On the day he announced his retirement from coaching football, George Welsh fought back tears as he said, “I am now and will be forever a Wahoo. It's time for this old salt to sail off into the sunset.”
That is Welsh, the winningest coach in UVA’s history - a consummate Navy man who ran his programs by the Blue Angels’ maxim of “you fight like you train, so train like you fight”, but a converted Cavalier who maintains a residence in Charlottesville to this day, almost exactly 17 years after he left the game due to fatigue.