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Virginia basketball latest champions to decline White House invite
Fox News ^ | April 27, 2019 | Fox

Posted on 04/27/2019 4:51:12 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

Add Virginia men's basketball to the long list of teams who won’t celebrate a championship with President Trump at the White House.

The program tweeted a statement from head coach Tony Bennett Friday that stated the team has " received inquiries about a visit to the White House.

"With several players either pursuing pro opportunities or moving on from UVA, it would be difficult, if not impossible to get everyone back together," Bennett added. "We would have to respectfully decline an invitation."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: finalfour; marchmadness; uva; virginia
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To: hsmomx3

Yep!


41 posted on 04/27/2019 7:04:21 PM PDT by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Invite runner up Texas Tech.


42 posted on 04/27/2019 7:05:04 PM PDT by larryleo
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

If you don’t like the people you are dealing with at the federal government, and you choose to separate them from your life, then don;t take the federal funds for research and grants that are given to the universities each year. Around 71% of the research funding for over $68 billion is from Uncle Sugar and the Peli grants are over $30 billion annually.

At least if you are going to take a stand, then don’t be disengenuous and flip off the feds with an upturned hand. Typical lying idiots that aren’t adult enough to act like one.

rwood


43 posted on 04/27/2019 7:08:05 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Why not?

They are snubbing Trump

Why can’t we criticize them?

The black players hate Trump as usual but probably can’t give a reason way that involves multi syllable words

And the whites are as usual cucked

I don’t have to approve of it


44 posted on 04/27/2019 7:09:01 PM PDT by wardaddy (When only the best Santa will do...call Joe Biden)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Yes let’s be nice

That works so well with these maniacs


45 posted on 04/27/2019 7:09:50 PM PDT by wardaddy (When only the best Santa will do...call Joe Biden)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Charlottesville & UVA are the headquarters of the Communist Party, Virginia - and elite snobbish arrogance (yes, they go together), so this is no surprise at all.

And I have a daughter who is a UVA grad...thankfully a conservative and the opposite of a snob....but UVA is the only school in VA where she could get a degree in Linguistics to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators.....

And I have a son who was a VA Tech grad first........go Hokies.......


46 posted on 04/27/2019 7:15:26 PM PDT by Arlis
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

It’s better for the President this way. If they came to the White House for an event you and I both know what the media’s agenda would be and it wouldn’t be to ask Tony Bennett how he beat Texas Tech. Charlottesville...


47 posted on 04/27/2019 7:17:07 PM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

great save the tax payers a few bucks and trump can focus on much more important things :) win! win!

ps: i bet some of them secretly wish they could have gone.


48 posted on 04/27/2019 7:43:31 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: b4me

I am a South Carolina Gamecock, so naturally I have absolutely no use for anything Clemson-related, but I have to give their national championship football team respect for not only going to the White House, but apparently loving every minute of the visit. So tired of these kids playing politics.


49 posted on 04/27/2019 7:53:20 PM PDT by burghguy
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To: burghguy

I can also guess that you’re not a UVA fan.


50 posted on 04/27/2019 7:56:18 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: burghguy

As a Hokie, I have no use for the Cavaliers but it is likely, given the faculty at UVA, that the University told the team they weren’t going to the White House.

Direction to UVA from VaTech - North till you smell it; East till you step in it!


51 posted on 04/27/2019 8:01:09 PM PDT by lurked_for_a_decade (Imagination is more important than knowledge! ( e_uid == 0 ) != ( e_uid = 0 ). I Read kernel code.)
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To: Arlis

Good, good. Charlottesville is a hotspot for madness.


52 posted on 04/27/2019 9:29:18 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

How will DJT ever, ever, ever get over this ?


53 posted on 04/27/2019 9:35:36 PM PDT by chiller (As Davey Crockett once said: Be sure you're right. Then go ahead. I'm goin' ahead.)
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To: chiller

I don’t think he may care. Whoever wins the NBA title this year won’t go either. The last to go was the Cavaliers.


54 posted on 04/27/2019 9:43:12 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

If my TTU Red Raiders would have won, they would be there.


55 posted on 04/27/2019 9:50:28 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Pelham
Yes.

EVERY time a team pulls this stunt, Trump should invite an NRA shooting champion to the WH for a celebration.

56 posted on 04/27/2019 9:52:01 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: larryleo

Now that is an idea!


57 posted on 04/27/2019 11:20:39 PM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: Ann Archy

Actually, Bennett is a very conservative outspoken Christian, but one who knows he can’t impose his own political views on his players.


58 posted on 04/27/2019 11:52:17 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

They are in Charlottesville. Screw them.


59 posted on 04/28/2019 12:32:44 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: wardaddy
The black players hate Trump as usual but probably can’t give a reason way that involves multi syllable words

They have been well educated in the classroom, so they understand the usage of at least one two-syllable word...

"Racist!"

60 posted on 04/28/2019 12:48:23 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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