The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Sources Say Golubuff Potential UVA Prez Candidate; Goluboff On Shortlist With UVA BOV, Sources Say

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: Sources Say Golubuff Is Potential UVA Prez Candidate Risa Goluboff On Shortlist With UVA BOV, Sources Say Goluboff First Female UVA Law School Dean In History Sources Say Scott Beardsley’s Days Numbered As Prez Pros & Cons Of Risa Goluboff Hire As UVA Prez If Beardsley Loses His Job, What Will His Legacy Be? AlbCo Taxes, CVille City Roads & Local Govt Right Now If You Need CVille Office Space, Contact Jerry Miller Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on a snowy, still snowy, icy Tuesday in downtown Charlottesville. I live in Ivy, my family and I, and I made the commute from, you know, just past, you know, close to the Greencroft Club, just past the Borshead and Ivy to downtown Charlottesville where our studio is located. The primary roads are fine. $250 was good. Our neighborhood, the side street, was average. There is a number of neighborhoods on my commute from Ivy to downtown Charlestville that still are untouched. My wife and I busted our tails over the last 72 hours in change, cleaning and clearing our driveway, working in shifts, working together, putting our third grader to work, clearing the road.

yesterday was by far the hardest. As you know, the driveway had frozen and iced over, but we got it clear, and the asphalt is showing in our house. And that asphalt radiates heat and is keeping the driveway clear for folks that did not clear their driveway over the last three or four days. Or for the folks that had VDOT or Charlott personnel plow their cars or their driveways or their sidewalks in, the process of clearing the roads, the offshoot of the plows, trapping vehicles and driveways, it's going to be days before people are able to commute around this city. I parked in the Market Street garage this morning because the city of Charlottesville is offering free parking in the garage until 9 a.m. tomorrow Wednesday. And ladies and gentlemen, walking from the Market Street garage

to our building, the Macklin building, where I sit right now, it's less than half a block away. It was treacherous getting out of the garage down market street and up and on the sidewalk and into our studio treacherous as the plows have created mountains or like not mountains but like barriers ice barriers all over the sidewalks i this is this is normal for anyone that lives around snow okay judith says this is normal this may be normal for maine this may be normal for minnesota he's he's certainly right certainly not in commonplace in charlesville And right now it is ghost town and crickets in downtown Seaville. All right, we got a lot.

We got a cover on the show. I'm not throwing shade on anyone. I'm saluting the people that are running the plows, that are salting and treating the roads, that are getting the roads in condition to drive, props to them. I would not want that job. Props to them. I'm just highlighting the fact that it was not easy-peasy today getting in around town. And as a result, there's few people out there.

A lot we're going to cover. on the show today. I want to welcome a new partner to the show. Stanley Martin Holmes is a part of the program right now. We thank Stanley Martin Holmes for being a part of the show. Quality and luxury, craftsmanship, you know, just some of the top neighborhoods built around Charlottesville, Almaro and Central Virginia, the team at Stanley Martin Holmes. More from them as this partnership progresses throughout 26, but thank you to Stanley Martin for being a part of the show. This is the water cooler of content and conversation

for Charlottesville, Almore County, the University of Virginia, and beyond. And I think you may have seen that with what I published about 17 hours ago on the I Love Seville Network, and our network for the new viewers and listeners that are a part of the show now, since I made this publishing, since I published this report with two anonymous sources as the foundation for the report, report about former University of Virginia School of Law Dean, Risa Gullabuff, being on the shortlist

as a potential candidate to replace Scott Beardsley as the 11th president of the University of Virginia. That report's gone viral. I've had traditional media from print and television reach out to me in direct message capacity. And the traditional media from print and television that reached out to me in direct message capacity was asking for my notes on the story. I even had one individual ask for my sources. And I straight up said to the print and television that reached out to me,

you can check my reporting, my analysis, what we published yesterday for the information. That's what I stand by. My sources are none of your business. What I felt comfortable offering the world is what I published on the I Love Ceeville, network, and that's that. That was my response. It was in respectful fashion. I understand they're just doing their job, but I will not reveal our sources, and that's how we get the information

we get, which we pass along to you. Golobov is seasoned, is respected, is dynamic, is qualified. she is the first female law school dean at the University of Virginia in the school's history. Goodness gracious, think about the degrees she has on the wall at our house. She's got a bachelor's from Harvard, a history and sociology degree from Harvard. She's got a law degree from Yale. She's got a PhD from Princeton. I mean, this is the type of accolades. academic criteria that you see at the pinnacle of presidential profession at universities and colleges.

One of the sources said to me yesterday, and you'll get a kick out of how I wrote this story yesterday. I was legitimately sledding with our third grader, our seven-year-old in Ivy. We were the only people out on this pretty significantly tall hill, and my boy and I were having a blast. I get a text message from a source who says, please call me, no rush, give me a call. I have something I want to chat with you about. I am on a hill, in my snow clothes, North Face, beanie on, gloves on,

take my glove off as our seven-year-old is doing a run on the sled by himself. He and I were doing the sled together. I was doing it. He does it by himself. It's a significant hymn. So I have 10 or 15 minutes to talk to this individual as our seven-year-old is sledding down and climbing back up the hill. And he passes on to me the news, and I said this is fascinating. I immediately started jotting down notes while putting the phone on speaker and opening the notes app on my phone.

