32counter said:

Yours truly wrote this some 6 years ago commenting on 50th anniversary of the UR 1968 team win v Ohio in the Tangerine Bowl.

“…Those guys in the pic look like one rugged bunch who at the line of scrimmage would likely kick our asses today.

If you think about this collection on the team you have to be amazed at the raw recruiting abilities how Frank Jones and his coaches could assemble such talent.That season Frank ran the power I with at least Gillette and Livesay as WRs.Both of those guys were long and fast.RPO for O’Brien was not in the playbook although he did score against Ohio on a QB keeper by not pitching to one of his trailing running backs.

The basement level of Millhiser Gym was the football office.The practices were held where the Weinstein Health center and that parking lot sits as you use to walk down a gravel,bumpy road to get there.No River Road fields,no Robins stadium, no Robins Center,no flashy locker rooms.No Queally Athletic Center,only City Stadium and many away games.Frank Soden was our Bob Black.
The school never won any beauty contests back then(although it was a great looking place even then) nor did it even have 50% of the buildings it has today.There were Saturday classes.You didn’t need 1350 on your SATs to gain admittance.Our endowment was paltry,literally nothing compared to the $3.2 Billion today.
The school was in financial trouble.

The frosh dormitories were army barracks which sat where the Law School parking lot is today.The dining layout of Brunet Hall consisted of 1 single line of extremely limited dining options.Lots of green beans and jello.It was all edible but far from the multiplicity and spaciousness of the menu options experienced at D Hall today.Fraternity life was quite active and involved back then.Not so much today.

We were at very different place back then but with those many fine professors and coaches I wouldn’t trade it for anything…”

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brooklyn brownstone said:

Easy Killer. Filling out an entire schedule is first. Baby steps.

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Gallipoli said:

By 2032 no more than 29% of new cars can be gas-powered. Ergo, there will be only one gas-powered model for every two electric cars on dealer lots.

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spiderstudent17 said:

He is an excellent coach who will be deservingly heading to an FBS program as a head coach, in the not so distant future. I think he even has the potential to be a head coach for a lower power conference school one day.

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spiderstudent17 said:

This pertains more to high school recruits in my opinion. I think the situation varies a little bit with transfers, particularly transfers who played at a power conference first. In that case, I think fit becomes the most important thing and other things like exposure, high level basketball, and success of program become less emphasized because they already tried at that level and would rather "step down" a conference in order to get more opportunities to play and have more of a role. Some times players get bad advise from people or want to shoot for the stars and play at the biggest brand name program they can at the expense of fit with the program. Not saying its right or wrong, but if they were to then transfer from a power conference, are likely more open to consider fit/role with team more in relation to national recognition of program. We do a great job of showcasing former players who have excelled under our system. Showing the fact that King won A10 play of year, when he was here only 1 year for us, must be a big selling point to transfers that they can have immediate success here. Between that and our NIL being very good for our level, is why I think we have seen such success with transfers in recent years.

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SFspidur said:

Their women's tournament has always been way better than their men's. They had Caitlin Clark last year. They're just way down the pecking order on the men's side and have mostly focused on mid-majors, but women's MTEs were slower to gain popularity and they got in early and established themselves as a big one.

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8legs1dream said:

I went to check on the doomsday clock (46 days, 21 hours, 18 minutes, 47 seconds by the way) and got a look at the women's bracket which is easily far ahead of the mens side. If they could do that side right what was the hold up on the mens side 🤨

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1. Balance of high academics and high level basketball
2. Our Facilities
3. Exposure to a national audience (games on ESPN, CBSSN) and success of former players playing professionally (especially Gilly who played many games in the NBA)
4. NIL
5. Fit in our program (essentially what role the player will have, playing time, etc.) I know we do this because newer players now have discussed how our staff showed them video footage of former players who were in their position before (Like showing Quinn videos of Golden) as well as talking about the accolades those former players received.
6. Campus/Life outside basketball/location: Consistently ranked one of the most beautiful campuses, things to do in Richmond, etc.
7. Success: This of course is relative, but talking about things like our recent A10 championship and NCAA tournament win

GKiller said:

we are about the same at EvanMiya who has a preseason predictive metric/rankings. #150. Which ranks 10th in the A10. Torvik for reference was #146.

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VCU was the top A10 team at 41 followed closely by Dayton at 44.

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spiderman said:

not sure what goes into Torvik ... but why is ours so low?

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Section9.RowD said:

My thoughts are with folks in Florida awaiting the arrival of Milton .. but also wondering if this could give the Gulf Coast classic organizers a good excuse to cancel given that the storm may come ashore very close to Naples and since there appears to be no progress on the final 3 teams of the MTE.

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SFspidur said:

JOC burner account?

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