I am not sold on the Patriot league football at all. Huesman and Mooney both fail in winning consistently or trying to win championships. We somehow lose key games that cost us big time.
We should move to the Patriot League
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Spider17
All A-10 player
2 separate points. Patriot League for football in 2026 is better than CAA. If the Patriot league also removes some of its self imposed restrictions, I think it has potential to be the top conference in the eastern time zone.
Huesman is not a good coach and will continue to be a bad coach irrespective of which conference we’re in.
Mojo-Spider
Bench player
not sure Coach Huesman belongs in the same discussion as Coach Mooney...granted he really struggled 2017-2019, but post COVID 2021-2024 was coming off of two CAA Championships and three FCS Playoff appearances...granted the CAA became watered down with unbalanced schedules, but he won the games he should have to earn the Championships and Playoff bids...
however, like Mooney I believe he is struggling to adjust to the new era in college sports...his UR squads have been decimated by the Portal in the past two years...he is an old school type of personality...the Patriot League seems to be full young and upcoming coaches with ideas and personalities that are better fits for today's environment...believe he has to adjust in order to succeed in the PL which I believe is a perfect fit for UR football...best FCS conference east of the Mississippi and much closer to old old amateur model that UR is comfortable with...
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Wood Hall
Bench player
The problem isn't the league, we are a perfect fit for the A-10. The problem is the coach.
The future isn’t bright for either football or basketball. The coaching staff isn’t keeping up with the changes in their sport.
Huesman and Mooney both need to go. Their better years are way behind them. They aren’t adapting to changing college sports at all
Spider17
All A-10 player
Hard to argue against this at this point.
Mojo-Spider
Bench player
Agree wholeheartedly on Coach Mooney, but believe Coach Huesman has earned more than a year to demonstrate whether he can adapt to the PL and the Portal/NIL era…
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Eight Legger
Starter
Chemotti and Roussell are now the standard. That's the expectation, and Mooney and Huesman fall short of it in many ways.
brooklyn brownstone
Starter
Fordham (and Lasalle's) consideration should be the A10 commissioner's boot to their butt.
Wood Hall
Bench player
Yeah, one could reasonably argue that Huesman is recruiting TOO WELL for the Patriot League. Instead of staying, developing and becoming juniors or seniors, our best players stay for a year or so and then head off to FBS.
We would have dominated the PL had everyone from the 2023 and 2024 teams remained at UR for the 2025 season. Not so at all for Mooney and the A-10.
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Spider17
All A-10 player
Care to elaborate more on this “hint” exactly? Like sman said, this concept with NIL, while evolving, isn’t exactly groundbreaking news.
SpiderPrime
Starter
He’s stirring up another excuse for his decades long failure
Spider17
All A-10 player
My question was more for 32 and why he said hint and posted that video in this thread. 32 seems to have some connections so I was curious if he would expand.
Is the hint that we’re going to the Patriot league for basketball (I sure hope not. That would be the end of UR athletics if that were the case)? Is the hint reaffirming Queally’s statement that we’re being materially outspent as an excuse and Mooney will stay another year? Is the hint that we’re going to bring in more NIL dollars from donors and house settlement funds to better compete with the top of the A10 next year?
Just curious if he would expand on that.
Pretty much exactly what I was gonna say.
I am never a fan of the hint nonsense. Either keep quiet and say nothing or share something interesting.
