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I now officially hate the Dean and Markel families -- Joe Pro 08/14/2019 6:33PM Re: UVa men’s bb announces the addition of Kirk Penney to the staff. -- builtbadgers 08/13/2019 9:51PM Why? For those of us who nothing of Mr. Penney, his skills, the position -- Bourbon Bowl 08/14/2019 10:06AM Re: Why? For those of us who nothing of Mr. Penney, his skills, the position -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 1:02PM He was instrumental in helping Tony after the UMBC -- Birddog 08/14/2019 10:14AM Like he was a life coach? Or he suggested more of a ball screen offense -- Bourbon Bowl 08/14/2019 10:55AM Re: Like he was a life coach? Or he suggested more of a ball screen offense -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 8:38PM
08/14/2019 1:12PM Right, so not terribly insightful for anyone to suggest Tony migrate that -- Bourbon Bowl 08/14/2019 1:43PM Changes in the offense.. -- Birddog 08/14/2019 10:57AM Seems Tony's Pro time in New Zealand was very bountiful long term. -- jdubforwahoowa 08/14/2019 09:39AM I thought you meant he was joining our Twitter staff. -- aficionadHOO 08/13/2019 9:25PM Well, there goes the CTB acronym... now it's D&MFMBHCTB ** -- The Hook 08/13/2019 8:39PM Who did he replace on the staff? -- LeadingEdge 08/13/2019 7:56PM He did not replace anyone. -- Birddog 08/13/2019 8:16PM Who is doing less work this year then? ;) ** -- Zhoo 08/13/2019 10:07PM No one will be doing less work.:) -- Birddog 08/13/2019 10:15PM Someone or a bunch of coaches last year was -- Zhoo 08/14/2019 09:46AM Nm** -- chocoburger 08/13/2019 11:10PM Nomenclature is the antithesis of the Five Pillars. Wonder what Tony think. ** -- WahooKnows 08/13/2019 6:57PM Darn good hire. So was Kyle Getter it seems. -- DFW HOO 08/13/2019 5:30PM If he is a Kyle getter, I’m all for it. ** -- Spudnut 08/13/2019 6:33PM And little Ben Penney can develop into our point guard of the future. ** -- MunichHoo 08/13/2019 6:02PM And there is your potential new coach Bucky ... if Gard doesn't work out. -- Blah 08/13/2019 5:17PM Re: And there is your potential new coach Bucky ... if Gard doesn't work out. -- builtbadgers 08/13/2019 7:32PM Dick Bennett got the Kohl Center built? They broke ground ... -- Blah 08/13/2019 10:52PM Re: Dick Bennett got the Kohl Center built? They broke ground ... -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 01:02AM I'm sure you were there in the front row and you might be right ... -- Blah 08/14/2019 08:49AM Re: I'm sure you were there in the front row and you might be right ... -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 09:39AM I had friends who played for Barry. It wasn't like Alvarez ... -- Blah 08/14/2019 12:00PM Re: I had friends who played for Barry. It wasn't like Alvarez ... -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 1:13PM What are you talking about in how they hired Alvarez? -- Blah 08/14/2019 1:35PM Re: What are you talking about in how they hired Alvarez? -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 8:25PM You're the same poster who made some BS post about Wasserman ... -- Blah 08/14/2019 10:35PM Re: You're the same poster who made some BS post about Wasserman ... -- builtbadgers 08/15/2019 09:27AM This is my issue with you. You claim you know the Bennetts. -- Blah 08/15/2019 10:12AM Okay ... I will back off and apologize to Biultbadger. -- Blah 08/15/2019 11:06AM Re: Okay ... I will back off and apologize to Biultbadger. -- builtbadgers 08/15/2019 11:31AM Nah ... I've been overly mean. It's my bad. ** -- Blah 08/15/2019 6:00PM WADR, let it go. -- Birddog 08/15/2019 10:45AM Yep and a lot of those people like sharing this to show how much he -- Mg234 08/15/2019 11:03AM We know that. However, this guy is claiming Wasserman ... -- Blah 08/15/2019 10:50AM Some things have only come from BB, some have come from him first and -- Mg234 08/15/2019 10:57AM Re: This is my issue with you. You claim you know the Bennetts. -- builtbadgers 08/15/2019 10:38AM Please let me know any other media outlet reporting Wasserman ... -- Blah 08/15/2019 10:44AM Re: Dick Bennett got the Kohl Center built? They broke ground ... -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 12:55AM He would have to work his way up to Assistant HC to get a look... -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 6:12PM He is also now on our two-deep for big man coaches with JWillie -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2019 5:32PM I love Black Santa, but Willy might be perfectly happy where he is. -- Blah 08/13/2019 5:39PM That title belongs to John Blake, as noted when he was exposed at UNCHeat -- Trigon 08/14/2019 07:47AM And we know