Tony Elliott held his final press conference of fall camp on Monday evening and, somewhat expectedly, he has yet to name a starting quarterback as the competition between Tony Muskett and Anthony Colandrea continues with less than two weeks remaining before the 2024 Virginia football season begins.

Here’s what Elliott said on Monday about his timeline for determining the starting quarterback for week 1.

“I’m hopeful that, as we get through this week, in fairness to whoever it is, he’ll at least have a week to prep as the starter, but we’re gonna have some tough conversations with all of our personnel over the next couple of days,” Elliott said. “This is a little bit different because of the times that we’ve had in camp. We’ve really been able to push these competitions to get a good body of work to make decisions. So, I’m hopeful that sometime this week, we should be able to settle in on who’s going to be the guy, or if it’s going to be a combination of both of them, again. For those guys, they’ve battled their tail off. They’ve both done a good job. And now it’s on us as coaches to do the right thing based on the body of work as we truly evaluate it and what gives us the best chance to go win football games.”

It was always a possibility, and a relatively likely one, that Elliott would wait until the week of UVA’s season-opener against Richmond to publicly name a quarterback. But not only has Elliott and the Cavalier coaching staff not given any indication as to which way they are leaning as fall camp comes to a close, but Elliott also said he hasn’t ruled out playing both quarterbacks. When asked about the possibility of playing both quarterbacks, this was his answer:

“That’s to be determined. If that’s the way that it shakes out, you know, that’s the way that it shakes out. And again, we’ll have those conversations and see what’s best for the football team,” said Elliott. “I think you got both guys that are very, very capable. But I’m not gonna say yes, I’m not gonna say no. Those will be conversations that we’ll have the rest of this week to determine as we get ready to prep and how we need to prep for Richmond.”

Tony Muskett and Anthony Colandrea both started six games last season and each had their ups and downs, which is why this quarterback competition is so close. But last season, all of the games Colandrea started were with Muskett unable to play due to various injuries. Now, both quarterbacks are healthy and Elliott and his coaching staff have a tough decision to make with many factors to be considered.

Which quarterback gives Virginia the best chance to win? How long is the leash for the eventual starter in week 1? Does Tony Muskett’s experience give him the nod or does Anthony Colandrea’s future potential as a younger player make a difference? Does playing both quarterbacks in the same game offer more benefits than drawbacks?

I, for one, do not envy the UVA coaching staff for the decision before them, but the clock is ticking.

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RICHMOND, Va. — More than 100 Virginia Democratic politicians, activists, and voters descended upon Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention.

The Virginia delegation wants to see Democrats come together at the convention as they formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential nominee, Democratic Party of Virginia Chair Susan Swecker told CBS 6.

While most Virginia voters have selected the Democratic presidential nominee in the last few elections, voters elected a Republican ticket for the top statewide offices in the 2021 election.

“I believe that there is a lot of buyer’s remorse for what [voters] did in 2021,” Swecker said. “Voters are seeing it, and we’re going to make sure they know what is at stake in this election.”

Protests over the war in Gaza are taking place in Chicago and have drawn comparisons to protests over the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic Convention, also held in Chicago.

“Democrats want to come out of this convention A, united, and B, really supportive of Kamala Harris,” CBS 6 political analyst Dr. Bob Holsworth said. “What they don’t want to happen here, and this is the one fear they have, they don’t want to have this convention in some ways defined by the demonstrations outside the convention.”

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Thousands of marchers churned through Chicago’s streets protesting U.S. support for Israel during the war in Gaza. But inside the convention hall, the combustible issue went largely unmentioned until President Joe Biden got to the microphone.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez got cheers when she praised Harris for working “tirelessly to get a cease-fire in Gaza and get the hostages home.”

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia made a brief allusion to the conflict.

A handful of delegates who ran on an “uncommitted” ticket protesting Biden’s position on the war unfurled a banner during his speech that read “Stop Arming Israel.” But it was blocked by supporters waving Biden signs before it was wrestled away and the lights over that section of the audience were shut off.

Biden himself addressed the issue head-on, saying he’d keep working to “end the war in Gaza and bring peace and security to the Middle East.”

“Those protesters out in the streets have a point,” Biden said. “A lot of innocent people are being killed, on both sides.”

