UVA Athletics has its favorites: I’m not one of them

You want to know what I really think about how UVA Athletics treats people? You already know that I’ve been going to bat for fans who are getting screwed out of a home football game so that the fat cats can have an excuse to go to Brazil. And how I feel about the this is not a reseating reseating policy for UVA Basketball that is pricing a generation of fans out of their seats. What you didn’t know, until last night, was how UVA Athletics treats the people who write articles about the games, the players, the coaches, like utter crap. Yeah, so, whatever, me making an issue of it means I won’t get to sit in the stadium with my laptop to report on games anymore. Think of the money I’ll be saving on driving, flying and hotels to go to bowl games, March Madness, the College World Series. The job of sportswriter is amazing fun, but it’s a job – and the people who work in the field deserve to be treated with respect. Not that the folks over there care …