And I said, I appreciate you passing on this information to me. I need to confirm this with another source who is asking. connected as anyone I know, and I will then be back in touch with you to verify the veracity or the legitimacy of your intel. I then put a phone call in with our second contact. I followed up with a text message. I get a phone call back about an hour later as I'm getting off the hill sledding with our son, and when I get that phone call back an hour later, the second source confirms everything that the first source said, and then the second source, second source added to the intel by saying this, quote,

Gulaboff is a potential candidate on a very short list currently being considered by the UVA Board of Visitors. She is at top the list right now at the very top right now. So the first source who reaches out to me offers Intel. I then take that intel and reach out to a second source that is as connected as anyone I know. that second source confirms the intel from the first source without me divulging the name of the first source, just providing the intel to the second one. The second one says,

I have heard that to be true, and here's additional color on what's happening. I then provide that second source, additional color and intel to the first source, thanking him for the knowledge and saying, here's what's going on. First source then says to me, sounds like you have something that's very meritable for you to run on.

I then take a moment to digest this as we're walking into our home in Ivy and start opening my phone up, the Notes app, and start pumping away what ended up being an hour of reporting literally done on my iPhone 17. My background before launching this company 18 years ago was as a print, television, and radio broadcaster, reporter, and commentary where we've won Virginia Press Awards. that hour and change of writing a story on my iPhone 17 while we're coming into the house from sledding. That's a first in my time in creating content. I published this content on the I Love Seville Network, which consists of every social media platform possible. Ladies and gentlemen, very humbly, the I Love Seville Network is reaching more people in the entire region than any brand or platform except the University of Virginia. And it's not even close. we're in a second place position by a mile over the third place position.

It's not even close. I published this content and it goes viral. It goes viral because this is a lightning rod topic right now and amongst UVA alumni, amongst UVA faculty, amongst the residents and taxpayers and community members in Charlestville, Almaro, Central Virginia, across the Commonwealth and beyond. Frankly, this is in a lot of ways, a lightning rod issue for Republicans and Democrats, for activists and leftists and MAGA Republicans

and folks that are very right wing. Abigail Spamberger has come into office as the first, as the first female governor in Commonwealth of Virginia history, and she already has made significant, depending on how you look at it, progress or significant the opposite of progress, the Republicans how they would describe it? Backsliding? Backsliding? Collateral damage?

Since she's come into office, five board of members, five board of visitor members have resigned under pressure. Spamberger asked for their resignation. Those five delivered. We told you this was going to happen before it happened. We told you this was going to happen, ladies and gentlemen. We also explained that Spamberger was going to go after Beardsley.

We are very much hearing that Spamberger is going to go after the Department of Justice contract at the University of Virginia signed under interim President Paul Mahoney, that that contract is next once a new president is in play. The new president is not going to be in play. We're being told until the General Assembly, which is Democrat-controlled, approves the 10 appointments Spamberger has made to the Board of Visitors. Once these 10 appointments are approved, which is just a matter of time, she's a Democrat, the Democrats control the General Assembly.

Once these 10 appointments are approved, Spamberger has total control over the Board of Visitors, and it's by the letter of the law seen as a legitimate board. What they're going to do, the Democrats, and this newly minted, this freshly minted board of visitors, Abigail Spanberger, they're going to say Beardsley was appointed, was hired as president in a capacity that was not statutorily legitimate because there was not enough members on the board,

not enough Virginians on the board. Now the Republicans are going to push back. Of course there were not enough Virginians and there were not enough members on the B.O.V. The Democratic-led General Assembly kept that from happening. But that was a chess move made, you know, months ago by the General Assembly. When the General Assembly started keeping a Ken Cuccinelli or some of these Glenn Yonkin appointments kept them from being approved, that was months ago foreshadowing that the General Assembly realized

that Spamberger was a huge favorite to win the Governor's Mansion. And if they could basically cock block the appointment. from getting on the B-O-V, that they would then come January or February of 2026, be able to use that cock-block maneuver to then influence the B-O-V, the presidential hire, and the Department of Justice contract that was signed by Inter-President Paul Mahoney. This is a pretty significant story that's just getting started. I'm going to go to studio camera, please. Well, we've Judah Wickhauer in on a two-shot. I'd like to give some props to a partner of the show. Sir Speedy Central Virginia, Judah, locally owned, operated by Conan Owen of Sir Speedy Central Virginia. Conan Owen is a Darden graduate. He owns Sir Speedy Central Virginia.

We have 24 tenants in our real estate portfolio, 24 doors we own. Those 24 doors, the signage needs for the commercial tenants are done by Sir Speedy, Central Virginia. He's also done the vinyl lettering on the I Love Seville Studio, the banner directly, behind us and the signage marquee that's in the lobby of the building where we own roughly a third of. We trust Conan Owen of Surveedia Central Virginia with our money. I vouch for him to the point where I'm spending my money with his firm because he delivers Conan Owen, Sirfedia Central Virginia. Two shot Judah Wickhauer. Risa Goloboff is season, its experience. She's credentialed. She's the first few.

female dean in UVA law school history. She is, I mean, goodness gracious, she is, after graduating law school clerk for Judge Goudio Calabrese of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Byer, she did as well. I mean, you, as the second source said, these are the academic credentials of a university president. Okay. Scott Beardsley, and you jump in here, Scott Beardsley's credential. He's a three-term dean of the Darden School. Scott Beardsley's a talented fundraiser.

Scott Beardsley's got a background of the corporate world, okay? You wouldn't necessarily say Scott Beardsley's got an academic background. You would say he's a three-term dean of the Darden School and a fantastic fundraiser, but you would not necessarily call Beardsley an academic. Yeah, but just to- Well, if it's an academic. Just to argue the other side of it. Please.

