White: Reid Back in His Element
Courtesy: VirginiaSports.com Release: 01/07/2010
By Jeff White

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- If you're a sports fan and lived in the Richmond area during Jim Reid's tenure as University of Richmond football coach, you probably remember his voice and that unmistakable New England accent.
On radio ads, Reid would promise that his Spiders would play "haahd, smaaht and tough."
Look for him to instill those same qualities in the young men he oversees at UVa. Mike London has hired Reid, a man whose passion for the game is unsurpassed, as the Cavaliers' defensive coordinator and associate head coach.
Their professsional relationship dates to 1995, when Reid, then the new head coach at UR, hired London to coach outside linebackers and serve as recruiting coordinator.
London spent two seasons on Reid's staff at UR before leaving to coach the defensive line at Boston College, where Reid, coincidentally, had been defensive coordinator in 1994.
Reid, 59, spent the past two seasons coaching the Miami Dolphins' outside linebackers, an experience he called "marvelous and wonderful, working with great people."
Under Reid's tutelage, Joey Porter had 17.5 sacks in 2008, the most ever by a Miami linebacker.
He wasn't looking to leave the NFL, Reid said Thursday afternoon in his McCue Center office. But he's long admired what UVa stands for, and he decided he couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with London again.
"The first issue when changing a job, no matter where it is, is who you're working for," Reid said. "Coach London was with me on my first staff at the University of Richmond. Great teacher. Great with the young men, not just in teaching football, but in making sure their academics were squared away, making sure their social life grew within the expectations of the University of Richmond.
"And he coached football the way it should be coached: with interest, a little bit of tough love, and the feeling always that a player could come to him. Never any problems with his players. And they grew as men and as athletes.
"Then the other issue when you change jobs is: What is the environment that you're going into?"
When Reid was a graduate assistant at the University of Massachusetts in the early '70s, head coach Dick MacPherson asked what Reid had planned for spring break.
"I said I was doing nothing but staying in Amherst," Reid recalled. "He said, 'All right, 'I'm going to send you down to observe one of the finest coaches in America. I want you to watch him, I want you to take notes, and you'll become a better coach.'
"He sent me to Navy to observe George Welsh. Normally you went to Michigan in those days, or Ohio State. I went to Navy."
After Welsh moved from Annapolis to Charlottesville, Reid began visiting him at UVa. He would break down film with Welsh and Tom O'Brien and other members of the Cavaliers' coaching staff.
"So I got to know the University a little bit then," Reid said. "And then when Coach [Al] Groh came in, he was very gracious to me, always. Almost embarrassingly so. If I walked by and he was in a meeting, he'd come out."
Every summer, Reid said, he would work at Groh's camp at UVa, "so I was around here all the time. It was fun. Not just that, you have a different perspective [on a school], and it was a perspective that I found wonderful.
"So now you have both of those components" -- London and UVa -- "and you put them together, and it's a place you want to be. And frankly, I missed recruiting."
Before joining the Dolphins, Reid spent 35 seasons as a college coach, starting as a GA at UMass in 1973. He's been head coach at UMass, Richmond and Virginia Military Institute.
"Developing kids and helping them become men, that's the big thing," said his son, Matt, a UR graduate who's now an assistant baseball coach at the U.S. Military Academy. "He loves the whole recruiting process. I'm excited for him to get back to the college game."
Among the players Reid recruited at UR was Shawn Barber, who had a 10-year career as an NFL linebacker. Reid was defensive coordinator when Barber enrolled at Richmond. He was the Spiders' head coach for Barber's final three seasons.
"Very hands-on, very knowledgeable," said Barber, now an assistant coach at Baker University, an NAIA school in Kansas.
"My memories are more about him teaching me life skills than teaching me to play outside linebacker or play safety ... Definitely cared more about the person than the player. Talked more about honesty and responsibility, those things, more so than X's and O's on the field. He figured if he could coach you to be a good man, it's easier to find your way on the field than it is in the world."
Reid said: "It's fun at college, because you bring them in as freshmen and you can watch the growth, and you feel a little bit responsible as they grow and as they become better and as they achieve in the classroom. Whether you are or not, it doesn't make any difference. You feel a little bit responsible."
Education is important to Reid, who has a bachelor's degree from Maine, where he was a three-year starter at safety, and a master's from UMass.
"I went to every single graduation at every school where I was head coach. At UMass, I used to carry the Arts and Sciences banner in," Reid recalled.
"When I was at Richmond, they allowed me, after the first couple of the years, when they saw that our football program's interest in academics was sincere, to walk in with the faculty at graduation. That was a marvelous event every year."
Players develop in the NFL, too, Reid emphasized. But it's different.
In college, he said, "you know that these guys are going to be with you for four or five years. You can watch them, and you develop -- you should, anyways -- a close and trusting relationship that helps in their development in every phase of their lives.
"You still have to win. But I honestly feel that if you take care of all of the expectations of a college student, then you have a better, more confident athlete who will compete better and harder on the football field."
In September 2008, Reid required heart-bypass surgery after suffering a dizzy spell during a run at a Dolphins practice. His health problems are behind him, he said Thursday.
"Shoot, just before training camp [last summer] I was doing 30 miles a week," said Reid, a dedicated runner.
Matt Reid said: "He's stronger than he was before. He's in great shape. The energy's always there."
Most of the players he'll coach at UVa are still home on holiday break, but they'll experience Reid's legendary energy level first-hand soon enough.
"I'm fired up to be here," he said. "I can hardly wait to meet the players."
Some of the coaches he already knows. He worked with London at UR and with Jeff Hanson at UR and VMI. He needs no introduction to Chip West, whom London hired away from Old Dominion University this week.
And then there's Anthony Poindexter, the former All-America safety at UVa who now coaches defensive backs at his alma mater.
After accepting London's offer to join the UVa staff, Reid said, "I called Anthony Poindexter and I said, 'Anthony, I'm so privileged to be with you.'
"Because let me tell you, I studied him. He didn't know this, but I studied him. I thought he was as great a safety as ever I've seen. Ever. I watched him, and I watched his instincts, I watched how he reacted to players.
"I said, 'I just can't believe, watching how you played, that your players aren't going to play exactly like you.' Because I've also watched him in camps, and he conducts himself and his whole life the same way, with high energy and enthusiasm."
When Reid was a head coach, his teams' base defense was the 4-3. The Dolphins favored the 3-4 when he was in Miami. That's also what UVa ran under Groh, but London plans to switch to the 4-3.
Reid is still finding his way around the McCue Center, but the PC in his office works. He called up NFL.com Thursday and proudly showed a visitor the Dolphins' sack totals for the past two seasons.
Miami ranked eighth in the NFL in 2008 with 40 sacks. This season, the Dolphins were third, with 44. Whichever scheme UVa runs, Reid said, one thing won't change.
"We're going to rush the passer."
 

