Missing Ward and Nowell from VCU, unless they are not considered top 50. Both were top 50 out of high school.
Sloppy.
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Sloppy.
He says Ward would have been 11th on the list based on his 2023–24 ratings, but he’s not included because he didn’t play last year.
I’m guessing Nowell didn’t make the top 50 due to his minimal stats last year.
I’m guessing Nowell didn’t make the top 50 due to his minimal stats last year.
Reading comprehension is not my thing I guess. Still hard to imagine that there are 50 players better than Nowell.
He must be 51
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Kudo's to whomever came up with this ranking. It is nice to see two of our guys in the Top 10, but like most player ranking it is completely arbitrary. I do love that they probably around having a minor meltdown over in Ram land that VCU's transfer haul was not all ranked in the Top 10.
whether you agree with the rankings or not, it's absolutely not arbitrary. it's mathematical as described in the comments of the tweet.
amazing that the best incoming transfer is a forward from Quinnipiac.
Thanks S-man. I checked it out and it is a complex formula but seems to have some predictive abilities.
Our transfers ranking this year:
6.02 Daughtry
5.89 Johnston
5.11 Lopez
Our transfers ranking last year:
2.38 AP: Ranking after: 3.30
1.89 GW: Ranking after: 2.69
4.05 BA White Ranking after: 3.53
So, this ranking did correctly identify that our transfers last year were not going to be very good or have a high impact last year. Ranking above a 7 are considered a Top 20% transfer, below a 3 is a bottom 20% transfer. We brought in 2 bottom 20% transfers last year.
Bottom line, based on this our transfer class is way better than last year.
Our transfers ranking this year:
6.02 Daughtry
5.89 Johnston
5.11 Lopez
Our transfers ranking last year:
2.38 AP: Ranking after: 3.30
1.89 GW: Ranking after: 2.69
4.05 BA White Ranking after: 3.53
So, this ranking did correctly identify that our transfers last year were not going to be very good or have a high impact last year. Ranking above a 7 are considered a Top 20% transfer, below a 3 is a bottom 20% transfer. We brought in 2 bottom 20% transfers last year.
Bottom line, based on this our transfer class is way better than last year.
the math here really skews things in favor of guys who put up numbers in weaker conferences.
Jaiden Glover, for example, isn't a top 50 A10 transfer commit? he didn't play much last year as a freshman at St John's but out of HS he chose St John's over offers from Nova, Illionois, Creghton, Nebraska, Maryland, WVU, Butler, Ohio St, Xavier, Providence, LSU, Cal, Ga Tech, etc ...
sounds like a big get for St Joe's.
247 seems to rank portal commits based on HS rankings ... which is even worse. can't ignore college production. they rank us 10th in the A10, not including AJ Lopez.
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Jaiden Glover, for example, isn't a top 50 A10 transfer commit? he didn't play much last year as a freshman at St John's but out of HS he chose St John's over offers from Nova, Illionois, Creghton, Nebraska, Maryland, WVU, Butler, Ohio St, Xavier, Providence, LSU, Cal, Ga Tech, etc ...
sounds like a big get for St Joe's.
247 seems to rank portal commits based on HS rankings ... which is even worse. can't ignore college production. they rank us 10th in the A10, not including AJ Lopez.
2025 Transfer A-10 Basketball Team Rankings
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@97spiderfan Did you find these composite numbers somewhere? Curious if the calculations were done for every player or just transfers. Also, why are you shaping the narrative? Where are the ratings for Beagle and Dusan N?
My thoughts when I saw the list also. Shows where the A10 is in the pecking order.
The poor transfer quality last year was very obvious if you base your opinion on D1 performance vs. high school hype
Sorry, I wasn't shaping narrative. I just missed Beagle and Dusan, looking at this huge list of players on my phone. They are on the same X account user, just a few posts prior, as folks asked him a lot of questions and then he showed last year predictions and actual results.
Beagle: 5.38 Actual: 4.8
Dusan: 5.66 Actual: 5.87
So Dusan and Beagle were more in-line with this year's class.
And look, I'm not defending this ranking system at all. The rankings did seem to have some predictive value but their are obvious holes in this ranking because if a guy didn't play last year or made minimal impacts, his ranking is gonna be crap.
