Arachnid
Bench player
There’s a game tonight?
What do we want for our men’s basketball program
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SpiderWill
Bench player
Kind of an important one if we're being honest!
Spideralways
Walk-on
This! This right here. Well said Bob
Arachnid
Bench player
Did we compete?
Spideralways
Walk-on
Ha, he will say yes
97spiderfan
Starter
I want hope. Hope that maybe in the future we can have a team that gives 110%, plays smart basketball, has a coach that can make adjustments both in game and game to game, recruits a roster of players that is competitive in the A-10. Until Mooney is gone, we all know that it is complete foolishness to have hope in our program. Mooney is too flawed a coach in so many respects that he and our program is unfixable.
How Hardt and our athletic leadership don't see this is just absolutely baffling.
How Hardt and our athletic leadership don't see this is just absolutely baffling.
I want hope and excitement. I am not excited to watch our games right now. Our OOC schedule took away all early season excitement I used to have, and it's just hard to find any excitement now.
My hope is lost as well. The last 2 years are the only time I have ever not had hope as a fan. Even the Bill Dooley years, I remember having some hope to find some magic in the CAA tourney. Now, like last year, we have a flawed roster that is being poorly coached. We are better than last year, but that only means we are better than a team that won 8 D1 games last year.
The tiny bit of hope I might be able to find would be because the A-10 is not very good and wide open, but when I think of that, it only frustrates me because it would not be that difficult to be one of the top teams in the A-10 right now. We could be just a little bit better than we are and be sitting at 6-1 A-10. All we had to do was beat average to below average teams at home, but we can't do that anymore.
*23*
All A-10 player
If we ever separate from Mooney, I hope Hardt is not in place to lead the search. I get the folks that point to Roussell hiring. Yes , good, but probably a bit lucky too. Everything else he does , especially the lack of controls on the men's side are just god awful. Terrible. Communications, terrible. Marketing, terrible. Scheduling, extra terrible. Etc etc. And yes, if the sorry coach won't get games (or is ducking them) then yes the AD needs to step in. Which he apparently is not cable of, doesn't care, or scared of PQ.
I feel like how I imagine Fordham fans usually feel ... that we're not even in the same stratosphere as SLU, GMU, Dayton, VCU and GW.
*23*
All A-10 player
What I want:
1. New coach. Guy that has had lot of success at lower levels and is hungry. McCollum, Beilein, Scherzer type. They are out there.
2. New AD. One that is putting every effort into making the program nationally relevant. So what if u fail? Don't be a little b$&% like Jabba. So sick of him.
3. New sugar daddies. Not PQ. Need a few Ukrops types that are all in. Can support the new coach, but not be in bed to the point it is now. Help fun NIL in reasonable way that gives new coach ability to have top level A10 talent.
1. New coach. Guy that has had lot of success at lower levels and is hungry. McCollum, Beilein, Scherzer type. They are out there.
2. New AD. One that is putting every effort into making the program nationally relevant. So what if u fail? Don't be a little b$&% like Jabba. So sick of him.
3. New sugar daddies. Not PQ. Need a few Ukrops types that are all in. Can support the new coach, but not be in bed to the point it is now. Help fun NIL in reasonable way that gives new coach ability to have top level A10 talent.
And they aren't even great teams.
well 2 are 18-1 ... so they might be.
You said - "How Hardt and our athletic leadership don't see this is just absolutely baffling."
I have no idea what Hardt & leadership see or don't see. Maybe they are complacent, happy, or think we are on some good path or trajectory. It's hard to know. Maybe they see making a change now as financially not sound or feasible. Maybe they see what we see & feel handcuffed to make a change with too much control exerted by PQ.
Those are just a few "maybes". Surely there are others.
In the meantime, we are 3 NCAA's in 20 years and 3 in 21 years in a couple months, & Mooney is owned by VCU with his 25 pct win rate. These numbers are posted regularly, but worth seeing frequently to remind us of what long term success doesn't look like. But to Hardt & whoever is considered leadership, these numbers keep getting worse over time. Doesn't seem to matter? Maybe one day????
Eight Legger
Bench player
Roussell is about to have as many NCAAs in the last 3 years as Mooney has had his entire career. And they are both competing against the same exact programs, last I checked. Humbling.
Right there with you. The A10 is essentially what the CAA was when UR left it to move to the higher competition level of the A10. Whatever the driving force was at that point, it doesn’t exist anymore and now there is a Men’s staff that is simply going through the motions. That is the problem with not having a strong set of stated goals. The program just goes where the wind takes it.
I guess they "might" be, but who knows. Both are 15-0 against Q3/4 teams. What we do know is their OOC schedules were garbage, like ours was. Of course, unlike them, we lost 3 of our garbage OOC games.
brooklyn brownstone
Bench player
Your last sentence describes Moon's offensive philosophy. On offense, it means resetting back up top at the 7s mark all game after a bunch of non-threatening passes, and your PF shooting a corner 3 at the shot clock buzzer. On a program level, it means playing non-D1 teams regularly and as your home / season opener.
Take what you can get, even if it's the worst possible look.
Spider2020
Bench player
I want a coach hungry for success; one who won’t whine about the “challenges” of coaching/recruiting at Richmond
72Spider
Bench player
And one
And one who is not just going through the motions waiting until his kids get out of school.
