http://www.roanoke.com/sports/uva/mcfarling-right-or-wrong-bronco-stays-...
But when he starts talking about the requirements of playing for the University of Virginia, the daily activities this team does, you can't help but have visions of a kindergarten classroom.
"In our position groups now, we have to earn our chairs," Powers, who's in the UVa rotation at defensive end, said after Saturday's final spring practice. "So if you get a question wrong, you lose your chair in the position group, and then after that you have to stand outside. This whole program is about earning everything."
How is any new recruit going to be ok with this? Yea maybe if you an upperclassmen and you get something simple wrong but how are you teaching new kids you make them sit outside the position group room?
Bronco Mendenhall is doubling down. That's the only conclusion you could draw if you came to Scott Stadium on Saturday to watch this amorphous mass of scholarship athletes with no jersey numbers (they have to earn those, too, as you know).
Mendenhall still has timed running requirements for the right to get on the practice field. He's still going to put the starters in a three-point stance coming off the sidelines following a change of possession. They're still going to draft their uniform numbers for the 2017 season only after they've proven they are worthy of them. Helmet decals continue to be an "earned-not-given" deal, too.
Have we started an official poll on how many total wins Bronco gets in his time at LOLUVA and how many years does he get?
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Rare for me, but I'm speechless.
Three point stance after a change of possession lolol
I think this dude may end up to be better for us than Al Groh and TimeCop combined when all is said and done.
Sure glad Bronco taught them something so far. #HardThingsTogether
"I was telling recruits today, we talk about doing hard work, but we're not doing hard work just to do hard work. We do it because we want to win games.
He later added:
"Here at UVA no one is soft, we put hard things together and if you're soft well then we'll just have to harden you up. I often tell recruits, I want to see you (work) hard, because that equals success, not just for me but for the recruit as well. I want them to put their hard things with everyone else's hard things and make hard things happen together".
Is this real? I mean has Bronco just mailed it in and is deliberately trolling UVA at this point? So much innuendo in that quote. Hilarious.
Unfortunately, no. The additional comments I made up by channeling my inner-Bronco.
Someone needs to get this guy a thesaurus...
Bronco is a muppet.
I don't think he'll break double digit wins in his tenure.
It's gone from having to earn your numbers, to having to earn chairs.
I'm so excited for where it'll go next.
Earn your bathroom breaks?
Earn your pregame meal
Earn your cleats
Earn your helmet
The possibilities are endless
Earn your Zima.
Earn Your Scholarship Offer - in other words, everyone arrives as a walk-on. No scholarship offers to high school students.
BRILLIANT!!!
Well, they're pretty much just a club team anyway, aren't they?
I was immediately thinking they soon will have to earn sheets of toilet paper to wipe.
Musical chairs perhaps? It teaches situational awareness, exercises reflexes and requires speed.
Over on the Sabre they defend him tooth and nail, as if his antics are going to carry the team from the romper room to the promise land.
They actually argue that they need to give him five years before being judgemental. When Whit gave Fuente an extension they all hooped and hollered, then they started discussing whether they should give BM an extension too.
I just hope, more than anything else, they keep him on for a good long time.
I have asked this before, but when he talks does he remind anyone of elmer fudd?
I guess you have to earn your numbers and your chairs, but not that extension.
He admits that he's the LOLUVA HC. I say that's earning it just based on enduring public ridicule.
When he commits career suicide, he does it.
I am just now noticing what his initials are, and they're glorious
Not so much Elmer Fudd as much as some weird cult leader.
well, if the magic underwear fits...
dum da dumb dumb duuuuuuumb
Spear and magic helmet?
I feel like this has to be out of context in some way. That would be an asinine policy. You're just embarrassing kids at that point, the questions have to be along the lines of explaining a responsibility on a call or repeat something the coach just said. Even then it seems dumb.
The one thing I will say about Mendenhall is I think he's going to have some tough mofo's over there in a few years but unless he steps up his recruiting I doubt it matters.
What's next? Men at UVA?
Those were the best damn bumper stickers in the history of bumpers.
What's next? Men at UVA?
That will never happen.
As a graduate of the VMI, I approve.
This sounds so out in left field to function, let alone resemble something productive. Is this how he operated and ran things at BYU?
Hilarious.
Go to reddit.com/r/CFB and ask anyone with Utah or Utah State flair. They have oodles of stories.
I wrote a Bronco Mendenhall version of "Hello" from Book of Mormon when he was hired. I kinda feel the need to rewrite and update it now. Maybe that's what I'll do at work tomorrow...
The dumpster is almost full.... and I smell smoke!
So... Bud gets bad opposing coaches fired and eliminated?
I can believe it.
That Lunchpail D will get after ya.
A recruit was observing a position group meeting when a fourth year who had lost his chair privileges handed him his playbook
I am so thankful we have a good athletic director.
I'm sure they'll be gunning for the Bears GM next...
If they have to earn their helmet decals, does that mean there will be a handful of monochromatic helmets accross the sideline from us at Scott this Nov?
I found some prototypes for the '17 UVA helmet stickers.
/s
Personally, even more so now, I cannot wait for next season.