RIP. He could spin it. And a really good guy.

bullfrog91 said:

,Burn the red shirt! Ride the horse for the rest of the season!

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Just a thought more than opinion, and I do not care what they do as coaches as long as the team is in the best position to win this year, but also in the future. Burning the Coleman redshirt puts Wickersham in a position to redshirt himself. The result of that if he/they choose to do so gives Spiders two starting level QBs with two years left each. Of course, Coleman could redshirt another year down the line, but then you have the same situation as this year. It is not my business one way or the other, but maybe Coleman was promised or wants a redshirt year, if possible, to obtain a master's degree. If Wickersham can lead the team to the playoffs, so be it. If Coleman is needed to get there use him and I feel sure the coaches will consider the options and needs to make that happen.

Having Wickersham for two years and Coleman three, gives incoming Jack Callaghan a redshirt year and two years as backup to Coleman if he does not win the starting job. Redshirting at this level of FB is huge, and Huesman is clear he wants to build the program from HS recruits and plug in needs via portal.

Statistics show they are both pretty even and Wickersham has the FBS game involved. Yes, Coleman might be a bit better on the deep ball, but as far as Wickersham being a run first QB, with the improvement in the run game of late, I do not see that situation being an issue of necessity in the future. Palmer-Smith is now 13th in the nation with 493 yards rushing. Good on him and the OL.
I also see a WR room that has made great improvement over the last two or three games and is now multi-threatening, not just one option that could get open.

I honestly have far more concern about Spiders getting healthier on the DL right now than who starts at QB. I have not heard if any of the three DL guys that went out injured last week are coming back. The two deep shows Spiders are down three DEs and a DT from previous two-deeps this year and Hoilette will not be back for sure.

Spiders need to win this game and be glad for a bye week to get healthy or get young guys ready to go in two-deep the second half of season.

If Harris loses, the Democrats will rue the day they kicked out Joe Biden.

MDspider8 said:

Miles Mayfield out of Orlando. Offers from Portland, Stetson, Rhode Island, and Chattanooga.

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Headed to UNC Asheville.

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RIP, one of the greats.

GKiller said:

What is not exactly…so if 1500 ppl wanted to pay & attend u would have said no & still used the practice facility? The more paid tix would have exponentially justified higher expenses. I was just saying there isn’t the attendance demand for RC right now. If there was we would surely have used it to raise a lot more funds. If u r disputing that statement I’d love to hear why. I get why using Queally practice facility u can only put so many in there but that works well based on expected demand.

It’s a nice, intimate event that is a good idea and hopefully grows too.

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For the size of our school, I expected very good attendance and a terrific event.

Did Weir transfer to avoid the Robins Center?

spiderman said:

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

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Because Tanner won’t play a minute.
Roche will average 10 points a game in 26 minutes a game while injured.
And Glu will average .7 points a game in 2.8 minutes a game, while not getting a single rebound or assist this season.

Actually, I don’t know but maybe we can compare it to KenPom, in hopefully 2 weeks. He released preseason 10/15 last year.

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

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Lot of numbers. Just like the rest. Kenpom kpi sos the secret Net. Tho a preseason predictive one has to be hardest. Regardless Torvik is now formally a metric the ncaa looks at. Let’s see what kenpom does w theirs. Could def be better but I doubt significant.

I still feel like the program & lot of fanbase prefer low expectations. I don’t get it. I like it much better when I have high expectations of my teams going in. Plus it’s the only time Mooney has ever made the NCAAs.

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I went back and watched the May interview of John OConner by the NDSU play by play guy. He confirmed everything in this post. He also noted that the NIL pool of money for Richmond was finite and the school chose to emphasize basketball.

JOC also said that he thought the CAA will probably dissolve in the near future and that UR wanted to get ahead of that.

I still think there is a lot of institutional snobbery towards Hampton and NC A&T and Campbell. Some of that snobbery may be rooted in latent racism against HBCSUs. There is no room for snobbery unless you can beat these schools on the field.

From a fan's perspective, why now? Why make the sudden move out of the CAA now? It would have been better for the school to wait and see whether the other schools will be able to improve their football programs. But, the new president wanted to "change things".

Oh and by the way, the "watered down" CAA schedule helped UR make the playoffs last year and it may help us make the playoffs again this year.

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I would agree with the idea that UR was trying to get ahead of this CAA issue (which may or may not exist) and therefore decided to move conferences ahead of everyone else IF, we moved to a comparable 1AA football conference, or moved with a group of other teams - say UR, Villanova, and W&M all decided to leave at same time.

