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I think we will be more balanced, but agree you want to have that go to guy. You want him to be versatile, someone like Blake Francis, who could make the 3, drive to the basket, handle the ball, be quick with the ball, draw some contact to get fouled at times, finish at the basket, and create his own shot, including making a pull up mid range jumper if everything else is taken away. This has Hunt written all over it. He might not average 17 a game like Blake did, but I could see him as our leading scorer at 12-14 and the go to guy.
Is this the same guy who had the lowest shooting percentage among starters, but took the most shots by far? Is this the guy that frequently took ill advised shots relative to game situation and shot clock? Is this the guy that took it upon himself to jack up ridiculously difficult shots at critical times rather than looking for an open teammate? Is this the guy who took a future NBA player to play second fiddle to his game?

Francis will forever be an esteemed Spider, but the adulation relative to the stats is suspect. Thin line between fearless and foolish, ask Custer.

2024–25 schedule

2 seasons ago, we had 8 OOC games announced by early June, and 12 OOC games announced before the start of August after adding Clemson as our 12th in late July.
Yeah … when I renewed my senior tix this week I asked my normal contact when we should expect to hear the rest of the schedule and he said before Labor Day but we will see …

2024–25 schedule

Definitely some passion out there on this topic. I will be very happy to see a full OOC slate so the prognosticators can weigh in on record and associated topics.

I think the hope of an at-large is fool’s gold for the following reasons in no particular order:
1) A10 is no longer a guaranteed multi-bid league. Two teams seems to be the ceiling and other A10 teams have more appeal than UR. The days of the giant killers are way in the rear view.
2) Mooney’s history - others have detailed this. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
3) Power conferences have changed how they schedule and the NCAA has shifted the deck to favor P5 schools inclusion in the dance. A historical good enough record will likely not be good enough.
4) Player movement- NIL and the portal has changed team construction and now uncertainty rules in terms of the team strength. Another poster mentioned this and I agree (sorry not digging through thread to find, but kudos to the person).

I do want the staff to build the best schedule possible, but saying that it should be built to maximize the possibility of an at-large bid is simply folly, but it does fill up the time while waiting for something concrete to discuss (the bells, sirens and lights are getting very irritating /s).

Couldn't have said it better, if we couldnt get at large bids when the A10 was a powerhouse and the deck wasn't totally stacked against us institutionally from the NCAA in all forms it is pretty hard to imagine getting them now. All you have to do is look at our conference run last season to know that.

2024 Richmond Spiders Football - Opponents Countdown - Hampton

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after last season's embarrassing loss to the Pirates in our CAA opener, I'm glad we get them in a late November battle which could have significant CAA Championship and FCS Playoff implications for the Spiders...

no matter what kind of season the Pirates are having, many of their players will bring the confidence of their dominating 2023 win onto the field at Armstrong Stadium...if the Spiders need any additional incentive to stay focused, motivated and winning their memories of getting slam dunked by these guys should be perfect tonic for some important payback!

Richmond has not lost in the three previous meetings at Armstrong Stadium...on CAA Media Day interim head coach Trenton Boykin, who replaced Robert Prunty after spring camp, expressed his believe that this could be the best Hampton team since he arrived as an HU assistant in 2020...he attributes a lot of this to experience...the Pirates bring back a lot, particularly on offense where the sole Pirate on the All CAA Preseason team RB Elijah Burriss will lead the way behind an offensive line that Boykin describes as getting bigger, stronger and faster since last season...

former Richmond linebacker Xavier Marshall will play a significant role in Hampton's defense...

the Pirates were picked to finish 12th in the 16 team conference in the CAA Media Day preseason poll...

payback game, or not, this is a late November road game against an opponent that the Spiders have to defeat...you can't defend a Championship, or earn a Playoff spot, without winning games like this one!

enjoy the Countdown!

Go Spiders!

