1:47 A.M. on 9-28-08 East Coast Standard Time, Sunday.
Al Groh was hired by athletic director Terry Holland. It was a bad choice from
the start. Why?
1.Groh was too old to be a head coach. He was “escaping” from his job to retire on the job
at UVa, which is one reason he refuses to leave for another job.
2.Groh had not done a good job at his only other head coaching job at the college level.
Look at his performance at Wake Forest compared to the job that Wake’s present coach,
Jim Grobe has done at Wake Forest.
Terry Holland had no business being the athletic director at UVa. Holland was not
one of the choices picked by the selected search committee. Someone (rich boosters? who
were these people?) muscled through the search commitee and put Holland in to the
athletic director’s job seat despite the fact that he wasn’t even on the list of finalists.
Why?
Because he was part of the UVa old boy network.
And then, Craig Littlepage, the present athletic director, had never been an athletic
director before. He also was part of the “UVa old boy network,“ which got him his
present job. Would you say that the fact that he’d never been a head athletic director
can be seen with the fact that Al Groh is still here?
Virginia’s ineptitude in football is a result of Groh, Littlepage, Terry Holland, rich boosters,
and maybe even blind fans who defend Groh, Littlepage, and Holland despite what these
“clever” guys did to get their jobs.
And that’s not to even mention the previous UVa connections that John Casteen and Mike Groh had to
get THEIR jobs: Did these two guys really deserve to get their employment at UVa above
other candidates?
The state of UVa football is a story of group ineptitude, maybe caused by some of you who are reading this post right now. LOL!
