Urmite
Starter
As some random alumness who last missed a game in the Robins Center on 2/24/1982, I do feel somewhat vested in the program…
Leaving a Legacy
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SpiderWill
Bench player
Sure and that's to be commended. It wasn't a slight on anyone on this board per se, the the tenor of the post was he's just cashing a paycheck and he wasn't an alum and doesn't care.
Sadly for every one of you, there are 10x that rarely come down and visit on campus or give or are all that vested.
Again, i commend you support, that's awesome, Will wasn't even born yet,
Wood Hall
Bench player
He should take the Air Force job for 4-5 years, restore that program to at least .500, coach athletes who are fully dedicated, will stay for four years and don't expect rev share (above what they earn as military employees). He can live in beautiful Colorado where he can hike in the Garden of the Gods and go up to Denver to watch the Rockies in the summer. Win win!
*23*
Assistant coach
Great idea Wood. But he probably would need to take a ~ 80% pay cut. And he is not leaving with years on his contract and we are not buying him out it would seem. It does sound inviting, and I bet those high scoring Rockies game in the elevation and home runs galore would be fun. Broncos are pretty good now too, and the Nuggets. Good time to go to Colorado.
Eight Legger
Starter
On the other hand, not sure we need Mooney indoctrinating our future military pilots with his laissez-faire attitude, especially these days.
SpiderWill
Bench player
Purdue isn't that good this year.
In fact Mooney beat them many years ago.
In fact Mooney beat them many years ago.
Spiders4ever
Starter
Purdue is 22-7 and ranked 8th in the country.
And Mooney beat Southern Va this season.
Eight Legger
Starter
Mooney beat UMass when they were ranked 13th in the nation once, therefore he must never be fired.
Purdue is a very legit team.
SpiderRick
Bench player
Tears of joy because a contract extension was coming.
Meanwhile the rest of use have been crying tears since then...real tears
We all loved the A-10 tourney title and the Iowa win. But, that was 4 seasons ago. Since then, we have gone 7-11, 15-3, 5-13, and 5-11 in the A-10. Add in the 1-3 A-10 tourney record, and we are 33-41 against A-10 teams the past 4 seasons, including 10-25 the past 2. 10-25!!!!!!!
sman
All A-10 player
and there's currently no rational reason to believe next season will be any better. dark times.
PalmTreeSpidUR
Bench player
Maybe he is sounding tired, unenergetic, and defeated (an adjective I used several times to describe his interviews lately) because he knows the game has passed him by, he loves coaching, he loves coaching at UR specifically, and he knows it won't ever be the same again. That leads to the conclusion that it's time to go and has made his decision to do so. That doesn't mean he has to like it.
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97spiderfan
All A-10 player
I honestly don't think Mooney cares about his legacy. He is a clock puncher, he does what is necessary to perform his job expectation, nothing further.
If he really cared about his legacy, we would have heard or he would have done something to that effect over these past 2 sub par seasons. He would have done outreach events to up student involvement as he watched the student section slowly erode over this time. He would have expressed his profound disappointment/frustration with the product he puts on the floor in one of his many media opportunities to do so. He would offered us hope in the future by suggesting changes he needs to make.
He offers no solutions though, there is very little emotion coming from him, indicating that he has plans to fix all that is broken.
He will take our $$$ as long as we continue to pay him nothing more. And when we finally part ways, he probably won't be a big part of the UR community, because he never really has shown he is a big part of now. This is a job for Mooney, nothing more.
I cannot wait until we get someone who sees this as the opportunity it is, who is fully vested in making us the best we can be, someone who is willing to go 110% every single day. Whenever that day comes, it will be a great day for Spider nation. Hardt and PQ can make that happen in a few weeks or they can choose to let the program continues its slow bleed. The choice is theirs.
If he really cared about his legacy, we would have heard or he would have done something to that effect over these past 2 sub par seasons. He would have done outreach events to up student involvement as he watched the student section slowly erode over this time. He would have expressed his profound disappointment/frustration with the product he puts on the floor in one of his many media opportunities to do so. He would offered us hope in the future by suggesting changes he needs to make.
He offers no solutions though, there is very little emotion coming from him, indicating that he has plans to fix all that is broken.
He will take our $$$ as long as we continue to pay him nothing more. And when we finally part ways, he probably won't be a big part of the UR community, because he never really has shown he is a big part of now. This is a job for Mooney, nothing more.
I cannot wait until we get someone who sees this as the opportunity it is, who is fully vested in making us the best we can be, someone who is willing to go 110% every single day. Whenever that day comes, it will be a great day for Spider nation. Hardt and PQ can make that happen in a few weeks or they can choose to let the program continues its slow bleed. The choice is theirs.
Spider17
Assistant coach
Sadly we know what their choice was. Whether they like it or not, the way this transpired will be something - at least for me - that is going to be remembered as part of their legacy here. Giving the coach who has had 2 terrible back-to-back seasons the vote of confidence of returning next year WHILE the season was going on. Again, I want to stress that. They didn’t even have the decency to wait until the season was over to at least pretend that they’re going to do a full review of his performance before announcing next steps. The fact they didn’t do that or give us an explanation as to why they made the decision, or heck even make the announcement themselves, was a huge slap in the face to all spider fans.
Then to have that same coach they just announced will come back, be responsible for the 4th worst comeback loss in NCAA D1 history to a very mediocre Duquesne team literally the next day, was incredibly poetic. It was schadenfreude at its finest.
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