Brian O'Connor tells hilarious story about Kyle Teel, his skills as a DJ

Virginia head coach Brian O’Connor and Kyle Teel, the Cavaliers junior catcher, unsurprisingly, have different tolerances relating to loud music. While the head coach has plenty of admiration for Teel and his musical abilities, what he did not have was patience for repeated meeting with the UVA dean of students regarding noise complaints in the dorms.

It was Teel’s freshman year and O’Connor recalled twice fielding noise complaints from the dean of students regarding DJing in the dorms. Recalling the episode with some humor two years later ahead of Virginia’s trip to the College World Series, O’Connor shared how he solved the problem.

“I am fully aware of Kyle Teel’s ability to DJ,” O’Connor said. “Because I can tell you his freshman year in the dorms, on two different occasions, I was approached by the dean of students regarding issues of loud music being played in the dormitory. And it was Kyle Teel’s speaker. So on the second occasion, I told Kyle that he has two hours to get that speaker over to my office. And that — it’s the largest speaker I’ve ever seen. I don’t know why you’d have it in a dorm room. But apparently he was playing it loud enough that you could hear it at the dorm next to his. So it lived in my office for the remainder of the year. And he came and picked it up later on. So one of the many stories about young Kyle Teel and how much fun he is to be around.”

O’Connor never did use the speaker himself — at least not for music.

“No, I didn’t. It just sat there, just because I wanted to make sure it wasn’t in his dorm room. I might’ve set a few things on it,” O’Connor said.

He might not be a fan of DJ Teel, but O’Connor is one of the biggest fans of Teel the guitarist and singer.

Teel apparently performed at Virginia baseball’s annual Step Up to the Plate event in January. O’Connor raved about the performance months after the fact.

“Lemme tell you, I saw Kyle’s guitar playing on stage at the Step Up to the Plate event this year. If you have not went online and looked at it, you have to,” O’Connor said.

And recalling the story of Teel’s loud music now, O’Connor reflected on the window it provided into the type of person Teel is, in the best of senses.

“But it just speaks to how much that young man loves life and how much fun he has in what he does and he’s just great around people. And just love him to death,” O’Connor said.