The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Jerry Ratcliffe's New Subscriber Content Model; What Will Subscribers Get With "Cavalier Exclusive"

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

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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 an absolute pleasure to connect with you guys through the I Love Seville Network on a show that features in spotlights a Virginia Sports Hall of Famer. Jerry Hootie. The ACCC Tournament is on the near horizon and my friend Jerry Rackcliffe. I think this is this 52nd. Is that right, Hootie? 53rd or 52nd or 52nd? 52nd or 53rd or 52nd? 503 or 52nd. 503rd? It's one of those. ACC basketball tournament. I want you guys to think about that, viewers and listeners. 52 or 53 consecutive ACC men's basketball tournaments for the star of this show, Jerry Hooty Rockliff. We'll talk about that Duke ball game. It did not go according to plan.

Virginia didn't get off the bus. Duke had one of its best ball games possible. And just like that, a game turns into a blowout. You know what? It's in the rear view. And what's in the front view is tonight's matchup against Wake Forest. And the Demon Deacons come to the John Paul Jones Arena as a 14 and a half point underdog. And Virginia has a clear cut path to the two-seat in the ACC tournament

and a potential rematch with Duke and the championship game of that ACC tournament, God willing. A lot we're going to talk about including football, news and notes, and a transition to a subscriber business model. for Jerry Rackleff. Judah Wickcower is behind the camera. Judah, if you can go to the studio camera and then welcome Hootie Rackleff to the program on a two shot, that would mean the absolute world to us.

The show is yours. Jerry Rackleff, good Tuesday morning, my friend. Good to see you again, as always. Appreciate it. Always look forward to our show and getting together with you and Judah. It's like hanging out with friends at a bar, just sitting around talking sports, right?

100% my friend one of the highlights of the week i absolutely love friends out there i absolutely love doing the show some significant news that i think wahu fans have already seen but here's an opportunity for you to highlight it in front of a lot of people jerry rackliff transitioning to a subscriber model at jerry rackliff.com my friend the program is yours well you know it uh for we've been doing this for about eight years uh at jerry rackliff dot com after I left the newspaper business, which is a dying industry for sure. I can't believe it's still alive, actually. And so we tried and tried and tried to make it work as a free website

so everybody could read it. That was my main desire. and depending solely on advertising to exist. And in today's climate, business climate, I just found it near impossible to continue to have consistent advertising month after month after month. It's just too inconsistent a way to try to make it. And for just a variety.

of reasons and decided to try to go in another direction. And just about everybody that I know of, including newspapers and most of the other websites that cover college and pro sports have gone to behind a paywall. And it's a subscriber-based business. And we decided to give that a try and see if it works better. so we can bring better coverage to people by just a better financial existence. And so that's where we are right now. We just started six days ago.

Thanks to your help and Judah's help. 245 subscribers already. Yeah. So I think it's a very encouraging start, and we want to build on that. and we were asking you humbly to join us and subscribe to our project. Jerry rackliff.com. Head over to Jerry rackliff.com, transition from Jerry rackliff.com and become a subscriber. He's producing content that you can find nowhere else. There's 245 people who have subscribed in the first six days upon launching this business model. Some examples. He had a podcast

that he did with Craig Little Page that depicted or showcased the behind the scenes of what led to Tony Bennett being hired at the University of Virginia. That's content that cannot be found anywhere else. He's got commentary. He's got analysis. He's got the transfer portal.

He's got notebooks. He's got Wahoos, where are they now? This is the type of content that does not exist anywhere else except inside the brain of a Virginia Sports Hall of Famer who's been on the beat for 50 plus years. Jerry Rackcliffe.com and the subscriber bottle, folks, transition over there and subscribe to the man's business. It's absolutely worth your dollar.

Now, a lot to cover on the program, including a loss to the Duke Blue Devils. We'll cover Wake Forest. We'll cover inside the Atlantic Coast Conference. Virginia's in the driver's seat to finish in the two seed in the regular season, which will put Virginia opposite Duke in the ACC tournament. Let's first talk about the Devils. What happened in Cameron on national television on Saturday at high noon?

It was certainly a blowout hooty. Well, a few things. And we talked about this in last week's show. First of all, you got to give credit to Duke because they had, I thought, a really good game plan and using their athletic and lengthy guards to run out to the three-point line. harass Virginia's shooters, which they did a good job of. And I think I said a few weeks ago, Jerry, I think this team will go as far as the three-point shots will take them.

