Within two weeks of arriving at Virginia in the summer of 2003, baseball Coach Brian O’Connor and his two assistants knew two things about the team they had just inherited: The roster had some serious talent and that ping-pong table in the players’ lounge had to go. “Our job at the time was to change the culture,” McMullan said. The message behind the locker-room changes: “This is a place where you’re going to work.”