Football in some ways is like marriage. If you can manage to stick to a few basic principles, you can get through the rough times. If your team can survive each other in sickness and health, good times and bad, for as long as you both shall … try to reach the end of November, success often will be the outcome.

The key for Virginia in 2007 is to control what it can control, exceed where it was average – at best – last year, and as football goes, hope that the intangibles, such as health, fall in its favor.

The 2007 squad returns a solid amount of starters as well as a new set of question marks.

Nothing is proven about the offense. How much did that left wrist impede Jameel Sewell ‘s growth? Does this team have a receiver threat?

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