London Names Reid Defensive Coordinator and Associate Head Coach
Courtesy: VirginiaSports.com Release: 01/07/2010

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - Virginia head football coach Mike London announced Jim Reid has joined the Cavalier football coaching staff. He becomes the sixth member of London's staff and will serve as the defensive coordinator and associate head coach.
"I am very pleased to announce that Jim Reid will be the defensive coordinator here at Virginia," said London. "He is a former head coach and is a well respected person throughout the state of Virginia. Coach Reid brings passion and energy to the program, and is an excellent 'people person' guy. I feel confident our defensive players will come to love and respect him.
"In addition to his defensive coordinator position, Jim Reid will also serve as the associate head coach. My relationship with Coach Reid goes back to my early coaching career and I am excited about what he will bring to the entire organization."
London served as the recruiting coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Richmond during Reid's first two seasons as the Spiders head coach (1995-96).
"The first attraction to any job is who you work for," Reid said. "Coach London and I go back to when I first worked at Richmond. He was on my staff and did an unbelievable job of organization and of coaching the players and showing interest in their academics and did a marvelous job in recruiting with his high energy and his personality.
"I've been around the University of Virginia for a long time and I have an idea of what the University is about," said Reid. "Recruiting in-state, you see the type of special player that comes here for the great football experience and the great education Virginia offers. As a life-long football coach I believe in the principles and ideals of football. The University of Virginia stands out among the very best schools in the country at what football is meant to be. This is a challenge I wanted to accept. I am absolutely privileged to be a part of this staff."

