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Coach Mendenhall and members of the Virginia football team address media

Members of the Virginia football team met with media today following practice, just two days removed from the violent protests that overtook Charlottesville this past weekend.

Coach Mendenhall chatted with reporters for almost ten minutes, covering a breadth of topics from practice to his message to his team to how recruits reacted to the weekend’s events.

“Our message is one of consistency, unity, embracing diversity, and being together and respecting one another for differences, not separating because of differences,” Mendenhall said of his team. He also listed Kurt Benkert, Daniel Hamm, Quin Blanding, and Micah Kiser as, “.