..if those who have skin in the nil game will hold moonocrity to a higher standard than the Athletic dept?

I feel sorry so many of you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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I feel for this athlete. How frustrating and no option.


How embarrassing

Excellent job in the portal. Mooney and staff acted so quickly to fill our spots with high level / high potential players and prospects in the portal, that we are beginning of the summer and we don't have too much to discuss or complain about - other than our usual topics.

The Grade - A minus
Why not an A, or even an A+ you might ask??
I thought a lot of our success last year came from the defensive side of the ball, especially having three strong athletic wings that could guard and grab rebounds in Dji, Bigs, and Harris. I don't think we replaced that level of defense and athleticism. Now if Tanner, or one of the freshman, or Apostolos are able to come in and provide this on the defensive end - the could be an A grade.

Guards - Lost King (considering Dji more of a wing forward) and replaced with White and GW3, to add to returning Tyne and Hunt. Added a guy with a ton of experience and skill in White, and then a guy with huge upside in GW3. I'm a big fan of Hunt and think Tyne could be very good if he just cleans up a few areas. Overall adding the two transfers gives us a really deep guard room. Hopefully one of these guys turns into a King like threat and finisher. But still like the depth and ability to run 4 of these guys at you of course of a game and even some 3 guard combos.

Forwards - Lost Bigs, Harris, Dji and Noyes. Bring in Neskovic, McGlothin, Robinson. Feel like we are going offense for defense here. A little too broad of a statement - as Bigs had huge games on offense. But we are losing some really good experience, toughness and D in Harris, Dji and Bigs. If Tanner, or Apostolos and one of the freshman can replace that we should be OK. Neskovic, I don't expect to be an all defensive team, but 6'8 with his skill level and shooting ability can be a match up problem for the other team. Again, targeted Neskovic early and ended up getting him. Nice job.
Center - Leveraged previous relationship with Beagle to keep foot in the door and strike fast. Great job. 6'10 guys that can play don't grow on trees and generally very scarce in the portal - so well done. Gives open competion with Walz. If Soulis is healthy and shows he can play, it will be a nice problem to have.

In my mind, a lot hinges on Apostolos. If he is skilled and quick enough to play the wing and play at a high level - that takes our roster to another level. I think he is most likely to be that guy on the roster. If he is not, and we struggle to find consistency and lose some ability on defense at the wing and forward, this grade could go lower.

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forgot he left us after the ‘23 season _ can’t seem to delete the thread … oh well

Both on the Celtics coaching staff. In true UR PR form, they initially forgot about Buck.

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Feel like most of this was known, but nice to get a little retrospective from Miller on how that hire went down. I probably knew that Mooney had never set foot on campus until the day he was introduced, but I'd forgotten.

I like his candid comments about Wainwright as well lol.

“Jerry was looking to move on, and we were looking to move on as well,” said Miller, UR’s AD 2000-12. DePaul came calling and “we did nothing to try to keep him (at UR), let’s put it that way,” said Miller. “Jerry could be a difficult person to deal with.”

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I fully expect an appeal, but will everyone just behave and let the matter play itself out?

Hunter Biden now has 3 felony convictions, the first time a child of a President has been convicted of a crime. Unlike the show trial in NY, the facts and the law were clear.

How many 1000 point spider scorers have we had during that period? How many of those didn’t come straight from High School?

Is that a good measure of success?

Lastly what percentage of our High school recruits meet that criteria? Transfers?

Discuss…

Huge huge class. See we just offered a stud wing in Texas. I would like to see us land a couple highly rated- top 150 types, and maybe a couple stud transfers. This is lined up perfectly for Mooney, we are getting all kinds of top 25 preseason mention and will be losing entire starting line up. Would think this is a lay up to bring in an excellent class. Now is the time to take the next step and try to be a Dayton, St. MARY'S, Gonzaga, SDSU, VCU, Wichita. 80sFan has told us PQ is now ready and in position to support Mooney (not sure the holdback before?), and has built us a top notch practice facility. Mooney was seemingly in this position in 2011 and slid. I am encouraged by recent landing of Crabtree and Francis, and one man class of Burton. Maybe he has turned the corner. Will be very interesting to see.

Passed away over the weekend at age of 78. Was team captain my freshman year. Previous year he was All-Southern Conference third baseman. Switched to first base so Steve Kennedy could move into the third base position. Steve subsequently made All-SC there. Tommy also caught some as well. RIP Tommy.

Game Day. Vs Davidson at 3pm.

Let's go Ladies! Really fun to watch. Saw them win the tourny at vcu last year. Lots of fun! Then the kids and I traveled to Chapel Hill for the NCAA tourny. Crushed Marquette and then lost a nailbiter to UNC, the previous year's national champ.

On a 2 game skid currently. Time to right the ship and make a run!

Maybe the new coach and get things turned around. Been a long time since our Sweet 16 season.

Antisemitic riots started at Columbia and have spread to other campuses throughout the country. Students for Justice in Palestine is behind it. The riots have been at Columbia, Yale, Harvard, NYU, MIT, UC Berkeley, California Poly- Humbolt, Southern Cal.

Not sure if this is a replacement hire, or if they have created a new position. I know there are some here who swam at UR and follow the sport closely.

This one doesn't hit as hard or close to home as Beckwith, but was just a true icon of the game, larger than life figure. Three time national POY at UCLA. Some folks didn't enjoy his broadcasting style, but I found him very entertaining. True free spirit and basketball legend. Bad week for hoop legends.

I thought this should have it own thread. The NIL collective is extremely important to our men's Basketball program and anything we can do to help it is good for the team. Here is a link to the current website: https://spidersnil.com/. I am not sure how much flexibility there is in enhancing the website, but what ideas do you have to make it better? Please be very specific on additional tabs and other information you would like to see added. Also, do any of you have expertise in web design?

Most would say 2008 football, but actually our second:

1982 AIAW Division II National Champion Women's Tennis Team

Led by head coach Eric O'Neill and two future UR Athletics Hall of Famers, All-Americans Martha Beddingfield and Sharon Dunsing, the 1982 women's tennis team captured the AIAW National Title.

Returning all but one player from the 1981 squad that went 27-5 and finished second nationally, the '82 Spiders went 23-5, winning State and Regional titles, and claiming victories over every Division I team in the state, including Virginia and Virginia Tech.

The team traveled to Greely, Colorado at the University of Northern Colorado for the national championships. The Spiders won the crown, outdistancing a field that included Boston College, Notre Dame, Georgetown, William & Mary, Charleston and Georgia Southern.

In addition to Coach O'Neill, Dunsing and Beddingfield, the 1982 team included Sue Claggett, Sue Eshelman, Phoebe Figland, Margie Hernandez , Anne McLean, Beth Seubert, Cathy Shields, and Lisa Tullai.

This is clearly not on the table, nor do I expect it to be. Just curious as to how passionate our fans are about football as compared to seeing us become a Big East basketball school.

We offered this guy back in the fall and I'm not sure where we stand with him, but he's picked up offers from X, VT, and BC in the past couple of weeks. 6'7" PF out of Boston area.

http://verbalcommits.com/players/gianni-thompson

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Let’s see what games the big boys play.They steal cleverly….