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14 CAVALIER CORNER BY JEFF WHITE O n any list of the greatest football players in UVA history, Shawn Moore would rank at or near the top. Gerry Capone's public profile is much lower, but he was an integral part of the program for nearly four decades, most recently as Virginia's associate athletics director for football ad- ministration. "There isn't anyone that's more UVA football than Gerry Capone," head coach Bronco Mendenhall said. Athletics director Carla Williams feels the same way. "I can pick any player from any era and ask Gerry to connect with me that player, and he has done it," she said. "He simply knows all of them. And not only that, he knows alums in other sports just as well." Williams has been equally impressed with Moore, a 1990 graduate of the University. And so when UVA athletics decided to add two positions this spring to ac- celerate fundraising for the Master Plan, she turned to these esteemed members of the Cavalier football family, and both were eager to help. Capone's new title is associate AD for development, and Moore's is associate director of development. Their immediate focus is the next phase of the Master Plan: a new football operations center. "We are so far behind in facilities when it comes to the training and meeting space that most programs have and the technology that they're using in those spaces," Capone said. "What [a new operations center] will do to help our players and our coaches to really excel is what this is all about. It's not about how fancy the building is or the bells and the whistles in the building. This is go- ing to be all about football and development and train- ing and giving our kids and our coaches the best chance to compete and win games." Capone has been at UVA since 1982, when he joined then-head coach George Welsh's staff as a part-time assistant. Moore was a three-year starter at quarterback for Welsh and finished fourth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy in 1990, when the Wahoos rose to No. 1 in the national polls. "Shawn is one of the most iconic figures in Virginia athletics history, and his legacy and that era of Virginia football are inspirational for us today," Williams said. "He loves the University, and he has an incredible abil- ity to bring people together for a common purpose." BUILDING BLOCK Gerry Capone And Shawn Moore Are Working Toward Bringing A New Football Operations Center To UVA