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2024 Richmond Spiders Football - Opponents Countdown - Virginia Cavaliers

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More from JOC. Wickersham seems likely to be the choice based on preseason, but Huesman is playing coy.

Huesman said Monday his intention is “probably not” to have a time-sharing arrangement at quarterback. “We’ll probably name one and go with him and work it that way,” said the coach. “I know Kyle’s a little bit bigger player, no question about that, but I think they both can execute whatever we’re asking them to do within the offense.

"I think you go with one and see how things are going. There's not going to be a plan to say, 'Second series, this guy comes in. Second quarter, this guy comes in.' It's probably not going to be along those lines.”
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Spiders play coy before they play at UVa: no pronouncement on starting QB

Kyle Wickersham and Cam Coleman - both played extensively last season - have competed since spring ball started.
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UR Athletics Hall of Fame 2024

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Couple of hoops players with TJ and Abby Oliver, plus Rodney Elam from football and Meghan Ogilvie from women's soccer.

2010 men's/women's XC earn team of distinction after sweeping A-10 champs.

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Members of Richmond Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2024 Announced - University of Richmond Athletics

RICHMOND, Va. — Four standout Spider student-athletes and two teams that both won conference championships on one unprecedented day comprise the 2024 University
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2024–25 schedule

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8legs1dream said:
If you have big games scheduled, announce them and drum up interest and buzz. There is no benefit to only letting the NIL Spider elite know about things, if that is what's happening.
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Agreed - even if the big games are away, you can still use this to drum up buzz for season ticket holders. As you could sell it as a possibility to see a very good team returning to the Robins Center after some big wins on the road. But the fact we have heard nothing is not good. This is not one of those areas where no news is good news.
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spiderman said:
we filled our portal spots in April and May. it's August. and we have 7 (?) games to fill?
or we're the only team keeping scheduling secrets and we ask teams we're playing to keep the secret too.

as for MTE's, it's not just the historically elite teams that have been invited. pretty much EVERYONE is in an MTE already. so no, they're not having a hard time evaluating Richmond while they have no problem evaluting everyone else.

I actually think we'll hear news this week. because it can't go on indefinitely. at some point you're the last available pretty girl to be asked to the dance.
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I am preparing to be underwhelmed. I guess we could be holding back some super secret awesome OOC but that would defy both common sense and recent past history with how we communicated big game announcements.

I hope I am completely wrong, but I don't how one could be optimistic right now that we are not about to handled a giant sh*t sandwich of an OOC schedule.
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we filled our portal spots in April and May. it's August. and we have 7 (?) games to fill?
or we're the only team keeping scheduling secrets and we ask teams we're playing to keep the secret too.

as for MTE's, it's not just the historically elite teams that have been invited. pretty much EVERYONE is in an MTE already. so no, they're not having a hard time evaluating Richmond while they have no problem evaluting everyone else.

I actually think we'll hear news this week. because it can't go on indefinitely. at some point you're the last available pretty girl to be asked to the dance.
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Next year

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If Gilly is your best player on the court (which I would say he was in 2020 and 2021) than he has to be the guy with the ball in his hands at crunch time. Gilly let Blake be the alpha on those teams and in my mind that is as much Gilly's issue as it was Blake's. It wasn't until the A-10 tournament his senior year that Gilly allowed himself to be the "man" out there.

Gilly is one of our all time greatest players, but the difference between him and Kevin Anderson, is that Kevin Anderson wanted the ball in his hands with the clock winding down ALWAYS, Gilly was more content with allowing another player to be that guy. This also frustrated me about Gilly. You are our alpha dog out there, act like it.
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I have to imagine scheduling for mid-majors like ourselves and other A10 teams has become more difficult with the transfer portal. As mentioned earlier - in the past, you would ideally schedule harder when you knew you were going to have a strong team. But that is harder now than ever given the portal and we are no different - look at our team last year that won the A10 regular season, and now we have a lot of new faces. Hard to predict what you will have year to year.

This also makes it harder for MTE's to invite you as they can't predict either and must rely on your program history. They are likely more willing to trust teams like a Dayton and VCU - who have been consistently good the past several years, to a team like UR - who has the potential to be good, but can also produce back to back losing seasons. So that has likely hurt us.

This makes the not MTE scheduling that more important - because until we turn in a consistent 4-6 year run where we are winning 20+ games a year and have a notable win or two each year, these higher level MTE's probably won't call us.
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GKiller said:
I think Tulsa is the other one here. Regardless it won’t be us. Missouri has released their schedule & they r playing those other 2 teams. We r not joining a Missouri MTE to not play Missouri.
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Thanks, I had missed that Mizzou's schedule was complete. Blogging the Bracket said it's a 3-game MTE so a 4th team would have gotten Mizzou, but clearly it's only 2.