I know Ryan Edda will probably disagree with that and say it's more about defense, but still, I still think this team's going to have to, a lot of their success is going to have to come from being able to light it up from the perimeter. And they were atrocious at that the other day. And the reason that's important is because when they're not making shots, that takes away the effectiveness of Derritter inside. He doesn't have room to operate. They can double team him.

Virginia's five guards against Duke were six. of 32 shooting, six of 32, and four of 24 from the three point line. And when that happens, it's going to be hard to beat anybody, let alone Duke on their home floor.

Renee, Pettiford's watching the program. Renee, we're going to get to your comments about Tony Bennett and the contract, the job, the new opportunity for Coach Bennett in Tinsletown with the Los Angeles Lakers. Jeremy Wilson is watching an eastern in Tennessee, six different states as of now watching the Jerry and Jerry show. Mr. Wilson says

exactly what Jerry Rackleff just said. Seven of 35 from beyond the arc. That was the difference in the game. For the most part, we contained Boozer and DeRitter was only two points behind him. But seven of 35 from bonus fear is why we lost the contest. I will highlight this. You from start to middle the season have been emphasizing the importance of UVA with its bonus fear shooting, It's long ball shooting. And I've said, Virginia is going to go deep in the postseason, depending on what it does from Bonifier. I am 100% on board with that analysis from you.

When Chance Mallory, when Sam Lewis, when Jacari White with Grunlow are stretching the floor, the Ritter has an opportunity to get to the post, finish around the rim, and face less double team and extra attention. They struggled from the floor against Dute. what did the devils do to limit Virginia's shooting from long range or was it Virginia just showed up super cold against the best team in the country? I think it was more Duke's defense. It was really good. And again, their guards have length and their guards are very athletic. And they ran Virginia either off the line or harassed their shots. They didn't get many easy looks. and when you start missing

and the other team keeps scoring then I think that puts a lot more pressure on you because you think well I got to make this shot or you know they're going to go down on the other end and score again and so I think it magnifies the problem

and we talked about this last week and I've covered I used to cover Duke in North Carolina and some of those schools long before I came to Charlottesville. And I've covered games at Duke throughout my career, even in Charlottesville. It's one of the toughest places to play in America. And part of it is the environment. It seats 10,000.

They're on top of you? They're on top of you, big time. The fans are closer to the court there than anywhere, particularly their students. who line up one entire side of the court. And they're vocal and they're organized and they know how to put pressure on teams that are not performing well. And if you get off to a slow start

or if Duke gets on runs and you fall behind and you're struggling, it only intensifies the pressure on you because you feel it. You can't help to feel it. You're human. And it's so difficult to come back in there. That's why they've won, what, they're 62 and 6th in their last few seasons at home.

I mean, who else has a record like that? And it's been going on for years. I remember distinctively one year UCLA was one of the top. teams in the country. They came into Cameron. I think it was Jimmy V's last game as a broadcaster because I remember walking out of the arena with him after the game and it took him 15 minutes to walk maybe 50 yards. He was in that bad a condition. But the UCLA coach got thrown out of the game because he thought if they were getting jobbed and maybe they were but it's a pressure-packed environment that is like none other that I've ever been around and I've

been in a lot of arenas in this country and if things start snowballing on you there's not much you can do so you know it was an experience they put it behind them and as Ryan Odom said yesterday day he learned a long time ago from his father, Dave, that a lot of times it's when you play a team and where you play a team and to play Duke in late February with everything on the line it's it's tough it's tough if you play it's a different deal than playing Duke in December early December or late December and maybe if you play him again on a neutral floor, things are a little different. Or if you play them at your home,

maybe things are different. But that's just something that you have to live with and forget about it, learn from it, and go back about your business and playing the way you were before because you were playing pretty darn good before that. Well said. I mean, really viewers and listeners

and Virginia basketball fans, this is the only drubbing that Virginia has endured this season. We can make a legitimate argument. They should have beaten Virginia Tech, and a legitimate argument, a very legitimate argument, they should have beat North Carolina.

They were up double digits in the first half against the Tar Heels and then collapsed in the second half. Virginia Tech, yes, there were some missed shots. Yes, a little flat offensively. The refereeing was poor. UVA should have beat Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. They'll have a chance at redemption.

