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Mens: NET '24-'25 Rankings

spiderstudent17
mr.spider said:
Not relevant anymore. Hardly any player stays at a school for their entire college career nowadays.
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I agree that this is likely not the norm anymore and Mooney should adjust to this new norm in terms of evaluating players and transfers. Still, I imagine most high school recruits go into a program hoping that they stay there all 4 years (whether that is the case is totally different). I am sure when Mooney recruits high school players or even had the conversation with McGlothin/Robinson about redshirting, its keeping in mind their development over a 4-5 year stretch at a program. But yes, I think its fair to say the norm in how recruiting is done has changed, and Mooney needs to adjust to that.
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Top 10 ranked Teams Spiders have faced?

GKiller
VT4700 said:
The road wins at Kansas and Colorado were huge, but the A-10 had a much better reputation then, which was also a major factor in getting a bid. We only went 10-6 in the A-10 that year, and only went 1-4 against the other 3 A-10 teams that made the tourney, but we got the 4th bid out of the A-10.
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Yeah it was stronger and we still didn't rely on A10 but more on our OOC which is main reason why we got in. Now the strategery is rely on A10 - just go 14-4! - even though it's a lot weaker. make it make sense.
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Mens: NET '24-'25 Rankings

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spiderstudent17 said:
And just because you know a coach doesn't want to leave a place, is that really a reason to use against them when deciding whether to give them an extension or not? If you knew someone who works at a company for 20 years and does something noteworthy for a promotion/raise, would you want their boss to not give it to them because the boss knows the employee likes it there, has a family who likes it there, close(ish) to retirement (<7 years), and doesn't want to leave? I don't think that's fair and should not be used against someone in making that determination, regardless whether its a young up-and-coming coach who is looking to leave for P5 or an older, tenured coach with the same program.
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That's a fair argument, but in this case, Mooney has already been rewarded very nicely. And he didn't do enough to warrant another reward.
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Womens: NET '24-'25 Rankings

spiderstudent17
I can at least understand the reasoning about the disparity between the top teams and the rest compared to men's basketball as a reason for adjusting the NET. However, the home court advantage should not be a reason to over-adjust it even more. Home court advantage isn't just the fans who show up the game that can give the home team an advantage, but its the familiarity the home team has with the court and perhaps its gameday routine Also, not needing to travel distances (sometimes far with long bus rides or plane rides) that can make things even more tiresome. 91+ NET for Q4 is ridiculous.
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Burn the Shirts

spider23
I was just looking up coaches on wikipedia, and it shows the records, year by year, conference standing for the year, and post season. Mooney looks even more bleak when you just look at it as a whole. Looked up Dutcher too. Wow, big difference. One year not making NCAA in 7. And I remember him talking after that year, taking responsibility, that it was not acceptable. And that just turned out to be one season. Wow.
Ok, going to stop doing research because it just makes my opinion that much worse and makes our athletic department's ineptitude that much worse.
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Mens: NET '24-'25 Rankings

spiderstudent17
97spiderfan said:
Mason clearly doesn't want their coach to be poached again, 1 year after their last coach left, that would be devastating for trying to build a program. Obviously, it is a COMPLETELY different situation here, with a 20 year tenured head coach, who just received another extension 2 years prior who has said multiple times he has zero desire to leave Richmond, nor does any school want him, and he is already one of the highest paid coaches in our league as it is.
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Still, my same line of questioning applies: why would George Mason care then if another program takes their coach if the results he is producing are 7th in A10 with a 9-9 record and not winning anything? If the expectations are the same for them as a fellow A10 school, that is NCAA or bust, then by the same argument others have made against Mooney getting a contract extension should also apply to George Mason.

To be clear, I am in agreement with George Mason AD to extend him and think he has done a great job and am saying that programs should reward their coaches for meeting their expectations. For George Mason, that's what they're happy with. For us, it's winning A10 tournaments/A10 regular season, for Kentucky its win a national championship. It's all relative.