But yeah, even so, didn't see it as a likely fit for us.
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2024–25 schedule

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Looking at the Blogging the Bracket tracker, here are known MTEs with spots still available:

- Gulf Coast Showcase: Ball State (258 NET) plus 7 others. Southern Illinois (116 NET) and Eastern Kentucky (219 NET) appear to also be in this based on tweets and schedule releases, but the tracker is missing them, so looks like 5 spots available in reality.

- Jacksonville Classic: Rhode Island is in this, so we can't be. Detroit Mercy is also in, but the tracker is missing them.

- Arizona Tip-Off Desert Division: Merrimack (213), New Mexico State (289), and Pepperdine (226) are in this, with 1 spot available. It would be games against two of those in Tempe, plus a road game at Butler, Mississippi State, Northwestern, or UNLV.

- Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship: Arkansas State (148), Iona (210), and Rice (241) are in this, with 5 more spots available.

- Missouri MTE: Missouri (158), Pacific (359), and Arkansas Pine-Bluff (328) are in with 1 spot remaining.

And here are last year's NETs for all the teams Blogging the Bracket says are not yet linked to an MTE, removing the small handful that I've seen actually appear to be in an event.

28 Indiana State
73 Richmond
95 Cornell
99 Louisiana Tech
106 Morehead State
112 Hofstra
129 UT Arlington
137 Troy
140 Chattanooga
145 Tarleton State
154 Weber State
164 Bryant
188 Saint Peter’s
194 Marist
196 Cleveland State
198 Tulsa
200 Harvard
221 Austin Peay
222 Georgia State
225 Columbia
228 Bowling Green
248 South Alabama
249 Central Connecticut
260 Western Illinois
261 Coppin State
262 UTSA
263 Citadel
267 Lehigh
276 Oral Roberts
282 Tennessee State
290 Wagner
305 Delaware State
324 Fairleigh Dickinson
330 NJIT
334 Dartmouth
335 Manhattan
338 Army
341 Florida A&M
347 Incarnate Word
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What happened to Southern Illinois?
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2024–25 schedule

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Looking at the Blogging the Bracket tracker, here are known MTEs with spots still available:

- Gulf Coast Showcase: Ball State (258 NET) plus 7 others. Southern Illinois (116 NET) and Eastern Kentucky (219 NET) appear to also be in this based on tweets and schedule releases, but the tracker is missing them, so looks like 5 spots available in reality.

- Jacksonville Classic: Rhode Island is in this, so we can't be. Detroit Mercy is also in, but the tracker is missing them.

- Arizona Tip-Off Desert Division: Merrimack (213), New Mexico State (289), and Pepperdine (226) are in this, with 1 spot available. It would be games against two of those in Tempe, plus a road game at Butler, Mississippi State, Northwestern, or UNLV.

- Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship: Arkansas State (148), Iona (210), and Rice (241) are in this, with 5 more spots available.

- Missouri MTE: Missouri (158), Pacific (359), and Arkansas Pine-Bluff (328) are in with 1 spot remaining.

And here are last year's NETs for all the teams Blogging the Bracket says are not yet linked to an MTE, removing the small handful that I've seen actually appear to be in an event.

28 Indiana State
73 Richmond
95 Cornell
99 Louisiana Tech
106 Morehead State
112 Hofstra
129 UT Arlington
137 Troy
140 Chattanooga
145 Tarleton State
154 Weber State
164 Bryant
188 Saint Peter’s
194 Marist
196 Cleveland State
198 Tulsa
200 Harvard
221 Austin Peay
222 Georgia State
225 Columbia
228 Bowling Green
248 South Alabama
249 Central Connecticut
260 Western Illinois
261 Coppin State
262 UTSA
263 Citadel
267 Lehigh
276 Oral Roberts
282 Tennessee State
290 Wagner
305 Delaware State
324 Fairleigh Dickinson
330 NJIT
334 Dartmouth
335 Manhattan
338 Army
341 Florida A&M
347 Incarnate Word
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Pepperdine is now off the board, showing up on the visitor side of the Arizona Tip-Off.

Down to 6 teams from the top 10 conferences and 49 D-I programs overall that are not yet linked to an MTE.

I'm headed out on vacation for a week. Y'all better have this straightened out by the time I get back.
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And then there were five...Rice is in the Baha Mar Nassau Championship.

Tulsa, UTSA, Indiana State, Southern Illinois, and us remain.

43 D-I teams overall are lacking a known spot.
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