Was John Castine an academic? I find that hard to believe. Well, we should look up John Castine's credentials. Yeah, I don't know the credentials of all the presidents of UVA. I mean, that's a, you just throwing John Castine in the, why you bring up John Castine like that? He earned a BA, an M.A., and a Ph.D., in English from the University of Virginia. I mean, pushing back on what you said, Castine was born in point.

Fort Smith, Virginia in 1943, Castine earned a BA, a master's, and a PhD, three degrees in English from the University of Virginia. He began his professional career teaching English at the University of Cal Berkeley, and later at the University of Virginia. From 1975 to 1982, John Castine served as Dean of Admissions at the University of Virginia. He resigned to serve as Virginia Secretary of Education under Governor Charles Robb from 1982 to 1985 while serving as secretary he taught as a professor at VCU. I would respectfully in respectful capacity push back that John Castine was not an academic. Okay. Respectfully pushed back. You can make

this argument and I've seen this argument made and I don't want to speak for Judah. I do not identify as a Republican. I do not identify as a Democrat. I don't identify as left. I don't identify as right. I'm not a protester or an activist. I'm not MAGA. All I do is talk about stuff that's happening around here and try to figure out what's going on. I am so alienated by politics locally. I feel polarized by politics locally, regionally, and nationally, okay? Literally alienated by this two-party system.

I identify as someone that has common sense that are center-iled on most issues. Okay? That's how I identify on things. I just look at things on a common-sense lens. I understand this argument. This is the argument that is currently out there against Risa. And one of these days, I'm going to have your last name locked in, and I'm doing you a disservice.

Goluboff, okay? The argument against Risa Gullaboff being on the short list and as a potential candidate, the top, the shortlist, as we've been told, as the next president at the University of Virginia, is you're just trading one dean for another dean, the dean of the Darden School for the dean of the law. school. This is nothing but political maneuvering and political malpractice. That's an argument against Risa Gullaboff right now. Anywhere you want to go. Have she shown any proficiency in raising money?

I mean, that is kind of the primary goal of the UVA president, is not really to be an administrative, I mean, an academic, because they're not teaching. They're overseeing the school. They're making decisions. I think in that respect, I don't know about. her, I don't know about her fundraising, bona fides, but, I mean, they both seem to have, you know, they both seem to have what it takes in terms of, you know, in terms of being the deans of, respectively, the Darden Business School and the Law School. It's funny you asked that question. John Blair's photo on screen, please.

John Blair, number two in the family, a super smart guy. Last night on the I Love Seville Network, John Blair has this to say about the news linking Risa Goluboff to the UVA presidency. Jerry, this is very interesting what you're reporting. One notable aspect of Risa Golobov's tenure at the University of Virginia, the law school, jumped from the eighth best law school in America to the fourth best law school per U.S. News and World Report. More interestingly, John Blair says, the law school endowment nearly double. during her tenure. As you know, the job of university president is probably 75% about glad handing and raising money. So she certainly brings fundraising talent to the role. And John Blair adds this. Another interesting aspect of this potential hire, Jim Ryan graduated from UVA law.

Paul Mahoney is a law professor. Beardsley was a Darden Dean. And this potential hire is a former law school dean. It's been sent for years that North Grounds was a a different world than the rest of UVA. Looking at recent and perhaps future presidential hires, I think that's a real angle to this story. I look forward to your analysis as always. John Blair, smart man, John Blair. Very smart man.

We appreciate those comments. I want to add this. This was something that was pointed out to me by the first source. Okay? The first source pointed this out to me. the four of the 10 appointments and by the way John Blair a graduate of the UVA law school okay

undergraduate UVA law school graduate UVA John Blair okay I want to point this out to you the first source who called me who I spoke to on the phone while sledding with our seven year old son said this is what's out there yeah very legitimate and said, offered additional color to me. He goes, as you know, and this is public record,

10 appointments were made by Abigail Spanberger to the Board of Visitors. Of those 10, four of them are University of Virginia law school graduates. And he made that point to me as a suggestion, these four that are University of Virginia law school graduates are extremely aware with this potential candidate, Risa Goluboff and her criteria, her resume, her CV, her abilities, her talents, her fundraising,

her diplomacy, everything. Now, I got this message from number one in the family. This is from Deep Throat, number one in the family. His photo on screen. Deep Throat had some interesting commentary yesterday. He said, Risa as president, question mark, immediately responded in direct message capacity to me, deep throat dead after I published this last night on the Isle of Seville Network.

So here are his words. Risa as president, I was at college with her. She was a high school friend of my college girlfriend. Know her husband and her son very well. Her son was my kids camp counselor for several years. She is whip smart, also very progressive, which should be interesting with the Donald Trump administration. Here's a fun fact. Her husband wrote a really good article on problems with the yes in my backyard yimbi obsession with zoning, which got him roasted by livable Seaville in other

national yimbies. He also said, well, I would say that she is eminently qualified and super smart, but may well be the kind of candidate that pisses off the Trump administration. She can certainly think rings around the likes of Jim Ryan. And I I can say that her husband and son are both very, very good guys. I want to add some more color to what's going on. My inbox, my cell phone, my direct messages are being bombarded right now. Literally bombarded right now by people in the know. The signal app, which I use to communicate when it's really sensitive information with people in positions of power,

the notifications on my signal app right now show a less. notifications since the show is started on my signal app. Ladies and gentlemen, we have watching the program right now, multiple UVA Board of Visitors members. I can see them watching the show. I can see them watching the show, as is someone tied to Scott Beardsley's office who watches the show on the regular, ladies and gentlemen.