And yes, the best A-10 transfer was is a 7, which is barely Top 10% of all transfers. So clearly shows the best transfers are going elsewhere. Best transfer last year was Avilla, who was a 9, FWIW.
I should have added a /s to my “shaping comment”, as I really wasn’t being accusatory, but I figured that the 2 you happened to miss would have been the highest rated ones.
I hope the new transfers work out much better this year, but I am definitely not expecting much.
I did also listen to this podcast this morning which has a discussion of the 4 UR transfers via an interview with a recent UR grad who apparently was the newspaper editor. Never had heard the name before. These guys are expecting Lopez to be the impact guy and are on the Tyne and Walz train.
JOC playing the hits...Mooney talked about both of these topics with him months ago. JOC must have kept his question notecards.
Yep, you are not going to get much content in a Richmond off season, especially with Mooney.
Reused content from the Men’s program and new information from the Women’s program. This is Richmond Basketball.
I guess we should be happy JOC is still filling the UR article quota.
Here is our typical offseason media schedule:
Mid-March-May: Radio silence. Vacay's for the Mooney and his staff
June- Aug: Mooney dons his fancy practice headphone and Spider Social Media shows us some practice pictures, maybe a player interview if we are lucky, but don't count on anything revealing or exciting.
Sept-Oct: Spider social media upgrades to practice video's, big schedule reveal at the last possible moment after most of the 360 D-1 teams have announced. Mooney talks about how this years team is practicing well, impressed at how well on these new players have "jelled" in such a short time. This is when Mooney usually touts a players or two has made a big leap, but whomever that player is now cursed to make minimal impact and be buried on the bench by January. You do not want to be this player.
End of Oct-Nov: Mooney does a formal presser cause he has too; the season is about to start. He says he is very excited to play some real competition, thinks the team will be either be good offensively or defensively, but notably will not say they will be good a both. He says all of this with a straight face, no emotion, little joy.
I thought this post was gonna be exaggerated, sarcastic, or maybe just meant to be funny, but it's actually dead on, 100% accurate. I can't even try to question any of it.
Just when I realized things COULD get worse after thinking it couldn't get worse it gets even worse. When does football practice start?
Gawd, it’s only June and your negativity is already started. You guys must live very sad lives.
We are now 11 out of 13 games into the worst looking schedule we have ever had. It started really bad, and the past month it somehow got worse everytime we added a team. If u have anything positive to share about our schedule, please share.
Gawd, it's June and you are still visiting a message board whose sole purpose is to discuss the state of Richmond men's basketball to complain about people discussing the state of Richmond men's basketball. You must live a very sad life.
Would love to have a summer open practice available to the public at UR. Wonder if we’ll do another NIL closed practice event again this fall.
Several more months of complaining to do, so hang in there.
I, for one, enjoy your complaining about all the complainers.
Great read. Do you play poker? If so, I'd love to sit at your table.
Just June ? Based on the lack of overall program success I thought it was year round.
well when does it become ok to complain? It’s not like the schedule is going to magically look better in September.
I don’t think this is a fan issue, if it was a moderate schedule and folks had higher expectations you might have a point, but this schedule is objectively really poor.
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In all seriousness, I do value differences of opinion, and the ability to express them, and do not like it when things become a 100% echo chamber. I understand your reaction. In fact, I was the one that came up with the Kevin Bacon game because there was a period of time where every single thread, no matter the subject, devolved into "Mooney Sucks". So I would post "Kevin Bacon" once I saw the first post in a thread that was essentially, "Mooney Sucks".
That said, this is a thread about our schedule, and the information regarding the schedule is coming out now, in June. This is real time reaction. If the information came out in April, we'd be having this reaction in April. It's objectively a bad schedule, and subjectively a disaster. I think it is fair game to be commenting on it, and registering displeasure, even though it is June and a good 3.5 months before practice starts.
If my life centered around Richmond MBB, I would probably be pretty depressed. Just came off a 10 win season and a NET in the 250's, the only media news around our program right now is how poor little ole Richmond can't get anyone to play it. A narrative our own leadership created.
Thankfully, not to speak for everyone, but I think all of us have other things in our lives that bring us more joy than the state of our favorite college basketball team.
saw this from McKillop yesterday:
5) Non-conference scheduling is tougher than ever for mid-majors. “No ACC teams would play us.” Still, Davidson landed some big ones:
vs. Saint Mary’s
at Kansas
