CM’s coaching philosophy from his own quotes in RTD

[Anachnid]

“Everybody has a responsibility. If you play one minute or 20 minutes, everybody has a responsibility. Every coach has a responsibility. What could we have done to better prepare ourselves?” UR coach Chris Mooney said.

Did the RTD leave out his response to his own question? So much like 47, never accepting any self responsibility.


Obviously, you don’t ever want to have a game like this,” Mooney said. “Everything has to be instructive, and hopefully we’ll be better because of it and not hang our heads but get to work and try to see the things we can improve upon and give ourselves better chances to compete in games.”

Yes I know this was in another thread but it needs to be front and center, “compete in games,” not win games. Yes there is a chasm between the two goals, one is success and one is merely an accepted chance od success.

“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”​

CSLewis

 

[97spiderfan]

“Everybody has a responsibility. If you play one minute or 20 minutes, everybody has a responsibility. Every coach has a responsibility. What could we have done to better prepare ourselves?” UR coach Chris Mooney said.

Did the RTD leave out his response to his own question? So much like 47, never accepting any self responsibility.


Obviously, you don’t ever want to have a game like this,” Mooney said. “Everything has to be instructive, and hopefully we’ll be better because of it and not hang our heads but get to work and try to see the things we can improve upon and give ourselves better chances to compete in games.”

Yes I know this was in another thread but it needs to be front and center, “compete in games,” not win games. Yes there is a chasm between the two goals, one is success and one is merely an accepted chance od success.

“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”​

CSLewis

Yes. I noted that as well in the quotes. The focus was entirely on the players. It has always been that way. Again, we have a leadership school and leadership 101, says the buck stops with me. Good leaders always give credit to others and take the blame for failure.

 

[spider23]

Good leaders always give credit to others and take the blame for failure.

At least go 50/50 haha.

Will say, not a fan of the way Cronin throws players under the bus. BUT, it did seem to work, I think they have won 6 in a row, with three ranked teams in time since he did that.

Mooney is great at deflecting criticism, and blaming the system. I think if we had a big donor that came up and said: "I have 5 million for you to use to buy best players possible" he would defer, as that would take away an excuse.

 

[SpiderGuy]

Nothing changes if nothing changes. Predictable for 20 years. Any of us could do the interviews for media and prob say 95 pct of what CM says.

 

[97spiderfan]

At least go 50/50 haha.

Will say, not a fan of the way Cronin throws players under the bus. BUT, it did seem to work, I think they have won 6 in a row, with three ranked teams in time since he did that.

Mooney is great at deflecting criticism, and blaming the system. I think if we had a big donor that came up and said: "I have 5 million for you to use to buy best players possible" he would defer, as that would take away an excuse.

100% he is a system blamer. That is his bread and butter. Anyone in the business world want to hire someone to run their company who constantly is like well the deck is stacked against us and this why we are what we are. No of course you would never hire someone like that to run your company. But we got that guy running our MBB program.

 

[spider23]

Exactly, to use my ol Dutcher comparison. Like a lot of coaches, he is not crazy about the system, but he says that is what we are dealing with and we have to adapt and learn how to thrive. Mooney and Hardt are still adjusting, and still thinking about it, and deflecting. In the last two years in portal, SDSU lost starting PG to become starting at PG at Kentucky, starting wing to become starting wing at Ohio State, Starting PF to bench at UVA and I think one more I forget. But Dutcher does not sit there and blame the system. Mooney is a BLAMER.

 

[8legs1dream]

Exactly, to use my ol Dutcher comparison. Like a lot of coaches, he is not crazy about the system, but he says that is what we are dealing with and we have to adapt and learn how to thrive. Mooney and Hardt are still adjusting, and still thinking about it, and deflecting. In the last two years in portal, SDSU lost starting PG to become starting at PG at Kentucky, starting wing to become starting wing at Ohio State, Starting PF to bench at UVA and I think one more I forget. But Dutcher does not sit there and blame the system. Mooney is a BLAMER.

well hey we had guys that hardly ever sniffed the court transfer down to a bunch of schools in conferences nobody has ever heard of and that set us back tremendously as well!!!

 

[spider23]

Another coach that takes accountability

 

[spider23]

Doesn't appear moon's defensive philosophy is very good vs the three point shot. Imagine that, the stats back up us dumb message board posters.

 

[8legs1dream]

I mean, OF COURSE, we would be in the Open Season range and VCU would be in the elite range. What else could it be.

 

[GKiller]

Or as we like to call it...the Flying Dutchman

 

[MrTbone]

Flying DutchmanTM - property of TBone Enterprises.

 

[spider23]

Hey we know that defending threes and straight line drives to the hoop (Standard points of emphasis across all levels today) doesn't really matter. Just need to defend the fast break and use the entire shotclock on O, whether we score or not. Because Mooney says so.

 

[urfan1]

I mean, OF COURSE, we would be in the Open Season range and VCU would be in the elite range. What else could it be.

compare us to other A-10 teams. we are bottom.

 

[97spiderfan]

compare us to other A-10 teams. we are bottom.

It appears from that info graphic that we are near the bottom of the entire NCAA . I don't know if anyone saw the program, a few weeks back but this is what our crack marketing team put in it.

Richmond is among the Top 5 teams in the country in losses by 7 points or less. It listed the other teams, as if this was some big competition that we were fighting it out to be number 1. Can't make this shit up if you tried.

 

[GKiller]

It appears from that info graphic that we are near the bottom of the entire NCAA . I don't know if anyone saw the program, a few weeks back but this is what our crack marketing team put in it.

Richmond is among the Top 5 teams in the country in losses by 7 points or less. It listed the other teams, as if this was some big competition that we were fighting it out to be number 1. Can't make this shit up if you tried.

do they put that in the game notes or something else?

in 15 losses at VCU we've lost 1 game by 7 points or less. 1. by exactly 7 points. Put that stat up against anyone. top 1. worst rivalry coach of all time.

 

[97spiderfan]

do they put that in the game notes or something else?

in 15 losses at VCU we've lost 1 game by 7 points or less. 1. by exactly 7 points. Put that stat up against anyone. top 1. worst rivalry coach of all time.

Yeah, I believe so. A buddy showed it to me. We had a good laugh as our marketing team had to put something in the game notes and some idiot chose that stat. However, since we are indeed tracking it internally, I wonder if we can hang banner next year. 2024 Number 1 team in the country in losses by 7 points or less. Put it right next to Gilly's steal records.

Of course, Mooney is gonna have to step it up here, getting his ass handed to him by 41 at VCU, ain't helping us lock this down. I've got confidence in him though, if there is one thing he is really good at, it's losing tight games down the stretch. Kind of his specialty, if you will.

 

[Eight Legger]

They're making it sound like we were right in so many games and could have a bunch more wins, when in reality we blew a bunch of those games ourselves.

 

[97spiderfan]

They're making it sound like we were right in so many games and could have a bunch more wins, when in reality we blew a bunch of those games ourselves.

Yeah, I guess that is angle. But that is a terrible angle. Only losing teams would advertise and promote close losses as some type of metric to be proud of. I wish I could remember the other teams on this list but assuredly they all suck too.