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Opening Night Lineup - Just for fun

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Anachnid said:
He had really good players during those “down” periods and had he ADJUSTED his coaching to their abilities instead of jamming them into compartments I suggest we would have had greater success.
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Mooney might be experimenting a little too much on different line-ups on the courts and also going to the bench more frequently, which is great if a player is tired or in foul trouble, but may also be limiting their flow of the game. Historically, by A10 play we’ve seen him go about 8-9 guys deep during a game, which I agree is the right amount. I think we’re going to see more tightening of the line-up sooner than later this year.
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Womens: Gardner-Webb at RC: Friday 11/15 11am - ESPN+

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Another dominating win today. I’m guessing the comment Roussell made in last week’s post game presser saying Alston was likely coming back this week is for practice. Hopefully next couple of games can ease transition back in more smoothly. December we have a gauntlet of a schedule. Our depth has been a great strength for us.
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OOC Grade is in!!! No surprise, it's an F

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spider23 said:
EL i do think the miracle run Gilly's senior year and then the aberration team last year have fueled Mooney back to unbelievable complacency levels. Let's check back in three years and see where we are. Hoping I am wrong but even Boyden seems subdued this season, and apparently Gipe took a year off from scheduling duties. Carry on with your daily lives.
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I don't get the complacency comment. After 3 games, you say this? We just won a regular season A-10 title last year, and went out and got 5 transfers in the portal. Transfers that everyone on here were super psyched about. Now, 3 games in, our whole coaching staff is 'unbelievably complacent"? Come on, man.

2020: 24-7.
2021: 14-9
2022: 24-13. A-10 tourney title and dance win over Iowa.
2023: 15-18
2024: 23-10. A-10 regular season title.
2025: 1-2.

Yet, all we hear on here are the see, I told u Mooney sucks, we never win, we are too complacent, and no one cares comments, and on and on. No question we have looked pretty bad so far. Hopefully, we can turn things around and play a lot better. But, many on here act like this has been the norm the past several years and the program and coach just don't care enough when in reality we have had a lot of success the past 5 years and there has been no sign at all of complacency from anyone. Just unreal what we hear on here after a loss or two.
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2024 Richmond Spiders Football - Opponents Countdown - Hampton

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Warrennolan.com predicts an 11 point victory (28-17) for the Spiders. Massey predicts a 10 point margin (31-21) for the good guys.

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Richmond Spiders Predicted Results & ELO College Football - WarrenNolan.com

The 2024 Richmond Spiders Predicted Results & ELO: predicted team schedule and results, predicted elo, predicted sos, today’s scores, ELO (live), record, conference record, post season record, strength of schedule, streaks and statistics.
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Opening Night Lineup - Just for fun

Anachnid
spiderstudent17 said:
Yes, if you look at Mooney's entire tenure, I think you bring up valid point about the overall NCAA tournament success. My point, though, is that I am not looking at Mooney's entire tenure and instead looking at his recent history because the world of college basketball changes so much in a multitude of ways that even 10 years ago seems like ancient history. This goes both ways too. I have not brought up Mooney's back-to-back NCAA's in '10 '11 and sweet 16 because it was that long ago. I have been on record here saying that 2018 or 2019 would've been the time where a very good argument could've been made to let Mooney go as a coach. But we did not and we shouldn't ignore the results we've had since.

Personally, I don't think its fair to making sweeping generalizations after every loss as an emblematic representation of UR's "complacency" with our basketball program when there's no evidence of that. We have a top tier practice facility, top NIL program, and have won 2 championships in a 3 year stretch. We won the A10 tournament in 2021-2022 and in 2022-2023 finished with a record of 13-14 followed by going 23-10 (15-3 in A10) and winning A10 regular season championship in 2023-2024. Does this mean that we were committed to basketball in '22, but complacent in '23, and then committed to basketball again in '24? Or could this mean that down years inevitably happen to every program - especially now where teams essentially have a new roster every year?

Again, I am not trying to use this as an excuse for our performance to start this season. There is a lot we need to work on and I still believe in our guys to put together a good season.
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He had really good players during those “down” periods and had he ADJUSTED his coaching to their abilities instead of jamming them into compartments I suggest we would have had greater success.
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Womens: Gardner-Webb at RC: Friday 11/15 11am - ESPN+

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Spiders roll, 92–44. All 12 Spiders who saw the court scored, including a last-minute bucket from Jada Green who missed the past two seasons with injuries. Doogan led the Spiders with 17. Really nice game from Sweeney running the point, with 12 points including 3-for-3 from deep plus 5 assists. Spiders overall had 27 assists on 35 buckets.
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Charlotte Game (and travel) thread - Wed 11/13 7pm ESPN+

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Still early but guess I overrated the players on this team, especially offensively. Hunt not King but doing his best to impersonate him. Didn't think I would say it, but sure do miss Quinn. And thinking Tyne would progress offensively, and hopefully will but not there presently. My perception or more fact that Tyne made some big shots last year? Though now seeing Tyne only shot 28% from deep and 38% with 2PTA.

Still way early but sadly only two scorers presently we can count on to provide points. Again only two games but ranked off. reb % at 360. Last time under 300 was 2011-12 though many winning years in spite of it. The Mooney way! Though this might turn out to be the worst Mooney shooting team since? If it continues might want to start crashing the boards more. Getting back in transition quickly might not help this team for defensive purposes.
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OOC Grade is in!!! No surprise, it's an F

97spiderfan
MrTbone said:
The biggest issue is there’s a large contingent of individuals who are now conditioned that this is how things should be.
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And this contingent of people is clustered in and around the Robins Center and probably most of the guys who run the NIL, led by Mooney best buddy Queally. Their is a whole lot of confirmation bias in this group and you are correct that very few were around pre-Mooney to know that our entire operation had an entirely different trajectory and mission.

Pre-Mooney, we left our comfortable confines of the CAA to move the everything to a very strong and ascending A-10. That was a move that took balls and some pretty damn high confidence that we would succeed.

Now, our leadership is downgrading our FB program and constantly makes excuses for being just average. A completely different mindset and mission has taken over UR athletics over the past 20 years. It is entrenched, it is not going away, and most importantly it lacks the knowledge and history from 20 years ago, that many alumni and the fanbase remember. Hence, this huge disconnect, frustration for many of us with the current athletic leadership.

Chuck Boone would have dispatched Mooney ten years because he had a much grander vision and expectations for our MBB than John Hardt could ever even envision. And Boone would have been supported by most of our athletic operations too because they too had the same expectation.
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