Mooney’s Coaching Tree (including former players)

Section9_RowD

Section9_RowD

All A-10 player
Will be interesting to see which of Geriot, Chu, or Hovde leads their team to the NCAA Tournament first and positions themselves for a bigger mid-major opportunity. Geriot may have the best short-term shot with Iona, but Hovde has the greater national name recognition after the Florida run.
  1. Rob Jones – 1st year at Cedarville (D2) – went 13–16 last season. Curtis Blair will play for him.
  2. Dan Geriot – 1st year as head coach at Iona.
  3. Zach Chu – 1st year as head coach at Radford.
  4. Kevin Hovde – 1st year at Columbia after helping lead Florida to the NCAAs last year alongside Todd Golden.
  5. Kevin Smith - Furman Assistant after a number of years at Charlotte.
Anyone else we should be tracking that I've missed?
 
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*23* said:
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Scout Team: The Richmond Reunion

On this special edition of Scout Team, Sports Illustrated's Kevin Sweeney sits down with Richmond head coach Chris Mooney and three of his former players - all of whom landed their first head coaching jobs this spring. Columbia's Kevin Hovde, Iona's Dan Geriot and Radford's Zach Chu join Mooney for
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Needed, much better 30 minutes than thinking any more about ourlackluster non-conference schedule for sure ... You can see the clear pride of Coach and Dan, Zack, and Kevin's respect for him.
 
Definitely the curse of the numb mouth.

My favorite part of the interview was the last comment by Zack Chu. He talked about the win over Davidson in the A10 tournament that put the Spiders in the dance. He said the most important piece is for a team to have an identity and that the 2021 (technically the 21-22) team had one. Unfortunately ever since the team has been lacking this essential piece. I think it is because the best Mooney teams have to have been together for numerous years and that is something that is getting harder and harder to achieve. Then add in too many misses on the HS recruiting front and the fact that the Mooney formula never included more than a single transfer. The old dog has to learn new tricks.
 
Just listened to it. 2 interesting things I got from it, both at the end.

1. When the interview asked Mooney if he would want to schedule any of the guys, Mooney responded with an emphatic “no way”. I’m surprised by that response. I get those the schools may be lower rated in NET, but some years they can do well and that connection could be nice to have and also help former players. To me, the candid response was likely because Mooney doesn’t want to play them out of embarrassment if he were to lose to his former players who are now new coaches.

2. When the other 3 guys were asked at the end, what they’ve noticed about Mooney’s coaching that changed over the years, I didn’t really get a definitive response out of any of them. Maybe it’s just how I heard it. But the closest were shoved talking about communication style that had changed over the years another answer I think from Geriot was how he has evolved, but didn’t expand much. Other answers were how he maintains a culture and identity with a program.

Overall, great interviews. I think Hovde, Geriot, and Chu will have great careers as coaches. I’m sure Mooney is proud of their success, as he should be. I’ll be peripherally following them at their new schools and rooting for them.
 
Spider17 said:
Just listened to it. 2 interesting things I got from it, both at the end.

1. When the interview asked Mooney if he would want to schedule any of the guys, Mooney responded with an emphatic “no way”. I’m surprised by that response. I get those the schools may be lower rated in NET, but some years they can do well and that connection could be nice to have and also help former players. To me, the candid response was likely because Mooney doesn’t want to play them out of embarrassment if he were to lose to his former players who are now new coaches.

2. When the other 3 guys were asked at the end, what they’ve noticed about Mooney’s coaching that changed over the years, I didn’t really get a definitive response out of any of them. Maybe it’s just how I heard it. But the closest were shoved talking about communication style that had changed over the years another answer I think from Geriot was how he has evolved, but didn’t expand much. Other answers were how he maintains a culture and identity with a program.

Overall, great interviews. I think Hovde, Geriot, and Chu will have great careers as coaches. I’m sure Mooney is proud of their success, as he should be. I’ll be peripherally following them at their new schools and rooting for them.
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Haven’t taken the time to listen yet and feeling lazy…was there any discussion among Geriot, Hovde and/or Chu about whether, or not, they would incorporate any of Coach Mooney’s basketball philosophy on the court?

