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I wrote to the FOIA office at the University of Virginia on Saturday to request a copy of UVA Football coach Tony Elliott’s most recent contract, in line with my effort to try to determine what the buyout would be, if UVA Athletics were to want to cut bait with Elliott ahead of the end of the deal on May 31, 2031.

What the FOIA folks sent me today: a fresh copy of his 2022 contract.

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Wake Forest and Virginia reportedly had an agreement in the summer to go black (Wake) and orange (Virginia) with their uniform color schemes for their scheduled Saturday, Oct. 31 game.

Word is leaking out that the folks on the UVA Football side aren’t going to play along, which, bummer.

And actually, it’s not a leak – that word came straight from the mouth of Wake Forest coach Jake Dickert.

Thijs de Ridder had 17 points to lead four ‘Hoos in double-figures as the UVA Basketball team won its final preseason tuneup, 93-71, at Villanova, on Thursday night.

Online: https://augustafreepress.com/news/uva-basketball-what-we-can-glean-from-two-blowout-preseason-wins/ 

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Eight games into a lost season, UVA Football fans, understandably, are overreacting, because that’s what college football fanbases do when things go sour.

Online: https://augustafreepress.com/news/uva-football-three-overreactions-from-the-understandably-frustrated-fan-base/

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The Family Foundation, morally opposed to letting a trans kid even try out for a high school athletics team, is helping a homeschooled kid in Roanoke County whose parents fear that sending their precious little one to public school would “would expose him to worldviews, assumptions, and educational philosophies that are contrary to their faith” get a spot on a public school cross country and track team.

Online: https://augustafreepress.com/news/maga-group-wants-to-force-vhsl-to-let-homeschool-kids-try-out-for-high-school-teams/

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I’m not the AD at Virginia, which, great news for Virginia there, because the donors wouldn’t give the athletics department a dime if I were running it.

Kissing the asses of the money people is an important part of the job.

The other part of the job involves being the ultimate person within the football program.

Carla Williams needs to treat her job like one of her roles is to be president of football operations.

Here in the pod, I tell you how I would approach UVA Football if it were me serving as the liaison between the money people and Tony Elliott.

The people who fund UVA Football aren’t paying millions to lose 38-7 to a program that is about to fire its coach.

The ball is now in the court of head coach Tony Elliott, who has a lot of fixin’ to do ahead of this week’s game with Syracuse.

I don’t know that I expect the fixin’ to be all that extensive, but here on the pod, I lay out what seems to be an obvious first point of focus.

AEW star PAC – real name: Benjamin Satterley – passed away on Sunday in Des Plaines, Ill., hours after wrestling on the “All Out” pay-per-view.

The details are beginning to trickle out, so this is, for the most part, at this stage, still a lot of unknowns.

What do we know?

It’s back to the drawing board for the UVA Football program, which had its major flaw, at QB, exposed in its 38-27 loss to West Virginia in Week 3.

Another flaw – defensive coordinator John Rudzinski just assuming he can game plan based on the depth and athleticism of his group – was also exposed.

Go figure: you still have to game plan around what the other side is going to do.

That would be the final flaw exposed – with the coaching staff, which overestimated how simple it could keep things.

The only job that I can imagine UVA Football coach Tony Elliott leaving us for is the one at his alma mater, Clemson, where Elliott started his career as a walk-on, ended as a co-captain with an engineering degree, then came back to as a coach to serve as the play-caller for two national champs.

I think we’re now officially on Clemson Reaching Out to Our Coach Watch, after what we saw last night in Death Valley – the one down on the bayou.

Also on the pod:

- Norfolk State, the Week 2 opponent, hung around for a while in 31-10 loss at ODU

- Virginia Tech takes care of business in opener with VMI in 73-3 win

- JMU defeats Liberty, 20-13, in season opener ruled by stout D on both sides

- JMUCLA: Bruins defeat Cal, 45-24, in debut for former Dukes coach Bob Chesney

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A group of parents of students at Westwood Hills Elementary School has launched a petition on Change.org to request a meeting with Waynesboro Public Schools administration regarding safety issues at the school, as we’re learning troubling details about just how much more tragic the shooting at the school on Wednesday morning could have been.