There's so much I want to cover on the program here. Viewers and listeners, put your comments in the feed, and I'm going to relay them live. on air as we're legitimately driving the new cycle here. I want to throw this to you, Judah. You're ready for this? When the 239 pages, and there's lower thirds that we should rotate on screen, we are going to get

to Beardsley's legacy in a matter of moments. But when the Jefferson Council, Freedom of Information Act requested, and then collected and then published, the 239 pages that were tied to a third party law firm, Williams and Conley, their report, their analysis of what was going on with the University of Virginia health system scandal. Yeah. Okay.

And that analysis, that documentation, that paper trail, that trail of communication, basically showed that alleged white-collar receteering, alleged medical malpractice, alleged fraudulent billing, alleged profits over patients, alleged medical chart changing to maintain performance standards and national rankings, alleged dangerous surgeries on sick and dying children to drive profits when personnel that were performing that surgery told the C-suite, allegedly, that this is dangerous and we're risking the lives of these kids. And then allegedly, the C-suite told those doctors, do it anyway. we need the money. In that 239 pages alleged documentation of the C-suite, the former C-suite,

Craig Kent, Melinda Kibby, Wendy Horton, ordering the and their cronies, their lieutenants, ordering middle management, in this case, middle management doctors to keep beds open during COVID to basically say, screw you COVID patients, we don't want you and your meager profit margins associated with the medical business that we would be performing on you, the medical services on you. Stay away from our hospital. We don't want you. We want the elective surgery patients that come in where the profit margins are way better. Forget you COVID patients. Give us the boob jobs and give us the nose jobs and give us the elective surgeries that drive much better revenue. That's allegedly in that documentation. That documentation is pretty damn clear.

It's pretty down damn criminal, you know, criminal, allegedly. Okay. Protecting my ass here. Okay. that basically that report ended it for Jim Ryan as a second rodeo at the University of Virginia Jim Ryan and his potential rise from the ashes you know in Easter Sunday rise from the dead

after being hammered and nailed to the cross that was in the mix and very much a possibility until the 239 pages were foiled by the Jefferson Council, by Walter Smith, the attorney who came on the program. Was Walter a UBA law school graduate? I think so. I think it was a double or triple who.

He got those 239 pages on behalf of the Jefferson Council. They published them, and then we made them go viral and bananas on the I Love Seville Network. When those 239 pages got out by the Jefferson Council, Jim Ryan's Easter Sunday rise became no more. I mean, do you think that would, do you think that would really stop Spanberger, the people that she's put in place on the board of visitors from putting him in place if they really wanted to?

100%. And why 100% that will prevent, why 100% that would prevent a second rodeo with Jim Ryan is because the collateral damage associated with the second presidential run with Jim Ryan at UVA was too significant that even Democrats in Virginia, even Democrats in the UVA alumni base, even those of Democratic ideology around Spamberger and the B.O.V. Could not stomach a second run with Ryan after the specifics in that 239 pages came out. because it showed that at best, at best, ignorance was his excuse.

At best, he turned a blind eye. At worst, he was complicit. Bingo. And I say this all the time. You hear me say this all the time. Ignorance is not an excuse. Not knowing what's happening is not an excuse. Okay?

He's the president. And the allegations paint a pretty good picture that he wasn't ignorant. of what was going on. Bingo. The paper trail suggests he was in the know all along. And how the first source also said this to me yesterday, how Jim Ryan initially went on record with the anonymous 128 doctors who were screaming, crying afoul of alleged medical malpractice and alleged criminality at UVA health system, and how Jim Ryan initially came out and said these 128 anonymous doctors are nothing but bitter malcontents, a small percentage of people that are bitter and malcontent

that are a part of any professional organization just chalk that up to them being the guys and gals that did not get invited to the prom and now they're bitching and moaning about not being on the biggest night of the senior year in high school with the rest of their friends. His response to those anonymous 128 was unprofessional

was far from public relations savvy showed an individual that didn't understand a true grasp of the significance of what was happening. Showed an individual that probably didn't understand the criminality, the alleged criminality of what was happening. Showed an individual that could not see the force through the trees. Yeah. Okay? That response showed all those qualities of Jim Ryan. And then the 239 pages come out, and then Jim Ryan is off that list.

So Spamberger, who told the entire world on the campaign trail, Spamberger told everyone, ladies and gentlemen, everyone, do not pick a president for the University of Virginia. Abigail Spamberger, the governor, told everyone in Virginia, any media that would listen, do not Board of Visitors Glenn Yonken appointments, Glenn Yonkin, B.O.V, pick a president. do not. She foreshadowed. She told us. She told us that this was going to happen. Okay? And I'm not sure if the, the, the, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, uh, the beard's removal is going to be the climax. I'm not sure if it's part of the day new ma. I'm not sure it's, it's not the falling action. I'm not sure exactly it's, to be determined what the climax is in this story. The climax of this story may be the Risa Goluboff. higher, if she is in fact higher, my reporting right now is she's a shortlist potential candidate. The extent of it is shortless and potential candidate. Okay? But we know Jim Ryan's off the list, and we know Beardsley's days are numbered. Now I'm left asking you this question, and viewers and listeners, we're going to open up the comments on the feed to you, the viewer and listener here in a matter of moments.

I'm going to ask you this question. Scott Beardsley, as you put that lower third on screen, the legacy lower third. What is Beardsley's legacy if he is in fact, his days are in fact numbered as president of the University of Virginia? What's his legacy due to Wickhauer? Do you jump in, then I'll offer my thoughts on this? That's a tough call. I think he probably becomes a hero at the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, uh, the, uh, Darden Business School for his exit package essentially.

