UVA Football Recruiting: Maryland, Coastal Carolina have QB1s from Virginia

For the second straight week, the UVA Football opponent is starting a quarterback who is a native of the Commonwealth.
This week, it’s Ethan Vasko at Coastal Carolina, a redshirt sophomore who led Oscar F. Smith in Chesapeake to back-to-back state championships.
Vasko, a 6’3”, 220-pounder, originally committed to ODU before his high-school senior season, but flipped his commitment to Kansas after leading Oscar F. Smith to the 2021 state title.
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[@lovman]

I believe UVA did recruit former *** Highland Springs QB (Henrico, 804) Khristian Martin, who is now a freshman QB4+ at UMD. UMD, putting the V into owning the DMV..

[@wahoo89]

UVA pulled the trigger too early on Al Groh IMO. Groh's teams were competitive, and Groh recruited pretty good players. The Groh era is the last time we had a 1,000-yard rusher and a consistent run game. We had NFL caliber Offensive Linemen also. Virginia has never been the same since the Groh era. London was just horrible, and Mendenhall was doing Ok but could not or would not recruit Virginia. Oh well....GO HOOS!

[@AugFreePress]

Strong observation here. Groh's only issue was, he couldn't figure out what he wanted at QB. He was great at recruiting both sides of the line and skill players.