UVA Basketball: Ron Sanchez addresses media for first time as interim head coach [Video]

I hate that I feel the need to start this story about Ron Sanchez being formally rolled out as the interim head coach at UVA Basketball by addressing an interwebs rumor, but this is the world we live in.

A guy who advertises himself as a New England Patriots beat writer floated a rumor on social media last night that the University of Virginia had offered Ed Cooley, the second-year coach at Georgetown, a six-year contract, and that the two sides were, at this point, just working out the final details.

Odd thing to that was, UVA Athletics had reached out to the local media on Monday to invite us to a virtual presser with Sanchez as part of the rollout of Tony Bennett’s long-time top assistant as the interim head coach.

Then, at the beginning of today’s Zoom call, Erich Bacher, the head of the media-relations office for UVA Athletics, noted that we’d get more time with Sanchez next week at the team’s annual media day.

So, no, nothing was said formally about this Ed Cooley rumor, and none of the reporters on the Zoom asked, because we didn’t need to, but there you go.

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