Reid joins London's staff after spending the past two seasons as the outside linebackers coach for the Miami Dolphins. In Reid's first season overseeing the Dolphins' outside linebackers, Joey Porter produced a career-high 17.5 sacks, a figure that ranked second in the NFL during the 2008 season, as Miami hoisted the AFC East Division Championship banner for the first time in eight seasons. It also was the most-ever sacks by a Dolphins linebacker and third-most overall. For his performance, Porter was named to the AFC Pro Bowl squad, the first Dolphins outside linebacker to earn this accolade since Bryan Cox in 1992.
Of Reid's 36 seasons as a coach, almost half were spent as a head coach, most recently at VMI, where he guided that program in the two years preceding his appointment with the Dolphins. He also served as head coach at Massachusetts from 1986-91 and Richmond from 1995-2003. Reid returns to the Commonwealth where he spent 13 of his 36 career seasons.
In Reid's six years as the head coach at UMass, the school produced a composite record of 36-29-1 as he guided the Minutemen to three Yankee Conference titles. In 1988 and 1990, he was named the Yankee Conference Coach of the Year.
His nine-year run at Richmond included a pair of Atlantic 10 Conference championships and five finishes in the Top 20 in the FCS ranks. He also was selected as the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year on two occasions (1998, 2000) and the Yankee Conference Co-Coach of the Year once (1995). Reid left Richmond as the program's third-winningest coach with 48 victories, including leading the Spiders in 2000 to their first 10-win season in program history.
Prior to taking over the head spot at UMass, Reid spent the previous 13 seasons at the school as an assistant, including the first two as a graduate assistant. Six of those 13 seasons resulted in a Yankee Conference title. Following his tenure at UMass, he spent the next three seasons as a defensive coordinator, the first two at Richmond (1992-93) and the final one at Boston College (1994), helping the Eagles to the Aloha Bowl Championship. After his stint as head coach with the Spiders, Reid spent the 2004 season as an assistant at Syracuse when the Orange were Big East Co-Champions, appearing in the Tangerine Bowl, and 2005 as an assistant at Bucknell.
Reid, a native of Medford, Mass., earned a bachelor of science in education from Maine in 1973 where he was a three-year starter as a safety on the school's football team (1970-72). He earned a master of science in sport management from Massachusetts in 1975. He and his wife, Judy, have two daughters, Meghan and Molly, and a son, Matt.
Reid joins Anthony Poindexter, Vincent Brown, Jeff Hanson, Mike Faragalli and Chip West as assistant coaches London has previously announced as members of his staff. This will mark the third time that Reid and Hanson have worked together. Hanson served as an assistant coach under Reid during head coaching stints at Richmond and VMI.
 

Cavaliers bring in pair of coaches
Mike London names Jim Reid defensive coordinator, and Shawn Moore returns.
By Doug Doughty
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Shawn Moore can't seem to get Charlottesville out of his system.

Moore, a star quarterback at Virginia during the late 1980s and 1990, said Thursday that he has accepted an offer to join the staff of new UVa football coach Mike London.

"I've already been back once," said Moore, who briefly lived in Charlottesville following the end of his professional career in 1996. "This will be third time I've moved there."

Moore, who has lived in the Washington, D.C., area for more than a decade, has never been too far from UVa football. He has done commentary on the Cavaliers' pre-game show for parts of the past two seasons.

That is, when he wasn't serving as an assistant coach at St. Albans School or watching his son, Michael, a promising defensive end at DeMatha in Hyattsville, Md.

