Spideralways
Bench player
With Mooney leading the way. Soft weave, perfect
We should move to the Patriot League
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brooklyn brownstone
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stop. they might think you're serious.
Spideralways
Bench player
Actually, I might be. We made as many NCAA’s just trying to win tournament championships as possible. Sad, we moved to the A-10 for at larges. Hasn’t worked out with Mooney. I bet he’d take a pay cut too. It’s all so sad.
MrTbone
Starter
Don’t confuse the ailment with the symptom.
Spideralways
Bench player
Ailment, symptom, please dude, it ain’t working out. Move down, all sports. F lacrosse! LOL
MrTbone
Starter
So your argument is move to the Patriot League where CM can move his winning percentage up to 59%?
I mean that’s certainly a choice.
Spideralways
Bench player
Yes, help the man out making 1.5 mill a year
Spider17
All A-10 player
We would probably finish around 5th in the Patriot League this year. Then we would be getting even less talented recruits and as a result of all this, attendance and interest going to the games.
The solution is never dropping down a level, it’s rising to the occasion to reach a higher level.
The solution is never dropping down a level, it’s rising to the occasion to reach a higher level.
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Two offseason questions that I would like to hear Mooney answer. No one will ever ask of course.
From a University administration perspective, I can easily see a desire to move to the Patriot and its like minded schools. However, from a sports competition perspective the A10 is the perfect conference for Richmond even though the original intent of membership and the reality are not the same as pointed out. There are sports teams that are performing well in the conference. Men’s basketball is the laggard and change is needed. Since in Men’s basketball the competition is fairly evenly balanced and it essentially a one bid league with a different winner in many years, it wouldn’t even take an extraordinary amount of effort. But change is hard is the only refrain coming out of the AD’s office.
Spider17
All A-10 player
The move for football made sense. FCS is far behind FBS and depleting our athletics to try and fund football with NIL at the expense of all our other sports makes no sense. Then think about the teams who left the CAA and who joined the CAA after that. Lastly, with W&M and Villanova joining Patriot League for football makes it now a better conference than CAA. It’s actually quite a solid conference with potential to be very good.
For basketball or any other sport, it makes absolutely no sense. We play at a high level in A10 and should take pride in that. Even being in the A10 goes our university great exposure and opportunity for big games and fan support.
Patriot League for basketball would effectively be the nail in the coffin for UR athletics. It is the ultimate signal of giving up. Donations and fan attendance will all decrease. Plus, there’s no guarantee that we would actually be even good in the PL lol. Like I said above, we’d probably finish around 5th in PL this year.
Plus there would be no more excuses that anyone in admin or PQ can make after losing in that conference. Can’t blame academics, not playing like minded schools, NIL, etc. The Patriot League would actually expose how bad of a coaching job Mooney has been doing recently.
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Spider17
All A-10 player
The A10 is the 2nd best conference UR can be in from an overall perspective (factors in like-minded school/geographic location/competitiveness/school exposure) outside the Big East, which is the dream. Nearly every other sport at UR is at least competitive at the A10 level right now with the exception of men’s basketball and women’s soccer.
I was looking through our sports and think nearly all of them have finished in 1st or 2nd in the past 5 years in the A10. To be fair, even in basketball we won A10 regular season 2 years ago and the A10 tournament 4 years ago, but right now we are not even remotely competitive and it’s not looking any better.
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Eight Legger
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Well we routinely lose to Bucknell, so I'm not sure we'd really gain anything by moving down anyway.
ManiBenton
Bench player
if they keep Mooney, they should move down to he honest. Mooney has no place on the A10 and it’s showing right now. Even when he was #1 in the conference he lost Billy Lange, one of the worst A10 coaches in the 2010s. Either move on from Mooney or move conferences
brooklyn brownstone
Starter
Stop.
No one should even be discussing this.
No one should even be discussing this.
spider_hoss
Walk-on
And let's set the record straight: it's not my money, but I don't mind paying that to someone who actually deserves it. We obviously can afford to pay that, but right now Mooney isn't worthy of half that salary. He's stealing money and has done so for 10+ years.
Also, the PL would be an improvement in Lacrosse, which Queally wants to be the flagship sport. As far as the other flagship sport, women's hoops, it would be a huge downgrade.
SpiderPrime
Starter
Chris Mooney has been taking and taking for decades, slowly destroying our morale
Spideralways
Bench player
It is
Urmite
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Crickets
