We know that Virginia Cavaliers football coach Bronco Mendenhall has his quirks. His players have to earn their jersey numbers every year, he takes 90 minutes out of every day at such a demanding job for quiet self-reflection, and he gives his staff every Sunday off when most coaches are already back at work to dissect the previous day’s game.
Another of his idiosyncrasies is taking a lap around the field before the game.
“I come out, I walk around down our sideline — not in the end zone, but out of the end zone underneath the goalpost — and just make one loop,” Mendenhall said on his radio show Tuesday night.