But this is the first drumming. that UVA has endured, and it happened against maybe the ACC coach of the year, certainly the ACC player of the year, the ACC freshman of the year, maybe the number one draft pick and the draft, the NBA draft, if not the top pick, a top four pick. I don't know. Did you leave him even more impressed with Boozer after what you saw on Saturday? I certainly did. Yeah, I thought he was everything that we've been led to believe that he is.

I thought Virginia did a pretty good job against him overall. They held him without a fuel goal in the first half, although he did go to the free throw line a lot because they were being very physical. But, you know, you mentioned Duke pounding in Virginia. You know, after Duke knocked off number one Michigan on a neutral floor in D.C. a couple of weeks ago, they went to Notre Dame and pounded them 90 some points and they pounded Virginia they pounded

NC State last night Duke is playing at a really high level right now so I'm not sure that Virginia has anything to be embarrassed about I agree 100% agree and it's a chance to get back in the wind column against wake force tonight 14 and a half point favorites we'll get to that contest at this point of the season who's your ACC coach of the year well I I think it's going to clearly be between three people, John Shire, Ryan Odom, and Jai Lucas from Miami. I have a hard time voting against Odom because I know Shire and Shoshchewski used to be sort of penalized for being good as well. But if you have that kind of talent, you're supposed to win and win big. And, you know, that happens.

I tend to go for the guy who wasn't supposed to be there and did a hell of a coaching job, bringing a team together and putting them in contention. And what Ryan Odom has done in his first year at Virginia, putting together a completely brand-new roster and getting them to 25 wins, I'm going to vote for him. I just think what he's done is remarkable.

And I appreciate what John Shire has done. But again, it wasn't a surprise that he did what he did. And Lucas at Miami's done pretty much the same thing. They were atrocious last year, and he's put together a new roster and done well. but I would have to lean toward Ryan Odom. I know a lot of people want to go with Shire, and he may win it, but I'd vote for Ryan Odom.

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If you have a question, put it in the feed. and we will relay it live on air to Jerry Rackleff, who's approaching his 53rd straight ACC basketball tournament. Ladies and gentlemen, the Wake Forest Stephen Deacons are a 14.5 point underdog right now. The John Paul Jones Arena is, I would imagine, is going to be quite lively. Virginia, if they get this win,

they're 26 and 4 overall after the win, should it win, should UVA win, and 14 and 3 in ACC play, open-ended question wait for us uvae tonight seven o'clock ac c network where would you like to go well i think uh virginia just needs to get back to playing virginia basketball and they didn't do that saturday for a number of reasons but and ryan even though we talk about the offense and the shooting ryan was most disappointed in the rebounding and the defense it just wasn't they were substandard to what he's become accustomed to expect.

I'm sure that's been a point of emphasis in practice leading up to tonight. Wake Forest is a team that if you don't bring your A game, they can jump up and bite you. They have an interesting offense. They run a lot of different actions. They have a guy who's probably made the biggest jump from his freshman to sophomore year. of anybody in the ACC for sure, and maybe in the country, a kid named Duke Harris, 6-7 sophomore guard, he's averaging 21 points a game.

He's increased his scoring average about 15 points between last year and this year. He's got 29 straight games of at least 10 points. and the difference in his scoring last year and this year is the difference in his scoring last year and this year is tops in the nation raising his average by 15 points and he he can light it up I mean he's a really good player and they have a couple of other guys that are good too

Miles Colvin 6-5 junior guard who scored 32 points points in a win over Syracuse recently over the weekend. And then Harris, even though Wake lost at Boston College last week, he scored 38 points in that loss. It's the first time a Wake Forest player scored 38 points since 2008. So those are two guys you're going to have to deal with. and put some, slap some defense on them and see what happens. But it's a game that you can't afford to lose. And with everything on the line for Virginia, as you mentioned earlier,

wrapping up the two-seed and getting a double buy in the ACC tournament, it's a big deal. And that could lock it up tonight if they beat Wake Forest as they're supposed to. Southie Bagwell's giving you some props. Southie. Southie says, great job as always, Hootie. Great job as always, Jerry.

He's a long-time Twitter follower, and we appreciate his support, for sure. It always makes good observations. So, you know, Steve Forbes was very complimentary of Ryan Odom last night talking about what a great job he did in constructing this roster. And he thinks that Virginia is one of the better teams in the country. I mean, Will Wade, the NC State head coach,

did he call UVA a Final Four team? He said they could be in the Final Four. And I don't know if I would go that far because Virginia hasn't proven at this point that they can beat an elite team. team and they haven't had many shots at playing elite teams. You'd say they've had one shot? Pretty much. It's the Duke, right?

