With Virginia’s search for a new football coach in process and internet speculation swirling rapidly, Cavalier fans are left to sort through everything rumored, real, and otherwise.

The first name to burn through the UVA news cycle, Mark Richt, reportedly agreed to become Miami’s next head coach and will be introduced there Friday. Reports had indicated Richt would interview with Virginia on Wednesday with some indicating he was in town that morning. By late afternoon, however, the Miami news broke and conflicting information existed on whether Richt actually was in Charlottesville or not.

Regardless, that spun his name out of the news cycle as Virginia fans – many who were all in on Richt – reached for the reset button. On Thursday, the new hot names out there circled back to Western Kentucky head coach Jeff Brohm and brought forth California head coach Sonny Dykes. Virginia’s Scout network site Hoo Nation reported through an unnamed source that Brohm would interview with the Cavaliers early next week. Brohm’s name has been hot in connection with the various coaching openings around college football, but he reportedly – unnamed sources cited again by Louisville area media – did not want to do interviews until after WKU’s Conference USA Championship Game on Saturday.

That sort of timeline, of course, matches up with Virginia director of athletics Craig Littlepage’s news release on Sunday, which cited the fact that many of the possible candidates will be involved in postseason play. Sabre sources linked Brohm as a candidate of interest from early in UVA’s process, which reportedly involves a research and search committee, but did not have him among the top choices initially – that’s where Richt and Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen were located. Still, that sort of speculation about short lists likely involves at least a little bit of guesswork.

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