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2025-2026 Non Conference Schedule

Section9.RowD
William and Mary (pre-existing contract)
ODU
VMI (?)
ECU (home ?)
Belmont (away?)
Citadel (home?)
Thanksgiving week ESPN sponsored MTE - Charlotte, Furman, Illinois State, UR in Orlando
Southern Illinois (Sat 12/13 at RC) - 2 home games, 1 away

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Men's Basketball Renews Series Against Old Dominion - University of Richmond Athletics

RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond men's basketball will begin a home-and-home series against longtime rival Old Dominion this season, the program announced Wednesday....
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Never Forget: those killed or hurt by Illegal Immigrants

Gallipoli
I am disgusted by Biden's open borders policies. We must never forget those whose lives have been taken, because of harm caused them by Bidens immigration disaster.

Jocelyn Nungaray’s murder in north Houston, Texas on June 12, 2024. She was found strangled to death in a creek. Her killers were criminals from Venezuela. One crossed into Texas on May 28, 2024, the other in March 2024. Both were released into this country at El Paso, Texas.

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Migrant charged over murder of girl, 12, arrived in US days earlier

Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, crossed the border at El Paso in Texas on May 28 and was fitted with a GPS tracker to monitor his location after being interviewed by border agents
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Spider Collective NIL

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Anyone have any information on the Spider Collective NIL and what is has been up to? How much money have they raised? How much have they given out, etc.

Or is this still a secret Fight Club situation where the first rule of Spider NIL is not to talk about Spider NIL. Just thinking with the transfer portal being open and trying to get guys, this is where NIL money could really have an impact IF the school wanted to go that direction.
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July 23-24 Patriot League Media Days-preseason poll and team on July 23

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2025 FCS Football Season​

Conference Media Days/Preseason Release Dates​

Dates without cities are considered virtual media days

July 16 – Southwestern Athletic Conference (Birmingham, Alabama)

July 16 – United Athletic Conference (Nashville, Tennessee)

July 17 – Big South-OVC Football Association

July 19-21 – Big Sky Conference (Airway Heights, Washington) – preseason poll and team on July 21

July 20-21 – Southland Conference (San Antonio) – preseason poll and team on July 21

July 21 – Missouri Valley Football Conference (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

July 21-22 – Southern Conference (Greenville, South Carolina)

July 23-24 – CAA Football – preseason poll on July 23

July 23-24 – Patriot League – preseason poll and team on July 23

July 26 – Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (Baltimore)

July 28-29 – Pioneer Football League – preseason poll on July 28 and preseason team on July 29

Aug. 11 – Ivy League – preseason poll on Aug. 4

TBA – Northeast Conference
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Looking into next season - men's basketball

spiderstudent17
Alright, now that our men's season is officially over, I thought I would make a thread that looks at what I think we need to do better in order to improve. Given this season, you can imagine it's going to be a lot. I get coaching change would be an important element too, but I am going to operate on the assumption Mooney returns for next season. I hope we can at least keep firing Mooney as one of these things out of this thread, as it is brought up in every other thread. I plan to do one for women's basketball too.