Whether or not he gets the whole $8.5 million, I've seen arguments that not all of that will be coming to him depending on how this plays out. But I think at the very least he's getting $3.5 million. I think he goes down as a hero in the the Darden School for taking a bad situation and turning it into a halfway decent golden parachute. Here's my prediction. And I'm going to toot my horn right here as the city of Charlottesville is plowing the roads and trying to crack these ice barriers literally outside our studio.

Can you go to the Market Street cam? Do we miss them right there? Do you see the ice barriers outside our studio? Those front loaders are picking up ice and dumping it in the back of a giant dump truck. Giant dump truck, yeah. Yeah. My prediction of what's going to happen in my crystal ball. I think I have a crystal ball around here. It's heavy.

This crystal ball is so heavy. It's time to bust out the crystal ball. I'm literally going to get the crystal ball out. Studio camera. There's a crystal ball. Do you see the crystal ball? Do you see the crystal ball? Okay.

This crystal ball has been. extremely accurate. Where's my magic wand? Old magic wand today. Our crystal ball has been extremely accurate. We explain that the board of visitors members were going to resign. Did I see Paul Manning resigning?

No, I did not see a $100 million donor resigning. But we explained Rachel Sheridan and Porter Wilkinson were going to resign. We said everyone, we said this was going to happen. Yeah. We explained that Spamberger was going to revamp the board immediately.

we explained that Beardsley's days were numbered. We explained that this is still to come. The Paul Mahoney DOJ contract. That's next for Spamberger and a Trump versus Spamberger crossfire. Can you imagine what this will do for Abigail Spamberger? Abigail Spanberger, your office should be watching and listening to this show. If Abigail Spamberger is able to go to the University of Virginia,

is able to take Glenn Yonkin, which is a lieutenant of Donald Trump. A lot of people had Glenn Yonkin as a presidential candidate post-Trump. I think that ship has sailed. But if Spamberger is able to go toe-to-toe with Glenn Yonkin, she's able to reinvent the Board of Visitors that Glenn Yon appointed, then utilize that reinvention of the Board of Visitors that Glenn Yon appointed, to then pick a new president, move away from Scott Beardsley

who has the perception with Democrats as a robber baron, a corporate robber baron, a McKinsey consultant, take the university away from Scott Beardsley and plug a new president into Cars Hill and that new president is a extremely progressive Risa Goloboff. Anyone you ask, you talk to about her politics.

Very left-leaning, very progressive. Spamberger does that. Then Spamberger bucks up, like bucks up, flex her chest, flex her muscles, and goes toe to toe with the Department of Justice in the Trump administration. And she says, this contract, that interim president Paul Mahoney signed with you Donald Trump and the DOJ is no more. And takes the contract and proverbially and perception-wise, tears it apart and gives the one-finger salute to the DOJ and Donald Trump. then Donald Trump is going to do this. He's going to say for 2026, 2027, and 28, I am not going to give the University of Virginia

and federal funding somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion. No one knows the exact number. We know the federal funding allocation yearly is between $500 million and $1 billion. Donald Trump is going to say, screw you UVA because of this governor, I'm not going to give the University of Virginia $500 million to a billion dollars a year for 2026, 27,

2028. Spamberger is going to say, fine, keep your money, Donald Trump. Then Spamberger is going to go to the deep pocketed University of Virginia alumni that has many billionaires in it, folks, many hundreds of millionaires in it folks, many hundred millionaires in it folks, many 10 millionaires in it folks. Heck, she may even do a $25 go-fund me campaign, a small donation campaign, $25 ahead from the alumni. And they're going to make up the difference the federal funding loss from the Trump administration, $500 to a billion a year every year through 2028, that will make Abigail Spanberger presidential. Abigail Spanberger, I just gave you the political science,

the political roadmap. She's extremely brilliant woman. She probably knows this already. I guarantee you she's thinking about this on how you can go from the first female governor in Virginia history to potentially the first woman president in American history. Yeah.

Because Virginia is a bellwether state. Mark that down right there. That's Spamberger's roadmap to be a shortless presidential candidate post Donald Trump when the country is going to be hungry for a Democrat to be in the office. And she knows that. So that leaves us with this question. If Beardsley loses his job, what will his legacy be? The capitalists, the business types, the Dardanites, the MBAs, the McIntyres, the McIntyres,

the Ken Elzingas, the Ken Elsingia protégés, the Ed Burton protegees, will look at a Scott Beardsley as if he can walk on water and take a few loaves and some fishes and feed the hundreds. Because they will see an individual who is a fantastic negotiator,

saw an opportunity and capitalized. They will see... They will see somebody who who wanted to help a university that meant a lot to him, that had success as a three-term Darden Dean, fantastic fundraiser, a guy from a consulting firm that has noteworthy and reputation globally, they will see him favorably.

That pocket of the alumni base at the University of Virginia is far from the majority, of alumni, but that pocket, the alumni base at the University of Virginia, is the key driver of fundraising at the University of Virginia because they have the jobs that drive, that make the money. Okay. Now, the antithesis to that pocket of alumni, okay, the type of alumni that is left-leaning, that is activist protests, even left of center, some call woke, this isn't just woke folks. This is anywhere from center to left to center to all the way left, activist protest woke.

