New coach - Alisa Kresge
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SF- I'm old and was going from memory so that post may well be the one I saw - though I would have sworn I saw it on Instagram.
Spider17
Assistant coach
This was an email I received a couple days ago from one of the many University of Richmond newsletters I am signed up for.
WELCOME TO RICHMOND, COACH KRESGE
Alisa Kresge, who led Vermont to the NCAA Tournament three times in the last four seasons, is the new head coach of Spider women’s basketball.
During her time with the Catamounts in the America East conference, she captured three conference tournament championships, two regular season championships, and two America East Coach of the Year honors.
Details of an event to officially welcome Coach Kresge to Richmond will be announced at a later date.
The Richmond Spiders Athletics Ticket Office is now accepting deposits to secure your women's basketball season tickets and invite you to be part of the action all season long.
WELCOME TO RICHMOND, COACH KRESGE
Alisa Kresge, who led Vermont to the NCAA Tournament three times in the last four seasons, is the new head coach of Spider women’s basketball.
During her time with the Catamounts in the America East conference, she captured three conference tournament championships, two regular season championships, and two America East Coach of the Year honors.
Details of an event to officially welcome Coach Kresge to Richmond will be announced at a later date.
The Richmond Spiders Athletics Ticket Office is now accepting deposits to secure your women's basketball season tickets and invite you to be part of the action all season long.
I wish Alisa well. She's our coach now. But honestly, we totally blew an amazing chance to keep a national championship level coach who loved it here. We should have significantly defunded the men's program. We should have cut Mooney's salary in half and dared him to stay. With any luck, he would leave. Double win!
[I know, contracts and such]
[I know, contracts and such]
Spider17
Assistant coach
I am just as disappointed as anyone that Roussell left. We all loved him here and he did great things. First off, we don’t know what was offered by our admin and we don’t know if there was anything more we could’ve done to keep him here. Fact of the matter is UVA is a P4 school and maybe he just had his heart set on coaching at that level.
Secondly, no we should not have defunded anything from the men’s program (I can’t tell if you’re joking or not). Men’s basketball has been and should always be our #1 sports priority. Even with our mediocre coach, we need to fund our men’s basketball program highly and also fund other programs like women’s basketball and men’s lacrosse well too. We shouldn’t take from any one of those sports to fund the others.
Lastly, as much as we all are going to miss Roussell as our coach, we have to move on. Personally, I wish Roussell all the best but I don’t really care if he leads UVA to a national championship or loses every game. I am a Richmond Spider fan. That’s my school and that’s who I will always support. So now, Coach Kresge has my full support. She has done a lot of great things at Vermont and I’m excited to see what she will do here. I hope she has the complete backing from us fans and admin to continue building off our program’s success.
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I hate how we act as if we are always 2nd class citizens at Little 'Ole Richmond. We need to be clear on our goals. If we are just aiming to compete for A10 championships, we are very shortsighted. We can definitely do more. We shouldn't shy away from "almighty" uva. Hell, we beat them the last time we played. [We also won the last meeting in women's lacrosse and won back-to-back games in men's lacrosse]
I agree Men's basketball SHOULD be our #1 priority but given our complacency here, let's fund and grow something that's working. If we had unlimited funds, sure go all-in on everything. [No, I'm not kidding - although my preference would actually be to cancel football rather than defund men's basketball].
It is great that we are in position to bring in potentially terrific coaching talent. I say potentially because, while she did well at Vermont, we don't really know how she'll do here against A10 level players and coaches.
I agree Men's basketball SHOULD be our #1 priority but given our complacency here, let's fund and grow something that's working. If we had unlimited funds, sure go all-in on everything. [No, I'm not kidding - although my preference would actually be to cancel football rather than defund men's basketball].
It is great that we are in position to bring in potentially terrific coaching talent. I say potentially because, while she did well at Vermont, we don't really know how she'll do here against A10 level players and coaches.
PittFieldDreams
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Coach Roussell threw out the first pitch at last nights UVA baseball game with Clemson and that got mentioned during the ACC Network broadcast of the baseball game with talking points on his coaching history. Plus the UVA marketing machine was cranking those tweets out along with their players who were withdrawing from the portal. It is interesting what advertising and media folks can do for your athletic department.
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