Yeah. I mean, I don't call, do we call North Carolina elite? I don't think they're elite this year. I don't think they're elite this year either. They're a good team, but that's about it. Yeah, I don't think Miami's elite. No. Louisville wasn't a...

Texas, Louisville, not elite. Miami, Florida State, not elite. Yeah. All really good teams. Yeah. But they haven't played any of the powerhouses that are above them in the rankings. Right. So right now I'm thinking Sweet 16 for this team, but they've got some things to prove.

One of my favorite parts of the basketball tournament, my wife and I talk about this. She's a diehard Yukon fan. She went to, she's a Yukon Husky grad. And in a tournament setting, anything can happen because it's not. a series, best of seven, best of five, whatever it is. You just have to win one game. Right. You can get hot and in college basketball, crazy things happen. Well, we've seen crazy things happen with this program over the years. 100%. 100%. If Virginia gets hot, if a Jacari White gets hot, Sam Lewis gets hot,

Chance Mallory gets hot, this team could be really, really, really good. And we're talking about the three-pointer again. Well, a three-pointer again. And you've been on point about this, for weeks. If this team gets cold, this team can struggle to score. Well, yeah, that's what happened in some recent years

when they lost to people like Ohio and Furman and people that they weren't supposed to lose to because they couldn't score. Right. And the recipe is extremely obvious here. The defensive scouting report is obvious

is do not let DeRitter beat you in the post. Make them shoot the long ball. And I think the... He's at the top of every scouting report. 100%. And I think the film, the tape, is without question out after the Duke game.

So defenses, opposing coaches, opposing programs, will see what happen. Now, most teams don't have the kind of guard play that Duke has and can play that kind of intense defense. so they're limited in what they can do. They can still attempt to do that and I hope that Virginia's having a bad night. But Virginia won't face that kind of defense again until, you know,

somewhere in the ACC tournament. Jamie Morris is watching the program on Twitter. On your Twitter feed, he says this is a fantastic show. I toggled over to Jamie Morris's Twitter. profile and the description of him. I absolutely love J.B. Morris. It says, God, family, friends, Ryan Odom, and the Wahoos, the Cowboys, the Yankees, and hunting. I'm not a Cowboys fan, nor my Yankees fan. I don't hunt much either, but God, family, friends, and Ryan Odom and the Wahoos early in the description with a Virginia V. Sabers logo, and it looks like his son on the pitching mound

in a high school baseball uniform. That's all right by me. Jamie Morrison. We appreciate you watching the show. Absolutely. Wake Forest, and then the regular season, the regular season is on the very near closure here. Virginia

has got a Deeks team that it should I mean, I'll cut to the chase, it should cruise through. Then it's got a regular season outing against everyone knows who. And a rematch that I

think everyone knows is going to be quite a bit on the line with a lot of bitterness in its mouth. Unfortunately, that's a 12 o'clock tip off on Saturday. On your favorite network? On the worst network of all time, the CW network. What do you make of Wake Force in Virginia Tech to close, Hootie? I think Virginia should sweep. Me too. I like both the coaches. I like Steve Forbes, and I like Mike Young, they're both really good people, really good coaches. They're having difficult years, particularly at Wake. They're barely over 500. Virginia Tech is bubolicious right now.

They're trying to fight their way onto the end of the tournament. I don't know if they're going to make it or not, but certainly a win over Virginia would help them if they're right there on that cut line. So they'll come in here with a fury and knowing that they have beaten these guys before, even though it took a couple overtimes to do it, but they'll come in here with their hair on fire, I would imagine. So it won't be an easy afternoon for Virginia.

Virginia's going to have to bring a day game to put that one away. Then the ACC tournament. Put it in perspective the ACC tournament, what it means to you, and where it stacks up with one of the best sporting events that are out there. Well, it used to be. As you know, for years until the tournaments started expanding and everything, it used to be only the champion. It didn't matter where you finished in the regular season.

If you didn't win the ACC tournament, you didn't go to the NCAA tournament. And there was so much pressure on every coach and every game because, you know, at that point there was only seven or eight teams in the league. And so anybody thought, hey, all we've got to do is string together three games and we're in the NCAA tournament. Virginia, 1976, is the best example of that, knocking off three ranked teams and three nights. some of those guys are going to be getting together this weekend, I think, to celebrate that championship. But it used to be, I mean, you think it's pressure now. It was multiply that by 100. There were so many great teams that got left out of the NCAA tournament because they couldn't win the ACCC tournament championship.

