Spiders4ever
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The man is right down the road at Radford
OOC Record Predictions
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97spiderfan
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Mooney is banking on racking up a bunch of wins in the OOC to pad his W/L total so he can sell his look at this drastic improvement over last year. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of college hoops is going to see how hollow that improvement will be.
What I find interesting in this approach is what if we end of losing a bunch of these cupcake games. say we finish the OOC with a record of 7-6 or even 8-5 with a few really ugly L's on the resume? What then does that say about our program?
sman
All A-10 player
7-6 with this schedule would mean we suck. we'll lose a couple because upsets happen, but we need to go 11-2.
The end of the “wonderful” OOC schedule is nearly here, so time to bump this thread.
The Spiders “overachieved” based upon the responses to this thread and thank goodness that is where the results have landed.
As I mentioned in my initial post, GW set the blueprint for this schedule last season and with a win this afternoon, the Spiders will have followed it to a T with a matching 11-2 record.
I will say that the games have been more entertaining than I expected due to the deep bench play style that has made an appearance this year. The team also has much better chemistry.
Looking forward to the New Year Eve game versus the staff’s blueprint creators to get a better gauge on where this team may stand in the A10. Go Spiders!
The Spiders “overachieved” based upon the responses to this thread and thank goodness that is where the results have landed.
As I mentioned in my initial post, GW set the blueprint for this schedule last season and with a win this afternoon, the Spiders will have followed it to a T with a matching 11-2 record.
I will say that the games have been more entertaining than I expected due to the deep bench play style that has made an appearance this year. The team also has much better chemistry.
Looking forward to the New Year Eve game versus the staff’s blueprint creators to get a better gauge on where this team may stand in the A10. Go Spiders!
SensibleSpider
Walk-on
The 6 people who voted for 10-3 are the winners!! Your prize is a bad loss at home to avoid going 11-2!! 
I’ll take the blame for the jinx, but it did allow my preseason vote to be the correct one 
Based on history, the Mooney Spiders had to come out flat around the Christmas break, so not surprised at all that they lost tonight. Hopefully the team is much more focused on Wednesday and can close out the year with a W.
Based on history, the Mooney Spiders had to come out flat around the Christmas break, so not surprised at all that they lost tonight. Hopefully the team is much more focused on Wednesday and can close out the year with a W.
Posted this on another thread also, but figured this belonged on an OOC thread.
Heard the following on the 3 Bid League podcast from Bob Black when discussing this year’s OOC schedule. Don’t recall hearing anything this straightforward on the RVA airwaves:
“But look, this schedule was not designed to be an at large schedule.
Nobody was kidding themselves about that. This was a schedule designed for wins. Remember, we only had 10 of them last year, really only eight, because two of them were non-division 1 wins.
So this was a schedule designed to get wins, to build confidence, to build momentum. And to feel in a good place going into A-10 play. And I think that's been accomplished.”
From 3 Bid League: Gifts and Grievances, Dec 24, 2025
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Heard the following on the 3 Bid League podcast from Bob Black when discussing this year’s OOC schedule. Don’t recall hearing anything this straightforward on the RVA airwaves:
“But look, this schedule was not designed to be an at large schedule.
Nobody was kidding themselves about that. This was a schedule designed for wins. Remember, we only had 10 of them last year, really only eight, because two of them were non-division 1 wins.
So this was a schedule designed to get wins, to build confidence, to build momentum. And to feel in a good place going into A-10 play. And I think that's been accomplished.”
From 3 Bid League: Gifts and Grievances, Dec 24, 2025
I don't understand how you can feel good and feel like you have built confidence and momentum when you lost OOC games to Furman, Elon, and Charleston Southern. And, 2 of those are in the last 3 games as we head into conference play.
We accomplished absolutely nothing with this joke of a schedule. I am not sure we have any good roles figured out, we are starting guys who make very little impact, and we constantly shuffle guys in and out, making getting into any kind of rhythm that much harder.
We accomplished absolutely nothing with this joke of a schedule. I am not sure we have any good roles figured out, we are starting guys who make very little impact, and we constantly shuffle guys in and out, making getting into any kind of rhythm that much harder.
I think before the result on Sunday, the team may have felt good going into the A10 schedule. In fact, I think the problem was that they felt TOO good, didn’t take CS seriously and therefore lost.
I am hoping that the Spiders got the wake-up call that they needed and come out blazing tomorrow. I do feel that tomorrow is a key game and looking forward to watching it at the RC.
We had just lost to Elon 2 games before this one. If we needed a wake up call, how was that not it?
sman
All A-10 player
we hit the snooze bar a couple times!
Urmite
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Losing to 155 Furman neutral, and 142 Elon away both in a one possession game, may have had less impact on the team’s mentality than losing to 187 Charleston So at home, by more.
At least I hope so…
Urmite
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I feel everyone seems more comfortable out there today than in November, both with themselves and their teammates.
But would that change not have come with a (somewhat) stronger schedule?
LOL!!!!
I am not gonna say we should always beat 150ish teams, because every year some real good teams will sometimes lose to them, but it should bother the heck out of us when we do.
sman
All A-10 player
players may be more comfortable. are we playing better though? we just shot 31% from 2 point range and were outrebounded by 8 in a loss to Charleston Southern (who?). CSU was #296 last season. we'll see where they finish this year.
2 games earlier we had 20 (!) turnovers against Elon.
I don't know. if we beat GW, everything is ok. lose by 10 and I fear we're headed for a 6-12 disaster.
Urmite
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I do see tomorrow as pivotal. Win and we fight for 4th, lose and we fight for 8th…
We have only won 1 game without scoring 80. So whether it is turnovers or shooting, we have to have offense every game…
