Bronco Mendenhall ditches jersey numbers at Virginia this spring

Good luck trying to identify Virginia's players at practice this spring. A numerical roster sheet won't be of much help.

First-year Cavaliers coach Bronco Mendenhall is going to great lengths to establish a culture change in Charlottesville, and one of the first steps of that overhaul means stripping players of their jersey numbers.

Literally.

Hoos players are numberless, and will continue to be until their 2016 opener Sept. 3 against Richmond.

"There will be no numbers on the jerseys in the spring," Mendenhall said, according to the The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress' Andrew Ramspacher. "Nothing on the helmets, other than their names on the front."

The number selection process will be…