Things are so bleak right now for UVA Basketball fans, they’re afraid I’ll take over The Sabre

An alert reader sent me a link to a comment on the once-popular The Sabre message board that referenced me in typical fashion.

It was from a typical down-in-the-dumps UVA Basketball fan – which, yes, I know, is there any other kind?

The rest of the free world is focused on whether there will still be a free world in a few days.

The fans on this cesspool of a message board are in a lather because a below-replacement-level guard hit the transfer portal, and a 5’9” high-school guard decommitted.

We all have our priorities.

Here was the comment:

Worst Case We get embarrassed in the non conference with 1 or 2 really bad losses. The mood around the program is horrible. We win a few decent games in the ACC but Sanchez is a lame duck by mid conference season and recruits see him as milquetoast. . Next recruiting class is awful and perception of the program plummets. Spend the next several years treading water until we fall back to the Gilley Leitao years. Virginia becomes the program its mostly been in my lifetime. Sabre subscriptions are cancelled en mass. Kris quits and that guy from the Augusta Free Press takes over.

Don’t say UVA Basketball fans aren’t self-loathing.

I’ll give this group some good news. The $200,000 offer that I’d had on the table to buy The Sabre two years ago is no longer on the table.

I was thisclose to buying the site, to the point where the previous owner gave me a look under the hood at the program that runs the message boards, I had a cashier’s check ready.

I mean, yeah, it was thatclose.

Then he decided to give Kris Wright, the site’s long-time editor, a chance to come up with a counteroffer, and I stepped away.

I don’t know what it ultimately went for, but I know what it’s worth to me now, and it ain’t $200,000.

I will say, though, that it’d be worth $20,000 to me to buy what’s left of it now, just so that I could film myself pushing the button flushing that toilet of a website into oblivion.

And if you think I’m being facetious, no.

I’m dead serious.

The pleasure of being able to carpet-bomb that Island of Misfit Toys back into the Stone Age is worth $20,000 to me.

That’s my offer. Take it or leave it.