"I wouldn't say that coaching was something that I had planned to do," said Moore, who estimated that football amounted to 25 percent of his responsibilities at St. Albans, where he was dean of students for the lower school, grades 4-8.

"I don't think I realized how much I missed football until I started coaching. I love watching my son play, especially [with him] on the other side of the ball. I've always been an offensive guy.

"He helped me make the decision. I wanted to get his blessing because I didn't want to take him out of his routine."

Michael Moore, a sophomore, will remain at DeMatha. Shawn is expected to receive the Washington metro and northern Virginia as his recruiting areas, which should afford ample opportunity to watch his son play.

Moore will coach either the quarterbacks or wide receivers, depending on Virginia's choice of an offensive coordinator.

London will not announce Moore's appointment until given permission by UVa's human resources office, but Virginia did confirm the hiring Thursday of former University of Richmond and VMI coach Jim Reid as the Cavaliers' associate head coach and defensive coordinator.

Reid, 59, has served as linebackers coach for the Miami Dolphins for the past two seasons.

"The first attraction to any job is who you work for," said Reid, who was London's boss during the 1995-96 seasons, when London coached the Richmond outside linebackers and served as recruiting coordinator. "I am absolutely privileged to be a part of this staff."

Reid's appointment completes the defensive staff, but Moore's selection leaves two spots to fill on the offensive staff, including a line coach.

Mike Faragalli, Richmond's offensive coordinator under London for the past two seasons, could assume that title at Virginia, but London is weighing several options.

Rip Scherer, the Carolina Panthers' quarterbacks coach and a one-time Virginia assistant, is in the mix for UVa's coordinator job. Pep Hamilton, who coached the Bears' quarterbacks until a mid-week purge in Chicago, also has been mentioned as a possible hire.

Moore, 41, was an all-state quarterback for Martinsville High School in the mid-1980s and was the starter at Virginia when the Cavaliers shared the 1989 ACC championship and were ranked No. 1 in the country for three weeks in 1990.

In 1990, Moore finished fourth in voting for the Heisman Trophy.

"Ever since I met Mike London, I've been a huge fan," Moore said. "I like what he stands for [and] like his character. Everyone that's worked with him has nothing but good things to say about him.

"I like what I've heard him say in terms of, he wants his coaches to do the coaching. He's not going to interfere with that.

"I'm looking forward to working with the guy."

UVa Insider, The Column - Doug Doughty | Roanoke Times

Virginia continues to add football assistants, but the questions won’t go away.

Who’s going to be the offensive coordinator?

Who’s going to coach the offensive line?
Who coaches the running backs?

What does Mike London do with the special teams?

Will there be a tight ends coach?

The announcement that former Richmond and VMI head coach Jim Reid has been hired brings to six the number of full-time assistants who have been named.

That number does not include former star quarterback Shawn Moore, who will make seven when London gets clearance to announce his appointment.

There are two full-time spots to be filled.
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Almost certainly, the next two full-time assistants will be on offense, but who coaches what?

Let’s say that Rip Scherer is named offensive coordinator. Scherer, the quarterbacks coach for the Carolina Panthers, reportedly was interviewed Thursday.

Scherer would be the offensive coordinator, two-year Richmond offensive coordinator Mike Farigalli would coach the quarterbacks and Moore would coach the wide receivers.

However, that would leave only one coach for the running backs, offensive line and tight ends.

Can’t do that.

You’d have to have Scherer coach the quarterbacks while also serving as coordinator, Farigalli coach the running backs and Moore coach the receivers.

That would leave the offensive line for an as-yet unidentified full-time assistant. Presumably, the Cavaliers would have a tight ends coach. They didn’t have a tight ends coach this year but it didn’t appear as if they would have a tight end until the offense was tweaked before Game 3.

You could get a graduate assistant to coach the tight ends and that would take care of the offense, but what about the special teams?

Presumably, those duties would fall to one of the five defensive assistants, most likely Anthony Poindexter. New assistant Chip West from Old Dominion will at least share secondary duties with Poindexter, which would free Poindexter to work with the special teams.