They will see Scott Beardsley as a corporate robber baron. Some will call him an academic grifter, an academic grifter, who capitalized on a moment of vulnerability for an academic institution to line his pockets, line his kids' pockets, and generations to come at his family tree. some will see Scott Beardsley as a take advantage of her some will point to his legacy as the shortest president in UVA history

from a term and tenure standpoint some will point to his Wikipedia saying he was on the job for months as a stigma as a scarlet letter others will say how many people in the world can say they were president of the University of Virginia others will say he's going to get eight and a half million dollars when it's all set and done do i think

beardsley's going to get the full allotment with his golden parachute and that eight and a half million golden parachute is tied to uh his pay at the university of virginia's president it's tied to years of staying on as a darden professor if he's fired without cause it's tied to uh severance it's tied to pay with not having to work. It's tied to a number of factors that eight and a half million. Vested sabbatical time. Vested sabbatical? Do I think he's going to get that entire amount?

Probably not. But I think Beardsley's going to negotiate an exit where it's a lump sum payout that's extremely significant. No doubt. The type of money that few in America will ever see in their life. And this is a guy that's already wealthy. and his Wikipedia, which is legacy, the 2026 gravestone or tombstone,

the 26 gravestone or tombstone is no longer something we go to a cemetery and we put flowers next to. Good Lord, that's some heavy equipment out there. The 26th, and then Judah, you jump in here. The 26 gravestone is not something we go to a cemetery and put flowers next to. It's now what's on the internet.

when they search your name and look at you at Wikipedia. The what gravestone? That's the 2026 gravestone. Your Wikipedia. That's your legacy now. Jump in. Anywhere do you want to go on this except catching my breath.

And then we'll go to comments. Part of me has to think that Beardsley knew this was coming and that he figured he might as well take advantage of a weird situation. He's essentially, is, I would think, planning his out already. I don't even

know if he, if he, does anyone really think he did a whole lot in office? He must have been essentially maybe not holding his breath, but waiting for the other shoe to drop for all of this to take place.

But, I mean, who of us would not have, would not have tried to structure the same type of deal given his situation? Yeah, I had a somewhat combative conversation in a locker room locally with a UVA professor that works in the humanities.

He would not give me his last name, would only say his first name. also involved in that conversation was someone tied to the McIntyre School of Commerce. And the professor that was a part of the humanities at UVA when I was talking about the $8.5 million payday and how Beersley was a king

in this game of chess negotiating this $8.5 million dollar golden parachute. The professor in humanities basically said that's not true. All he is is is a grifter taking advantage of a situation. And I said, so you're telling me if the opportunity presented itself to you, you wouldn't take a chance at $8.5 million, and he was silent. Then he questioned my morality, literally my morality, by saying that this man is a king on a chessboard

because he negotiated this contract and this opportunity. He says, that shows where your moral compass and your integrity is. I then responded to his question of my morality by saying, so you wouldn't take the $8.5 million opportunity if it presented itself to you, and he said nothing again. If you, I'm distressed by how little logic I see in a lot of the arguments on social media these days, and this is one of them. Here's a guy who, from what we know, was one of four candidates during a, a, search for a UVA president. He had, I don't believe, any control to say, hey,

hey now, the incoming governor has told us to hold up and, you know, put a pin in this and come back to it later. He clearly saw that they were going to go ahead with what they were going ahead with. And what are you supposed to do? You're one of four people. He may have had a good idea that he was top of the list. And so do you say no? Do you say, I mean, he had no way of knowing how this is ultimately going to turn out. And I think he made a smart choice and clearly gave himself a, you know, a good out. Can someone tell Charlottesville City manager Sam Sanders to stop the heavy machinery and equipment outside the studio right now?

Can you put the Market Street camera on right now? There's a dump truck. Is that a back-o clearing the ice? Can they see that? Oh, they're helping each other. It was, I don't know if the- Can the viewers and listeners see that? I don't know if the viewers can see that, but that-

Sam, can we not do this while the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesle-Almore County in Central Virginia is live? Please, City Manager Sanders. Can you radio in? Jim Tolbert, can you stop this, please? There we go. Jim Tolbert and Sam Sanders, please stop this. Getting a little help, getting that foot load of field. Comments continue to come in.

All right, two shot us right now. This is from Almore County, Commerce Attorney Jim Hingley, very much. smart man. Jim Hinchley says this. Risa Gullaboff's scholarship and teaching has centered on American constitutional and civil rights law. Her knowledge of constitutional and civil rights law is a huge asset for a university president at a time when relations between universities and the federal government

have become increasingly contentious. No doubt. That right there is a fantastic comment from Jim Hinchley. I believe Jim Hingley is a, uh, UVA law school graduate as well. Is that right, Jim? Let me check your...

I should know that. He's a good man. I believe he is a UVA law school graduate as well. But he highlights that her background in constitutional and civil rights law is paramount right now as the university and the federal government

are basically, these are my words, in a crossfire with each other. Yeah. Comments continue to come in quickly. Mark, your is watching the program. He says, Fantastic Insight, Jerry Miller. I love Abigail Spamberger's roadmap.

Kudos to you on this story. Conan Owen watches the program. He is interacting with Kevin Niancy on the feed right now. Jim Hingley does confirm that he's a law graduate of the University of Virginia in that class of 1976. Thank you, Jim. Lucky to have Jim

Hinchley in this community. Connie Sylvester is watching the program. I believe you know her. I do. Moderate Abigail chooses moderate female president and calls that hysterical and is sarcastic with her comment. She says both of those are left, leftists right there. Look, it's no secret that Risa, you ask anybody about this. Golobov is, her friends would call her progressive. Those who have issue with this are going to call her leftist, leftist activist. Her friends,

would call her progressive. And I will say this right now. When you are the president of the University of Virginia, it's a whole level different world of commentary associated with your name, your reputation, your personality, and your brand than when you were the first female dean of the UVA law school. The first female dean in the UVA law school is royalty, is royalty, is a queen is royalty, has no naysayers, very few naysayers. The University of Virginia president in the era of 2026, where the Commonwealth of Virginia is divided, thank you, Sam. Thank you, Jim Tolbert for stopping.