Roster/Recruiting:
  • We either need to do a better job at identifying the right talent to bring in or closing the deal on the right talent. We have had way too many misses with high school recruits the past several years to feel confident that next year is going to be different.
  • I would much rather we focus our efforts on getting 1-2 definite game changers than 4-5 players and hoping one of them turns out to be good.
  • We desperately need a stud point guard and a stretch 4 who can shoot the 3 ball and play good defense.
  • We need to have at least 3 A10 starter level kind of talent on this team and 2-3 A10 role players for us to be top of the conference.
Practice:
  • We need more intensity in practice. I think it was Burton who said in an interview that the intensity at Villanova in practice was like nothing he experienced at Richmond
  • You play as you practice. I want intensity and physicality. This is where you set the tone for the season
  • I want us to focus more on rebounding. I don’t care what the stats say about fast break points or not. I have watched a ton of basketball and the best teams play very physically and can rebound the ball well. I don’t think that is a coincidence.
Making adjustments:
  • That JOC article of Mooney saying he doesn’t want to make adjustments (again I’ll try to give as much benefit of the doubt) and instead stick to his guns seemed rather tone deaf to me. Either get players who can shoot the ball well (see recruiting above) or make changes to the offensive/defensive scheme to adapt to the players skillset.
  • There has to be more than one defensive system we can implement in the games that the players can feel comfortable doing.
  • Hire an outside assistant who can give fresh perspectives on basketball schemes
NIL:
  • It’s been reported that other A10 teams are spending up to $3 million for men’s basketball per year. If that’s the case, then we need to spend $3 million too.
  • However, please, please don’t be dumb on how we allocate this money. This is not little league youth sports where everyone gets the same prize. If Mooney wants to give players more money for staying longer, fine, but make it proportional and relative to the impact they have on the team.
  • The better players get paid more. Period. Every other player can choose to be happy with what they get, get better so their NIL value increases, or transfer.
  • Going back to recruiting. Don’t be afraid to spend big on players. I haven’t completely given up on our staff’s ability to identify the right players for this program. Go out and get them. This is basically professional basketball now. Pay $500K+ for a player if need be. First prioritize keeping our best talent on the roster, and then go out and find the very good players needed to make us a top program. Don’t worry about hurt feelings on who is getting paid more or not. This is how the real world works.
Scheduling:
  • I think we should try and create a schedule that aims at getting us 10+ wins OOC. Ideally this would involve at least 1 Q1 opportunity and 2-3 Q2 opportunity, but for me its more important to have a good record than the quad games. It doesn't do us any good playing a team like Auburn 13 times OOC and getting blown out every game.
  • Please go to a respectable OOC tournament where we know the teams/schedule more than 2 weeks in advance
  • Try to avoid non-D1 opponents at all costs. I get some of it is how things are nowadays, but I would rather play the worst ranked D1 opponent than D2/D3 teams.
Other:
  • Hire people who run the athletic department that can spell check. Maybe minor in the big scheme of things, but it sets the culture and represents the athletic department as a whole.
  • More focused efforts on advertising the games to the community not just fans who have season tickets/gone to games in the past. I think we did a good job with this on the women’s side but can do a lot better with the men’s team.
  • Finally, if you’re going to do a red out SUPPLY THE SHIRTS. It’s not that hard, like others have said it can easily get subsidized by advertisements. It looks amateurish to want to do one and have people showing up in different color shirts. Even La Salle was able to do this!!
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Sam "Deuce" Simmons Jr - 2026 Offer

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Another PG from Gillyland? Olathe North HS from the Kansas side of KC area. Seems to also be a WR and is being recruited by schools for football as well. Just offered from hoops by Tennessee yesterday, so there's that. It looks like it was his first hoops offer. I see a football offer from Tulsa. His dad was a WR at Northwestern and appeared in one season in the NFL with the Dolphins on special teams.


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Iran, Israel and the US

Gallipoli
It seems like this is a good topic for a new thread. In response to the US' attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran has launched attacks on US bases in Iraq and Qatar. Trump has said such retaliation will not be tolerated.

www.france24.com

Israel-Iran war live: Tehran claims missile attacks on US bases in Qatar

Iran launched missile attacks Monday on US military bases in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites and escalating tensions in the volatile region. Qatar condemned the attack…
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More Spider Offspring...

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That late 80s, early 90s generation sure can produce 'em...

Congrats to James Wood, son of Spider great Kenny Wood, on getting drafted in the 2nd round of the MLB draft by the Padres today.

https://sagharborexpress.com/james-...enny-wood-makes-his-mark-on-baseball-diamond/

From MLB.com:

Wood entered the summer as a relatively under-the-radar athletic outfielder who had moved from his home in Maryland to attend IMG Academy to focus on baseball. The former two-sport standout (basketball) had as strong of a summer as just about any high schooler on the showcase circuit, putting him firmly on the radar as perhaps the Florida Draft prospect with the highest upside, though some struggles at the plate this spring hurt his stock a little. Hailing from an athletic family -- Wood's father played basketball professionally in Europe and his sister plays hoops at Northwestern University -- Wood is a veritable toolshed and showed at various events an ability to use all of them against good competition. The 6-foot-6, 230-pound left-handed hitter has tremendous raw power that showed up consistently in batting practice, with glimpses of it in games. Right now, it's more of a handsy swing and he should tap into that pop more as he learns to use his lower half better. That will allow him to stay back longer on soft stuff, with his ability to adjust to that a big factor in him reaching his power potential, which could be hitting 25-30 homers annually. Wood clocked plus run times in 60-yard dashes over the summer and is better once he gets going. He's shown the ability to cover a lot of ground smoothly in center field with an outstanding arm that would work in right field should he outgrow center. He's committed to attend Mississippi State, but while he did seem lost at times offensively this spring, it looks like he still could go early enough to never set foot on campus.
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Future of East Coast FCS Football

Ferrum Spider
Anyone want to share their thoughts on the state of it?