Sodie is happy where he is. Maybe he tries ... -- Blah 08/13/2019 5:42PM Heads up. Finally some good basketball news. ** -- Tony BroncOak 08/13/2019 5:12PM The “Dean and Markels Families” line in TB’s official title is just stupid -- Texas Hoo 08/13/2019 5:11PM I get that the AD needs to be fund raising at all times... -- 73CAV 08/14/2019 12:01PM Disagree -- Trigon 08/14/2019 07:15AM Agree. Totally ridiculous. ** -- CyberHoo78 08/13/2019 9:31PM Pretty soon, the University itself is going to have a sponsorship name ** -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 08/13/2019 8:42PM It does- Mr. Jefferson's University! :) ** -- GO TIKI 08/14/2019 08:46AM At this moment. Charlottesville has already disowned him. ** -- AcousticHoo 08/14/2019 7:48PM The Bojangles University of Virginia. -- CDCHoo 08/13/2019 9:56PM How do you feel about named Chairs at the University? -- hootar 08/13/2019 8:29PM Named chairs is infinitely better than arbitrairily attaching a donor name -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 08/13/2019 8:44PM But the person occupying an endowed or named academic chair -- hootar 08/14/2019 10:14AM Is the Harrison Distinguished Professor in UVA’s Department of Biochemistry -- Trigon 08/14/2019 07:31AM Yes and one day that person will be gone, but the next coach will see our -- Mg234 08/13/2019 10:10PM It's hardly arbitrary, and chairs are positions, just like head coach ** -- 007 Hoo 08/13/2019 10:06PM Chairs are positions? How do you figure? The process is arbitrary, not the -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 08/13/2019 10:30PM It's standard practice in academia, the industry in question -- 007 Hoo 08/14/2019 08:21AM Oh screw it.... I'm going to start calling my mother the -- ThatDadgumBiscuit 08/13/2019 10:32PM Re: The “Dean and Markels Families” line in TB’s official title is just st -- builtbadgers 08/13/2019 7:35PM Well that assumes those families only gave their money -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 8:21PM Re: Well that assumes those families only gave their money -- builtbadgers 08/14/2019 09:45AM Why this is such a big deal, I have no idea ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 8:44PM VAF is bad enough do -- foos 08/13/2019 8:39PM Doing this is common sense.** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 8:43PM It is possible to have an endowment and not mention it... -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 10:00PM Sure you can but then it does not look as prestigious. There is a reason -- Mg234 08/13/2019 10:11PM I have explained this. It is only used in the press release -- Birddog 08/13/2019 10:05PM My family made a "friends of" donation -- foos 08/14/2019 11:42AM Get used to it. They want to do -- Birddog 08/13/2019 8:24PM It does not make it any less tacky ** -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 9:50PM Oh I’m sure they do. ** -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 9:04PM The only place you see this is in a press release. -- Birddog 08/13/2019 7:29PM Fans should be doing cartwheels this is happening. Tony is first domino, -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:30PM So many people said give Bennett a raise! Lifetime contract! -- chocoburger 08/13/2019 11:21PM Yep! ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 7:34PM VAF told me I couldnt use PIMP or Big DADDY when I wanted to donate to -- Zhoo 08/13/2019 7:23PM Try big daddy pimp ** -- Bladed 08/14/2019 5:44PM Couldn’t afford it ** -- Zhoo 08/14/2019 8:02PM Unseemly. He's UVa head basketball coach Bennett. find another way to -- SCWAHOO 08/13/2019 7:04PM Would you rather we go back to the old days? -- Birddog 08/13/2019 7:11PM To me this is a classic case of "act like you've been there" gone bad -- Beachwahoo 08/13/2019 7:37PM Well they are looking do to the same for Bronco and Oak. ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 8:00PM For the right amount of money, UVA will sell the naming rights for anything ** -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 9:53PM This is not UVA specific, this is big boy specific. People talked about how -- Mg234 08/13/2019 10:13PM Given that a coach's contract is guaranteed... -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 10:43PM UNC is seeking a donor for their Head Coach for $15 million. AD for -- Mg234 08/13/2019 10:46PM Same with any other school in todays fundraising -- Birddog 08/13/2019 9:55PM Duke Football OC has an endowment. West Virginia is seeking one for -- Mg234 08/13/2019 10:19PM This is like how Stanford and others have done it. Means money is there -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:06PM It is still awful ** -- HooStat 08/13/2019 7:12PM No it is not. The only thing awful about it is people griping just to gripe -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:14PM It is still awful. I don't have to like it. ** -- HooStat 08/14/2019 12:26AM Not even close to awful and you are right you dont have to like it, but -- Mg234 08/14/2019 12:27AM Everyone on this board thinks it is awful -- HooStat 08/14/2019 12:32AM It is not meant to be used during pregame introductions no, but it is -- Mg234 08/14/2019 12:36AM Nobody likes it on its face as a job title. Nobody. Not even Tony. -- HooStat 08/14/2019 01:44AM That is inaccurate on multiple levels. ** -- Mg234 08/14/2019 01:47AM Mg- how many other coaches have this in place? Many? ** -- BORNaCAV 08/14/2019 2:16PM Across the nation more every year and other big schools like UNC are -- Mg234 08/14/2019 2:23PM We should be able to find a better way to do it - go our own way w/recog. ** -- SCWAHOO 08/13/2019 7:08PM We are going our own way and a way that VAF has wanted to go for over -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:12PM Get a life! Welcome today’s world ** -- hoodog56 08/13/2019 6:58PM It’s smart and shows how much the program is funded and that we -- Mg234 08/13/2019 6:35PM Who are the other big time hoops coaches with title sponsors? ** -- Texas Hoo 08/13/2019 7:06PM Stanford for one. Purdue. Muffet McGraw at ND (HOFer) Mike Brey -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:10PM Juwan Howard is big time? OK ** -- Texas Hoo 08/13/2019 7:13PM Did it when John Beilein was coach. ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 7:17PM Right. That’s kind of my point. ** -- Texas Hoo 08/13/2019 7:17PM Michigan Basketball is and their two National Runner Up Banners in -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:15PM ^^^This^^^ ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 6:46PM Tony and Gary Markel are friends of mine - full disclosure -- W-S Hoo 08/13/2019 6:23PM I’m sure they’re great folks and I think it’s great they’re so generous. -- Haney 08/13/2019 6:56PM This is how big time college athletics work ** -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:17PM I have no issue with them, they’ve done great for UVA, -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 6:47PM Nothing wrong with that either. ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 6:52PM I just think that the only words that should be in front of head coach -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 6:54PM Know them well as well and I agree with you ** -- Mg234 08/13/2019 6:36PM Wish that I could give you more than 1 like. -- Birddog 08/13/2019 6:32PM Tony needs to have a title like a professor with an endowed chair -- ARKHOO 08/13/2019 5:51PM Maybe it should be: “Tony Bennett, head coach of the University of -- Texas Hoo 08/13/2019 10:31PM No because then you do not get the endowment down the line for the -- Mg234 08/13/2019 10:48PM Coach Bennett needs tenure. ** -- WVhoo 08/13/2019 6:44PM Personally it doesn't bother me one bit. ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 6:33PM Anthony G. Bennett Men's Head Basketball Coach Tony Bennett ** -- hoodeyo 08/13/2019 5:57PM VT should have bought the naming rights... -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 6:02PM It should be done with something relevant to him -- Saratoga Hoo 08/13/2019 6:27PM LMAO and longing for a ham and cheese sandwich. ** -- OldeWahoo 08/13/2019 8:23PM I will go with your latter suggestion because it is always Miller time... ** -- ARKHOO 08/13/2019 6:08PM Agreed. ** -- MunichHoo 08/13/2019 5:47PM I like UVa basketball being elite. I'll take the new title as part of that ** -- rmcwahoo 08/13/2019 5:31PM What are the full titles of other elite coaches? I’m not aware of K or Roy -- Texas Hoo 08/13/2019 7:04PM Brey does, Beilein did. K does not because he has supposedly been self -- Mg234 08/13/2019 7:19PM American Express Presents Coach Mike Krzyzewski** -- jackethoo 08/13/2019 7:10PM Naming everything is absurd... -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 5:18PM Bronco ponies up more he can be the Mendenhall Family Head Football Coach -- jackethoo 08/13/2019 5:28PM Maybe Nike should pony up...Advertisement in Perpetuity. ** -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 5:48PM Or better yet, Aramark ** -- confuzionrains 08/13/2019 5:49PM Like when Malkovich went into his own head. Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich ** -- Haney 08/13/2019 5:36PM Stanford similarities notwithstanding, it’s a bad look for the families ** -- Quintel 08/13/2019 5:17PM If Tony leaves and we end up with a Leitao like hire... -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 5:21PM Is there any other coach in the NCAA with that kind of title? ** -- EEcavalier 08/13/2019 5:15PM I looked it up, yes. -- hoodeyo 08/13/2019 5:17PM Why do people pee their name in the snow? -- Haney 08/13/2019 5:23PM Right, but it’s tacky and rightfully leads to people judging them ** -- Quintel 08/13/2019 5:27PM Cool, but I think there will be more coaches than players on the bench. -- EEcavalier 08/13/2019 5:08PM We never saw this coming :) ** -- ChiTownHoo 08/13/2019 5:01PM No doubt he has already bonded with the rest of the staff ** -- Kent Hoo Fan 08/13/2019 4:59PM Is this a new position? Or did somebody move on? ** -- Haney 08/13/2019 4:54PM If you peruse the current staff titles, it looks like a new position -- confuzionrains 08/13/2019 4:59PM Story mentioning Kirk Penney as part of the post-UMBC story -- confuzionrains 08/13/2019 4:53PM When I first read that story, my reaction was...hire that man! Glad we did ** -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 5:11PM Very exciting hire! Knowledge and obvious recruiting pull for Kiwis/Aussies ** -- Quintel 08/13/2019 5:03PM Likewise - I think he'll end up being a really good coach ** -- confuzionrains 08/13/2019 5:04PM I called this -- confuzionrains 08/13/2019 4:47PM No wonder! You read the book (story) :) -- VaBeachHooFan 08/13/2019 10:44PM My man! ** -- geocar 08/13/2019 5:42PM Nice call! Well done. ** -- plegard 08/13/2019 5:08PM Great hire. Somewhere there is a picture of me and my husband -- Mg234 08/13/2019 4:41PM Nbd, but this "Dean and Markel Families Men's Basketball -- hoodeyo 08/13/2019 4:39PM It is just like an endowed professorship or chair. No big deal. ** -- DnDHoos 08/13/2019 5:08PM How many press releases do they have for professors? ** -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 5:42PM Correct! ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 5:29PM They are branding a person in TB, not a chair or department. It’s arrogant -- Texas Hoo 08/13/2019 5:17PM I would like to The Sabre offer Edge membership naming rights as an -- hoorulestheacc 08/13/2019 6:04PM The blowback is good (and deserved). Get enough of it and maybe Dean and -- Quintel 08/13/2019 5:20PM There is not much blowback except on this board. ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 5:22PM The people on this board do not exist only here! ** -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 5:31PM Fine, I should have said those who post on this board. ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 5:53PM Re: The people on this board do not exist only here! -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 5:31PM I'm a Russian bot. What is this existence of which you speak? ** -- geocar 08/13/2019 5:43PM You’re talking out of your arse. Over/under on you deleting your post? ** -- Quintel 08/13/2019 5:26PM If there were any blowback from this. The whispers -- Birddog 08/13/2019 5:29PM This is the first time I have seen it in a press release... -- Yosemite Sam 08/13/2019 5:45PM This is not the first time it has been in a press release. ** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 5:47PM {moved my post}** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 5:14PM My opinion aligns with yours but contains more criticism ** -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 4:45PM Why? Welcome to fundraising in 2019. -- Birddog 08/13/2019 4:50PM Are you saying they’re only generous because they get their names in front -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 5:29PM On the humble to arrogant spectrum this nam doesn't fit with Tony's pillars -- CavalierIU 08/13/2019 6:24PM That’s a great point ** -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 6:42PM No, far from it.** -- Birddog 08/13/2019 5:31PM His dad JC doesn't have the money he used to from retail...so it goes! -- eric cartman 08/13/2019 4:52PM I know that. I’m just giving you a hard time. My beef is not with them -- 111Balz 08/13/2019 6:51PM As Brendan Byrne knows, they can always rename it ** -- Haney 08/13/2019 4:59PM This hire seems to make cents. ** -- jackethoo 08/13/2019 4:33PM I should probably leave the announcements to you and your staff. -- hooshouse 08/13/2019 4:34PM Instrumental in our success last year -- great hire ** -- ShenanHOOah 08/13/2019 4:28PM My understanding is CTB consulted with Kirk Penney after UMBC about ways -- Five Pillar 08/13/2019 4:19PM Dauster wrote a nice article on that. I’ll dig it up when I have a moment ** -- Haney 08/13/2019 4:52PM Confuzionrains posted it above ** -- Haney 08/13/2019 4:55PM Welcome to the family, Kirk! ** -- EmbraceThePace 08/13/2019 4:16PMGet the Sabre Edge!
