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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

spiderstudent17
Problem was top teams were losing to teams they shouldn’t have. Can’t control that or tell teams to lose on purpose. So the goal is to have every team be at the highest NET possible so that losses don’t hurt each other as badly. Loyola was 107, GW 124, and Rhode Island 152. That’s potentially Q2 or Q3 game if played home or away. So I’d argue that the OOC helped so that these games weren’t landmines for teams like we were last year.
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

GKiller
spiderstudent17 said:
Bernadette, like myself, probably recognizes that it does no good for us, Davidson, Fordham, Loyola, etc to play an entire schedule of really top competition and get smoked by 50.
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Talk about strawman. Nobody has suggested that. such a defeatist attitude anyway. yeah we got smoked by Auburn. that's not normal. I'm not suggesting we play these games to get smoked by 50. No, I want to play em' because it is proven that the way into at large consideration for Richmond is to win as many tough & high profile OOC games as possible. You play to win the game (Herm Edwards). but first give yourself even a chance. And when does Moon go 80% ooc anyway. It's extremely rare. Not going to happen when easy. honestly I think his history is we do just as well playing tougher schedules. so if u will have a similar result OOC u better have those big wins on resume. Just 2 top 100 teams would be gross imo. especially for "one of the top basketball programs in the nation". Right now it's zero so we got that going for us.

do u still think all our schedules besides last season are always stellar? the numbers tell a different story. is it fair to characterize this year's schedule so far as doing well in limiting q4 games when half of the games are Q4?
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

spiderstudent17
97spiderfan said:
Maybe Bernadette is auditioning for our AD job, she would fit right in with our culture.
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Or this strategy makes sense. Literally this has been what I’ve been saying so glad to see A10 trying to implement it if sman point #2 is true. You have to win the games you play. Bernadette, like myself, probably recognizes that it does no good for us, Davidson, Fordham, Loyola, etc to play an entire schedule of really top competition and get smoked by 50. VCU and Dayton shouldn’t even do that. They can play more than the rest of us because they’ve shown that they can win those games more often than not. We, like every other A10 team, should absolutely schedule good teams but within a limit of not biting off more than we can chew and shooting for that 80% win mark is a good goal for all of us to have. So for right now, it might mean the La Salle and Fordhams of the conference do not schedule any top 100 teams. For us it means limiting to 2-3 of those teams. For Dayton and VCU it could mean 4-5. There’s probably a formula or analytics that is suggestive of the kind of competition each team should schedule to maximize its NET potential.
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

GKiller
spiderman said:
I think the idea is that this is how the high major conferences get so many bids. win 80% of your ooc games, then you only play teams in-conference who also won 80% of their ooc games.
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It doesn’t work in reverse for a10 for many reasons. I don’t believe that to be a new mandate - but if it were - it’s a bad mandate. When do they decide who r projected best teams. U schedule some games in advance. And in this era of turnover your roster is constantly evolving. So if u think u have a better team then projected u still schedule easy because other ppl think u won’t be good? That’s nonsense. I’m scheduling to elevate my own program first not my own competition. I’m not scheduling to help a vcu in theory. We do that quite well on our own by getting killed by them regularly. At least if mandate was to schedule hard u r trying to elevate both yourselves and the league.
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

97spiderfan
spiderman said:
I think the idea is that this is how the high major conferences get so many bids. win 80% of your ooc games, then you only play teams in-conference who also won 80% of their ooc games.
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Yeah, but the high major are playing each other OOC and then playing a bunch of easy games as well. We are just playing a bunch of easy games and not the high majors so this isn't going to work. It essentially is playing right into the high major's plan to cut leagues like the A-10 down to a 1 bid conference so they can get more bids.

Our league mandate should be to have each league member to call every high major and attempt to schedule them and then publicize when they don't. Secondly, we should be actively working with the American, MWC, MVC, West Coast to schedule as many games with these conference and possibly get some contracts with these conference to play them. Instead, we are going the easy route.

Maybe Bernadette is auditioning for our AD job, she would fit right in with our culture.
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

spiderman
97spiderfan said:
If this is true, it would be a complete 180 from the scheduling mandate of the A-10 from a few years ago. And I don't know what type of "analytics" she is using that says scheduling easy is the ticket to OOC success. We were a 1 bid conference last year for a reason.
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I think the idea is that this is how the high major conferences get so many bids. win 80% of your ooc games, then you only play teams in-conference who also won 80% of their ooc games.
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

GKiller
GKiller said:
The genesis of this was u saying we've done well limiting q4s. When half of the games so far are Q4s how can u say that? Now u r saying something about us knowing a few of the q4 games already which is nonsensical.

The mentality comment was clearly in reference to going after & playing in more road p5 buy games. No, I don't think our staff has that mentality. which I think u need when our scheduling is trending the way it is, esp with MTEs.

Also, what was our non conf sos in 23-24? iirc it was very poor. we played like 6 garbage teams. & with your 6 above only 2 are "top 40 caliber"/top 75 net. Of course u love that u don't want to play more than 2. maybe I'm wrong on non conf sos I don't have time to look up right now. But if we had a bad non conf sos idk how that schedule is your example.

I have not said overall we traditionally schedule bad, some years have been good like 21-22' iirc. there r others, some years r very average some r below average. but I've long said that regardless, we should schedule harder. Had those debates b4 on here. It's not a new thing. there have been plenty of years I've not been happy with our OOC schedule.
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So the actual numbers - shockingly /s - tell another story. A narrative we regularly schedule well is false. In fact too weak as I've said for a long time. I only looked at the last 3 years.

