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Around the A-10: 2024–25 Edition

The main outlier would appear to be January 2018 we went there with a worse D1 record than this season 4-13.
Golden and Gilyard figured out how to play that day, and we walked out with a 15 point win.

the main outlier out of 2 total outliers. Tough choice.

Gilly & Golden may have figured out how to play that day idk. fwiw we did go on to have another 20 loss season the following year too, & were worse in the A10.
 
the main outlier out of 2 total outliers. Tough choice.

Gilly & Golden may have figured out how to play that day idk. fwiw we did go on to have another 20 loss season the following year too, & were worse in the A10.
Right now we're on track to have a 20 loss season this year after having won conference regular season last year. We're on 5 game losing streak currently. Closest to that is Bonnies with 3 game losing streak. We're 1 game up on mighty Fordham as the worst teams in the league. Maybe Hardt can address this in the jolt.
 
the main outlier out of 2 total outliers. Tough choice.

Gilly & Golden may have figured out how to play that day idk. fwiw we did go on to have another 20 loss season the following year too, & were worse in the A10.
Or maybe we just figured out how to have them shoot 4-23 from three, possibly with little help from us…
 
VCU has again risen to the top. I am still not a firm believer in Mason, but they just keep winning at this point.

Dayton - I would not count them out just yet. They have been disappointing in the A10, but they have won 3 in a row and their next 3, if they can win those - @Bonnies, @St. Louis, Davidson - then they might be back on the bubble talk. Then the 4th game in that stretch - is VCU at home - so really, they need to win the next 4 games to have a shot at re-entering the NCAA talk.
Can we count Dayton out now? Bonnies 75, Flyers 53.
 
Gkiller, I know you had internship trying to find a worse rivalry coach, with no results. Wondering if could use some AI scripts to figure it out? Possibly it does not exist, a worse rivalry coach?????

Would be beautiful to have JOC call out sick for VCU game and go as his replacement and ask Mooney if he is aware that he owns lowest win percentage in rivalry games?
 
Yes - Dayton is done. Unless they plan on winning out the rest of the A10 - which seems pretty much impossible, they are done. VCU also took a hit with loss to St. Louis. Doesn't knock them out - but knocks them back. I think if VCU can finish the A10 with 3 losses, maybe 4 - then depending on those losses and metrics - they might be on the outside of the bubble and need some help, and need to win some A10 tourney games.

But at least VCU can have the conversation, there is no conversation down the road at UR. We are 240's in the NET, even below Fordham.
 
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Damn, they fell a whole FIVE spots. Amazing!
It is funny, but just goes to show the importance of scheduling. SDSU has been struggling in conference play but still 42 Net. Again, play a strong OOC and you can be in position.

I know, it is HARD to schedule. It's HARD to win at home, HARDER on the road. HARD to navigate NIL, HARD to keep players. HARD to obtain players. HARD to compete. Everything is HARD.
 
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Gkiller, I know you had internship trying to find a worse rivalry coach, with no results. Wondering if could use some AI scripts to figure it out? Possibly it does not exist, a worse rivalry coach?????

Would be beautiful to have JOC call out sick for VCU game and go as his replacement and ask Mooney if he is aware that he owns lowest win percentage in rivalry games?

I’ll put the interns up against China’s deep seek.

To be clear Moon as bad as his % is vs vcu, he doesn’t own the worst rivalry %. That’s because everyone else was FIRED. He’s gotten most games vs a rival with the worst results. Now b4 4700 went to his bunker he argued u can’t call him the worst just because he’s had 20 years. Made no sense that’s exactly why u can. Again everyone else gets fired. Nobody in sports gets that many chances when u r so bad vs rival. I mean if his metrics otherwise were great u could understand it a little. But they r not. What’s his best metric. U look at ncaa bids, A10 tourney performance, overall win %, a10 predicted finish vs actual. All mediocre to bad. His best metric is probably winning 3 games in ncaa in the 3 measly appearances.

Forget Gotti. Teflon Chris. Worst rivalry coach of all time.
 
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And again - the rivalry record only gets attention when you don't make NCAA tournaments. Look at Ohio State - they don't care about losing to Michigan this year cause they won National Title. But - had they lost in the first round of the playoffs - it would have been a popular talking point.
 
It is funny, but just goes to show the importance of scheduling. SDSU has been struggling in conference play but still 42 Net. Again, play a strong OOC and you can be in position.

I know, it is HARD to schedule. It's HARD to win at home, HARDER on the road. HARD to navigate NIL, HARD to keep players. HARD to obtain players. HARD to compete. Everything is HARD.

Exactly. Ooc schedule most important. National schedule. Hard. It’s why some a10 losses sunk uri & Bonnie quickly. We’ve had this debate b4 & why I couldn’t understand a few posters not wanting to load up w P5 as much as possible.
 
I wouldn't expect anyone's NET to move much after 20 games with a road loss or a home win.

I know what would kill vcu Net after 20 games? Losing to Richmond. As I think 97 mentioned they’ll be motivated to crush us Sat for NET. & they’ll be labeled as the more desperate team even tho we’ve lost 5 in a row & get embarrassed regularly vs vcu. Shouldn’t we be the desperate ones? No it will all be about just trying to compete against vcu energy. Strange. When we can give them a truly debilitating loss we can’t do it. Once under Moon. Great chance Sat but we know how that will go.
 
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