Usually don't give props to Wahoos but he was able to articulate UVA in a way I was never able to. Bravo.
"Mediocrity" is a viable term to describe Virginias athletic program. Its the kind of mediocrity that can be tolerated, through the specific blend of elitism and inferiority complex at the school. If you don't think thats a real thing, perhaps you've never heard the proudly wielded phrase "Public Ivy". You'll hear people tout the breadth of UVa sports. Yeah, they're a perennial contender in mens soccer, baseball, and lacrosse. But those are three sports that are tremendously difficult to support because they're the most likely to be played by the people you hated in high school.
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LOLUVA at its finest... and most public. LMFAO!!
Comments on the bottom are hilarious.
I was reading through the comments and one of them referenced BR and I died a little in the inside. These people have no idea what great sports journalism looks like...
First they need sports to journalism about.
Bumped this comment to green status for using "journalism" as a verb and the proceeding lol
I got some lolz from them - we get it, UVA has lots of national titles in sports nobody cares about! We get it.
VT has had some really good teams in non-revenue sports in recent years and we do a good job of supporting them here, but I don't think any of us are under the delusion that these sports move the needle in terms of perception. Which is exactly what all of those goofs commenting fail to realize... or if they do, try & rationalize hilariously.
It's ok to admit that you enjoy watching your soccer, lacrosse, baseball or softball team, but don't try and convince me that their success means anything in the long run when it comes to public perception.
Hey now! UVA has more women's tennis national championships than fans at their spring game
Ya see, the great thing about this joke is that it's so versatile. It can be applied to limos, Olympic sports, just about anything related to bashing UVA and tying it back to their football mediocrity/ineptitude.
As long as you can use a number, you can claim that it is more than the fans at a UVA spring game.
I have -5 dollars; but at least I have more money than UVA has fans at a spring game.
Darn it, we're an engineering school! We should be able to figure out the mathematical formula for determining the number of fans at any given LOLUVA spring game, shouldn't we? (Not me of course, I'm mathematically challenged)
I'm just saying that the number of UVA fans at a spring game is so small, that any number you can think of is larger.
Yeah it's:
X = 0
Where X is the number of fans at LOLUVA's spring game at any given year.
Let n(t) be the number of fans at the spring game in year t of Mike London's tenure. Let W(t-1) be the number of UVA wins in the previous year. Therefore:
n(t) = 1 / W(t-1)
Round down to the nearest whole number.
But... but the lim 1/0 DNE!!!!!
Exactly what I was thinking.
I have to believe that if UVA won zero games, Mike London would be fired, therefore the relationship cannot be calculated because one parameter (Mike London being the coach) is no longer true.
I think it's more like:
Let n = the number of things that you have.
At a given UVA spring game, there will be n-|n|/2 fans.
Well said, UVA alum! You should have told that to the 2 five star athletes that picked UVA on sgning day.
They're more worried about that paycheck and not about wins. If I remember correctly they'd rather go 1-11 or 3-8 and leave after one year for the NFL and become a 4th round pick.
What's pubic ivy?
It's that Ivy that makes you itch when you touch it.
You must not have noticed the "L" between the "B" and the "I".
Those comments below the article really are amazing. They are pretty much solidifying what he said in the article. Silly Hoos...
I fat fingered you somewhere along the way. It's fixed now. Praise be to Lord Joe.
Respect.
I stumbled over this part of your post a few times
OOHHHHH he meant with the turkey leg votes...
...sorry.
And praise be to the Helix Fossil.
This is from Twitch Plays Pokemon for anyone unclear. Got thousands of people to play the same game.
Praise also be unto the Bird Jesus, as well as John the Zaptist, as well as their apostles, AAAIIIRRR, The All Terrain Venomothm, and the great and powerful Fonze.
They are completely incorrect.
UVA Football has absolutely NOT been mediocre for some time.
Calling UVA football mediocre in general is a stretch. If their football team gets to be mediocre then our basketball team should be considered mediocre.
Well there was that one season where they nearly made the ACC Champions... 38-0 Bro
Its UVa...
He's right. I did not know many non-assholes that played those sports growing up. Still more non-assholes than fans at their spring game though