Al Groh Has Virginia Playing Like It's 1970

The 1970s was the decade of drugs, rising gas prices, and a pathetic Virginia football program. Some things never change. George Welsh is in the Hall of Fame for a reason. Welsh, a good coach at Navy, was sent to Charlottesville, Va. to what many had called the "coaching graveyard" of the Virginia Cavaliers.  Many wondered how he would fare after many bigger names had been humiliated trying to turn Virginia into a competitive ACC team. UVA had been a perennial laughingstock before Welsh's arrival, known as "everybody's homecoming game"—and who could blame them? In that decade, the Cavaliers had one winning season (6-5).  Even scarier was Virginia won as many games that season as it had in the last four years combined. The Cavaliers ended 1977 being outscored for the season 280-56. Let that sink in for a second: The Cavaliers scored 56 points...in a season! Obviously Welsh had hard work ahead of him, and what he created was a consistent winner: 12 bowl games, 13 seasons ... (link)