Spideralways
Walk-on
Happy Birthday!!
Perspective from a Student
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Tarrant was amazing. I was hitting balls on a golf range one day, and I look around and there he was hitting some too. He hadn't been our coach for long, and I don't remember much of what was said, but I do remember walking over and asking him to please not leave for another job. It was probably soon after our win over Auburn in the dance. And, I do remember how cool he was. And, wow, what a great coach.
Pretty much every game I watch on TV has a home crowd going crazy. And I am talking plenty of mid major games where this is common. Then, I watch our home games and it is alarmingly quiet. I think a new coach could definitely put some energy back into the program.
*23*
All A-10 player
Yep, we all know the trends are less attendance, students have more options now, etc. But, but as 4700 points to - you do see crazy environments for mid major games. Away games for Miami of Ohio. Watch the big Mountain West games (yes some are large state schools) and you see packed gyms at New Mexico and Utah State, and Grand Canyon and SDSU. But we have billionaires making excuses and mooney is stealing money.
72Spider
Bench player
and Bob Black has the microphones amplified so we only hear his voice and Scott's clearly and we don't hear the crowd noise when, on occasion, it gets loud. Same issue with football broadcasts. Like looking at the game in the library where the only sounds we hear are from the announcers.
You wouldn’t want to miss any of the BB positivity. /s
CityStadiumFan
Walk-on
Another thing that jumps out to me is the exciting style of play and athleticism when you watch many mid-major conference tournaments. Maybe I'm just numb from watching the same weave and chuck offense with nobody crashing the offensive glass but there are a lot of fun teams to watch out there that don't play in the big conferences. We are not one of them.
Agree.
I ran into DT at a football game couple years ago & let him know how appreciative of his coaching I was and how much I enjoyed watching the teams he put on the basketball court. DT = winner.
carolinaspider
Bench player
So if Tarrant was in Mooney's situation, how would he handle a post game interview? "we were awful, no effort, no sharing
of the ball, no defense. They are not going to enjoy practice for next few weeks. I am going to run them till they puke and
make them understand what I want from them. They probably will hate me, but they will learn to play as a team or stay in
the locker room!" Now Tarrant would be tough love from all I have heard, but he really prepared you for battle and using the
Marine Corp regimen of "being the best you can be".
But to be honest, I don't think Tarrant would get himself in the position that Mooney finds himself.
of the ball, no defense. They are not going to enjoy practice for next few weeks. I am going to run them till they puke and
make them understand what I want from them. They probably will hate me, but they will learn to play as a team or stay in
the locker room!" Now Tarrant would be tough love from all I have heard, but he really prepared you for battle and using the
Marine Corp regimen of "being the best you can be".
But to be honest, I don't think Tarrant would get himself in the position that Mooney finds himself.
MrTbone
Starter
Those games are full because their product is good.
Mojo-Spider
Bench player
Yes! It’s for sure Coach Tarrant never spent his in conference season off week trying to find the players who wanted to play and wound play hard!
Go Spiders!
*23*
All A-10 player
You will have to wait until 90 to get the gift of Peter Thomas as your Head Coach.
SpiderWill
Bench player
You make fun, but I promise you, if he left Richmond today he'd get a head coaching job at a mid major like Geriot. Not sure why everyone is so snide about Peter here. He's a UR grad
*23*
All A-10 player
I will pull for the guy. But the longer he stays under a sliding Mooney less chance he gets a head job. They dont just give those out at other schools. And Iona is not a school that puts up with mediocrity. They just fired a successful D1 coach after losing in their tourney championship game. Zero percent chance they would hire a current Mooney assistant.
And Geriot had a pretty decent resume getting the Iona job. Also Hovde’s resume as assistant was good having been at Florida. I’d argue both stronger than PT. I wish PT the best, but agree with your closing line in your post.
Mid major head jobs r hard to come by. Man at minimum go “low major”. How many asst coaches have gone straight from Richmond to head d1 job under Moon in 20 years? I think 1. Mcgeehan. During our heights of moon era. To Campbell.
U have a bad read on the landscape.
MrTbone
Starter
I’ll take that action. No chance. Maybe a low major and even that isn’t super high probability. Particularly coming off losing seasons, potentially 3 out of past 4.
I don’t dislike PT but this is a bad take.
Eight Legger
Bench player
Yeah, I mean Rob What's His Face was Money's top assistant for like 39 years and the best head coaching job he could get was some D3 outpost in Iowa or somewhere.
