Signing Day Storylines: UVA Signs 10 Student Athletes; Who’s Coming, & What’s Next?

By: Chris Horne |

Including 16 high school seniors and one transfer, the University of Virginia football program held 16 verbal commitments when Bronco Mendenhall announced his resignation on Thursday, December 2. Director of Athletics Carla Williams announced Tony Elliott has the Cavaliers’ new head coach last Friday and officially introduced him on Monday, December 13, just two days shy of the beginning of Division 1 football’s Early Signing Period. The difficult timing of Mendenhall’s departure cost the Hoos seven high school senior recruits, but nine stayed the course and signed letters of intent with Virginia on Wednesday (December 15).

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