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Bryce Perkins Was As Special As Everyone Thought He Would Be
Cavaliers on the bench are already signalling “touchdown” as Bryce Perkins gets to the edge on a first-half run Before the game, Bryce Perkins’ Mom said “Bryce is a playmaker. He’ll get it done.” Mom was right All year long, we heard about what a special player Bryce Perkins was going to be. Saturday night […]
If You Are A Monthly Subscriber, I Have An Idea For You
Now that we’ve gone through a month of a subscriber-based site, and we’ve also gone through the first football game, I’ve got an offer for those of you who are monthly subscribers. This morning I traded emails with a monthly subscriber. She wasn’t a big fan of PayPal and it was time for the monthly […]
Zac Attack: WR’s Play Saturday Hints At Big Things To Come
Receiver Hasise Duboise (8) leads ball-carrier Joe Reed through the Richmond defense Virginia’s passing game didn’t blow anyone away in Saturday night’s 42-13 win over Richmond, but it did offer some exciting moments that could have been a hint of things to come. The highlight was a 38-yard scoring hookup between new Cavaliers quarterback Bryce […]
The Tale Of The Tape For Today’s UVA-Richmond Game:
Welcome to “The Tale Of The Tape”, a look at how the Wahoos and their opponent each week stack up against each other statistically.This will be a regular feature here on JerryRatcliffe.Com on game day, but as is the case in every first game of the season, the previous year’s stats don’t really mean that […]
Perkins, UVA Explode For 42 Points In Rout Of Richmond
Virginia fans had to wait 40 minutes for the season opener against Richmond, but Bryce Perkins made the delay worth the wait as his running and passing sparked an offensive explosion in the Wahoos 42-13 rout of the visiting Richmond Spiders. The Cavalier running game – led by Perkins – was the star of the […]
New Home, Same Great Content: The Weekly ACC Power Poll
This is the first weekly ACC Power Poll that ranks all the conference football teams regardless of division. I have been doing this for years, so why stop now, right? The first week is always the hardest and the ACC is top-heavy with a few really good teams, then closely bunched for the most part […]
Bryce Perkins Part III: The “Thorterback” Bronco Was Looking For?
Bryce Perkins’ play has even excited his head coach When the great American poet Warren Zevon composed the tune “Excitable Boy,” he clearly didn’t have Bronco Mendenhall in mind. The Virginia third year football coach admittedly rarely loses composure. It takes a lot to get him going. Even when assistant coaches and players are going […]
“He Just Kind Of Resembles What UVa Football Is All About”
Jordan Ellis is described as the “most consistent, hardest working, most productive, least talkative” player on the team If University of Virginia senior running back Jordan Ellis happens to have a breakout season in 2018, Cavalier fans should be forever grateful to recently departed linebacker Micah Kiser. Kiser, now with the Los Angeles Rams, once […]
Hootie, Greg DePalma Debate This Weekend’s Key ACC Games
Hootie once again sat down with Greg DePalma of Ourlads (an NFL scouting service that has been scouting, evaluating, and rating college football talent as it pertains to the NFL Draft since the early 1980s) and the two broke down all of the key ACC football games this weekend. As an added bonus, also on […]
Another New Feature: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dave….
If you’ve been a sports fan for more than 5 minutes, you realize at some point in your fandom that your love of sports is going to intersect with your love of food. You really can’t have one without the other, as tailgating, cookouts, game-watching parties…they all require food. And good food too, not a […]
Will This Be The Season The Fans Return To Scott Stadium?
It has been awhile since Scott Stadium was filled to capacity The official capacity for David A. Harrison, III Field at Scott Stadium is listed as 61,500. Ten years ago today, the largest crowd in stadium history (64,947) saw Virginia get trounced by Southern Cal, 52-7. Only three times since Bronco Mendenhall has walked the […]
Bryce Perkins Part II: Outlook At One Point Looked Pretty Bleak
The date Aug. 8, 2016, sends chills down the spine of every member of the Bruce and Lynette Perkins family out in Arizona. That’s the day when youngest son, Bryce, went down during an Arizona State football practice, nearly ending in heartbreak. Shawn Griswold, now Virginia’s director of football development and performance, was in the […]
They’re Not Much To Look At, But They Seem To Know Football…
With football starting, odds are you may want to wager with a friend over a college football game. If you need advice, who you gonna call? Fortunately, the JerryRatcliffe.Com Pigskin Prophets are here to help. Often wrong, but never doubting for confidence, these experts will pick who they believe the winners will be every week […]
Bryce Perkins, Part 1: Playing Football Was The Family Business
At top right, Bryce Perkins in his youth leading the Phoenix All-Star team to a national championship in Orlando, FL. Below, from left, Bryce, his Dad Bruce, his Mom Lynette, and his brother Paul Frozen in time is a photograph hanging in the Perkins’ household in Queen Creek, Arizona. It’s a picture that captured 10-year-old […]
Young Players On Defensive Line Will Need To Grow Up Quickly
Eli Hanback said “I am the old guy” as he tries to help younger players learn UVA’s defensive plays With fall practice wrapping up last week, minor injuries kept Virginia defensive ends Richard Burney and Mandy Alonso sidelined for almost all of camp, leaving several younger players to fill the void on what was already […]
Joey Blount: Like Father, Like Son At Defensive Back For UVA
Like father (right, from 1977), like son… Sometime Friday, Tony and Marie Blount will make the trek from Peachtree City (about a half hour south of Atlanta) to Charlottesville to watch Virginia football. There’s a big reason for their excitement: Joey Blount, who was listed No. 1 at free safety on the Cavaliers’ depth chart […]
Wahoos Know Who They Need To Stop To Avoid 2016 Repeat
Virginia will have to keep an eye out for not 1, not 2, but 3 talented Richmond wide receivers The Virginia secondary will have its hands full Saturday when Richmond’s three-headed monster of receiving talent arrives at Scott Stadium. Spider wideouts Dejon Brissett, Tyler Wilkins and Cortrelle Simpson combined for nearly 2,800 yards (over 250 […]
Williams’ Goal: Reconnecting UVA Football’s Past With Present
Carla Williams hopes to bring more former UVA players back to campus and reconnect them with the program One of Carla Williams’ goals for the Virginia football team is to reconnect the Cavaliers’ past with the present by bringing former Wahoos back to meet and inspire the current team. Williams, UVa’s director of athletics, stated […]
It’s Time For The Very First Installment Of Hootie’s Mailbag…
Bill Millsaps, my writing idol growing up in the business, used to save some of the mail he received and would reply in a column ever so often. ‘Saps was an 11-time Virginia Sportswriter of the Year, was a Red Smith Award recipient and is in numerous halls of fame. My business partner, Dave Scarangella, […]
UVA Players Have Not Forgotten 2016 Game Against Richmond
Bryce Hall said UVA is “a completely different team” from the one that lost to Richmond in 2016 It was right around this time two years ago: The town had just been painted orange, and excitement was building around ‘Hooville and beyond in anticipation of the start of the Bronco Mendenhall era. Then a bunch […]
