The case for Groh Must Go
Notre Dame is about to begin its third coaching search in eight years after going only 54-42 and enduring three losing seasons in that span from Bob Davie to Ty Willingham to the now-embattled Charlie Weis. And Auburn is thinking about replacing Tommy Tuberville, who has gone 71-30 the past eight and stumbled only this year, going 5-7 after a 9-4 2007 that had the Tigers in the top 15 in the final national polls. And then there’s Phillip Fulmer, 68-34 at Tennessee since 2001, with two losing seasons in that period, but a national title in 1998 and a 152-52 record overall, including 98-34 in SEC play, who is already out of a job.
And you still think Al Groh, 56-44 in eight years at Virginia, with three losing seasons at a school that hadn’t had a losing season in 15 years before his arrival, shouldn’t be on the hot seat? Read more
UVa. not extending Groh
A day after the completion of the third 5-7 season in Al Groh’s eight-year tenure at the University of Virginia, athletics director Craig Littlepage announced that the school is not extending his contract for an additional year.
“In accordance with a specific clause in Virginia head football coach Al Groh’s contract, I have informed him that his contract will not be extended for an additional year. Coach Groh has three years remaining on his current contract,” Littlepage said in a statement released to the news media Sunday evening. Read more
Top-ranked Dukes get off the playoff schneid
At some point you got the feeling that the team that had the ball last would end up winning this one. JMU ended up with the ball last.
The top-ranked and top-seeded Dukes held off a game Wofford squad by recovering an onside kick with a minute to go to post a 38-35 win in the first round of the I-AA football playoffs Saturday night in Harrisonburg. Read more
Videocast | JMU wins playoff opener
Top-ranked JMU held off a second-half Wofford rally to post a 38-35 win in the first round of the I-AA football playoffs. AFP editor Chris Graham reporting with footage from the game and from the postgame press conferences. Length: 4:00. Read more
Steven Sisson | Don’t just stand there. Give ‘im a pencil
In 2003, the Blue Dog first met Congressman Virgil Goode at the Greene County Strawberry Festival.
While shaking hands and passing-out Sisson for Senate campaign literature, I heard a high-pitched shrilled voice calling-out … “Steeeveee Sissssson … anti-tax Democrat fer State Senate!”
Even though I had never met him, I knew the distinct voice of Congressman Goode from the countless media stories and interviews I had witnessed. The Blue Dog had always been a big fan of the congressman because Virgil Goode was a like-minded Blue Dog Democrat while serving in the General Assembly in the 1990s. Read more
Haresh Daswani | Mumbai Terrorist Attack: More has to be Done
The devastating attack on Mumbai in the evening of the 26th of November shows us the barbaric savagery of these terrorists. They have nothing to lose, and are willing to give their life to their irrational cause. These terrorists will still continue with their attacks, without a doubt, and with attacks this coordinated, international intelligence and security, we have just been presented just how vulnerable the world still is with terrorist attacks. Read more
Only three and a half more years of this, and it’s all over
Posted November 30, 2008
“They will NOT vote for an increase,” the former Waynesboro vice mayor declared in a letter to the editor published in the News Virginian today, referring to political allies Frank Lucente and Bruce Allen, whom Hatfield says are opposed to a proposed pay increase for city-council members proposed by Mayor Tim Williams, also ostensibly a political ally of Hatfield, though we have to wonder about that now, don’t we? Read more
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