I’ve been harping for weeks, for years, that we need more people in the stadium.
And then you had to witness … that.
It was a nice day weather-wise. Temperatures in the mid-70s. Nice breezes.
You could have rented a party bus and gone up and down Route 151 in Nelson County and drank yourself into oblivion.
There’s got to be a gas station where you live that makes fried chicken.
We all have phones with YouTube.
Videos of drones flying over random cities would have been preferable to the experience that I signed you up for today.
The final was North Carolina 41, Virginia 14.
It was not that close.
The game was over halfway through the second quarter.
Fans started leaving before halftime, and the ones who came back for the second half headed for the exits after an early Carolina score made it 31-6.
Something has happened with the football part of UVA Football.
Two weeks ago, the ‘Hoos were a minute-fifty-five away from being 5-1.
Now they’re 4-4, and with three ranked teams and Virginia Tech left on the schedule, we’re staring at a 4-8 finish and a seven-game losing streak to close it out.
Last weekend was a blowout loss that saw Tony Elliott send Ben Smiley to the showers after getting an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
This weekend, Elliott had to send McKale Boley to the locker room after Boley got into an altercation with a teammate.
That came after the entire offense gave up on a thicc-six 84-yard INT TD from 6’4”, 290-pound defensive tackle Jahvaree Ritzie that seemed to eat up about five minutes of real time.
The only guy to make a half-hearted effort at tracking down Ritzie was wideout Malachi Fields, who started a sprint from midfield around the time the big guy was heading into the end zone.
Guys gave up on a long, slow TD.
They were fighting each other on the sidelines more than they were fighting the other guys in the trenches.
The football side of UVA Football is at its lowest point since the end of the Mike London era.
The business side is no better. They still haven’t figured out how to have enough buses available to shuttle fans from the far-flung parking lots into the stadium. There were concession stands closed because we don’t pay people enough to work in them.
Even if the good guys win, you’re going to lose people to the lack of buses, the lack of food.
The lack of fight from the kids, the lack of preparation by their coaches, none of that helps.
I wish I’d kept my damned mouth shut, and we’d had 22,000 in the house to not see this one.
Now I look like an idiot, for getting you to come, and watch that sh-tshow.
My apologies.
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Chris Graham