But as it stands now - we are the only team leaving the CAA, to a massive drop off in conference with the Patriot league - assuming the Patriot league doesn't expand their football conference. I mean, the Patriot league only has 7 teams today, did we really think spots would be taken up if we waited 6 months or till the end of this season and see what everyone else does.

I mean - looking at the top 25 FCS rankings right now, you have about 7 CAA teams listed in rankings or receiving votes. So its hard for me to imagine the CAA just plummets to the bottom or even below the Patriot league in terms of league strength right away. Maybe its a slow fall, with a team or two leaving here and there. But given its 1AA football, and given the condition as it stands today is fine - I don't get the rush to make the move out of CAA at this time. Might have been better to wait and see at the end of this season or next?

Surely Gonzaga could have joined the actual Pac12 years and years ago why decide to jump in now with the Pac2 moldy leftovers version.

Build a real stadium and surround it with the columns and iron fencing. It's long overdue. And don't forget the lights.

plus if you adequately pad to the point the beauty is hidden what have you accomplished

my favorite matchup that didn't happen was S. Florida and Washington St. being in the same conference.

Sounds like Gonzaga to Pac-12 is finally going to happen. They apparently also talked to St. Mary's and Grand Canyon but seem to be turning attention back to football growth. Reports a few days ago indicated the Pac-12 was looking at Toledo and Northern Illinois for football, but there were some denials and things seem to have quieted down on that front. They may also make another run at the AAC schools that rejected their first try.

UTEP is leaving CUSA for the MWC. Texas State out of the Sun Belt may be next, but the Pac-12 is also sniffing around them.

The crazy game of musical chairs continues.

also ... scroll down a little to see the votes on this A10 talk ranking.
I don't know who votes but it's interesting that there's little consensus on a few teams including UR. we're picked as high as 4th and as low as 13th.

Wood Hall said:

Some thoughts on various posts on page 3 of this thread (don't want to use the quote function, my post would be way too long).

* "We don't want to associate with Hampton and NCA&T." Wait, I thought we were a "woke" school. Wouldn't a "woke" school be very happy with an association with an HBCU?

* We were competitive with JMU on the field back in the day, yes. But college football has changed since 2015. JMU is a huge (compared to us) public school that has become an FBS school on the backs of its students, who pay an astronomical amount in student athletic fees, about half of their budget. It has lower academic standards. It can easily get walk-ons. It will eventually pay millions in NIL. Their administrators have a different idea of where they want their football team to be. They will never be an P4 program. The Sun Belt is as high as they will ever get.

* Jim Miller and Chuck Boone would not have been able to stop JMU, ODU and Delaware from transitioning to FBS. They had no power over those other team's administrators. The CAA was always an uneasy balance between huge public schools, with varying academic standards, and us and Villanova. It was a shotgun wedding from the start. The PL, OTOH, has no academic/enrollment outliers.

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I went back and watched the May interview of John OConner by the NDSU play by play guy. He confirmed everything in this post. He also noted that the NIL pool of money for Richmond was finite and the school chose to emphasize basketball.

JOC also said that he thought the CAA will probably dissolve in the near future and that UR wanted to get ahead of that.

I still think there is a lot of institutional snobbery towards Hampton and NC A&T and Campbell. Some of that snobbery may be rooted in latent racism against HBCSUs. There is no room for snobbery unless you can beat these schools on the field.

From a fan's perspective, why now? Why make the sudden move out of the CAA now? It would have been better for the school to wait and see whether the other schools will be able to improve their football programs. But, the new president wanted to "change things".

Oh and by the way, the "watered down" CAA schedule helped UR make the playoffs last year and it may help us make the playoffs again this year.

Section9.RowD said:

As of October 1st, our friends over at A10 Talk, who I believe still don't have a UR correspondent & voting member, released their preseason A10 rankings.

8th seems fairly reasonable as a starting spot -- hope we will rise quickly like we did last year.

A10 Men's Basketball Power Rankings - Preseason

A10 Men’s Basketball Power Rankings – Preseason (October 1, 2024) First place votes (in parentheses) Voting Breakdown: 8 1 4 12 7 13 15 6 11 14 9 10 2 5 3 14 2 8 13 6 9 15 4 10 11 12 7 1 5 3 15 4 7 9 6 13 11 3

www.a10talk.com

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

With the stellar OOC schedule, I don’t think there will be much to base the team strength on until the Auburn game.

At this point, I would think somewhere in the 6-8 range is the expected preseason ranking. Lots of unknowns with this team compared to others that are ranked ahead of them.

Looking forward to seeing if the staff can keep the positive momentum going from
last year and hope the Spiders can avoid the end of season swoon. Definitely have a harder job this year with a larger rebuild effort, but it seems that they have done better on the talent acquisition side. Once again the question comes down to team chemistry and identity.

Go Spiders!