So it used to be so much drama and so much. pressure and so much on the line. It's been watered down over the years by expansion of the conference and then expansion of the NCAA field. So it's nothing like it used to be. It's still fun and I think this year it'll be more fun because the league is better and there'll be more interesting games. The past few years it just seems like a lot of people were just going through the motions because for the most part you knew it was going to be Duke or Carolina in the end. Sometimes Virginia was able to sneak in there and then we had a we had one of those freaky moments with the NC State a couple of years ago.

That pushed them to the what the final four right? Yeah they got made it all the way the final four but make me an argument that Duke is not the slam-dug favorite to win. Well, um, kind of hard to do that because they're going to be playing in Charlotte. There's going to be tons of Duke fans there for every game. They don't have to travel very far. They're going to be in familiar territory.

They're going to be having tons of support. It will be somewhat of a neutral floor, not totally. But they've had some of their struggles. instances like that before. So there are enough good teams in this league if they get hot, they could beat Duke on a neutral court, even though it's really not that neutral.

It's more neutral than Cameron, for sure. I mean, Virginia, excuse me, of Florida State, if they would get hot, Miami, if they would get hot, Carolina. We've seen what, you know, they beat Duke earlier. So, and they'll have a lot of fans in Charlotte as well. But it's not a foregone conclusion that Duke will win it, although it's improbable that somebody will beat them.

Because they're playing really good basketball. They're playing phenomenal, but they, I've watched a lot of Duke of Lane. Anybody can have a bad game. 100%. 100% agree with that. 100% agree with that. Savannah Bowen, thank you for sharing the show.

We appreciate you. Renee Peddeford says she loves the CW. The only thing I think we've ever disagreed on, Renee Petterford, CW. I still love you, Renee Petterford, although I've never met you. I feel like I know you. I think she's watching it. Did you say North Carolina? Charlotte?

I think she's in Durham. Durham. James Madison is watching in Mineral, Virginia. William McChesney, the mayor of McIntyre, watching the program. Viewers and listeners, put your comments in the feed while relay. I'm live on air. I've watched a lot of Duke of late. Duke beat Michigan. Boozer was in foul trouble and he's still essentially finished darn near close to a triple double. Yeah. I think he did have a triple double. Did he have a triple double. He does so many things well.

I was impressed in the UVA matchup. It was clear Virginia's strategy was to be extremely physical with Bozer because they had a Ugo they have Ugo, they have Grunlow, they have DeRitter, they have big Tillis, yeah, Tillis matched up they have four big guys that they could throw at Booser

and that's 20 fouls and they were prepared to use them. Yeah. Boozer goes to the free throw line shoots the free throw extremely well. Punishes UVAs like you want to be physical with me, okay, your guys are

The Ritter's going to get in foul trouble, and I'm going to shoot darn near close to 100% from the strike. He starts the fast break with a bunch of outlet passes. He's a fantastic distributor of the basketball, especially in the post when he gets double team. He can step behind a three-point line and shoot it. I mean, the kid just... He can drive it. He can drive it. I mean, he's so fluid and such a three-level scorer, and he plays defense, and he got hit in the eye.

I thought for a second, like, that's a serious eye injury. Goes talks with the trainer. I was swelling. Yeah. They showed it. You could see the lid was swelling. Gets up three or four minutes later, says, put me back in the game. I was just like, this guy is...

Minally tough. Yeah. I mean, you're looking at the national player of the year for a second consecutive year from Duke, both freshmen. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah, years ago you would have never seen something like that. Yeah, from the same school, both freshmen, national player of the year. I don't know if that's ever happened.

I don't think that has ever happened. Not to my memory. Yeah. And to Hootie's point, it's going to take a lot for Duke not to win the ACC basketball tournament, but the beautiful thing about a tournament is anyone can get red hot. I got this question for you. How wide is the gap between Virginia basketball, and the top 10 teams in the country.

It's pretty wide between Virginia and Duke, but not everybody has the personnel that Duke has, but I'd say there's definitely a gap, definitely a chasm there. And I don't know the personnel that well of all the top 10 teams, but, you know, Virginia is not that far off, but there's definitely a gap there.