The crowd cheered, and for a moment the war didn’t seem like it was dividing the party at all.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

HOUSTON – Federal agents arrested a Houston man in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday after he’s accused of making violent threats for weeks against a state governor, deputy U.S. Marshal, Houston attorneys and their family members, according to a newly unsealed federal criminal complaint.

According to emails obtained by KPRC 2, the threats were targeted at Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Henry Kopia Keculah Jr., who once appeared to be a rising star in Houston’s education world, now faces three federal counts including influencing a federal official by threat, cyberstalking, and interstate threats.

“When my people get her in possession, we gonna chop her hands off, and she’s gonna be an amputee the rest of her life,” Keculah said in a now-deleted video posted on YouTube and shared with KPRC 2. “Don’t never steal from me again. Now one of your kids might not have no hands.”

In the video, he named the daughter of Greg and Angela Marcum.

“It’s hard to describe how you feel because you just kind of go numb,” Angela Marcum said. “It does scare you, you know, makes you want to fly up and you know, sit in front of her front door and walk her to her office every day.”

The Marcums have been on the receiving end of the threats for about three weeks, they said, after Houston attorney Greg Marcum successfully defended a Houston contractor in a lawsuit filed by Keculah.

The lawsuit dealt with Keculah’s denied insurance claim for water damage at his Houston home, which Greg Marcum said he was found to have caused. Keculah has now been ordered to pay more than $200,000, Greg Marcum said, mostly for attorneys’ fees, some in contract damages, and others in sanctions.

“He sent emails to me over and over again saying, ‘I’m never going to pay’,” Greg Marcum said.

The emails escalated and soon targeted more than just their family.

According to the criminal complaint, another Houston attorney connected to the same lawsuit told authorities she received threats by both email and a phone call to her law office.

In a recorded call to the law office, Keculah identified himself and told a woman on the other end the attorney needed security because “people are gonna start dying” and that there will be body bags, records state.

During the court proceedings for the lawsuit, a federal judge issued a bench warrant for Keculah and a deputy U.S. Marshal went to Keculah’s home in an attempt to serve the warrant, according to records. They saw Keculah fleeing the home. They left a notice that they attempted to serve the warrant and left. They returned a few days later to try and serve the warrant again, but Keculah was not at home.

Following this, Keculah allegedly sent an email to about 25 people, including the attorney and the deputy marshal, threatening to kill them.

In one email to the federal law enforcement agent, Keculah allegedly threatened to “light your a** up like a Christmas tree!”

In response to Governor Greg Abbott’s post on X about sending resources to California to help fight wildfires on July 28, Keculah allegedly responded “You and I in the same room, that is what you call a successful assassination attempt. (Emoji) I don’t need three attempts, I just need one! Up your security!”

The account “@Henrykeculahjr” was suspended for several days and the governor’s security detail was alerted, according to the complaint.

“By Friday, if you all don’t intervene, I will take whatever necessary actions to protect myself,” Keculah wrote in an email obtained by KPRC 2. “That even includes killing Governor Greg Abbott, because I am under duress. You can check every award I have won.”

That’s where Keculah included a link to the Houston Business Journal, which named him a “40 Under 40″ honoree in 2019. The headline described him as a former teacher who dedicated his life to helping underserved students.

A quick Internet search reveals Keculah has been a speaker at SXSW, is President of the Liberian Association of Greater Houston, and he founded a company called 4.0 GPA, which he claims “has worked with some of the biggest school districts in the United States.”

FBI Special Agents used phone data to track his cell phone to Virginia, and in calls with him, he allegedly admitted to making the threats.

Records show he was arrested in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday, the day after the warrant was signed and about three weeks after the threatening contact began for the Marcums.

They are relieved he’s in custody but uneasy that Keculah was so close to their daughter, who had been a target of the threats, all while they thought he was still in Texas. It’s not clear why he was in that region.

“You never know what’s going to turn them into leaving their computer behind and actually, you know, going out and literally hurting someone,” Angela Marcum said.

Keculah had been wanted in Harris County since July 28 for similar allegations, state court records show, but prosecutors filed to dismiss the cases on Aug. 8 citing insufficient evidence.

“Hopefully justice will be served,” Greg Marcum said.

Keculah has a preliminary and detention hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in Virginia.

“I don’t want him to let him bond out that close to my child that he’s threatened their life,” Angela Marcum said.