May 15, 2009

There Is Joy Now in Charlottesville

By Brad Wolverton

If there were an official geographic demarcation between warm-weather and cold-weather programs in college sports, the University of Virginia would fall right on the border.

That makes its early-season baseball conditions a crapshoot, with some games played in the 70s and others canceled because of snow.

Unpredictable weather makes it hard enough to recruit top baseball prospects. Throw in a middling reputation and poor facilities, as Virginia's program had a decade ago, and