“It’s what [is] needed for us to be a better football team.”

During a conference call with the media last week, Virginia football coach Mike London answered a question on the quarterback position with a lot more words, but none were as important as that 11-piece phrase. Simply put, if the Cavaliers don’t find someone to be more productive – or at the very least less counter-productive – at quarterback than the better part of the last decade, then what has become a yearly ritual of losing games won’t change in 2014. That, of course, would force Craig Littlepage to make that habitual reach for the reset button like a teenager of yesteryear still trying to enter that Contra code correctly.

So as the Virginia football program prepares for its annual Spring Game on Saturday, it is difficult to consider much more than that one position. Yes there are other things to discuss – and we still will as the week and the offseason days roll on – but really it seems like so much boils down to the glamour position for this program.

Looking back at the last 10 seasons, UVa owns a 55-66 record. That’s a 45.5% winning percentage. The better numbers are skewed heavily toward the start of that decade when the Hoos came through with three winning seasons in four years (2004, 2005, 2007). That four-year span included 29 wins and 20 losses (59.2% winning percentage), while the six years hence fell to 26 wins and 46 losses (36.1%).

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