97spiderfan said:

Lastly AP technical. Yes, it was terrible timing and you can't do it at that point in the game. BUT, I love the emotion he showed not just on the play but other plays. It was cocky, it was demonstrative, it was emotive love that. He just need to be a tad bit more discretionary in how he employs it. Every team needs a guy who plays with an edge and maybe AP is that guy for us.

I hope Mooney's doesn't go overboard with how disappointed he was in the play that he tames that spirit. His comments in post game were really blunt, way more blunt than Mooney ever is in talking about a player performance.

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Yep again similar in my mind as Grant's mental error with the T after a drunk at Drake game which was key to our meltdown. Tangent - that was the night I met Greg Beckwith as we were both upgraded and chatted with him for the full but short flight to Detroit. RIP.

Week 2 Polls:

AP - Auburn #5, VCU 12 points, Dayton 1 point
Coaches: Auburn #4, Dayton 8

Lastly AP technical. Yes, it was terrible timing and you can't do it at that point in the game. BUT, I love the emotion he showed not just on the play but other plays. It was cocky, it was demonstrative, it was emotive love that. He just need to be a tad bit more discretionary in how he employs it. Every team needs a guy who plays with an edge and maybe AP is that guy for us.

I hope Mooney's doesn't go overboard with how disappointed he was in the play that he tames that spirit. His comments in post game were really blunt, way more blunt than Mooney ever is in talking about a player performance.

VT4700 said:

I'm still not sure Tyne is the ideal guard to start with Hunt. It was nice to see him make a couple 3s, but overall he went 2-8 with 3 turnovers and only 1 assist. White showed a few positives and did not have a turnover in 26 minutes. Hopefully, we will see more scoring from him as he gets more comfortable. I think he and Hunt would be our best 2 starters, with Tyne providing some good energy off the bench.

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The numbers agree with this take too - Tyne was a team worst -18 in his 20 minutes on Saturday, while B. Artis was a team best +6 (tied with AP) in his 26. I know +/- isn't all encompassing, but other metric sites like EvanMiya also have low grades on Tyne. One game definitely doesn't represent a trend, but something to keep an eye on.

My top athletic facility upgrade priority right now is get baseball better grand stands and lights. Building a small club house in between the stands and indoor hitting facility could be nice too. An indoor practice facility for our sports teams like football and lacrosse would be great for the recruiting pitch mainly, but I don’t know how much functional utility it’ll have that’s worth the cost and space it’ll take up. It’s currently 73 and sunny in Richmond right now in November. We aren’t battling tough weather conditions like other programs. I’m not saying we should never get one at some point, but I think there are other projects that can give us more bang for our buck.

I'm a big Walz fan but it was clear to me at least on Friday night that Beagle (who didn't have a good game either) is the type of center that Mooney needs to run his offense. And if the other team does not have a center who plays out of the low post, than Walz's time is also going to have to be limited. The guy lit his has @ss up from 3 over and over again and Mooney just let it happen and than brought Walz back to let it happen some more. Mooney is some type like a gift for opposing coaches to not make the damn obvious adjustment when a player gets hot. The Marist coach had to be like surely their not going to be leave my boy open at the top of the arc again are they. Exactly why other coaches all praise him so highly, they don't want him ever to stop coaching

SFspidur said:

That space between the Weinstein Center and Pitt Field was scoped out at one time as a potential location of a new pool should one ever come to fruition.

It is roughly 275 feet between the Weinstein Center gym and the edge of the parking lot at Pitt Field, so there's not enough space for a full football field oriented in that direction. If you orient it in the other direction, it'll cover a huge chunk of the lot. Some schools have gotten away with smaller 70–80 yard fields in their practice facilities.

I know it's possible to elevate indoor fields, but it's pretty uncommon, particularly at that size. A lot of these have ceiling heights of 65–80 feet, so putting them on top of anything just pushes a monstrous warehouse-type building even higher.

It's been 13 years since the last campus plan, and the next one is scheduled to be unveiled in the spring, so get your suggestions in before they finalize things!

Campus Plan

businessaffairs.richmond.edu

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One of my fraternity brothers used to be a heavy hitter and was on some university advisory boards, etc. He had a meeting with the development office over Homecoming and was told no major new construction is planned for the foreseeable future, only the renovation of current buildings.