And just because you know a coach doesn't want to leave a place, is that really a reason to use against them when deciding whether to give them an extension or not? If you knew someone who works at a company for 20 years and does something noteworthy for a promotion/raise, would you want their boss to not give it to them because the boss knows the employee likes it there, has a family who likes it there, close(ish) to retirement (<7 years), and doesn't want to leave? I don't think that's fair and should not be used against someone in making that determination, regardless whether its a young up-and-coming coach who is looking to leave for P5 or an older, tenured coach with the same program.
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Mens: NET '24-'25 Rankings

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GKiller said:
It remains funny to read when the vt4700's and student17's bring up 22' NCAA as reason for extension. I've read on it here before. But correctly refuted by many. He already got that extension in 2022.

also lmao about the commuter school Goo Moos comparison. overall it's like our moms used to say if your friend jumped off a bridge would you? At Richmond I guess it's yes. & if Mooney had an auto extension for a damn media A10 coach of year award where is the transparency to say so for highest paid employee of university. don't other schools state that....now where's the bridge. Anyway no way he had TWO years auto extension for that either. otherwise our contracts r even worse garbage. The only auto extension should be NCAA. That is the metric. That is why we went to A10. We did better pre-Mooney. We have 3 in 20 years. even philly bob black says that is underperformance.

why did he need 5 years...makes zero sense. That's what he got. Why wasn't 3 years enough (that's what he had) when he was coming off a losing season followed by a NIT year when we didn't even end up on bubble and ended season on an absolute dud with 3 bad losses. He got REWARDED for that. student17 says we must rewartd that type of preformance. That's a problem imo. A guy who had already received at least 4 other extensions. Let's give the 20 year coach even more 24 year security, someone with only 3 ncaas, has 40% down .500 or less seasons overall, and is the WORST rivalry coach of ALL TIME. A fact nobody cares about within the walls of the RC. Is this how "one of the top basketball programs in the NATION" should operate?

Because we want comfortability. I predicted we would extend him this summer bc they didn't want the risk of bad year then having 2 years left and maybe having a teensy weensy bit of pressure the following year. But no we prefer status quo and comfortability. which is even dumber when you consider the actual years we do really well is when he has that teensy weensy pressure. His first ncaas he got 4 years it was time, 19-20 was needed after those back to back terrible years (BILLBOARD), and 2022 he was finally nearing end of contract when it was doable to move on & it looked like a change was at least possible (PETITION GUY). when he has extra years (comfortability) we don't produce.
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Preach on, bro!
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Mens: NET '24-'25 Rankings

spiderstudent17
GKiller said:
It remains funny to read when the vt4700's and student17's bring up 22' NCAA as reason for extension. I've read on it here before. But correctly refuted by many. He already got that extension in 2022
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When did I say that winning the A10 tournament in 202 should be reason for an extension in 2024? He got an extension in 2022 for winning the A10 tournament + NCAA R32 and an extension in 2024 for winning A10 regular season and probably the A10 COY. The way I see it, is those are two separate, independent extensions. Winning A10 tournament in 2022 should not be justification for getting an extension in 2024 when he got one in 2022 for that reason. I think we can look at his last 5 years here, which of course includes the A10 tournament, as a better indicator of his next 5 years of success more than looking at his results 10-15 years ago.
GKiller said:
also lmao about the commuter school Goo Moos comparison. overall it's like our moms used to say if your friend jumped off a bridge would you? At Richmond I guess it's yes.
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That's not my point at all. We are not doing it because George Mason is doing it. We are doing it because that is the trend of what many athletic programs around the country do. It's to refute the notion that we are the only school who does this kind of thing, when its rather commonplace.
GKiller said:
why did he need 5 years...makes zero sense. That's what he got. Why wasn't 3 years enough (that's what he had) when he was coming off a losing season followed by a NIT year when we didn't even end up on bubble and ended season on an absolute dud with 3 bad losses. He got REWARDED for that. student17 says we must rewartd that type of preformance
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They did not disclose specific terms of the contract, so I can't give a fully formed opinion on the matter, but extending through 2028-2029 was likely for recruiting purposes to show a coach being at a school throughout a player's tenure there. I would hope that it includes things like a lesser buy-out because I agree with you and others points that UR holds the chips so to speak and has the negotiating power to set the terms of the contracts.