I think a lot of those people have some one-and-duns on their rosters. I don't know that Virginia necessarily has that. So it's hard to put a label or a number on it, but there's definitely a gap in there. And I think part of it is Virginia's probably going to have to play teams like that to advance their program. And it used to be you could do it within your own conference, but the rest of the conference hasn't caught up to that at this point. The conference is better, but you're not facing a top 10 team or even a top 15.

team very often. So some of these people have advantages of playing teams of that ilk on a more regular basis and testing themselves and pushing themselves to a different level. So I don't know exactly what it's going to take for them to get there, but considering where Virginia is in only one year, I would think that they can make some strides in the stay of NIL to close that gap. Comments coming in quickly. This one is from Mark Brown.

He says Virginia seems to have big, big problems with big athletic guards. Florida State showed that. Duke showed that. Duke also shot the ball well. If Duke shoots like that, they are unbeatable. Duke gets a team of five-star. and it showed against us. Oh, yeah, no question.

How about the comment about the big athletic guard? Yeah, and he made a very good point, and we pointed out that out that was one of the big problems was the way they were able to use that to their advantage defensively. And, you know, Virginia's guards are good, but they're not the most athletic guards in the world, and they're not, they don't have the most length. They have more length than some teams, but not that kind that Duke has.

But that's certainly something that is correct. And we talked about that earlier in the show, that they use that length and athleticism to bother Virginia's guards who are a little bit slower and not quite as big. and not quite as athletic. So if they run into teams like that, they can struggle. Who's Virginia's best perimeter defender? Is it Hall? Probably Hall, yeah.

Yeah. I think Hall's Virginia's best perimeter defender as well. Mallory's pretty good, too. Does Mallory get overpower size-wise? Sometimes, not very often, because I think he uses his, ability to get low leverage to be able to take some things away from other guards. He gets into them and doesn't give them as much room to operate as they would like.

But I think Hall overall is that guy. Eastern Tennessee's Jeremy Wilson. How is the basketball recruiting shaking out for next year? Or is this strictly a portal reliance every year? This is a question I have As a follow-up to that Yeah I mean they bring guys in

But They don't have any commitments For next year Certainly things will They didn't sign anybody in the early signing period In November They lose hall Exhausted eligibility

Tillis Tillis I think is gone The Ritter's got one Thomas is gone Yep Derritter's got one left. I would think as of now Derritter comes back.

Hugo is gone. Hugo's gone, yeah. That may be it. Yep, that's it. Chance is back, we hope. I would think he would be. I would think so, yeah.

Sam Lewis, we hope. I think he'll be back. Derritter and Grunlow. Jacari Has another year, right? Does Jakari have another? I think he does. Viewers, enlisters, let us know that.

How do you remake the team? Is it through portal? That's got to happen now? I think so. Yeah. I think that's the way to go now because you can get guys that you don't have to develop.

They already know what college basketball is all about. Most of them have proven themselves on at least the mid-major level and some of them on a high major level. So you've got the money, why not spend it? And I think that's the way to go now because that's what most schools are doing. If you can get a couple of players to complement your roster out of the high school ranks and bring them along, you might find somebody that can contribute immediately, but the chances of that are seem to be narrowing.

But I think the portal is the way to go. Lord and Ivy helping us out here. This is Chari White's last year. Okay. I was thinking he might have another year. So you're looking chance, Sam Lewis, the Ritter, who's got one year left, Grunlow. And Grunlow.

I think that's it. Elijah Gertrude. Yeah. Limited time for Gertrude this year. Carrera. Yeah, limited time. And Barksdale, who was redshirted this year. That's right.

Committed to VCU, followed Odom to UVA. Barksdale's got upside. Right. But they're going to have to reimagine this roster here. How about this question that's come in? This is from Georgia. Can you ask Jerry Rackcliffe what he thinks of, some of the other teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference

and whether they can make a deep run in the NCAA tournament or big North Carolina Tar Hill fans in our house. What's he think of the Tar Hill's chances? I think as long as they can get healthy and stay healthy, they have a good chance to make a run. I think Miami has a chance to do that. Virginia, obviously, I think, has a chance to do that. Florida State could possibly.

