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So, UVA football beat Wake Forest 17-16, despite Al Groh's best efforts, bringing us to a respectable 8-2 and first place in our division/conference/division again. Miami, who is currently stuck in Bizarro World, is terrible, and we get them next. We should beat them, but then again, we should have beaten NC State and Wyoming (which, like Golden, isn't really a state). Then we get an utterly beatable VA Tech team in Charlottesville.

This has arguably been the worst season of UVA football in recent history. Let me explain.

My first two years at UVA as a student were the last two years of the George Welsh coaching era. If you like not going for it on 4th and a centimeter in enemy territory, and instead punting into the end zone, then you clearly enjoyed the George Welsh era. He was replaced by Al "My son beat Florida State!" Groh, a former NFL by-default head coach who owns a Super Bowl ring. Hopes were immediately high.

However, Coach Groh soon found an affinity for North Carolina, specifically the Continental Tire Bowl, where we found ourselves most years, happily beating West Virginia or Pittsburgh most of the time. Hooray!

But then last year we didn't make any bowls at all. That's what happened in the Welsh era! Heeeyyy!

So, then this year happened. Looking at our early season schedule, it quickly became apparent that it was formed with a 11-1 finish in mind. I mean, Wyoming?!?! Yeah, we got that.

Then, we visited Laramie, Wyoming.

So, the calls for "Groh Must Go" began. Also, from me.

UVA fans were faced with a not unique dilemma. Hope for the best (like, for example, 8-2), or hope they tank. Like the 2006 Celtics, we thought, this might be the way to get rid of Doc Rivers...I mean Al Groh.

Then, we're 8-2. At worst, we'll finish 8-4 and make a non-Boise based bowl. And, really, that's pretty likely. We should beat Miami. We should beat Tech. But, with the Cardiac Cavs, who knows?

Regardless, despite AD Craig Littlepage not exercising Groh's option year last year, it'd be a surprise if we don't get Al "Mike, who beat Fla. State, says go for it on 4th and a long 2 when a field goal would put them away" Groh back.

If we beat Miami, then Va. Tech, then Boston College in the championship game, then some SEC school in the BCS bowl, then, OK, Groh can stay another year.

But, is that really going to happen?

Shit, at least we shouldn't end up on a blue field again. Right?