The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - UVA Paying $9M To Shooting Victims & Families; Victim Families Demand Report Released ASAP
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Quiet on the set.
Quiet on the set.
Good Tuesday afternoon, guys.
My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville show.
It's great to be back in the saddle.
We've missed connecting with you guys through the I Love Seville network.
I took Friday and Monday as the book ends
to an upstate New York family wedding.
My brother-in-law, now hitched and heading to Europe
for a honeymoon.
It was a fantastic outing, full of love,
full of original vows, full of family, spirits, festive fare. But I'll tell you what, I have missed
connecting with you guys on the I Love Seville Network. I return to the saddle, I return to this
microphone and this camera to connect with you on a show that features you, the viewer and listener,
with a new cycle that is loaded with information and ammunition.
And we'll talk about that today, including a teacher within Albemarle County.
And check that rundown, J-Dubs.
I think there's some slight spacing issues that may need to be addressed.
An Albemarle teacher sending an email.
Rob Schilling has got some good reporting on this.
Actually, some confused reporting, I would say, on this.
Yeah.
Highlighting Albemarle High School,
a teacher sending an email to students on May 22nd at 2.18 in the morning.
Why is a teacher emailing students at 2.18 in the morning
during the school year?
Basically throwing shade and hate
on white women and white mothers.
We will unpack this on today's program
and try to make some sense of this discombobulated, what do you call it, a crackpot?
Yeah, a crackpot.
I mean, just absolutely discombobulated crackpot of an email. On today's program, we will talk about the settlement, $9 million from UVA to the shooting victims and their families.
Three dead, three football players.
The victim families are demanding that the probe, the investigative report be released. is not going to do that until a more commonwealth
attorney, Jim Hingley's
case, his trial
is finished.
We'll try to unpack this story for you.
I want to talk on today's show
Seville City Schools
saying no for now
to school resource officers,
police in the hallways.
We'll talk a UVA alumni being named president of Yale University.
And if it's that headline that's pushing the spacing issue, you could just call it Yale U, and that should adjust at J-dubs.
We'll talk on today's program a rumor that's percolating and circulating
about Reese Beekman potentially returning to the University of Virginia
for a six-year playing for Tony Bennett.
Reese Beekman has now fallen out of the NBA draft first and second round.
Remember, only first round money is guaranteed.
Second round money is not guaranteed.
And currently, Reese Beekman is not projected to be drafted in the second round.
So Chris Graham of the Augusta Free Press, citing an unknown source,
but highlighting that this source is rarely, if ever, wrong,
is reporting, Chris Graham, that Beekman is considering a six-year at UVA because he could potentially get up to $500,000 in name, image, and likeness revenue,
get paid $500,000 for his NIL, for name, image, likeness,
and that money would be more than the $40,000 that a G League,
that's the minor leagues of the NBA, $40,000 pay that a G League player would get.
Good God.
The basketball team would be loaded if Beekman comes back.
And that comes on the heels of Dante Harris returning to UVA.
The one-time Big East Tournament MVP, Dante Harris of Georgetown fame, transferred to UVA.
He had a very average, if not less than average year. I mean, let's cut
to the chase. It was not a good year for Dante Harris, who struggled to shoot the basketball.
He entered the transfer portal, no action on Harris, at least no action that interested him.
And now he's returning to Charlottesville as a walk-on and what looks like a loaded team for
Tony Bennett. And ladies and gentlemen, we have Brian O'Connor in the Super Regionals.
He has a chance to make Omaha.
He's got the College World Series on the horizon.
He's got to get through Brian O'Connor, Kansas State.
Virginia is a heavy favorite.
They host the Super Regional this weekend, Friday night, first pitch, 7 o'clock, ESPNU
against Kansas State. If Virginia beats Kansas State,
they go to a College World Series in Omaha for the third time in four years.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brian O'Connor is the winningest baseball coach
since he started in Charlottesville as the skipper of the Virginia baseball program.
He has posted more wins, Virginia baseball, more victories,
than any other program in college baseball across the country.
I mean, mother it.
We are loaded today.
Absolutely loaded today.
Let's welcome Judah Wittkower on a two-shot.
We have a new show launching today at 2.30 p.m.
featuring Nate Kibler.
He's a local legend, Nate Kibler.
The White Mountain Ministries show
at 2.30 p.m. today.
Nate Kibler, the host of that show
on the I Love Seville Network.
We are absolutely loaded
and it's good to be back in the saddle.
We'll lead with,
you know, the nine millions.
