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Upon hearing that Virginia had taken a football commitment from Ocean Lakes quarterback Corwin Cutler, here’s the first comparison that came to my mind:

Miles Gooch. Read more »

From UVa sports information:
 

Charlottesville, VA – As part of the announcement of early-season television selections, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced today Virginia’s first three games of the 2012 football season will be televised and the game times are now set for those contests. Read more »

Ocean Lakes quarterback Corwin Cutler has committed to Virginia, Cutler’s father told The Pilot’s Larry Rubama on Wednesday afternoon.

Cutler is a rising senior and is listed at 6-foot-3  and 182 pounds. Rivals rates him as a three-star recruit.

Cutler completed 114 of 206 passes for 1,703 yards last season as a junior. He threw 15 TD passes and eight INTs.

He becomes the second quarterback in a seven-player 2013 UVa recruiting class and brings to seven the number of scholarships QBs that the Cavaliers could have for 2013 (Michael Rocco, David Watford, Greyson Lambert, Matt Johns, Phillip Sims, Brendan Marshall  and Cutler).

My sources indicate that Cutler, listed with a 4.68 40 time by rivals.com has the potential to play another position.

One of my first thoughts upon hearing that No. 2 Alabama quarterback Phillip Sims was transferring to Virginia was that I could not remember a transfer ever having a major impact for the Cavaliers.

Upon first thought, I think I may have been correct, at least when the standard is “impact,” but Sims isn’t the first celebrated transfer to choose UVa after leaving one of college football’s perennial powers. Read more »

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Quarterback Phillip Sims (Chesapeake, Va.), a member of Alabama’s 2011 BCS title team, has announced he is transferring to Virginia.

“Virginia football welcomes Phillip Sims to our family,” said Virginia football head coach Mike London. “Hopefully he will have a productive career her at UVa as his previous accolades have shown.” Read more »

I guess we all should have known that something is up when UVa coach Mike London passed up a Chick-fil-A Bowl outing today in Atlanta.

Quarterback Phillip Sims, who is transferring from Alabama, visited Charlottesville today and committed to London.

Sims was rated the No. 1 prospect in Virginia in 2010.

There’s no word yet on his desire to seek a waiver that would enable him to play for the Cavaliers in 2011.

Dirk Katstra, chief fundraiser for Virginia athletics, highlighted some interesting numbers in a recent gathering of UVa supporters at Roanoke Country Club.

It had been 10 years since Virginia set a series of strategic goals in 2002 and, over that time, the Cavaliers had won 49 ACC championships.

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In the interim:

Following is a transcript of UVa offensive coordinator Bill Lazor talking about the potential for more big plays in 2012.

“A lot of these explosive plays are going to come from intermediate routs. I’d like to be better than anyone in the country throwing it between 15 and 25 yards deep. It’s hard to complete a 40-yard downfield pass. It takes work. Read more »

Justin Miller, who first became known to the Virginia men’s basketball staff when he attended the Cavaliers’ “elite” summer camp in 2009, has decided to enroll at UVa.

Miller’s father, Rich, said his son was planning to visit other schools until he visited Charlottesville this past weekend and shut down his search.

Miller was a 6-foot-1 point guard at  Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Mo., until he suffered a foot injury as a junior. When rest did not result in any improvement, he had surgery in December of his senior year in 2010 and did not play again.

He has been a student at the University of Missouri this year and had contemplated trying out for the Missouri team in 2012-2013. Instead, he will be the equivalent of a recruited walk-on at UVa.