The losses of App St, JMU, Coastal Carolina, GA Southern, ODU, UMASS, (And now Delaware) has really left a competitive void for east coast FCS football to where its viewed as a level below the top tiers of FCS football. The CAA clearly isn't respected along with the Patriot League. As much as I detest leaving the CAA for the PL, it is now a weaker conference with our exit and should make the Patriot League stronger assuming we can keep up the current standards of the program up and running. With the Ivy league potentially adding a FCS playoff berth, hopefully that will help swing the pendulum a bit, but I worry about it weakening the appeal of the Patriot League. What's the future of the CAA? Do some of the America East schools break off and form their own conference?

What's annoying to me is that as of this week there were 3 full A10 members with ranked FCS football programs as of this week, and somehow we couldn't come together with the other CAA affiliate members like ranked Villanova and ranked New Hampshire to start our own conference.
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NBA Summer League 2023 - Gilly and Golden

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I don't know if we need a new thread or not, but they don't cost anything so here we are.

I mentioned in the Gilly NBA thread that he's on the Grizz Summer League roster, and now Grant is officially on the Nuggets' Summer League roster.

www.nba.com

DENVER NUGGETS ANNOUNCE 2023 NBA SUMMER LEAGUE ROSTER AND MINI-CAMP SCHEDULE

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The Grizz are in the Salt Lake summer league event, playing a round robin July 3–6 against OKC, Philly, and Utah. They'll then head to Vegas for the main Summer League July 7–17. The Nuggets aren't playing in an early event and will instead hold their own mini-camp before heading to Vegas.

In Vegas, each team plays four games, with the top 4 then playing semis and a final for the championship. The other 26 teams will get matched up to give them all a fifth game.
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2025 Baseball Season

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Looks like we have a 2025 baseball schedule on the website - hasn't officially been announced by the athletic department yet, but should be coming soon. Some highlights:

  • Season-opening home series vs. Navy (Feb 14 - Feb 16).
  • Second-weekend home series vs. Fairfield (Feb 21-23), followed by a mid-week @ NC State (2/25).
  • We're hosting the "Central Virginia Challenge" again this year, and the field is MUCH better. We play Penn State (2/28), Boston College (3/1), and Toledo (3/2).
  • Strangely, we host BC again on 3/5. Looks like they're doing a long trip to VA, playing W&M/UR/VCU/UR/UVA all in a row.
  • Mid-week @ UVA on 3/19.
  • End of conference play should be rather tough. Our last 4 weekends are vs. SLU, @ Dayton, @ VCU, vs. Davidson.

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2025 Baseball Schedule - University of Richmond Athletics

The official 2025 Baseball schedule for the University of Richmond Spiders
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Around the A-10: 2024–25 Edition

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Figured we could use a thread separate from the betting one to follow how our conference mates are doing.

14 squads in action on opening day, with 13 of them playing D-I competition. Davidson was the exception, hosting D-III William Peace, and of course the Spiders were not in action. The A-10 went a respectable 11–3 on the day, with several squads recovering from early deficits to score wins.

Not a lot of surprises I guess. Mostly beating up on inferior competition, though Loyola only winning by 5 over Chicago State is a bit surprising to me even though Chicago State isn't quite the basement dweller they were a few years ago. SLU falling to Santa Clara was a missed opportunity for a decent win...gotta have those if you've hoping to be a contender. Hope Avila is okay.

I don't know whether to be surprised about Duquesne losing to Lipscomb...it's Duquesne. VCU rolled over Bellarmine with their guards doing a ton of damage. Not a lot of bench production and they really only went 8 deep. Billups only got 4 minutes but had 5 points, while Jennings was scoreless in 15 minutes.

