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" The pressure is on for the most experienced coaching staff in the ACC to turn things around this season. However, faced with another challenging schedule that includes home games against UCLA and Miami, and road games at BYU, Duke, Florida State and Virginia Tech, will improvement translate into wins, coming off a 2-10 campaign? Given time, this staff should turn things around. Question is, do they have time?" — Lindy's Sports in its college football preview magazine "[Third-year] defensive end Eli Harold was unbe- lievable when he was playing hard. That wasn't all the time. [Redshirt fourth-year] linebacker Henry Coley — we thought he was the best linebacker in the entire league. Tough, solid, physical player. They have a corner, [third-year] Maurice Canady, that we were impressed with." — An opposing coach sizing up the Cavaliers for Athlon Sports in its college football preview magazine "Our strong spring capped another successful year for UVa athletics as 21 of our teams participated in NCAA postseason play. I'd like to thank our student- athletes, coaches and staff for all of their hard work this season. The university administration and our fans also gave us an incredible amount of support and they share in our success. We look forward to working with everyone associated with Virginia athletics to position all of our sports programs to compete in postseason play and help the depart- ment reach its 10-year goals of winning 12 NCAA championships and 70 ACC titles." — Athletics director Craig Littlepage after UVa finished fourth in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup competition for Division I schools , which was the school's second-best finish and eighth straight year in the top 20 hoo's talking 0 is the number of returning ACC players with more rushing yards in 2013 than fourth-year running back Kevin Parks, who tallied 1,031 yards and 11 touchdowns on the ground last year. Parks was tabbed as a preseason All-ACC honoree and was named to the Doak Walker Award watch list for the nation's top running back. 3 is the ranking of Virginia's running backs unit in the ACC by Athlon Sports' College Football Preview. All three of the Cavs' defensive units were ranked as the fifth best in the league. 6 assistant football coaches at UVa that have at least 30 years of experience in the college ranks — associate head coach for offense/tight ends coach Tom O'Brien, associate head coach for de- fense/defensive coordinator Jon Tenuta, offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild, special teams/running backs coach Larry Lewis, safeties coach Mike Archer and defensive line coach Jappy Oliver. 8 of last year's top nine tacklers return, including the top three. Fourth-year linebackers Henry Coley and Daquan Romero combined with fourth- year safety Anthony Harris for 260 stops, which was nearly a third of the Cavs' total. 13 is Virginia's national rank in percentage of yards gained returning in 2014, according to Phil Steele's 2014 College Football Preview. The Cavs return 87.81 percent of their yards passing, rushing and receiving from last year. 71 is the football team's national ranking out of 128 Football Bowl Subdivision teams by Athlon. 2,202 passing yards last year for third- year quarterback David Watford, which is third most in the ACC. However, redshirt second-year Greyson Lambert was listed atop the post-spring depth chart. notable numbers