Poindexter has been involved in special teams at various times during his UVa tenure. Besides, UVa’s special teams can’t get much worse.

Much of this has been predicated on Scherer getting the offensive coordinator’s job and, since he’s interviewed already, you’d have to think he’s a legitimate candidate.

I was wondering why Scherer would be looking at a college job before hearing that Panthers’ head coach John Fox has only one year remaining on his contract, which means that Scherer can only be assured of an NFL job through 2010.

Many NFL owners are reluctant to commit to assistant coaches or even head coaches because of the threat of a lockout in 2011.

But, if Scherer isn’t hired, here’s an idea. Why not find the best offensive line coach available and dangle the coordinator’s job in front of him? UVa has had some pretty good offensive coordinators who also coached the offensive line, namely Tom O’Brien and Ron Prince.

Prince is still available, I guess, after the dispersal of the Groh staff, but London and his bosses have made it clear that they want to make a clear break with the old regime. Nevertheless, I’m not about to pass judgment on the new staff until it inclues an offensive coordinator and an O-line coach.

College notebook: Another younger brother playing at LU - Doug Doughty | Roanoke Times

Somewhere along the line, somebody should have learned from Stephen and Seth Curry that bloodlines should not be ignored in recruiting.

The Curry brothers are the sons of former Virginia Tech and NBA standout Dell Curry, yet even when Stephen was in the midst of an All-America career at the Davidson, his younger brother was not being recruited above the Big South level.

Seth Curry was so impressive as a freshman at Liberty that he attracted the interest of perennial ACC power Duke as a transfer.

Now it appears that the Flames are the beneficiaries of another promising legacy.

Freshman guard Evan Gordon, who scored 24 points Saturday in a 110-102 victory at VMI, is the younger brother of Eric Gordon Jr., a 2008 NBA draft lottery pick out of Indiana University who is averaging 17.3 points per game in his second season with the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Liberty connection is somewhat understandable, given that Eric Gordon Sr. played for the Flames in the mid-1980s, but Evan wasn't opposed to playing at a higher level and should have received ample exposure in 2008-09 at Hargrave Military Academy.

Gordon, recruited by former Liberty coach Ritchie McKay, didn't sign until McKay had left for an assistant's post at Virginia and been succeeded by Dale Layer.

"I was planning on going to prep school again," said Gordon, who played for Hargrave's postgraduate team as an undergraduate. "There were a couple of schools looking at me for 2010."

Hargrave coach Kevin Keatts said, "Schools had no idea he was coming to college this year. He just fell into [Liberty's] lap."

Gordon's father had fond memories of Liberty and had no objections to his younger son following in his footsteps.

Eric Jr. has been a more heralded player and Evan described that connection "as a long road, but I've enjoyed every second of it."

"I've gotten a lot of positives out of it; we've trained a lot together," said Gordon, who is averaging 10.6 points.

Layer, a former McKay assistant, was named Flames head coach April 8 but it was June 4 before Liberty announced the signing of Gordon.

Layer said he can't speak for what other teams were thinking "but he was looking for a place to play right away and we were really young."

"It was unbelievably great timing and I think God had his hand in it," Layer said.

Aging well

Ex-Virginia star Thomas Jones of the New York Jets is headed to the NFL playoffs after rushing for career highs of 1,402 yards and 14 touchdowns. It represents the fifth straight season of 1,000 yards or more for Jones.

Jones, who turned 31 in August, has rushed for 9,217 yards in his career and is within sight of his former UVa teammate Tiki Barber, who rushed for 10,449 yards in his career and stands 22nd on the NFL's all-time rushing list.

Recruiting

Kevin "K.P." Parks, who has made a football commitment to Virginia, was named Associated Press player of the year in North Carolina after rushing for a state-record 3,794 yards and scoring 59 touchdowns for West Rowan High School of Mount Ulla, N.C.

Parks, a 5-foot-7, 190-pounder, rushed for 10,895 yards in his career and stands third on the national all-time rushing list.

