GREENSBORO, N.C. -- It is still possible to view a Virginia football roster that lists Vic Hall as a quarterback and a cornerback.

Usually, ninth-year head coach Al Groh likes to keep the media guessing, but not in this case.

"All we're going to give him on the sixth [of August] is the offensive playbook," Groh said Monday at the ACC's Football Kickoff.

Hall, who is entering his fifth year at UVa, has played quarterback for just one game in his college career. That came in the final game of the 2008 season, when he rushed for 109 yards and two touchdowns in a 17-14 loss at Virginia Tech.

UVa has two other quarterbacks, senior Jameel Sewell and junior Marc Verica, who have started a combined 32 games. But Hall, who set multiple state records at Gretna High School, goes into the fall as No. 1.

"Since that's a unilateral decision and not one by committee, I think it's safe to say that he'll take the first snap," said Groh, who otherwise has turned over the offense to first-year coordinator Gregg Brandon.

"When we decided to do this, we said, 'This deserves a long-term commitment.' You can't just go out there and watch him throw the ball for five days and make a determination after the spring."

Sewell started 23 consecutive games during the 2006 and 2007 seasons but was declared academically ineligible following the 2007 Gator Bowl. He was readmitted to school for the spring semester and currently is enrolled in summer school.

"I really don't have any expectation there," said Groh, when asked about Sewell. "We're just going to go to practice and see what develops."

Groh gets regular feedback on the players who are in summer school. Over the years, there have been few blockbuster developments on that front.

"It's usually worked out well," Groh said. "Almost all of the players in summer classes are there to lighten their course load. But, coming down the home stretch, there was always something tied to [summer school]."

Groh hopes that Sewell is in good shape academically, "but there certainly can't be any missteps, which might be expected for somebody coming out of the circumstances that he's coming out of."

Groh was more encouraging about the prospects for Verica, who is the top-ranking Virginia quarterback with eligibility for 2010. UVa won four straight games with Verica in 2008 and he isn't out of the picture for 2009.

"Hey, look, he very well might be the starter," Groh said. "And, if he's not the starter, we're probably going to need him to win some games.

"Marc and I have talked about the fact that Chad Pennington won a lot of games at Marshall. He got redshirted when a transfer from Florida came in, then he came back and won two national championships."

Virginia hasn't gotten a transfer and Verica already has been redshirted, but no one is casting him to the side.

Personnel

Groh said that Matt Kelly, a four-year starter on the UVa men's lacrosse team, has gone through summer conditioning with the football team and has a chance to play on special teams for the Cavaliers.

Kelly, who is listed on UVa's roster as a safety, made second-team all-state as a running back for New Trier High School in Kenilworth Ill., where he rushed for 1,850 yards and scored 29 touchdowns as a senior.

n Aaron Clark from Rockbridge County is listed as the likely starter at the outside linebacker spot opposite fellow fifth-year senior Denzel Burrell. Clark emerged from a battle with Burrell to claim a starting spot for the Cavaliers' 2008 opener against Southern California, only to suffer a torn anterior cruciate ligament that caused him to miss the last 11 games of the season.

n Defensive end Kevin Crawford joins Rod Wheeler as the two scholarship players listed on UVa's spring roster who are not on the roster this fall.