The NY Times is reporting that Trump wants to make Marco Rubio his Secretary of State. This may be premature, but here it is

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The Biden Doctrine is centered on Uncle Joe's desire to surrender and to cut and run. It infects every aspect of his policy choices.

I am starting a new thread so we can share information regarding the portal in one spot. We have enough news going on regarding the portal to have its own thread. Hopefully some of that news will start to be about incoming players moving forward. We certainly do not want to mix in portal exits on the thread regarding the December Early Signing Period. That thread should be a celebration of the new high school kids that are formally committing to the University of Richmond to join our program and continue our proud tradition of championing level football. It should not be hijacked by news of those who choose to leave.

I could go on about the ineptness of the coaching staff on Saturday and assuredly we have threads for that. But anyone else feel our entire marketing/ticketing/sales operation at the RC is just mailing it in. Some things I've noticed recently.

1. Complete absence of student body at games. It sounded like they made a try to get students on Saturday but man it was a lame turnout. We used to offer student incentives to go to the games, hand out balloons at halftime, big banners to cover the student body. We don't seem to do any of that. What happened to the Rowdy's, are they still around?

2. White Out. It appears our sole effort for the white out was a couple social media posts a few days before the game If you are going to do a white out at a place like Richmond, first of all you need to have shirts for everyone. Secondly, you need much more planning than was put in. A white out game needs to be on the schedule from the beginning, you need to go all out to get students, you need to be promoting the white out throughout the season. A social media post or two the week of the game isn't cutting it.

3. In game entertainment: We used to have regular paid half time acts, most games this year it is some local rec team playing for 5 minutes. Even the in game timeouts, it is the exact same things every game. Ride the tricycle, dress like a Spider, t shirt cannon. Shit even the ball blaster is out of order. Can we at least try to mix it up.

4. Sound system: The sound system has been jacked all year. Most announcements come out as garbled. It did appear a bit better at the SLU game, but how about getting a professional sound guy in there to fix that.

It all just seems like we are doing the minimal effort, lack of creativity, lack of planning. I know the product stinks and obviously that is problem number 1, but that shouldn't mean the rest of the operation has to be meh as well. Wondering if other folks have noticed this as well.

I enjoyed this thread last year so let's roll it back for the new year.

11/4:

LaSalle -4.5 over American

This one deserves its own thread. I mean for the love of God, that was ineptitude to the Nth degree. Make it end.

SLU got beat bad by VCU Tuesday night so expect they are going to be ready to rebound Saturday afternoon. No prediction on score.

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as has been mentioned in several threads already when the game was on the line the Spiders somehow ended up with B. Artis White trying to guard Robbie Avila's drive to the basket. The bucket gave the Billikens a 57-56 lead with :47 seconds remaining, Richmond never regained the lead...

White on Avila has to have been mistake by someone...what should have happened to prevent, or better contest the drive?

Go Spiders!

Loyola is 11-8 but only 3-5 in conference. Got beat by GMU by 30 last week.

Spiders 70-51.

MAGALOT!!

VCU is 3-3 in and lost last night to URI at home by 14.

Currently 34 overall

only 1-3 in Quad 1 games, Quad 1 is defined as:


A "Quad 1" game in women's NET rankings refers to a game played against an opponent ranked within the top 30 NET rankings at home, top 50 NET rankings on a neutral court, and top 75 NET rankings on the road; essentially, a game against a highly ranked opponent regardless of where the game is played, giving the most weight to home games against top teams.

Next up #329 St Bonaventure tomorrow night at 6pm in RC

Then followed by #130 VCU in the RC on Sunday at 2pm.

See you all there!

Personally I hope soon.

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Looks like VCU will start paying its student athletes directly next year through revenue sharing. I hope UR starts doing this too. Revenue not as high as VCU I’m sure but can still benefit us to do this.

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In news the other day, Dept. of Education said Title IX applies to NIL Payments. Not sure how they expect that to work - but personally, this makes it even more of a mess and in my opinion, makes no sense to me. I am not against women sports and women athletes making money, but this to me seems like Dept. of Education trying to achieve an equality of outcome for women in a space where this is a more of business decision.

I would expect this to get appealed in some manner, and lots of schools to fight this. But I just don't see how this works. Not to mention - there are instances, where women can and should be able to make more in this space. Such as the LSU gymnast and basketball twins, etc. Now - we all know they make more for different reasons, but wouldn't this limit their ability to cash in as well and say they must be equal to the 12th man on the men's lacross team?

For mentioning Richmond in his intro.

Finally

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

Congratulations on becoming and AP AA!

Interesting...Barrick will now be director of tennis in charge of both programs, with Jacob and Emily Dunbar as associate head coaches for both programs. Looks like Wesselink will be sticking around as a volunteer assistant coach for the women, while former Randolph Macon player Grant Sarver has been brought on as an assistant for the men.

PG out of St. Chris down the street. Bunch of lower-level offers, but evidently we feel good enough about him now to offer.


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Away(lots of bus rides and 1 plane ride /season) shown in miles-

Lehigh (310)
Wofford (360)
UNC (164)
William & Mary (52)
Bucknell (285)
Georgetown (110)
Colgate (470)

Home

Howard
VMI
Holy Cross (510)
Fordham (354)
Lafayette (315)

Well, well, well...

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