Since the end of the season, Parks has been the most valuable player in two all-star games, including last weekend's Offense-Defense All-American Bowl, where he carried 23 times for 197 yards and three touchdowns for the victorious East team.

 

Virginia officially names Jim Reid defensive coordinator
By Norm Wood 247-4642
January 8, 2010

Though he'll be returning to a state that will offer a lot of familiar faces, the main reason Jim Reid decided to accept the defensive coordinator and associate head coach positions at Virginia came down to one person.

In a long-anticipated move, Reid was hired Thursday by U.Va. to work under new coach Mike London, a Bethel High graduate. For Reid and London, the tables will be turning in terms of job description. Reid, who has been the outside linebackers coach for the last two seasons with the Miami Dolphins, was the coach from 1995-2003 at Richmond. In his first two seasons at Richmond, London was the Spiders' outside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator.

"The first attraction to any job is who you work for," said Reid in a statement released by U.Va.'s athletic statement. "Coach London and I go back to when I first worked at Richmond. He was on my staff and did an unbelievable job of organization and of coaching the players and showing interest in their academics and did a marvelous job in recruiting with his high energy and his personality.

"I've been around the University of Virginia for a long time and I have an idea of what the university is about. Recruiting in-state, you see the type of special player that comes here for the great football experience and the great education Virginia offers."

Reid, a 59-year-old native of Medford, Mass., was also the coach in '06 and '07 at Virginia Military Institute, and served as the coach from '86-91 at Massachusetts. He has 36 years as an assistant or head coach on his resume.

He's the sixth assistant coach officially named to U.Va.'s staff under London, who was the coach for the last two seasons at Richmond. Reid joins Kecoughtan High graduate Chip West, Anthony Poindexter and three former Richmond staff members under London, including Vincent Brown, Jeff Hanson and Mike Faragalli. Hanson was an assistant coach under Reid at Richmond and VMI.

"I am very pleased to announce that Jim Reid will be the defensive coordinator here at Virginia," said London in a released statement.

"He is a former head coach and is a well respected person throughout the state of Virginia. Coach Reid brings passion and energy to the program, and is an excellent 'people person' guy.

"I feel confident our defensive players will come to love and respect him."

Former UVa great Moore joins staff
By Jay Jenkins
Published: January 8, 2010
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With his defensive staff in place, new Virginia coach Mike London has shifted his attention to locking down an offensive staff.
That goal is closer to fruition — London has agreed in principle to hire former legendary Cavalier quarterback Shawn Moore as an assistant coach.
The University of Virginia also formally announced the hiring of Jim Reid as the Cavaliers’ defensive coordinator and associate head coach.
“I am very pleased to announce that Jim Reid will be the defensive
coordinator here at Virginia,” London said in a released statement. “He is a former head coach and is a well-respected person throughout the state of Virginia. Coach Reid brings passion and energy to the program, and is an excellent ‘people person’ guy. I feel confident our defensive players will come to love and respect him.”
As for Moore, the love and respect
remains in place from Wahoo nation dating back to his magical career as a quarterback at Virginia.
En route to finishing fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1990, Moore led the Cavaliers to a No. 1 national ranking before a late-season slide that coincided with Moore’s injury against Maryland.
After his career at UVa, Moore was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the 11th round and remained with the team as a reserve through the 1994 season. He also played in 1995 in the Canadian Football League.
After retiring, Moore served as the associate athletic director at Howard University, worked as an NCAA enforcement representative in Indianapolis and was a national scout for the XFL.
While he has not coached at the college level, Moore has served as the quarterbacks coach at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.
It is believed that Moore, a 41-year-old native of Martinsville, will serve as the program’s wide receivers coach.
As has been the case with the delayed announcement of Reid’s hiring, Moore is subject to the state’s hiring process, which delays an official release.
Oddly enough, Moore could ultimately end up working on an offensive staff that includes another former Broncos signal-caller.
It is known that London would be interested in hiring Bill Musgrave as his offensive coordinator. That, however, may be a pipe dream if Musgrave desires to remain in the professional ranks.
With that in mind, sources have confirmed that London interviewed Carolina Panthers quarterback coach Rip Scherer to become the fifth offensive coordinator at Virginia in the past decade.
A former quarterback at William & Mary from 1970-73, Scherer had stints as the offensive coordinator at Southern Mississippi (2003-04), Kansas (2001), Arizona (1989-90), Alabama (1987) and Georgia Tech (1986).
A former grad assistant under Joe Paterno, Scherer also served as the head coach at Memphis from 1995 to 2000 and at James Madison from 1991 to 1994.
Reid has a career that is just as illustrious.
He served as the head coach at UMass, Richmond and at VMI before joining the Miami Dolphins as the team’s outside linebacker coach.
While Reid coached at Richmond, he hired London as the Spiders’ recruiting coordinator and outside linebackers coach.
“The first attraction to any job is who you work for,” Reid said in a release. “Coach London and I go back to when I first worked at Richmond. He was on my staff and did an unbelievable job of organization and of coaching the players and showing interest in their academics and did a marvelous job in recruiting with his high energy and his personality.
Reid added: “I’ve been around the University of Virginia for a long time and I have an idea of what the University is about. Recruiting in-state, you see the type of special player that comes here for the great football experience and the great education Virginia offers. As a life-long football coach I believe in the principles and ideals of football. The University of Virginia stands out among the very best schools in the country at what football is meant to be. This is a challenge I wanted to accept. I am absolutely privileged to be a part of this staff.”
When official, Moore will become the seventh assistant coach to join London’s staff.
 