277 - 24-25'
179 - 23-24'
218 - 22-23'

Those are the NET ooc SOS. If you looked at RPI ooc sos in 23-24 it was 325. 325! I have acknowledged that SOS can vary so I think fair to defer to NET metric since that is NCAA's. But even if you went to Kenpom we were 272 non conf sos. No matter where u look it's not great. 179 Net, 272 kenpom, 325 rpi. That's the schedule u r recogizing 17?

The team sheets can be found via the link below if anyone is questioning source.

Richmond Men's Basketball Schedule Scores & Stats | WarrenNolan.com

The 2024 Men's Basketball Schedule for the Richmond Spiders with today’s scores plus records, conference records, post season records, strength of schedule, streaks and statistics.
www.warrennolan.com www.warrennolan.com

This year is trending similarly. Not when half your known games are q4. To me that means u r not not limiting q4s. and we have zero good games so far.
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2025 Baseball Season

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“I think that it will be probably with me all summer and well into next year, and hopefully out of my system by the time we start playing again,” second-year UR coach Mik Aoki said Monday. “As the head coach, I need to take basically all of the responsibility for maybe not having prepared us for the downs that happen during the course of any baseball season, or probably any athletic season, right?” [...]

“For us, those ‘downs,’ I think, sort of started at Saint Joe’s,” said Aoki. “I think the guys just started to feel, like, ‘Oh my gosh, we just lost two games.’ Even at the end of that weekend, we’re still 4-2 (in the A-10). I think it was like sort of living up to the expectations. I don’t know that we necessarily handled that very well.
University of Richmond second-year baseball coach Mik Aoki, on the Spiders' uneven season: “I think that it will be probably with me all summer and well into next year, and hopefully out of my system by the time we start playing again."

“And then we went just through a little bit of a rocky stretch. Our pitching wasn’t quite as good as it was at the early part of the year. I think our hitters started to press. Then our pitching kind of got back on track, but by that point, I think our hitters were a little bit out of sorts.

“We just never seemed to kind of get over the hump.”
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“It’s a group that I really, really enjoyed being around. It’s a group I care for deeply,” said Aoki, the former coach at Notre Dame, Boston College, Morehead State and Columbia. “It was an incredibly talented group, but it was almost sort of a feeling of they wanted something so badly they couldn’t quite let go.

“It comes from a good place. They wanted this so badly. They knew that they were really good. In spurts we did, but I don’t know that we just played an entire six- or seven-game stretch just completely free and loose once the conference started ... and then time becomes your enemy. Every passing weekend, the pressure sort of ratchets up.”

Aoki is left weighing the value of a very unusual season. Every metric improved from last season, his analysis indicates, the Spiders won 33 games, and at least three or four UR players this season probably earned a draft position or an opportunity play professionally at some level.

“You try to take your lessons. On my 30-minute ride back home down to Chesterfield, or if it’s a two-hour trip to go watch a kid play, or in the quiet moments of the summer when I’m by myself, these are the things that will rattle around in my brain for a while,” said Aoki.
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

97spiderfan
spiderman said:
2) it might also be an A10 mandate. I think I heard somewhere that Bernadette is following analytics to try to game the system where she wants each team to try to schedule to win "x"% (I think 80%?) in the OOC. so unless you're projected to be a top team in the league ... schedule weak.
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If this is true, it would be a complete 180 from the scheduling mandate of the A-10 from a few years ago. And I don't know what type of "analytics" she is using that says scheduling easy is the ticket to NCAA success. We were a 1 bid conference last year and not pushing teams to schedule demanding OOC is part of the reason. .
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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

spiderman
I don't like weak OOC schedules either but I think it might be 2 part.

1) it's tougher for mid majors to get many high major games. many coaches have talked about it. high majors used to schedule only lesser conference teams in the OOC knowing their in-conference schedule was tough enough. now more are scheduling each other (often at neutral sites). those games reduce the number of high major games for the other 26 conferences to share.

2) it might also be an A10 mandate. I think I heard somewhere that Bernadette is following analytics to try to game the system where she wants each team to try to schedule to win "x"% (I think 80%?) in the OOC. so unless you're projected to be a top team in the league ... schedule weak.

the entire A10 scheduled weak last year. I think we showed UR's was ranked 4th or 5th toughest in the conferece last year, which is mind blowing. so that's not just a Mooney thing.

but as everyone agrees ... not landing in better MTE's is totally on Mooney and it's inexcusable.
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The Trump Administration

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Wood Hall said:
Marty Feldman Patel, our esteemed alum who somehow fell 30 stories upstairs to become the director of the FBI, is openly lying to the American public about Canada being a major source of fentanyl.

In the first three months of 2025, a grand total of 1.35 pounds of fentanyl was seized by border officials at our border with Canada — 0.06% of total seizures.

He is an absolute embarrassment to our outstanding university.
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Kash Patel looked incompetent when he appeared before the Appropriations Committee of the Senate on May 8 and acknowledged that he had not submitted a budget plan for 2026 that was required by law to be submitted prior to May 1. He said he did not know when it would be submitted.

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FBI Director Shows Up to Budget Hearing With “No” Timeline for Budget, Walks Back His Criticism of Trump’s Plan for Big Cuts at FBI | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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