Marcus Street, can, please. We appreciate you stop for the heavy equipment. Thank you for letting the folks know to stop. The equipment has been stopped. Thank you. I'm very grateful Sam Sanders for you stopping. the equipment and the ice worked on during the water cooler content and conversation in the I Love Seville Show.

The heavy equipment stopped, right? You see it there, Judah? They've moved on. Thank you. We appreciate you, Sam Sanders, city manager. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you, Sam. Thank you, kindly.

Thank you, sir. Got a little tutu-toot as a thank you there, as you're welcome. She goes to Cars Hill, and she enters the... Minefield? Yeah. She's in Lionsden. Yeah. Daniel or Meshach and Abedigo?

Daniel was in the Lions Den. Shadrach, Shadrach, and Abedigo were at one point tossed into a giant furnace. Okay. So, Rees is somewhere, some hybrid of Daniel in the Lions Den and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedigo in the burning furnace. Yeah. Right? You saw it with Jim Ryan. Jim Ryan, when he got to office as president to when Jim Ryan resigned, to say the man

was weathered is an understatement. Look at Barack Obama or look at George W. Or look at Bill Clinton, getting into office and leaving office, and the impact it does to their face and their physicality, their appearance. To say it weather's you as an understatement. That happened to Jimbo Ryan, who's still getting paid by the University of Virginia, by the way. Comments are coming in.

We should put up a... a bet or at least a poll on how many former presidents we can, UVA can continue paying at one time. Or how many presidents and former presidents, we'd have. Jimbo Ryan. Jim Ryan. Scott Beardsley? Scott Beardsley.

I don't think Paul Mahoney's getting paid. I'm sure he got paid something for his time. Well, he got paid his interim, but he's not paying correct. But he wouldn't be continuing to get paid. You're right. YouTube. Red-handed 8367 is the handle. Red-handed A-367 is watching on YouTube.

John Castine was absolutely an academic Judah. As was Teresa Sullivan following John Castine. Castine and his vice president and C-O-O-Leadard Sandridge had a great partnership that their successors have come nowhere near replicating, in my humble opinion. And that's from red-handed 8367 on YouTube. Thank you. That's good to know. Comments are coming in faster than I can keep up. Tina Wyand Breeden, Susan Oliver, welcome to the broadcast. Print radio and television is all over the show.

Lauren and Ivy watching the program. Barbara Becker Tilly watching the program. We appreciate you, Barbara Becker Tilly. Jayhu Martin, Mr. Belmont's watching the program. He says the main objective should be to get UVA off the Gossum columns. and talk shows and let it get back to teaching and research. It took a lot of work by many parties to help it achieve the academic notoriety that it has. However, all this soap opera is detrimental to its operation and standing. A university strives to attract both a highly qualified faculty and suited body. These are not easy tasks and all this kind, all this recent dramas have not been helpful. The image after the Nazi weekend was very harmful,

and the city magnified the disaster and failing to handle it correctly. This needs to calm down and get off. the front pages and allow the university to resume its primary mission of education and research. I'm not a UBA alum, but I would be furious if I were, as each chapter of this nonsense devalues the diploma, so many works so hard to achieve. Jayhu Martin on the comment. All right, 1.30, we're an hour in on the water cooler of content and conversation as the streets of market are right now silent with heavy equipment as it's literally been parked in front

of our studio after we asked City Hall to keep the racket down and they have complied. The camera to Market Street, please. We are there. We appreciate you respectfully, City Hall and City Manager in this circumstance for quieting the racket outside the studio. We will get off air here at about 15 minutes so there's no overtime accumulated by the guys that are patiently waiting outside the studio to do their work. I'll close with this anywhere you want to go.

You go and then I'll go. I got a couple great pictures of probably the car that is the most worst off. I've seen a lot of cars essentially hemmed in due to the, I guess you'd call it ice. I mean, it's mostly packed snow underneath, but on top it's ice. I'm sure everyone out there has a good idea of what that's like if you've tried to get your car out yet. You have those photos? You can put on screen? Yeah.

You put them on screen. You want to close with that? That's a great way to close. Show's yours. Describe what we're doing here. This was over across the street from the old glass building. And this car, I'm not even sure how this happens. I'm guessing a lot of that snow came from the parking lot.

that it's parked next to. And, but this is, that's brutal. That's the front end side. And I also have a shot of the rear. I can't imagine trying to dig that car out. Yeah, that car is going to be, is it still on screen? Yeah. That car is going to be stuck like that for two weeks.

Yeah. With single digit temperatures and they're still, Are they calling for snow in the forecast for this weekend, or is that subsided? I haven't really followed it, but the last I heard is that weather models were saying that it was going to push out to see before it got to us. But we'll have to wait for better. That car will be there for a long period of time. No doubt. That car is going away anywhere for weeks.

I mean, you've got single-digit temperatures through Wednesday of next week. Yeah, unless they bring, unless they come with a group of friends and a bunch of shovels, I don't see that car getting out anytime soon. Yeah, yeah. All right, this is what I'm going to close with. Vanessa Park Hills watching the program. Connie Silvestra watching the program. Literally, print radio and television is watching the program right now.