Each has been exposed to programs with a much different approach to the game. All have experienced quite a bit of success with different styles as they worked their way to becoming head coaches.

Maybe they could share some advice with Coach Mooney?

Thanks!

Go Spiders!
 
Spider17 said:
Just listened to it. 2 interesting things I got from it, both at the end.

1. When the interview asked Mooney if he would want to schedule any of the guys, Mooney responded with an emphatic “no way”. I’m surprised by that response. I get those the schools may be lower rated in NET, but some years they can do well and that connection could be nice to have and also help former players. To me, the candid response was likely because Mooney doesn’t want to play them out of embarrassment if he were to lose to his former players who are now new coaches.

2. When the other 3 guys were asked at the end, what they’ve noticed about Mooney’s coaching that changed over the years, I didn’t really get a definitive response out of any of them. Maybe it’s just how I heard it. But the closest were shoved talking about communication style that had changed over the years another answer I think from Geriot was how he has evolved, but didn’t expand much. Other answers were how he maintains a culture and identity with a program.

Overall, great interviews. I think Hovde, Geriot, and Chu will have great careers as coaches. I’m sure Mooney is proud of their success, as he should be. I’ll be peripherally following them at their new schools and rooting for them.
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yeah re: point 1 - odd answer for sure .. I would think for all 3 programs - it would help them out if we did games with them and better for me than playing random teams like Charleston Southern. Gardner-Webb. At least JOC would possible write a bit more new content ...
 
Mojo-Spider said:
Haven’t taken the time to listen yet and feeling lazy…was there any discussion among Geriot, Hovde and/or Chu about whether, or not, they would incorporate any of Coach Mooney’s basketball philosophy on the court?

Each has been exposed to programs with a much different approach to the game. All have experienced quite a bit of success with different styles as they worked their way to becoming head coaches.

Maybe they could share some advice with Coach Mooney?

Thanks!

Go Spiders!
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Yes, a lot of what was discussed was how the offensive philosophy that Mooney runs ie Princeton Offense was utilized with their respective previous programs whether college or professional.
 
Section9_RowD said:
yeah re: point 1 - odd answer for sure .. I would think for all 3 programs - it would help them out if we did games with them and better for me than playing random teams like Charleston Southern. Gardner-Webb. At least JOC would possible write a bit more new content ...
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I found it strange that he didn’t even try to beat around the bush but instead gave a straight answer of “no way”. Like SF pointed out, Radford would be a good addition. Columbia is an excellent institution I’m sure UR wants to be affiliated with. If we’re going to have a schedule full of Q4s, why not replace VMI and Gardner Webb with Columbia and Iona. Only reason I can think of, is Mooney doesn’t want the optics that one of his former players in the beginning stages of their head coaching career beats him.
 
SFspidur said:
Radford at 161 last year would be one of the better teams on our OOC schedule.
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Why would you play a Virginia team like Radford when you have a Virginia power team like Southern Virginia you can schedule? /s

I couldn’t figure out what Southern Virginia even was but then my wife mentioned it was the former Southern Sem(inary) and I said oh the women’s finishing school with all the girls looking for husbands attending VMI. What a joke.

Of course if the Spiders played Radford it may be just like 2018-19 when Longwood played at Robins and the players looked so much bigger then proceeded to beat the Spiders to open the season.
 
Spider17 said:
Just listened to it. 2 interesting things I got from it, both at the end.

2. When the other 3 guys were asked at the end, what they’ve noticed about Mooney’s coaching that changed over the years, I didn’t really get a definitive response out of any of them.
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There wasn’t an answer about any evolution by Mooney. It was mostly about how he was ahead of the curve in the world of “positionless basketball”. Of course, now all the other teams have adapted this strategy and passed Mooney by. The most apt thing that was pointed out is that Zach Chu is basically the same age as Mooney when he came to Richmond. In the interview, you can tell that Chu is looking toward the future and that Mooney is basking in the past.
 
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