Wins
Bona 70, CSUN 56
UMass 103, UNH 74
Dayton 87, St. Francis 57
Mason 75, NC Central 58
VCU 84, Bellarmine 65
St. Joe's 70, Navy 63
La Salle 65, American 52
URI 96, Fairfield 58
GW 76, Mercyhurst 59
Loyola 77, Chicago State 72
Davidson 88, William Peace 47 (D-III)

Losses
Santa Clara 85, SLU 78
St. John's 92, Fordham 60
Lipscomb 77, Duquesne 72
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Glou update anyone?

spider23
I don't have one, and I can't even find any info on spidernation.

What was his injury? How long is he out?

Was very high on him before the season. Then not so much during the season - but I thought he started showing some good signs before he got hurt. Maybe was starting to shake off the rust from sitting on the pines for 2 years at Uconn? And yes I was hopeful that going thru Hurley practices for 2 years vs the top team would have had him game ready - but it did not.

I would have been more hopeful for this upcoming season if he had a healthy off season to build on - but if he is out all summer I give very little chance for him to be an impact player this year.
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2025 Commits List

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  • Freshmen Commits
  1. Jack Callaghan - 4/15/24 - QB - Collegiate School, Richmond, VA - 6'2"/210 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  2. Christian Soltis - 6/27/24 - LB - The Hun School, Princeton, NJ - 6'3"/225 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  3. Jackson Thorne - 6/29/24 - LB -Independence HS, Ashburn, VA - 6'1"/220 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  4. Matthew Martin - 7/1/24 - OLB/TE/WR - Atlee HS, Mechanicsville, VA - 6'4"/207 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  5. Jack Reece - 7/2/24 - DE/DT/G/C/T - Chatham HS, Chatham, VA - 6'3"/285 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  6. Moses Bailey - 7/11/24 - DE/MLB - St Francis Academy, North Laurel, MD - 6'3"/240 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  7. Elijah Lee - 7/16/24 - DB/RB - Randallstown HS, Baltimore, MD - 5'11"/172 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  8. Michael Creamer - 7/22/24 - RB/SS - Stafford HS, Stafford, VA - 6'0"/210 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  9. Jeremiah Washington - 7/25/24 - WR/CB - Choate Rosemary Hall HS, Wallingford, CT (Ancaster, Ontario, Canada) - 5'10"/170 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  10. Brady McIntyre - 7/28/24 - OG - Mechanicsville HS, Mechanicsville, VA - 6'5"/305 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  11. Tramayne Bullock, Jr. - 8/1/24 - CB/S/WR - Episcopal School, Alexandria, VA - 6'2"/175 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  12. Devin Geronomi - 8/6/24 - WR/DB - White Knoll HS, Lexington, SC - 6'1"/170 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  13. Bryce Lee - 8/27/24 - DL - Independence HS, Charlotte, NC - 6'3"/255 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  14. Donovan Higgins - 9/5/24 - WR - Pearl-Cohn HS, Nashville, TN - 6’0”/183 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  15. Tanner Wheeler - 9/29/24 - DE/TE - Freedom HS, Bethlehem, PA - 6'5"/265 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  16. Ned Gray - 12/4/24 - P - St. Leonards, Melbourne, AUS - 6'2"/180 ✅ SIGNED 12/24
  17. Gabriel Heard-Hernandez - 1/21/25 - T, NG - Butler HS, Matthews, NC - 6'3"/295 ✅ SIGNED 2/5/25
  18. Justin Rice - 2/5/25 - WR - Spartanburg HS, Spartanburg, SC - 6'0"/190 ✅ SIGNED 2/5/25
  19. Jackson Bonser - 5/17/25 - K - Wilson Hall HS, Sumpter, SC - 5'10"/165
  • Transfers
  1. Jaden Fair - 1/10/25 - WR - Stafford, VA (Maryland) - 3 Yrs Eligibility - 5'9"/170 ✅
  2. Mason Imbt - 1/10/25 - OL - Troy, PA (St. Francis) - 2 Yrs Eligibility - 6'3"/312 ✅
  3. JT Sowell - 4/24/25 - OL/DL/TE - West Columbia, SC (App St) - 4 Yrs Eligibility - 6'3"/275 ✅
  4. Jason Smith, II - 5/2/25 - OL - Wilmington, NC (UNC) - 4 yrs Eligibility - 6'3"/310 ✅
  5. Aiden Steinfeldt - 5/30/25 - TE - Bloomington, IN (Marshall) - 4 yrs Eligibility - 6'3"/243
  6. Joey Duggan - 6/3/25 - WR - Boston, MA, Nobel & Greenough (Fordham) - 3 Yrs Eligibility - 5'11"/195 PWO?
  7. Tayshaun Burney - 6/27/25 - DB - Tampa, FL (WFU) - 4 Yrs Eligibility - 5'9"/180
  • Preferred Walk-Ons
  1. Warrick Butter Stephenson - 2/4/25 - RB/CB - Douglas Freeman HS, Richmond, VA - 5'7"/180
  2. Carson Derey - 2/4/25 - DE/TE - Patrick Henry HS, Roanoke, VA - 6'3"/235
  3. Jack Levin - 4/5/25 - QB - La Jolla Country Day Sch, La Jolla, CA - 6'2/200
  4. Coleman Calmus - 4/23/25 - FS/WR - Brentwood Aca HS, Brentwood, TN - 5'10/180
  5. Harrison Williams - 3/21/25 - OL/DL - Woodgrove HS, Purceville, VA - 6'2"/270
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2026 Commits List