GKiller said:
Why wasn't 3 years enough (that's what he had) when he was coming off a losing season followed by a NIT year when we didn't even end up on bubble and ended season on an absolute dud with 3 bad losses. He got REWARDED for that. student17 says we must rewartd that type of preformance.
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He did not get rewarded for ending the season with 3 bad losses, he got rewarded for winning A10 regular season and A10 COY. It was very disappointing to end that way, but shouldn't detract from the accomplishment.
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Womens - Oklahoma State @Daytona Beach Classic 11/30 Saturday - 545pm

GKiller
Section 204and5 said:
Speaking of "marketing press", there are millions of people who have abandoned Twitter and migrated to other platforms, I'm in the process of doing so and am spending most of my social media time on Bluesky. So I sent an email to someone involved in communications in the athletic department suggesting that they post on Bluesky in addition to X. Crickets - no response. JOC got a similar email and said he'd look into it. The Orioles got a similar email and thanked me for supporting the O's and said they would look into it. Unfortunately I'm not surprised at the lack of response by our AD.
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To his credit John O'Connor has always been very responsive. He's not going to end up on Bluesky though.
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Dji entering the portal

spider23
GKiller said:
The PETITION GUY threatened me for responding to it before he wiped it all away. The irony of the PETITION GUY for firing Mooney being upset at me, because of someone else entirely, saying something bad about Mooney. I miss those days!
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Just give it time Gkiller, we can get back to those times quickly I'm afraid. Will say, I was also getting private messages at one point specifically not to put up a billboard (like I said, I admit to contributing $5 to the cause but otherwise I know nothing :) ) because Mooney was on hot seat and these insiders were saying he was done. Then Gilly saved his bacon supposedly.
It is looking like Dji made a good decision. I think we would be better with him here, but still seem a piece or two away from being a good A10 team.
Though I am holding out hope that Tyne had a break out, and that one of our forwards can step up.
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Womens - Oklahoma State @Daytona Beach Classic 11/30 Saturday - 545pm

72Spider
Section 204and5 said:
Speaking of "marketing press", there are millions of people who have abandoned Twitter and migrated to other platforms, I'm in the process of doing so and am spending most of my social media time on Bluesky. So I sent an email to someone involved in communications in the athletic department suggesting that they post on Bluesky in addition to X. Crickets - no response. JOC got a similar email and said he'd look into it. The Orioles got a similar email and thanked me for supporting the O's and said they would look into it. Unfortunately I'm not surprised at the lack of response by our AD.
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They probably tried to, misspelled Bluesky, and since they couldn't find it they gave up.
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Womens - Oklahoma State @Daytona Beach Classic 11/30 Saturday - 545pm

Section 204and5
Speaking of "marketing press", there are millions of people who have abandoned Twitter and migrated to other platforms, I'm in the process of doing so and am spending most of my social media time on Bluesky. So I sent an email to someone involved in communications in the athletic department suggesting that they post on Bluesky in addition to X. Crickets - no response. JOC got a similar email and said he'd look into it. The Orioles got a similar email and thanked me for supporting the O's and said they would look into it. Unfortunately I'm not surprised at the lack of response by our AD.
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2025 Baseball Season

MDspider8
Looks like we have a 2025 baseball schedule on the website - hasn't officially been announced by the athletic department yet, but should be coming soon. Some highlights:

  • Season-opening home series vs. Navy (Feb 14 - Feb 16).
  • Second-weekend home series vs. Fairfield (Feb 21-23), followed by a mid-week @ NC State (2/25).
  • We're hosting the "Central Virginia Challenge" again this year, and the field is MUCH better. We play Penn State (2/28), Boston College (3/1), and Toledo (3/2).
  • Strangely, we host BC again on 3/5. Looks like they're doing a long trip to VA, playing W&M/UR/VCU/UR/UVA all in a row.
  • Mid-week @ UVA on 3/19.
  • End of conference play should be rather tough. Our last 4 weekends are vs. SLU, @ Dayton, @ VCU, vs. Davidson.

richmondspiders.com

2025 Baseball Schedule - University of Richmond Athletics

The official 2025 Baseball schedule for the University of Richmond Spiders
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2025 MLAX OOC schedule

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Its a great schedule, but at some point - as I have said before with the Lacrosse program - you got to win these games. I applaud them for scheduling them - that is step 1. Plus - in comparison with basketball, scheduling might be a little easier in Lacrosse just because of regional aspect and limited amount of teams that exist compared to the 300+ basketball teams. Nonetheless - these are good games, but lets not forget - last year - we lost all the "good" OOC games played - losing to UVA, Maryland, Duke and G-Town. Combine that with this program has yet to win an NCAA game and advance. To take the next step and get this program on the track where it is national program with a chance at making the final four of lacrosse - they need to first win some of these big OOC games and win an NCAA game, then I think the Lacrosse program gets looked at as a contender with the big boys, instead of right now a good program at a lower level.
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