I don't know about Louisville. Louisville has been kind of disappointing of late. I thought when they got Brown in that they were going to become harder to be, but they've kind of taken a step back. I think SMU is a team that could win a game or two. Cal, if they continue to play well, is sneaky good. I think that's about it. But I think a lot of it, once you get into the tournament,

it's all about matchups and, you know, who's in your bracket. And who gets upset in front of you, that you might think you're going to play a really good team that gets knocked. off and all of a sudden you're playing somebody that you're better than, and you can take advantage of that. So, and, you know, again, a lot of it, if a coach can get his team to get hot at the right time and peak at the right time like NC State did a couple of years ago. I mean, they were dead in the water, and still if Tony Bennett had called that, that, that

one timeout and that late in that game, that would have finished state right there in the ACC tournament and instead they pull off the upset and make it all the way to the final four. So if you get hot and it's inexplicable, sometimes you just don't even see it coming, but teams can get hot and make a deep run that catches everybody off course. Renee Peddeford is eager to chat about Tony Bennett. She's always eager to talk about Tony Bennett. Los Angeles Lakers' new job, Renee, we love when you watch the program. You're one of our favorite fans here at the Jerry and Jerry show.

What do you make of the Tony Bennett news? What do you make of... She's wondering, does this mean he moves to L.A.? Does this mean he's spending more time in the NBA? Folks are asking, does this set him up for a job? in the NBA. I mean, this caught a lot of people off guard in Wahoo country. Yeah.

You know, he's still a young guy. I'm glad to see him getting back into basketball because, I mean, he has a great basketball mind, and he loves the game, obviously. I think he's going to help the Lakers front office a lot because they're, in terms of scouting and in terms of the draft process, because while they've done really well in free agency, their draft in recent years has not brought impact players in who can really make a difference over a consistent period of time.

So I think that's something that they feel like that they can do better with. and having somebody of Tony's expertise. Tony, it was interesting watching him over the years recruit because he had an uncanny knack for spotting guys that other people would ignore. And there would be something about that person that caught Tony's eye, and he felt confident that they could be successful.

in his system. For example? I think one of them was Key Hay Clark. Nobody wanted Key Hay Clark. Yeah. Five foot eight point card? Yeah.

Malcolm Brogden was not a highly recruited guy out of Atlanta when Virginia plucked him. Ty Jerome was a young guy that some people weren't sold on early. There's been others. I think maybe Parenthes was one. I'd have to go back and look through the roster, through the years, but he has a good eye for talent,

and I think he can help the Lakers in that regard. Whether that could eventually lead to a coaching job, I don't know. I don't know if Tony wants to get back into the coaching or not. I don't think he'll be leaving and moving. to Los Angeles. I don't think Tony is an L.A. kind of guy. But with today's technology, with Zoom and all that, I think he may have to go to L.A. every now and then for meetings or conferences or something, but I don't think this job would require him to move to La La Land.

I think this is an example of a guy who just loves basketball. Yeah, he does. Doesn't need the money. I bet you the money is extremely nice here. Yeah. And he's making a lot of money doing it, as he should be. He's one of the best basketball minds in the world, and he should be compensated for that IQ and that intellect.

But I think this really comes down to Tony Bennett missing the game of basketball. Yeah. I mean, it didn't make sense for him just to go into retirement at his age and not do anything except play tennis and golf. Exactly. And it doesn't make sense. do that so much. Right. And it doesn't make sense for him to land a job at another college program. No. Because he's a Virginia guy. And he'd be facing the same problems he faced here.

Exactly. So the NBA... The things that turned him off. Right. The NBA makes sense. Boatload of folks are wondering if this is the platform for a head coaching gig. Who knows? I mean, he could. He could definitely be an NBA coach. There's no question about it. I don't know his thoughts on that as to whether he would want to do that or if he would just like to play a lesser role in doing what he's been hired to do with the Lakers. But I mean, he could move into the front office. He could become an assistant general manager or a general manager or, you know, director of scouting or personnel.

I don't know if he would want all that on his table or not. I don't know if he wants to jump back into the rigors of coaching an NBA team because it's not just the pressure of coaching and coaching and trying to win. There's a lot of travel involved. in the NBA. I mean, you're on the road so much. I just don't know if that would be his cup of tea at this point in his life. Yeah, I totally agree with you.

I think it's a guy that just missed basketball. And here's a dose of basketball for him to kind of give him that dopamine that comes with a sport that's been his entire life. And you can't think of a better franchise to do it with than the Lakers. And you've got a superstar in Luca Donich. You could build around. You got money. I mean, you got notoriety.

I mean, you got prestige and history. If you're going to do it, you might as well do it with the Lakers, right? It's either the Lakers or the Celtics. Yeah. And if you're going to do it, if you're Tony Bennett. Anthony Esposito loves the program. Viewers and listeners are just giving props left and right on the broadcast here. A lot of people want football.