I was disappointed with the nine million dollar payday.
This is a tough story.
Three Virginia football players murdered on grounds.
A former football player murdered three, injured two others.
Nine million paid.
What do you make of this?
I think the story here is, from my standpoint,
the payday being, in the grand scheme of things,
I think fairly meager.
We'll break down the payday here in a matter of moments.
Two million to Deshaun Perry's family.
Two million to Devin Chandler's family.
Two million to Lavelle Davis Jr.'s family.
That totals $6 million, an additional $3 million to two other students who were wounded in the shooting.
From my standpoint, the storyline here is the payday, maybe a little bit of closure.
Of course, the pay is not going to justify the loss of life ever.
I was shocked the pay was at this level.
I found it much lower than I expected.
But I think the true storyline here is the University of Virginia still, despite pleas, begging, demanding, insisting from the victims' families to release the investigative probe of what happened, how it was handled, how we got to
this point. UVA still will not release the investigative probe, the analysis of what
happened. Where do you want to go with this storyline? I mean, I'm curious whether the
disincentive to release the probe has anything to do with how they would, I mean, would, cause them trouble in the trial?
Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., the alleged murderer. if the report was released, could it have created a more significant payday?
Because if the investigative probe was released prior to the payday,
could the investigative probe be utilized or leveraged to drive more pay,
more millions to the victims' families?
That's one question I have. A second question I have,
UVA failing to release this probe,
this analysis of what it could have done well, better,
what it did right, what it did poorly,
what's actually in this report,
and how bad does UVA look?
A third question I have,
is UVA holding this investigative report, this probe, keeping it clandestine behind closed doors? Keeping it in a manila folder, proverbially, on Jim Ryan's desk or in a safe in his office or in a DL spot at Cars Hill, his mansion? Are they doing that because of all the other negative attention
tied to the pro-Palestine protests and how it was dispersed by state police, almost acting as if it
was a military using tear gas and pepper spray, clad in riot gear, playing Red Rover with protesters? Are they keeping
the investigative report under wraps? Because releasing it now would just snowball more
negative momentum when it comes to management and safety of students. Could be. Is it truly
the reason they gave that they did not want to interfere with Mr. Jim Hingely's trial.
Saw Mr. Hingely prior to the show.
Fantastic Commonwealth's attorney doing a hell of a job in this community.
When you do not offer transparency on some of the darkest days in UVA's history
and the killing of three football players, the injuring of two other students, one of them, Mike Collins,
is going to go down as one of the darkest days
in the history of the University of Virginia.
Yeah.
Right there on the same shelf
as August 11th and August 12th, 2017.
And that's in the headlines
with some of those torch-carrying Nazis
from A11, A12, now in court themselves.
When it rains and pours.
It's like when you pop a tin or a can of Pringles chips,
you have one, and before you know it, you've eaten the entire can.
Once you pop, you can't stop.
Negative news right now with the protest disbursement and how that was done,
with the investigative probe
of the three football players that were
killed by another former football player
two others injured
and now with the Nazis marching on
grounds with torches
it's all colliding and crescendoing
at the same time. Not to mention the fact that
nothing was done to the
torch bearing nutcases
on A11?
While, you know, while...
They were marching through grounds.
Right.
While, you know, years later, this, by all accounts, fairly innocuous protest had, you know, cops come in armed to bear.
There it is.
All colliding at the same time that Governor Glenn Youngkin is doing what
with the Board of Visitors?
He's packing the board with people he wants.
And the appointees happen when?
June of this year.
Completely different dynamic with the board.
Ginny Hu wants to talk about the email from the Almarill County teacher.
Hating on, this email is absolutely insane.
It is.
We're going to talk about that in a matter of moments, Ginny Hu.
You release the report of UVA, you offer transparency, and you manage the collateral
damage. The longer the report sits in the proverbial Manila folder in a lock safe in
Jim Ryan's office, the more the report becomes a stick of dynamite.
I'm not sure how it could cause a problem in the trial.
The fact that they've said that they will release the report,
after the trial, they will release the redacted report.
Right. Why not release the report in totality?
Yeah.
It's sketch, right?
Maybe they're hoping by the time the trial is over, demand for the report will be, you know, will have died down.
I believe the trial is set to start January of next year.
So that's, you know, a good, what, seven, eight months away.
And by then, maybe they think nobody's going to care anymore.
I find that hard to believe.
I find that extremely hard to believe.