Cavs fall to Seminoles in opener
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Published: January 8, 2010
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Chasity Clayton chose to sit out her first year at Florida State to improve her skills while she studied the college game.
It’s already paying off.
The 6-foot freshman scored a career-high 15 points and had four of her eight rebounds on offense Thursday to lead 13th-ranked Florida State to a 68-50 win over No. 21 Virginia in the ACC opener for both schools.
“She was kind of Johnny-on-the-Spot,” Virginia coach Debbie Ryan. “She made the biggest impact on the offensive boards.”
Rebounding was one of the areas that Clayton concentrated on while sitting out last season to sharpen her game.
“I’m physical and can help my team out a lot rebounding,” she said Thursday. “Just give ‘em a spark.”
Florida State, which shared last year’s regular-season ACC title with Maryland, charged into command of the game with a 16-2 run midway through the contest that wiped out a 34-28 Virginia lead.
Alysha Harvin added 13 points and Courtney Ward had 12 for the Seminoles (14-2).
Monica Wright led Virginia (10-4) with 19 points, but was just 7 of 20 from the floor and committed six turnovers. Chelsea Shine added 10 points for the Cavaliers, who shot just 16.1 percent in the second half.
Florida State’s pressure defense and 48-34 edge in rebounds helped the Seminoles overcome 24 turnovers and 39.2 percent shooting. Jacinta Monroe also had eight rebounds for Florida State.
Courtney Ward added 12 points and Monroe 10 (along with four blocked shots) for the Seminoles, who were denied the outright regular-season ACC title last year after losing 68-63 at Virginia late in the season.
Virginia, which led by as many as six points in the first half, had a 34-32 lead at halftime but fell behind after going scoreless the first 4:08 of the second half. The Cavaliers managed just two points over a span of 9:55 midway through the game and finished with their lowest scoring total of the season.
Virginia made one last challenge, closing to 49-45 on Wright’s layup with 6:15 left, but a pair of free throws by Florida State’s Ward and Harvin’s 3-pointer stopped the run.
“I have no idea how you cut it to four and you don’t continue to make that run,” Ryan said. “I was very disappointed the way we let it go at that point. We basically just yielded to what they were doing.”
Wright, who came into the game averaging 21.1 points a game, was tagged with her third foul with 2:50 left in the first half and had just six points at the break while sitting for eight minutes.
“We got 68 shots to their 51 and just didn’t convert,” Ryan said. “Our team is going to have to step up and play a whole lot better.”