Here's what I'm going to close with. And we're going to be talking about this all week long, ladies and gentlemen, here on the I Love Seville Network, the water cooler, and content and conversation, and we'll give some love to Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. in Charlottesville swimming pool company. These businesses are owned by the Vermilion family, three generations strong, five generations strong in Amar County. The business is three generations of Vermilion strong.

Charlottesville Sanitary Supplies on East High Street, where they had 50-pound bags of... I smell. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. And they are the concieres or the consultants of anything swimming pool related locally, water testing, pool robots, building in-ground pools, building above-ground pools,

pool covers automated, pool covers non-automated, anything swimming pool-related. You call them first, and they will make sure your swimming pools optimize. It ain't cheap, so do it the right way. I believe they opened at noon today. They will be. Yep.

If I'm not mistaken, they open at noon. They may or may not still have bags of ice melt. I would call them before heading over there, but I believe they were, it was like $18 for a 50-pound bag. That's a steel. And I have a kind neighbor who shoveled some of my walkway after I'd gotten it the first time and laid down some ice melt. So it's good stuff.

Ginny who wants to know where are they dumping the stuff they are scooping from Market Street? Wherever they put it, it's going to be there for some time. We need the Market Street cam on all day for entertainment. Since City Hall and Sam Sanders shut down the heavy equipment while the show was going, I will give them nothing but props and praise. The gentlemen are literally waiting for us to finish the show. I will be out there in a second to let you know that the show is over, fellas. I know in past years a lot of it went to Barrett's Road.

To Mount Chocolet. Is that what they called it? Mount Chapoile. Yeah. They've got a lot of room there, so room for a Mount Chipotle. All right, this is what I'm going to close with. The whole point in the show is to figure out what's going on around here. In fact, cut this into a sizzle reel and syndicate this on the I Love Seville Network if you can.

Okay. We can mark the time here. The entire point of the I Love Seville show is to figure out what's going on. We try to figure out what's going on in Charlottesville and Almore County, the University of Virginia, across the Commonwealth, our country, our world. We've been covering of late politics in Virginia. Abigail Spanberger was a favorite to win the governor's mansion, and she was a favorite for the entire year.

Winsome Earl Sears ran one of the worst governor races I've ever seen any candidate run. We all knew that Abigail Spanberger was going to win, and she was going to win in Lance Sliars. landside fashion. She did. Prior to being inaugurated, Abigail Spamberger told the Glenn Yonkin appointed UVA Board of Visitors, which was embattled, which was fractured. She instructed this board. This was foreshadowing. Don't do any real work. Don't hire a president, and don't enter into this Department of Justice contract with an interim president, Paul Mahoney.

We told them not to. That was foreshadowing. Abigail Spanberger, before she was sworn into office, also asked for the resignation of five UVA board members and literally got them because she was threatening them with getting fired. She was going to pink slip them. Then once Abigail Spamberger was in office, hours after being sworn into office on inauguration day, she appointed 10 new people to the UVA Board of Visitors. of them. Of those 10, four of them are graduates of the UVA School of Law. When the General Assembly

approves the 10 appointments and the General Assembly will because they're Democratic-controlled, Spamberger is a Democrat. When the Assembly approves these 10 appointments, Spamberger will have her fingerprints on the University of Virginia and will have total control. We're hearing through two anonymous sources that former UVA School of Law Dean, Risa Gulaboff is the frontrunner. She's on a shortlist, atop the shortlist, as one source called her, to replace Scott Beardsley as the 11th president of the University of Virginia. Risa Gulaboff has a Harvard degree.

Risa Gulaboff has a Yale degree, a Princeton degree. She's the former law school dean, where she excelled at fundraising, and she excelled at managing and running the school. she's credentialed she has academic chops she's seen as an academic where scott beardsley is seen as a corporate executive although he's been a three-term dart and dean his perception is still one of a corporate executive it's extremely clear to me what abigail spamburger is doing out of the gates as governor of the university governor of the commonwealth of virginia she is remaking the board of visitors she's going to put a new president into office

and then she's going to go after Donald Trump from the Department of Justice contract that was signed by interim president Paul Mahoney. She's going to tear up that contract, call it null and void, she's going to use some kind of political loophole to do so. I don't think she even needs a political loophole. She knows that Donald Trump

is going to then reign holy hell tear on UVA. The extent of the holy hell terror that Donald Trump can reign on the University of Virginia is the leverage of somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion dollars a year in federal funding. Trump's only in office for, what, three years in change, two years

in change, twenty-six, twenty-seven, 2020-28, two years in change. Spamberger has this decision to make. Can we, as a commonwealth, this is her thinking, can the Commonwealth or the alumni of UVA float the federal

funding loss through 2028? And if she believes the alumni is deep-pocketed enough to cover the $500 million to $1 billion in lost federal funding every year through 2028. She's going to tear up that contract and she's going to say, screw you Donald Trump. Here's the one-finger salute. And she's going to get the alumni to cover the balance.

And she's going to do it for two years and change. And if she succeeds at this, Abigail Spamberger in the eyes of Democrats in Virginia, Abigail Spamberger in the eyes of Democrats in America will become extremely presidential. And after four years of running the Commonwealth, there will be kingmakers and the National Democratic Party that pull Spamberger over and say, Abigail, your time is up in Virginia,

have you considered making a push for the White House? And like that, ladies and gentlemen, our crystal ball is at it again, and like that, ladies and gentlemen, you will see a potential presidential candidate made four years before it actually materializes. And that's why you watch the I Love Seville show. Judah Wickhauer and Jerry Miller.