But maybe they think, I don't know,
maybe they think there'll be enough other crazy stuff going on
that this will fall by the wayside.
And who knows?
Maybe the insanity at UVA is the new normal.
And is that why Glenn Youngkin, the governor, is changing the look and feel of the Board of Visitors?
Is that why the Jefferson Council, with Razorblade, Burt Ellis, and his lieutenant, Mr. Bacon,
are doing so much behind the scenes politicking, wheeling and dealing to try to return UVA to what they believe is the former normal
and away from what they believe is today's insanity.
Could be.
It does appear on paper to be a university
that I no longer recognize.
And my dad went there, my brother went there,
I went there, and we've lived in
Charlottesville since I was a first year. A lot to cover on today's program, ladies and gentlemen.
Let us know your thoughts. We'll relay it live on air. And speaking of the University of Virginia,
let's put the alumni headline as a lower third, or actually put me on a one-shot with headlines.
See if you can do, adjust that spacing. I'm being a bit OCD, which you know very well. 14 years of working alongside me. Nora Gaffney, welcome to the program. is now Yale University's 24th president. She's a former vice provost for academic affairs
and long-serving faculty member at UVA.
She's been named the president of Yale University
where she earned a PhD degree in 1996.
Ms. McGinnis earned her undergraduate degree
in art history at UVA in 1988.
She later spent nearly 18 years at the university in a
professional capacity, first as a professor of art history, then director of American Studies,
then an associate dean for undergraduate education at the College of Arts and Sciences,
and finally as the vice provost for academic affairs until 2016. There's an excellent profile on her on news.virginia.edu. This is a major story
because someone within the UVA family tree is now president of one of the most prestigious
universities in the world, Yale University. This is also a significant story because Jim Ryan,
some scuttlebutt, had President Ryan of UVA linked to this opening.
Jim Ryan, if you do a little research, an undergraduate degree from Yale University.
The embattled president here in Charlottesville, many, including insiders and those close to the board, had rumor milled, had scuttlebutted, had considered, had speculated that Mr. Ryan, the president at UVA,
would consider the Yale University or would be considered for that opening.
It has now been filled.
That leaves now an embattled president with a board of visitors that's going to be completely different this summer, in a very warm, if not hot, seat, ladies and gentlemen,
without an exit plan or a parachute to pull.
Now, put the lower third on screen for the admiral teacher hates white women in an email.
I can't believe I'm even talking about this storyline here.
Set the stage, Judah Wickauer on this.
This is from Rob Schilling's The Schilling Show.
He uncovered an email sent by an Albemarle County teacher,
Albemarle High School teacher,
on May 22nd.
Let's look at the calendar.
May 22nd, let's look at the calendar. May 22nd was Wednesday. A Wednesday in the school year at 2.18
in the morning, an Admiral High School teacher is emailing his or her students and absolutely
hating white women and white mothers. Can you set the table and help me understand this, please?
I don't think I can help anyone understand this.
It's just nuts.
It's nuts. And I wish the article had some explanation for what transpired.
I mean, the guy starts his email with, what has transpired?
But then nobody gives an explanation.
Whoa, do we have a clear indication it's a man?
Did I say his?
You said guy. Starts his email.
You're right. I don't know that there is
any indication that this
was from a man
or a woman.
But no, you should read.
Why is this going to students?
But the fact that the article mentions
parents demanding answers regarding
a racially insensitive and borderline misogynistic email
gives me the impression that it's a man.
Most women wouldn't write an email
that somebody would call misogynistic.
That's a bit of an assumption.
It is.
But we all make assumptions all day long that's okay
all right um set the table i honestly don't know if it's man or woman but uh they say this
emotional message was dispatched may 22nd at about 2 18 in the morning that's a ladies and
gentlemen that's a wednesday during the school year mean, I'm glad it wasn't a text.
Imagine your phone buzzing with something like this at 2 in the morning.
As an email, most of these people probably didn't see it until... Until they woke up and got ready for school.
Oh, I got an email from my teacher.
What's my teacher saying?
Why is my teacher hating on mothers?
Why is my teacher hating on
mommies?
And white women?
I mean, this was...
Why is my teacher saying...
Okay, first read the email directly.
I want to know why. I mean, this is almost acting
like the kids are
like
some type of therapy.
Read the email directly.
So the viewers and listeners,
he's going to read verbatim here.
Here's what we've got.
Do you want me to read it in its entirety?
I trust your judgment on this one.
This one's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs here.
Good evening slash morning to all of you.
