, kickoff on national television. The loss is Missouri this year. Alabama, 27 to 24. Bama was the

eighth ranked team at the time. Vanderbilt 1710. Vandy, the 10th ranked team. Texas A&M, 38 to 17. Oklahoma, 17 to 6. So in all the losses, the Bama was a three-point loss, Vandy a seven-point loss. Oklahoma was an 11-point loss. Only Texas A&M, 38, 17. Where they're they really blown out. This is a really good football team, ladies gentlemen. It really, really good football team here. It'll be the best team Virginia's played in a while. Best team Virginia's played in a while, absolutely. Basketball switching gears, Maryland Terrapins.

Elijah Saunders returns. Maryland Terrapins are six and five, one and one. I miss the Maryland Terrapin days of Steve Blake and Juan Dixon, Lonnie Baxter, Chris Wilcox. the Maryland basketball team seems to have lost a step since it's left the Atlantic Coast Conference still Virginia fans that follow the program closely

will wax nostalgic because that Maryland UVA rivalry at one time was a pretty bitter bitter rivalry. It truly was there's no love loss between the two fan bases and I'm sure that still exists even though they're not in the same conference but I think the epitome of that disdain for Maryland fans came when Justin Anderson went down at not Colfield House,

but whatever the name of that arena is now. I think they've renamed it. And there was a hushion. over the thing and somebody said I hope it's broken or something and there were some cheers and that was a pretty classless move and I think that heightened Virginia's disdain for Maryland fans although I think it was always there but there's always been some friction between those two fan bases and just like there was Duke and Maryland in basketball But, yeah, Buzz Williams will be back for the second year in a row.

He came here to J.P.J. last year with a good Texas A&M team, and Virginia beat him soundly. I like Buzz. And now he'll be back with Maryland this time around. And he's a solid coach. He's a good coach. He's an interesting character. It gives really good post-game interviews, although you might have to wait forever for him to come into the press room. But I'm sure it's a game that Ryan Odom was looking forward to and his staff to go against the Terps. And Virginia fans like giving Buzz a little bit of the needle because of his sweating. I don't know if he's found a cure for that or not,

but it used to be a point of delight for Virginia fans to see him take his sport coat off because of his sweating issues. What is, what do we know about this team, hoody? They're a top 25 team. They got a lot of talent, a lot of depth. They got prowess, offensive talent on the front court, the back court. With 10 games in, what are they 9 and 1? What do we know about this team?

I think this is a team that he has purposely brought along slowly. Excuse me. I still haven't gotten rid of all this stuff. I think his plan is working well. I think he's brought them along gradually, and they're getting better by the week. And I know there are some places he wants to clean up, like defensive rebounding and taking care of the basketball. they had 22 turnovers against Dayton and had trouble inbounding the ball the latter part of that game and allowed Dayton to cut the margins significantly.

But I think for the most part, things are pretty darn good. And their shooters seem to be getting more comfortable. It's awfully hard to pick on one guy because there's so many guys that can. hurt you and I mean who saw jacari white's performance against dayton coming i mean dude couldn't mess it was really wild sitting there in the arena and watching the ball thrown to him and before it even got his hand into his hands the virginia crowd was already essentially counting the three he's a fan favorite he's definitely a fan favorite and he has his own little army too of guys with the jacarmy yeah it's the little uh their tea green t-shirts

and wearing its face on a t-shirt it's pretty cool it's so cool not many players have that kind of allegiance but uh um the ritter just keeps getting better and better i mean that guy's an NBA player without any question um and they've just got so many guys that can hurt you you and it's fun watching Chance Mallory. Oh my gosh. He's my favorite player in so long. He's just not a freshman. You can call him a freshman, but he's not a freshman.

That guy's good. Ralph Sampson last year came on the Jerry and Jerry show, sat right next to you. Yes. And he said, on the show, Chance Mallory as a senior at St. Ed's Bellfield Academy could start on last year's UVA men's basketball team. And his crystal ball proved to be right. Ralph was right. Yeah.

No question about it. it. And he could start now, but Ryan likes him coming off the bench to add a little juice to the mix. Yeah, I'm very curious to see if Chance Mallory continues to come off the bench

as the competition stiffens and we head into ACC play. Because the eye test, I mean, you don't even have to be a basketball, you know, guru to see the difference between Hall and Chance Mallory. And it's no shade on Hall to have a point. point guard with leadership, with Hall's experience.

He takes care of the basketball. He's a past first guy, loves to get everybody involved. He's limited offensively. He is not the defensive presence that Chance is, and that's not a knock on Hall. Hall's still a good defender. Chance is just an elite defender. And what most impresses me about Chance Mallory is this rebounding ability. That's uncanny.

And that just comes from years of playing with a chip on your shoulder and desire and passion to get the basketball. Well, yeah. He has an IQ or an instinct. Dennis Rodman had this. I'm by no means comparing Chance Mallory to Dennis Romney. Not compares. Dennis Robin had a feel for where the ball was going to go when the ball was being released by the shooter. And a lot of guys just don't have that. Chance seems to have that. Maryland game, Saturday. What do you make of this matchup? well you know you're always concerned with Virginia coming off of exams and a layoff like that even though they practice etc it still sometimes takes a while to get reacclimated into game action and I don't know how you there's no way to simulate that other than just

going against one another in practice and you know sometimes uh when you have a roster that good that that can be enough but we we've seen some really good virginia teams come out of exams and kind of stumble and struggle to win against uh far inferior teams and then we've seen some not not too many but a couple come out red hot and uh blow people away but it's your usually the other way around. It usually takes some time to get the rust off. And I don't know if Ryan Odom has a different philosophy on how to approach that issue or not. But it's always a concern when you're coming out of a break like that,

at least 11 days without a – at least 11 days without a game and playing an opponent that certainly is worthy. So it'll be interesting to see how they handle that. What do you got, hoody, what do you got in the hopper at jerry rackliff.com? Well, we're following the portal. It doesn't appear that there's going to be a lot of action on Virginia guys leaving. Yeah, and I hear you knocking on wood down there. But, you know, I think we said that last year. and then the floodgates opened

but I think with the fact that they have the money to keep players happy will probably benefit them this time around but we'll be looking at that we'll be looking at Missouri and

excuse me certainly tuning in on the basketball with the Maryland game coming up. It's a big game. Et cetera, et cetera. National televised game, Maryland Terrapins, Saturday, Virginia

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Goodness gracious, woke up this morning, and the feels-like temperature was like 17. Earlier this week, it was down to zero. Yeah. The feel-like temperature. It was brutal. I took my German Shepherd Max out to go. to the bathroom. He went outside, looked around, and literally came back inside without going to the bathroom. He refused to go outside. I've had that experience with my two dogs as well. They

don't linger. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, dude, you have to go to the bathroom. Yeah. Okay, you have to go. The I Love Seville Show is up at 1230. Thank you kindly for watching. So long, everybody. Same here, brother. Thank you. Thank you.