Robins Center experience

[Spiderguy]

New feature at the RC tonight was showing GW highlights on the big screen.

They certainly had a bucket full of highlights.

 

[MrTbone]

This is a basic concept but you can’t run out of popcorn before tipoff. Super easy concept.

 

[Spiderp31]

My Robins experience would be greatly improved if we could get the stats right during games. My phone has better technology than we do apparently.

 

[KE Spider]

Guess other than these assorted items and the loss, everyone had a good time? Did it require extra imbibing to see in the New Year?

 

[Arachnid]

Excellent - Dress like a Spider halftime entertainment ... really hope and wish someone from Spider Athletics lurks and realize that real halftime shows do matter

I give up. What is “dress like a Spider?”

 

[Spiders4ever]

I give up. What is “dress like a Spider?”

Sippy cup and pompadour.

 

[Section9_RowD]

I give up. What is “dress like a Spider?”

multiple little

I give up. What is “dress like a Spider?”

Few kids "dress up" in larger than life Spider clothes, shoes etc and then have to do a few layups - crazy dramatic and exciting

 

[PittFieldDreams]

Happy New Year to all Spider fans!
I can only assume the halftime show funds were diverted to the NIL funding. Now it appears the ball blaster and tee-shirt canon are the latest budget cuts. Hope it is because the students are on break but……….

 

[Arachnid]

multiple little

Few kids "dress up" in larger than life Spider clothes, shoes etc and then have to do a few layups - crazy dramatic and exciting

Thanks. I was visualizing red/blue sweater vests, corduroys and big floppy pizza hats!

 

[Urmite]

Thanks. I was visualizing red/blue sweater vests, corduroys and big floppy pizza hats!

When was you last game at the Robin Center? It is 6 year olds dressing in old uniforms (jersey, shorts, shoes) of actual players, and then first to make a layup gets a prize.

 

[Arachnid]

The last VCU game UR won. Before that maybe when. I was a season ticket holder 2012 or 2013. Mooniocrity and inflexibility got to me.

 

[Spiders4ever]

The last VCU game UR won. Before that maybe when. I was a season ticket holder 2012 or 2013. Mooniocrity and inflexibility got to me.

You picked a good one to go out on.

 

[Urmite]

The last VCU game UR won. Before that maybe when. I was a season ticket holder 2012 or 2013. Mooniocrity and inflexibility got to me.

So no Shawndre, Cline, Golden, Gilyard, or Burton in person?

 

[Arachnid]

Correct. Last year for season tickets was 2013-2014. TJ was in street clothes, redshirting, that’s how I remember. I knew who he was from the successes of ODU womens bb.
With the previous coaches I always had a feeling and expectation of winning games and enjoyed watching the strategical in game changes. With Mooniocrity, I got bored and frustrated. Life became much easier on my personal UR sports level as I had no expectations.
There could have been so much with the players that came through the inflexible, rigid “system”.

 

[97spiderfan]

We attended our first game of the season yesterday and the experience was definitely not up to UR standards even if we had won. Here's some of our observations:

--The metal detectors are most likely sadly necessary in today's world but the system is neither intuitive nor explained. It's going to be a real cluster at a game that is even more heavily attended or sold out. The ticket scanners should not be standing in the metal detector lines and holding up traffic.
--The rope lines need to be removed by halftime if not before. They make an already crowded concourse even more chaotic.
--I had read here about the lack of the tshirt cannon and the lack of the ball blaster but hoped those were just early-season omissions. They were not present yesterday and during the t-shirt toss I don't think they "tossed" more than five shirts, all in the same general area.

--The most frustrating thing is the fact that we are now 9 home games into the season for the men and 6 home games into the season for the women. And yet they somehow have not managed to post the promotions for either team on the promotions page?

Game Day Promotions - University of Richmond Athletics

University of Richmond Athletics

richmondspiders.com

If you click on either, it just says "Check back soon for a complete list of promotions during the 2025-26 men's basketball season" (or the counterpart for the women). This is inexcusable!!!

Yet, another example of the Mickey Mouse operation that we run out of the RC. I don't know who is in charge of overseeing the MBB operational side of things but whomever it is has absolutely zero managerial abilities.

 

[gospidersgo]

multiple little

Few kids "dress up" in larger than life Spider clothes, shoes etc and then have to do a few layups - crazy dramatic and exciting

Its great for a random timeout during the course of a game.

Not so great when it's the featured halftime entertainment...

 

[Spiderguy]

multiple little

Few kids "dress up" in larger than life Spider clothes, shoes etc and then have to do a few layups - crazy dramatic and exciting

It's the natural progression from the baby race.

 

[Section9_RowD]

Its great for a random timeout during the course of a game.

Not so great when it's the featured halftime entertainment...

right and at some level it is trivial to the larger issues with the program but at another level it isn't

 

[Section9_RowD]

I was going to gripe about the halftime show but damn the jump rope squad was the best thing by far today

 

[RichmondNative]

I was going to gripe about the halftime show but damn the jump rope squad was the best thing by far today

I was happy to see something other than a youth basketball scrimmage.