This is now the sixth night in a row
that I have been unable to sleep,
so I wanted to let you all know that the ordeal that has transpired at our school has taken a toll on me mentally, emotionally, and physically.
I thought I was strong enough to not let this travesty affect me the way that it has. This event has caused an enormous amount of stress, which is causing me extremely high
blood pressure, severe headaches, blurred vision, and anxiety, things I have not experienced since
my childhood. This event has reopened wounds that I thought I healed from, but it is clearly obvious
that they have resurfaced. And what's worse is no one responsible has accepted responsibility or accountability
for what they have done to me by publicly humiliating others.
I am sharing this pain of mine with you because I care about each and every one of you
and do not want any of you to think that I am not there because of any of you. I can no longer be in the building at the moment that is toxic, emotionally and mentally
unsafe and untrustworthy. I refuse to go through this twice. I grew up in this type of environment
my whole childhood, but now that I am 45 years old, I do not have to subject myself to that anymore.
What has transpired at our school is what my mother did to me for 21 years. An authoritative
figure and my mother shares similar things in many ways. In the public eye, they're the most
caring people you would ever want to know, but behind closed doors,
they are monsters. They know how to say all the right things in front of others, but in private,
they attempt to break your spirit by verbally beating you down. And here is the kicker,
they are both white. Yes, the one person in my life who was supposed to protect me,
guard my heart, and make sure that no harm would ever come to me was the one who caused the most harm was a white woman.
I tell you all this to say they have won.
I am defeated.
They too, like my mother, has crushed my spirit and will to want to be a teacher.
I just want to sit in the dark alone.
I guess I am not as strong as I look.
I am embarrassed and ashamed to be in my classroom with you all.
Some of you have noticed in just two days the effect this has had on me.
How can I be the best at helping you all if you all see me struggling to hold it together?
I want you all to be aware of evil and wicked people around.
They are usually in disguise as a wolf in sheep's clothing. They not only broke me, but they have
pushed out other great educators out along the way. My hope is that by next Tuesday, I can be as
close to normal as possible. Seniors, I am sorry that I did not get to see you off.
I wish all the best and success in your futures.
Please, for me, try to watch your language.
Some of you.
Glasses emoji.
And keep your noise level reasonable.
Also, try your best to get any work turned in.
I will update as you submit.
I have so much genuine love and respect for each one of you.
If I do not see you again before June 7th,
please have a relaxing and peaceful summer.
You all deserve it. You all do great things for our students and each other.
You are welcome to share.
Maybe this can help someone that you know who is going through a storm.
But just know that I am done.
I am tapping out.
If not, I'm not sure that my health can endure.
I will always be in support of what is right.
But I can no longer be a major contributor.
And I am deeply sorry if I let any of you down.
With love and admiration for all.
Name redacted.
That was Judah reading verbatim
from an email that a teacher sent
her Albemarle High School students
at 2.18 in the morning
on a Wednesday
during the school year.
And I still don't know what the incident was.
Is this teacher...
Is she tripping on mushrooms?
Is she tripping on some heady acid?
Did she eat some stems and some caps?
Is she, I'm sorry, I used the pronoun she.
Is she or he on a bender of some kind?
Are they hammered?
It doesn't strike me as the writings of someone who is hammered or drunk.
If you are hammered or drunk, you're not writing,
I guess I could call that succinctly, it's bizarre.
It's confusing.
Some of the wording is off.
There are some terms that are oddly phrased.
Why is the teacher sending a therapy-based email
to his or her students?
Why is the teacher utilizing
first person written
monologue on
mommy issues
and presenting them to students
about how they should look at white
women and white mommies?
This crosses
the line of professionalism
a thousand times over. It is not just crossing the line. It sees the line of professionalism a thousand times over.
It is not just crossing the line.
It sees the line.
It takes out a machete, and it dices the line up with a machete as if it is making tossed Caesar salad.
I was going to say it sees the line, grabs a, what do you call those?
A spear?
No, a pole.
A pole vault. And like
leaps as far past as you can possibly go.
It takes the line, it grabs a cheese grater
and it grits, gets the
line all over the cheese grater
like you're trying to take Parmesan
cheese on top of chicken Caesar salad.
What the actual
F is going on here?
I do not know.
This email
has got to be
the base or cause for potential
termination.
I don't think that's going to be a problem at this point.
It sounds like
they're never showing up at this school again.
It sounds like someone should be checking on this
teacher with a
1-800 helpline phone call.
Let's keep all shoe strings
and all tall
buildings away from this teacher.