I want you to feed the football age for them, the football addiction. Yeah. You'd be a football hooty. Yeah, they're on the verge of starting spring practice. We'll be meeting with the coaches and players as we go along. I think they've already set their spring game for around mid-April. I had the opportunity last week of talking to a couple of the new players from the transfer portal. I spent some time with Lewis, the running back from Tennessee,

Tennessee viewed him as their next all-SCC running back. And he's from Salem, Virginia. He's a speedster. He has two years of eligibility remaining. He was one of several talented running backs that the balls had in their system. And we talked to him at length. I'll be doing a big story on him in the coming days. A lot of Virginia fans were really excited when he decided to come to Virginia.

Tony Elliott made a run at him back when Lewis, was a senior at Salem High School down in Roanoke. And he was courted by just about every SEC program that there is. He was ranked the number four running back in the nation by one of the recruiting services. So this guy's real. And not only is he has a nice physique,

but he's fast. is lightning. And that's the kind of guy that could help take Virginia's running game to maybe another level. Talking to Tony a couple of weeks ago, he was mentioning then that he understood why Lewis would have turned them down and gone to Tennessee because at that point, Virginia's program wasn't where Tony wanted it to be. envisioned it to be and at the point where he could attract guys like Lewis out of high school. But now it is.

Now that they've won 11 games, they've won the ACC regular season. They played in the Gator Bowl, won the Gator Bowl. And Lewis is hoping that some of the other, and it did happen to a couple of other guys. went elsewhere from the state of Virginia and now are coming back home to play for Virginia. So I think people will really love hearing his story that we'll be telling on the website in the coming days. Jerry Ratcliffe guys, Jerry Ratcliffe.com, Jerry Ratcliffe and Jerry Ratcliffe.com. What else is in the hopper? Who do you, Rackleaf?

We're going to be doing a blowout on Chance Mallory, a week of the ACC, tournament, some stuff about him that you don't know and probably would never know. But that will be following the team, obviously, starting to wiggle into spring football a little bit, as we said, covering the, we'll be having the coverage of the men and the women's basketball all teams and all the spring sports and some interesting podcasts I had. So pretty much anything you want is a Wahoo. Jerry Rackleff and Jeff Jones on the J&J show have Ryan Odom's wife. That's this week.

Lucia. On the J&J show. Yes, she's a wonderful lady. I don't know her well, but it's going to be great. hearing her thoughts on her husband and being a coach's wife and all the inner workings of that. I remember early in my career here in Charlottesville, I thought it would be kind of a neat story to find out what it's like being a coach's wife. And I remember interviewing Anne Holland and Sandra Welsh at the time and getting there. their perspectives.

And it was very eye-opening story, I thought. And I think Lucio, it's probably a little easier on Coach's wives now because I don't think they have to sit in the crowd if they don't want to. Or if they do, they can sit right behind their husband or nearby. I'm not sure where she sits, but Sandra used to have to sit into the stands. And she couldn't stand some of the Virginia fans because, they weren't into it like she was. And she asked for her and her family to be moved to that outdoor area of Brian Hall.

It was like a picnic patio area so she could make all the noise she wanted to. I mean, you think about it, if you're Ryan Odom's better, half everywhere this man's gone, he's won. You may want to sit in the crowd. Well, that's true. I mean, he's got a 6503 win percentage. Ryan. And to put in perspective what it's like being a coach's wife, he's a grad assistant, probably not married then, but grad assistant in South Florida from 96 to 97. He's an assistant at Furman from 97 to 99. He's an assistant at UNC Asheville from 99 to 2000. An assistant at American

from 2000 to 2003. An assistant under Greenberg at Virginia Tech for a lot of years, 2003 to 2010. an assistant associate head coach at Charlotte from 2010 to 2015, interim head coach at Charlotte. Then he goes to Eleanor Rhine where he's the head coach for a year. UMBC from 2016 to 2021, Utah State from 2021 to 2023, VCU from 23 to 25 and now in Charlottesville. Marry a coach and see the world. You're talking about nomadic right there.

That's the life of most coaches. The life of most coaches indeed, hooty. That podcast is going to be something you don't want to miss. Jerry Rackcliffe, Jerry Rackleff.com. We encourage you the viewer and listener to subscribe to the new business model at jerry rackliff. com where you're going to get content that no one else is producing, folks. Jerry Hootie Rackleff is 53rd ACC tournament on the horizon. Support the content because the content is the best of the best.

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