If a winning season is all that’s needed to give an extension then give Mooney a lifetime contract now and move to division 3. Just stop the facade of playing high level division 1 basketball.
I’d say your 2nd paragraph is a given. He’ll be here next November to coach in opening game vs a D2 or D3 game.
Yes. That was made abundantly clear this year. JOC posted an article about scheduling challenges in the summer before our schedule was released. He posted about difficulty competing with NIL before Queally’s post of being materially outspent and then a more formal article that followed.
The strange timing of these latest articles sure does make it seem like it is planned and they are all in together on the excuses. Most coaches, like maybe 99% of them, would give a quick answer to these random mid season questions about scheduling and NIL and then move on to talking about this year's team and the next game. But, Mooney spends probably 30 minutes answering these while not mentioning anything about our next game.
Sure feels that way. I remember JOC having cryptic tweets/articles before our move to the Patriot League for football too. Definitely comes across as our administration giving the information to JOC on what to say/write rather than JOC asking questions he thinks the public - in this case spider fans - would want to know the answers to, which in my opinion is what the job of a journalist who works independent of the university should do.
I think the $2M number is the total NIL budget including the school's contribution ... not just the donors.
It should be priority 1.
If that’s the case, as a university we have to be contributing more to that. We can’t be talking the talk about the importance athletics has for our university/community which to Hallock’s credit has mentioned a few times and also basketball being our flagship sport, and not commit more. The way I see it is there are 2 separate points here. Mooney should not be complaining about only having a $2 million roster with the results that he is producing as if the lack of money is to blame. The other point is that if we are serious about basketball as a school then we need to be giving closer to $4 million/yr at least, total through NIL and school contributions. We want to be in the same group as Saint Louis, Dayton, and VCU. Not Fordham and La Salle.
Do you have incontrovertible evidence? I don’t believe anything these days.
No one is asking why haven’t we played this kid??!!
But under his breath said "if we have about $2.5 million worth of talent"