Get him a white jacket
that straps in the back.
Make sure the Advil
and the 750 milliliter bottle
of vodka is nowhere to be found.
And why are they communicating these
thoughts and feelings to students in written form at 218 in
the morning and why have we not heard from almorel county in any capacity about this i could see maybe
sending an email in you know i can't see anything when it pertains to this being actually viable approach to anything. I'm saying if you
heavily edited this
and sent it at a reasonable
time, I could
understand.
I get kind of what they're doing.
If they were to come into class
and try to explain this, they'd have to explain it
over the course of however
many classes they have.
So I can understand why they might feel it necessary
to send an email to their students
so the students don't wonder why they never see this teacher again.
But the unhinged nature and the time of sending is just odd.
Albemarle County parents.
I'm a parent.
My wife's a parent.
We live in Albemarle County.
Albemarle County taxpayers.
I'm an Albemarle County taxpayer.
You're an Albemarle County taxpayer.
Albemarle County business owners
who pay taxes
Alamo County shoppers, diners
Alamo County retirees
Alamo County students
Are you not left flummoxed and perplexed
at the very least, with this?
And if you're like me, aren't you asking more questions?
Is this teacher cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs and guiding the next generation of learners with this cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs mentality and lens on life?
You got mommy issues?
Okay.
Oh, here we go.
Call a therapist.
Here's another line from the actual article.
Don't tell your students.
Where it says,
along with well wishes for his students.
It's a man with confirmation?
I mean, it says his.
In Schilling's reporting?
Yeah.
Okay.
Was your mommy tough on you, Judah?
Was my mommy tough on me?
Sure.
Am I going to go tell complete strangers about it?
No.
Yeah. I mean, equating something that
happened at a school with how their mother abused them for 21 years, it's a little TMI.
Ginny Hu, this email is bizarre and crosses multiple lines. Of course, when you have the
federal government labeling parents who speak at school board meetings
as domestic terrorists,
should we be shocked a teacher thinks
this is an acceptable way to handle things?
Probably not.
Do we get, before we move off this topic,
do we get any kind of communication
or acknowledgement
from Superintendent Dr. Matthew Haas' office?
Or do they utilize summer break as the monkey's emoji, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, and hope it just goes away? I mean, this is from the article, so remember that this is Schilling writing.
But it says, County Public Schools Superintendent Matt Haas, perhaps in hopes that it will simply
go away without either having to officially address the created situation.
And parents have complained that the subject email, that's, I think, the least worried,
the least I'm worried about in this entire thing is,
I mean, you know.
I'm worried about this teacher's health and well-being.
Yeah.
Genuinely.
I don't think anyone's going to go after the teacher for saying white women.
I'm worried about how many students were influenced or affected negatively by this teacher's distorted lens.
You're saying before they left?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that's just what you have to realize is a part of sending your kids to school.
You don't know necessarily.
Ginny, who's a mom, is it a mom of three or four?
She said, I'm sure you can guess what my response would be if any adult emailed something like that to one of my children.
Yeah.
Dude.
If.
Two.
Two.
Two twenty-three in the morning.
Knock, knock, knock. If someone emailed something like that to our sons,
my wife would...
Ballistic.
Ballistic.
Yeah.
I would be fearful of the teacher sending the email
because of my wife and be saying,
Because you don't want your wife to go to jail for murdering someone.
Dude.
Mama bear.
Don't mess with the mama bear.
Oh my goodness gracious.
This is what we come back to after going to a family wedding for a few days.
Next headline, Judah Wickauer.
Is it baseball and basketball?
Yeah.
Remind everybody, a new show launching at our network at 2.30 p.m. today featuring Nate Kibler,
the White Mountain Ministry Show.
We're excited for that.
He's got quite a story to share with you, the viewers and
listeners. I generally try not to focus on sports with this show because we have a sports show
with me and Jerry Ratcliffe, the Jerry and Jerry Show. Virginia Sports Hall of Famer Jerry Ratcliffe
been on the UVA beat for longer than anyone
covering the University of Virginia.
So I try to leave a lot of the sports coverage for that show.
But we have so much sports information
that needs to be in the news cycle,
that is in the news cycle that we need to touch on.
First, let's talk baseball.
The baseball team just won a regional in Charlottesville
where 6,000 fans were in attendance
for pretty much every single game that UVA played.
Brian O'Connor's baseball team positively impacting
the economy here in the Charlottesville area again.
