Perhaps true but it looked that way last year too.
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One difference this year in portal is players with more game experience and proven results versus last year. GW and
AP were down the bench. Now White battled the injury bug early and came on late. Beagle and Dusan came to us with
strong stat lines but weaker conference experience. Beagle was for me the biggest disappointment and I think Soulis had a chance to be backup to Walz if he stayed.
UMass is one of the teams I expect to win more A10 games than…
I have always said I want a top 4 finish. Where in my post did I say mid tier was acceptable? You and others are so quick to get on me, I don't think you even read my posts sometimes.
I think since Soulis was likely behind Beagle tells you he will probably not end up transferring laterally. Speaking of, anyone heard anything on him or GW3?
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8legs1dream
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Do you have any idea how pathetic you look out here chest thumping after we just won 8 games in a season 🤣
Maximus Edwards is back in the portal looking for his fourth school. Started with an injury redshirt year at Kansas State, then played two at GW, and then we were interested him in the portal last time around but he ended up at Duquesne.
Between rescinding verbal commitments and also transfers, this has got to be some kind of record for most schools one has “committed” to
Kochera with the "why the hell not, give it a try" portal entry...the dude has played 145 games over 5 seasons already. 2020–21 at W&M didn't count as COVID year, but then played another full season at W&M and three full ones at Davidson.
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I liked his game at GW. High energy guy as I recall.
I wasn’t going to reply, but I guess you don’t understand that I have said we were a bad team, and I won’t be
upset if they let Mooney go. It’s the billboard that I have found atrocious since day one of it being posted.
8legs1dream
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Well, the billboard was absolutely right so..now what?
Still holds true to this very day and age.
What I remember is an article about how it hurt his family, friends and most specifically his children that had to endure their friends at school . I remember ESPN showing it on national TV and making negative comments
about it And if we had fired him at that time, we would of missed out on a conference championship and a tournament championship.
You obviously don’t care about any of these things. You, who are probably in a position where no one cares about you, except maybe your family that must be so proud how you like celebrating the fact that a family, friends and children were hurt.
Talented player but believe there are better fits available to fill our needs.
Without weighing in on the billboard, I'll just say that Mooney's kids are (at least generally speaking) probably growing up in the best situation almost any kids could, better than any of us on this board and any of our kids did. Their dad has made $25 million and they want for nothing. If he didn't want his kids hearing anything negative, he wouldn't have gone into a very public type of career. And if the worst things they ever hear are some people calling for him to be fired, which is something that almost every coach experiences at some point, then they have it pretty good.
If someone wanted to pay me $25 million on the condition that a few people might put up a billboard for a day or two calling for me to be fired, I'd ask them where they wanted to erect it and I might even contribute a few ideas to help the process along.
You’re thinking like a politician. Do you think that wealthy children don’t feel hurt and despair when their parent is disgraced? Do you think wealthy kids don’t get ridiculed by their friends?
Money does not salve a young persons feelings made by a heartless adult. And for what, to get a coach fired. Coaches get fired all the time, but few , if any, get publicly shamed by childish alumni.
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I'm not discounting that any kid doesn't want to hear negative things about Mom and Dad. But go ask the kids of literally any coach at any level if they've ever heard that stuff. Probably ever single one of them has. Same for politicians, big time CEOs, etc etc. For better or worse, it comes with the territory. If you don't want any of that for your kids, don't take a high profile public-facing job that pays you tens of millions of dollars. It's really that simple.
Disgraced is overboard. He got rallied around tenfold. Yes there was a 1 day billboard that got suppressed immediately. Just like any other criticism does. This is the 1 place there’s some criticism which is more than fair game & we find some suppression even here too. The fact is Mooney and his family has been treated better than any other coach in a similar situation ever. He’s been given more patience. Been given undeserved extensions. No pressure. Little to no media attention unless positive. Cakest eating job in the country. Easter Sunday brunch at CCV was wonderful. 99.9% he’s got it great and the .1 comes with so much sympathy it actually turned into another positive overall.
We r ridiculed annually by VCU. We run Richmond, their AD calls us Henrico, lunch money stolen. Handed over most of the time. Nobody at UR cares about us getting ridiculed by vcu. Why not.
8legs1dream
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It is my sincere hope that everyone that suffered from the immense trauma of a billboard being up for 2 days many years ago can find peace in this life.
If you can't stand the heat. get out of the kitchen.
When I read a thread like this I recall a Coach speaking to a gathering of supporters. They had lost a few games and there was some squaking. He said something to the effect, I look out and see lawyers, Doctors, educators and business people, all very busy and demanding jobs. Thank you for making time to be here and suppoting the program we love. But I must be the dumbest person in this room, I can't do any of your jobs, but each of you can do my job.
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6th? I hope to be proven wrong but I don't see many teams I can definitively say we're better than.
we're better than Fordham.
our peer group right now is LaSalle, Davidson, and URI.
do you really think we've improved that much?
I won't go player by player, but those teams have added some talent too. look at the offers out of HS for Rob Dockery (La Salle). we're not adding anyone with a list like that. same with Hugley at Duquesne. or Friedrichsen and Roberts at Davidson
Yes and no. Yes that I think Johnston and Daughtry seem to fit an immediate role that we need and no in the sense I have no idea how this team will gel or adapt to Mooney’s system or Mooney adapts to their playing styles. I’ve wanted a versatile PG who is a playmaker but doesn’t look like we’re going to get that. I think Tyne is good but not main guy good. Hope I’m wrong. Beagle/Walz are probably good enough to fill the 5 spot. So that leaves someone playing the wing. I like a slasher, attack the rim kind of player who plays defense. Like Dji. Perhaps saying we could contend for top 4 was a little overzealous on my part, but with the right pieces I certainly think we can do better than 13th, which sadly isn’t saying much. Right now I have us in that 7th - 10th tier. With another impact player, I can see us bumping up to a 5th - 8th tier. Still not great and what we want, but who knows. I believe we were picked 11th 2 years ago in the preseason and we finished 1st.
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