Mooney’s Coaching Tree (including former players)
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I'm in the camp of whenever we get a new coach it needs to be someone never affiliated with Mooney. We need a complete & fresh start.
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I definitely feel you here. But the admin has shown that mo matter what Mooney does or fails to do they will only extend him. They have beaten this into our skulls. So I now think that in the next 15 to 20 years, the only chance is for him to hand the job off to his hand picked choice.
Which much to our chagrin will probably be Peter Thomas.
Section9_RowD
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3-0 for Dan G as Iona beats the Bronx Rams by 5.
Section9_RowD
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Columbia and Iona crushing opponents early tonight ...
Iona fell 80–75 to a Green Bay team that struggled in its first few games but seems to be turning a corner at the Paradise Jam by staying close with Yale and beating UMass before today's win.
Radford fell behind an undefeated SMU team 15–3, but almost erased the deficit and kept things very close almost to the end of the first half. But a little spurt in the final 90 seconds of the half and a 23–8 run to start the second half blew the game open for SMU. A five and a half minute scoring drought for SMU let Radford cut the deficit to 12, but the Highlanders couldn't get it down to single digits and ultimately fell 89–72. Remember Chu spend last season as chief strategist for SMU before getting the Radford job.
Radford fell behind an undefeated SMU team 15–3, but almost erased the deficit and kept things very close almost to the end of the first half. But a little spurt in the final 90 seconds of the half and a 23–8 run to start the second half blew the game open for SMU. A five and a half minute scoring drought for SMU let Radford cut the deficit to 12, but the Highlanders couldn't get it down to single digits and ultimately fell 89–72. Remember Chu spend last season as chief strategist for SMU before getting the Radford job.
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Chu works in mysterious ways.
Prediction: In two years Hovde is a power conference coach, another one we missed out on in the stepping stone game.
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I think Hovde has the makings of being a great coach at Richmond and even though he was a former Spider himself, has enough teaching from Florida and developing his own brand of basketball at Columbia where it’ll be a fresh identity with Richmond.
If a school is lucky enough to have an alum who is a great basketball coach, we should do everything we can to retain that talent. I think it’s more likely that they would stay - if having great success - than move to P5 because of the emotional element of being at your Alma mater. Especially if the Alma mater is the best mid major conference in the country (A10 is so far this year) and pays you over a million.
You make some good points, but I dunno. Emotional element of being at your Alma mater vs millions $ more and being at a P5. If you are indeed referring to UR, I’m thinking most potential coaches would be bound for the P5 and millions more.
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Not sure what Columbia pays, but living in NYC area is pricy. I'm sure I a couple years he will be ready to cash in. If Mooney would step aside it could be a great fit. Maybe the home town discount would work. Not saying we wouldn't pay him, but not as much as the SEC or ACC.
