After almost a week of meditative silence, the Virginia Cavaliers’ interim head coach, Ron Sanchez, addressed the media Wednesday afternoon. The heir to the Tony Bennett throne preached continuity between the new and the old, commitment to the five pillars, and closeness to the father of modern-day Virginia basketball. Almost sounds religious, doesn’t it?
Sanchez has been an apple on the Bennett family coaching tree since 2003 when both Ron and Tony were assistants under Tony’s father, Dick, at Washington State. And the administration, the alumni, and the fanbase hope that apple hasn’t fallen far from the system that ripened it.