Big win!! We be bowling again this year!!

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Jonathan Brewer can’t be on this coaching staff next year

What in the hell has happen for pass interference to be called??

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I agree with everything he said . What if this is a wake up call to all programs and the NCAA. Loosing your best coaches because they see this more as a pro model rather then student athletes. I like how he backed the players getting compensation but also worrying about their mental health and outside influences . I wish nothing but the best for him.

Well done Conor as always.

I really don't know what to expect tonight. It sounds like from Manny's press conference that we shouldn't expect much different as far as our QB's running abilities. Therefore we have to hope that the running game is as good as every other opponent has been against FSU. And the defense has to avoid big plays. I am encouraged that some injured players should be back on both sides of the ball and that has to help. I hope the students come out and really support its team tonight!

Go Duke!! Let's kick some Nole azz tonight!! Time to become bowl eligible tonight!!!

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Dattier said:

lol
You really don't know me. I could tell you stories about how I'm the voice of reason speaking up against adding language about social and racial justice to the preamble of a certain group's constitution, or advising the room against ousting amiable school board members who break from our opinion on very few, select issues. Well, I guess I just gave you a summary; I doubt you'll believe me anyway.

But also, that's just a stupid, unfounded claim. There's no actual way to prove it either way unless liberals DO become the norm here, and there's no risk of that. So you're making up something negative without evidence. That's illogical, stupid, bad faith, and really immature. You're so rigid and intellectually insecure you project your fears onto us.

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Immature, stupid, rigid. We’ve heard it all before At least Durham has the good sense to take a break every now and then, but good Lord you’re just pitiful

BOOGIEMAN1914 said:

welp guardians/dodgers and guardians sweep...lol

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#GoGuardians

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30-day window opened for them to leave yesterday.

I think they can leave and be eligible when the spring semester starts (obviously depends on which school they join).

I wonder if North Carolina tries to poach one of their big men.

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Not the best timing in the world but I wish him well. His players can transfer now correct? We need more depth on the wing maybe we can get Power to come back.

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Tbh I’d argue it’s great timing, right before the season. Staff stays the same. Kids won’t want to leave now and sit out the year after the whole offseason working.

Not the best timing in the world but I wish him well. His players can transfer now correct? We need more depth on the wing maybe we can get Power to come back.

Thanks Conor!

To reiterate/follow up after watching the first 20ish minutes of his presser:

- Not health related.
- Ron Sanchez takes over as interim coach. (TB said he always wanted one of his guys to take over for him)
- He was enthusiastic last week at media day, then UVA had their fall break and in that time, he realized his heart wasn't in it and wants to have more time away.
- Wants to remain involved with university ("with some long vacations," he joked to their AD)

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Sad to see him leave but he's just the latest in what will be a long line of traditional BB coaches hanging it up. The game has changed from player development to player empowerment. There are far too many outside influences on a roster to build anything for more than a year. I hope he enjoys his retirement and pops up on TV or somewhere to stay involved in the game.

Great news for the program. Should help in recruiting and hopefully it helps solidify Coach Pollard’s commitment to Duke as well. I’ve always felt that Duke should have a premier baseball program, and he’s made it happen.

Liftee said:

This further weakens the ACC. All the coaches who won titles are gone. Coaches like Buzz, Barnes (for better or worse), and Jamie Dixon have had success other places and done better than the coaches who replaced them. The next generation of coaches in the ACC have yet to prove themselves and, as said above, we will be losing two more very soon.

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It's not good for the ACC but man, those are ... some examples. Jamie Dixon, yes, Pitt got complacent and shouldn't have moved on. Weird example with Barnes, he was in the ACC when it was literally half the size it is now. Buzz's 5 years at VT: four 20-win seasons, 3 NCAATs, 1 Sweet 16; Buzz's 5 years at aTm: three 20-win seasons, 2 NCAATs, 1 NCAAT win.

Same time: Wake Forest went from Danny Manning to Steve Forbes. Georgia Tech went from Josh Pastner to Damon Stoudamire. Pitt suffered through Kevin Stallings ... but Capel has had back-to-back 20-win seasons, it's not like they're foundering. Louisville just went from Kenny Payne to Pat Kelsey.

SWEc/o95 said:

If this was in the works why did he sign an extension in June?

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To keep the roster intact? To ensure UVA could still go compete in the summer AAU circuit with this to combat negative recruiting? Because TB might have had a change of heart after the season, and given UVA was more active in the portal with better players, thought he could overcome whatever feelings about the current climate he had -- and sometime in the last four months, realized he couldn't? Because he just saw a month of practices with TJ Power as his second-best player?

This is from the press release of the contract: "Bennett’s extension will keep him under contract at UVA until April 30, 2030. If Bennett is UVA’s head coach on April 30, 2026, the contract has an automatic one-year rollover extending him until April 30, 2031."

I'd be interested to see more in the contract, if further outs were provided with the notion that this day could come.

This further weakens the ACC. All the coaches who won titles are gone. Coaches like Buzz, Barnes (for better or worse), and Jamie Dixon have had success other places and done better than the coaches who replaced them. The next generation of coaches in the ACC have yet to prove themselves and, as said above, we will be losing two more very soon.

I'll try to get this into a story on here but might not get to it -- obviously, baseball isn't too high on the priority list at this time of year.

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