UVA's Admissions Director and I Had a Twitter Argument About Cav Man

So in case you don't stalk my timeline (and, I mean, why wouldn't you?) I had a fun interaction during today's UVA game.

I was talking with a friend of a friend who is, unfortunately, a Hoo, and the subject of Cav Man came up. My main question being why is he not just a person in costume? Since, after all, the mascot version of him is just an out-sized version of a regular dude. And they have an actor play him for football games, but not basketball.

Now, the UVA girl says part of it stems from them wanting to keep the identity a secret (apparently one frat supplies all the people that get to be Cav Man because this is UVA we're talking about) but I still don't get it. So I posed the question on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AlexKomaVT/status/571775907586818050

If you dive into the replies, you'll notice that UVA's dean of admissions got involved at some point. Be sure to turn your attention to his final response, which I deemed among the more UVA things that anyone has ever said. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Tweedy can run like a dadgum antelope or whatever. I like to use scalded dog. Do antelopes lumber? Cheetah, OK. He runs like a cheetah. He's fast. - Bud Foster

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No, I *don't* want to go to the SEC. Why do you ask?

We don't love dem Hoos.

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Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor.

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