CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – All-American corner Bryce Hall’s playing days for University of Virginia football are over. Head football coach Bronco Mendenhall in his weekly Monday press conference says Hall signed a release for Coach to tell us Bryce had surgery on an ankle Sunday morning, and will fully recover. There is no timeline… but his last season here is done.
Bronco says he and Bryce were on the bus after the game Friday night after Bryce got hurt, and Bryce was sitting right behind him. He turned, and for one of the few times when he usually has something quick-witted to say to one of the players, nothing came… and Bronco said, “I have nothing.”
Bronco said he and Hall were talking about a quote they like, and they talked about one about a “human buoy” — meaning nothing could get them down. Mendenhall said Bryce with a big smile said, “Coach, I’m a human buoy.”
Mendenhall credits Hall with being as huge an influence on his life, as he has on the team.
Hall could have come out last year for the NFL draft… but immediately after the Hoos Belk Bowl win last December over South Carolina declared he’d come back for another year.