He did say if someone with a dedicated donation for a dedicated new building was made, all bets are off.

Mooney had way too many substitutions at his disposal and what it led to was players not getting into the flow of the game with the other players on the court. It was my observation that every time a player made a good play or two, he was off getting subbed out.

He treated this as an early season game which we should have won by 20 with his rotations and when it became apparent that we were in a dog fight, he did not adjust and go with the players who gave us the best chance to win the game.

Sad to see that Russia's state run TV station congratulated Trump and Melania by showing nude pictures of Melania. If someone in the US did that, Trump would post the responsible person's address and phone number so the death threats could begin. But Putin did it so all we get from Trump is crickets. Maybe Trump is afraid Putin will post something else if Trump reacts to this.

The allegation that this includes the entire coaching staff seems like a lot of conjecture/guilt by association. I doubt the head coach is showing his d*ck pick posts with his coaching staff and having laughs about it. But then again, if you know anything about Urban Meyer's coaching tenure at UF and the level of shit he and his players got away with, maybe it isn't.

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Current record: 2-2

11/11: Rutgers -16.5 over St Pete's

I'll say that I was not impressed with Graham's 2-3 minutes, which is hard to do in so little time. He again got completely shook on a crossover move (again, happened vs Mt. Olive too), and if you watch the conclusion of that play, because he has thoroughly lost his man, that guy runs in for an offensive rebound attempt before Graham had any idea where he is. I noticed this in real time as it was in the foreground of the screen (elbow extended on side of court opposite Spider bench.) So if Graham is not going to be a designated shooter, at this point he - in my opinion - should not be out there. He's getting shook on defense, has been a spotty ballhandler at best and is just in running the offense mode. Value add has been nothing.

4700 - a lot of your questions boil down to rotations and roles, and the fact that no one seems to know what they are yet. I'd have thought that Dusan was a go-to guy for points but he barely got touches. Walz said in an interview the day before the game that his role is to score and he gets up virtually nothing from the floor? What are we doing if there is such a giant contradiction? I'll say again that I thought UR played directly into Marist's game plan of limiting our bigs (including Dusan) from being effective. That's on coaching adjustments to be made if you see it happening but UR never made any adjustments.

I agree that batch substitutions to keep groups of guys together (generally alongside Hunt) seems smart at this point because it was so, so disjointed. I pointed this out in the game thread multiple times in real time, with the subs never allowing a unit to get a rhythm and then if they did (like first few possessions vs the zone) Moon took out the shooters.

I'd have thought summer and preseason was for figuring out units and roles and clarifying hierarchies, but what do I know?

Eight Legger said:

Yes to this. It makes no sense at all. We have heard what a lights-out shooter he is and can be, and then he gets ZERO minutes in a game when we had only one guy making shots in the second half? I don't get it.

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I think the fact he got zero minutes, and no injury was shared - says something about what Mooney is thinking about him. And if we don't see him in a Marist game where we needed shooting - we may never see him.

Eight Legger said:

Right, I'm not surprised the ad worked -- it appealed to a lot of Trump supporters who don't like anything that's different or unusual/uncomfortable. No different from people who didn't want Black people to vote or have basic rights 50 years ago, or those who didn't think gay people should have the right to get married or serve in the military, etc etc. For the party that claims to want government to be hands-off, it's another example of hypocrisy at best and persecution at worst.

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The issues are more of 1) whether a child can make a decision to become a trans with his or her parent's approval, 2) whether such a decision should be made before a child turns 18, 3) whether those procedures should be funded by the government, 3) whether trans athletes should be allowed to compete in womens' sports, 4) whether a trans should use a girl's bathroom when he is not of that gender, 5) whether a trans should be allowed to remain in school, when the trans rapes a girl, 6) whether the rest of us should be canceled or shamed for using the wrong pronoun....

The rush to perform these procedures causes life altering changes in a young person's life.
There is a phenomenon known as sudden onset gender dysphoria. look it up.

#7 in the coaches poll...