2024–25 schedule

We joined the A-10 for the express purpose of seeking at-large bids. It obviously has not panned out the way we'd hoped, at least in that regard.
I would say it was to join a higher quality conference and it definitely had nothing to do with an OOC schedule. Better league = More bids. Unfortunately, the prestige of the A10 is gone and there is no chance UR is going to be able to move up to a power conference without having a monster investment in football. There is talk about UConn joining the Big 12 and that is going to be hard to pull off without a huge investment in football too. Would have thought the Huskies learned their lesson, but apparently not.

The football schools want to be the only game in town and the dollars are letting them do it.

The Harris Doctrine

Not sure if Trump is elected if he will become a dictator, but it won't be for his lack of trying. While he's a pathological liar, I do fear many of the things he is saying, such as (i) he will shut down media outlets who consistently criticize him, namely Comcast and MSNBC, and I'm sure a few others (ii) he will prosecute his political opponents and local DA's who don't align with his views on crimes (iii) he would fire any US Attorney who doesn't carry out his orders to prosecute a person he wants prosecuted (iv) he would gut the US Civil Service and replace career civil servants with acolytes who pledge their loyalty to him and support his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen (v) he told his supporters at a "Christian" rally that if they voted for him and he won, it would be the last time they would have to vote (vi) he would use the military against civilians, and (vii) he constantly praises Putin, Orban, Kim Jung Un and other dictators, and its plain to see that he envies them since they have unbridled power, and he wants unbridled power for himself.

And really you only need to look at what he attempted in 2020. He was willing to do anything to remain in power and might have if not for Mike Pence doing the right thing. Fake electors, trying to get Georgia to "find" him the amount of votes it would take for him to win the state, encouraging a mob to attack the Capitol and then enjoying it on TV for 3 hours while police officers were getting the crap beat out of them, now praising the same violent rioters and saying he will pardon them if elected. Is this not what a dictator does? When staunch Republican conservatives such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, among others, are calling out the alarm, I think its worth taking note since they have given up their political careers in protest of this dictator wannabe leading the Republican party/cult.
If only all of this were true, which do not believe the facts support even half (50% correct is still bad.). Not a Trump guy. Don't know how to be clearer if read my previous posts, but believe in fair play.

Denied Trump Derangement Syndrome existed for a long time, Clearly, rationality has been lost in some quarters. I am driven by policy, not party, and certainly not hatred. If the election is on policy, the hated Don wins handily. If it the election is on hatred, Kamala wins narrowly.

2024–25 schedule

I think we announced our MTE from 2022 that spring.
Yep, you're right. MTE was announced March 11, matchups announced August 10.


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2024–25 schedule

We released last year's OOC schedule on Friday, August 25, so I guess today would be the equivalent date.

The year before, we announced our MTE on August 10, almost the entire rest of the schedule including A-10 games on September 7, and the final game against Wichita State on September 15.
Ha! I guess we're way off then. Had thought based on things that we announced early/mid August.

Nothing to see here.

@sman - it's the "go win the games" part that has always been the issue. Thus, the discussion on how to circumnavigate that.

2024–25 schedule

I do believe you should TRY to build a more challenging schedule when you're talented and experienced.
and maybe you should schedule lighter in a year where you're going to be playing a lot of freshmen ... if that ever happens again. but I don't believe there's a magic formula for "scheduling for at large purposes".

road games in general are tough, but road dogs @ high majors have a horrible winning percentage. I'm not against those games. they're a ton of fun. but loading up on a tough SOS OOC and finishing with a so-so record is not the answer, nor is a great record against really weak comp. just put together a fun schedule and go win the games.

in general, I just don't like VMI type games where you know they'll end up ranked about #350. that's a boring game with no upside.

I actually kinda LIKE a lot of the games on our current schedule so far ... depending on how it finishes. VMI excluded, we have some fun games. I even like playing at Bucknell. theyre not likely going to be great, but that could be a challenge on the road. same with W&M. and I like Belmont and FGCU at home. Charlotte is a solid game too.

we're freaking because of the unknown and it's late. we need a decent MTE. we need probably 2 bigger games that'll push us. hopefully we'll know more next week.
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