Little surprise, except possibly the expediency, that Al Groh departs as the head coach of the University of Virginia football program Sunday after what we can assume was a brief conversation with Craig Littlepage and John Casteen. Groh is dismissed with a severance package unlikely surpassed by anybody except Ken Lewis: a $4.3 million buyout [...]
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Basketball in Florida: Six Degrees of Uncle Phil
To round out our tip-to-buzzer college basketball discussion this year (give us a break, NCAA Tournament Media Relations Department, we started in March), I can’t help but put a few words up about this year’s “coaching carousel”. We started by bringing to you very quickly, if not first, the news of Virginia’s new hire, Tony [...]