Yikes! I am more worried about our offense than defense after this game. Defensively, Marist going 14-28 against us from 3 was the difference, but we did show signs that we can play quality D. Several times, we guarded for 30 seconds and put them against the shot clock. They were only 12-32 (37.5%) from 2. We maybe could have used more full court pressure with traps, and forced a few more turnovers. But, unless we see other teams shoot like this from 3, I will give our D the benefit of the doubt for this one and see if we can have some better showings there. I guess on paper we look like a much better offensive team than defensive team, so I will be expecting more from our offense than defense this year.

Offensively, in the 2nd half, we stunk. I don't know what that was out there. We looked very uncomfortable at times, and the movement did not look consistent. I know we can use OOC to try to see what lineups might click, but it seemed like way too much shuffling of guys in and out, which didn't allow anyone except Hunt, who played 35 minutes, to get into a rhythm. It looks like we have a bench that could almost have everyone come in and play together. Maybe we should try bringing in 4 of 5 guys at a time, at least for a few games OOC, which would allow our starting 5 to play more together and get more comfortable. It just felt like we never found an offensive rhythm in the 2nd half, had too many turnovers, and only went 2-10 from 3 the last 20 minutes after going 6-12 from 3 in the 1st half.

How can Walz and Beagle play a combined 40 minutes and go 0-1? At least Beagle got to the line 6 times, making 4, but Walz didn't even do that. What the heck? This is from a position in our offense that always has the ball and we always expect to score double digit points. This is way concerning and simply cannot happen again.

Hunt was great offensively. We need everyone to match his aggressiveness. He kept attacking and made shots and drew fouls. But, he can't do it himself. I'm still not sure Tyne is the ideal guard to start with Hunt. It was nice to see him make a couple 3s, but overall he went 2-8 with 3 turnovers and only 1 assist. White showed a few positives and did not have a turnover in 26 minutes. Hopefully, we will see more scoring from him as he gets more comfortable. I think he and Hunt would be our best 2 starters, with Tyne providing some good energy off the bench.

Dusan was nonexistent at times. We are gonna need him to score. Be aggressive. Drive to the hoop, draw some fouls and shoot more 3s (0-1 from 3 is not helping us at all).

Tanner and Roche did okay. If neither is gonna get more than 21 minutes ( Tanner 21, Roche 17), then having them combine for 13 points and 5 rebounds doesn't hurt our chances to win. I don't think they played much together out there. If they did, we would want more scoring from them, but we can win with what they gave us.

AP showed a good stroke with his 3s, but whatever that was at the end of the game cannot happen again. It just can't. If it does, I don't know how we can even have him out there because a stupid technical like that can cost you a game. And, who knows how this one would have turned out had he kept his emotions in check. He also needs to be more patient with his shot. We need his 3s out there, but there were a couple ill advised shots he took.

Really interesting that Graham got a couple minutes and I guess is ahead of GW3 in the rotation. I think if GW3's shooting is as good as we heard all pre season, we need to find a way to get him some minutes.

This was a terrible loss, but on to the next one. All you can do is try to get better and hope to have some good rhythm and confidence going into A10 play. I think Hunt will use his leadership to get some of these guys more aggressive.

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Eight Legger said:

Glad to see him doing well there, but not surprised. But at the same time, probably going to be a long year for them. They were picked bottom three in the 16-team SEC by most prognosticators.

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Yes definitely glad Dji so far doing well. Though probably will be long year for team unless coach performs some magic. Kenpom has LSU 8-10 in conference play but individually with 13 SEC losses.

spider23 said:

I have no idea how hard we tried to retain Dji, but that should have been a top priority day 1 in the off-season.

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We don't know how hard and also don't know how much Dji wanted to stay at mid-level play? Unless SDad discussed it already. if so my bad. @SpiderDad75 wish and hope nothing but the best of a season for Dji!

fatherspider said:

Well, following a Chris Mooney team throughout a season is typically an exercise in frustration and futility, ending mostly is disappointment. Yesterday was really a blessing because it will be a very quick death this year. Marist? At home? Lol. Could be a Mooney new low, which is saying a lot.

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Oh, Mooney has gone much lower with early season debacles. Longwood and Delaware come to mind.

KE Spider said:

Just read an article about the ad you reference. Never saw it personally, but don't watch much TV. Article said it polled as Trump's most effective ad of the campaign. Called it devastating. It resonated with people, most of whom are quite uncomfortable with "transgenderology."

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Yep, Republicans are scared to death of those trans people, much more so than the threat of gun violence in our schools.