Because he performed so admirably and won this regional,
Brian O'Connor's baseball team is now hosting a super regional
where one team, instead of three in the regional, now one team in the super regional will come to
Charlottesville, and that's Kansas State. Virginia is a heavy favorite to beat Kansas State. First
pitch Friday night, seven o'clock, at the Dish and National TV, ESPNU. The first team that wins two games in a best of three series advances to Omaha,
the College World Series,
where Brian O'Connor has been,
if he wins, if he wins this Super Regional this weekend,
he would have earned a Omaha berth
three out of the last four years.
That's significant.
And how about this statistic for your cocktail parties
or your conversation over the dinner table tonight?
Since Brian O'Connor has taken the job at UVA
as the head baseball coach for the Virginia baseball program in 2004,
he is the winningest and has the winningest team and program
in all of college baseball.
So from 2004 to now, no other program in college baseball has won more games
than Brian O'Connor's Virginia baseball team. You are looking at and Brian O'Connor on a very
short list of greatest coaches in Virginia athletics history. Kevin Yancey on the Jerry
and Jerry show said that Mount Rushmore of coaches, Tony Bennett, Brian O'Connor, Julie Myers,
women's lacrosse, Dom Starge, men's lacrosse, and George Welsh, the football coach.
Julie Myers, a hell of a pickleball player as well.
I'd say maybe you consider a Debbie Ryan on that list.
Definitely a Debbie Ryan on that list.
Maybe a Terry Holland on that list.
The swimming coach, the swimming coach,
the tennis coaches, Brian Boland in the current one, Kevin Sawyer, the rowing coach who's about
to retire. I mean, they have an abundance of riches. Not only is the baseball program
noteworthy news, but the basketball team has become noteworthy news. And we're in June.
Dante Harris entered the transfer portal
and now has decided to leave the transfer portal
because he didn't have any interest
that was noteworthy to him.
So now he's returning to Charlottesville
to play for Tony Bennett,
and he's coming back as a walk-on.
You're talking a one-time Big East Tournament MVP
from Georgetown, came to UVA.
He had a subpar year this past
season. He tried to transfer from UVA, not much noteworthy interest, and he comes back as a walk-on.
Maybe Dante Harris is at a starter, but this is a guy that certainly can give you quality minutes
off the bench. If that's not enough information, there's scuttlebutt and rumor mill from Chris
Graham of the Augusta Free Press
that Reese Beekman is thinking about leaving the NBA draft and returning to Charlottesville and Tony Bennett's team for a sixth year.
Reese Beekman, the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, one of the best point guards in the country,
has fallen off NBA draft boards, not even a second round pick.
Only first round money is guaranteed,
second round money is not guaranteed, Beekman not even projected to go in the second round,
now there's talk he returns to Charlottesville, plays a six year of college basketball,
tries to capitalize on NIL money, where the rumor is maybe $500,000 in pay, that certainly beats the
$40,000 he would earn in the G League. If Beekman
returns to Tony Bennett's program for a sixth year, it's a big if. You're looking at talent on a
roster that is as good as any in the country, especially after you get a forward from Duke to
leave Durham and head to Charlottesville, a forward from San Diego State to head to Charlottesville via the transfer portal.
Day Day Ames leaves Kansas State, comes to Charlottesville via the transfer portal.
Christian Bliss is ready to go.
Isaac McNeely is back.
Tane Murray is back.
Blake Buchanan is back.
I mean, good God, this team goes from potentially one point guard on the roster,
a starting lineup that's in shambles, and a cover that's empty, I mean, good God, this team goes from potentially one point guard on the roster,
a starting lineup that's in shambles in a cupboard that's empty,
to an abundance of riches.
An abundance of riches.
And just like that, Tony Bennett shows again, proves to everyone that he can take a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish
and feed 14,000 or 15,000 people
in the John Paul Jones Arena
and do it while walking on water.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Great to be back in the saddle.
Vanessa Parkhill says,
I hope the teacher who penned the email gets the help they
need. Albemarle County Public Schools will say little about it under the umbrella of personnel
issue. I think she's right. Oh man. That's the Tuesday edition of the I Love Seville show.
Nate Kibler and the White Mountain Ministry show,
2.30 p.m. on this network.
This show is making history, and you're going to see why.
Maybe the first in the Commonwealth of Virginia of this kind,
led by Nate Kibler, 2.30 p.m. today on the I Love Seville Network.
Giddy up and get ready. For Judah Wittkower, my name is Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us.
So long, everybody. Thank you.