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  • Freshmen Commits
    1. Brayson Bristow - 5/16/25 - OL - Hanover HS, Mechanicsville, VA - 6'5"/285
    2. Carter P. Coleman - 5/29/25 - WR - Blythewood HS, Blythewood, SC - 6'0"/170
    3. Quintin McCray - 6/6/25 - LB - Providence Day, Charlotte, NC - 6'0"/215
    4. Sean Berntsen - 6/8/25 - OL - Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT - 6'4"/280
    5. Calum O'Shea - 6/9/25 - QB - Battlefield HS, Haymarket, VA - 6'2"/195
    6. Matt Holland - 6/15/25 - DB/WR - Saint Michael, Fredericksburg, VA - 5'11"/175
    7. Marcus Yeager - 6/18/25 - DE - Trinity HS, Mechanicsburg, PA - 6'3"/225
    8. Ty Harris - 6/23/25 - DB - Flint Hill, Oakton, VA - 6’1”/190

  • Transfers

  • Preferred Walk-Ons
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Recruiting Tracker

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2025

Signees
- William Harper (SG: Gonzaga College HS, Bowie, MD)
- Donovan Richardson (PG: Steward School, Richmond, VA)
- Aiden Argabright (PG: John Marshall HS, Alexandria, VA)
- Dylan Homenick (C: Perkiomen School (PA), Surrey, British Columbia, Canada)

Transfers
- David Thomas (CG: DePaul, 2 years remaining)
- Will Johnston (SG: Loyola Marymount, 1 year remaining)
- Jaden Daughtry (PF: Indiana State, 2 years remaining)
- AJ Lopez (SG: Maine, 1 year remaining)

Offers
- Colt Langdon (SF/PF: Millbrook HS, Raleigh, NC) - Butler
- Silas Barksdale (PF: Woodside HS, Newport News, VA) - VCU
- Omari Witherspoon (SG: St. John's College HS, Washington, DC) - Pittsburgh
- Tre Singleton (PF/C: Jeffersonville HS, Jeffersonville, IN) - Northwestern
- Vincent Chaudhri (SF: Northfield Mount Hermon HS, Wallkill, NY) - George Washington
- Tyler Kropp (SF/PF: Olentangy Liberty HS, Powell, OH) - Northwestern
- Eric Chatfield, Jr. (PG: Pace Academy, Atlanta, GA) - Georgia Tech
- Jaylen Cross (SG: Caldwell Academy, Greensboro, NC) - Wake Forest

2026

Offers
- Anthony Brown (PG: Archbishop Carroll HS, Forestville, MD) - Villanova, Maryland, Oklahoma State, Syracuse, Providence, Memphis, VCU, SLU, St. Joe's, Mason, ODU, Charleston, and more
- Ryan Moesch (PG: Cushing Academy (MA), Chittenango, NY) - Mason, Rhode Island, Duquesne, La Salle, and more
- LJ Rush (PG: 1 of 1 Prep Academy, Charlotte, NC) - Arizona State, Florida State, Bona, and more
- Sam "Deuce" Simmons Jr. (PG: Olathe North HS, Olathe, KS) - Tennessee (basketball), Tulsa (football)

- Desmond Bellot Jr. (CG: CATS Academy, Boston, MA) - Mason, UMass, Siena, San Diego, and more.

- Chad Cook (PF: New Hampton School (NH), Syracuse, NY)

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