Only unsurprising if you do not compare VCU's teams. Beilein got 4 of the wins when VCU was 9-19 in 1998 and 15-16 in 1999, and 2 more in 2001 when they were 16-14.
I am way more impressed with what VCU has done than not impressed with what we have done. I think a lot of people that are fans of neither would agree with me on that. VCU averaged an incredible 26+ wins during an 11 year run from 2007-2017. So, to be ahead of them like many on here say they expected us to be, we would have needed to average 27 wins a year. I know, I know, I am not aiming high enough. Well, whatever. No, sorry, I didn't expect us to average 27 wins during that stretch.
Lose to previously 0-6 A-10 Loyola? I'm sure our message board would be thrilled with Mooney if we lost to an 0-6 A-10 team.
Why does this bother you and others so much? It's unreal on here. A few of us mention some positives about our program or our coach, and all heck breaks loose. Why so much anger?
so because SBU lost to the worst team in the conference in your ConMoon infatuated mind that somehow makes their victory over us easier to swallow?
Who said anything about not competing (your words, not mine) at this level? We just won our conference "at this level" last season. We just went 24-7 and 14-4 IC in 2020. Yet, another strange post on a board full of thousands of them.
The two years prior to your magical 2020 season we lost 40 games, but they don’t count in cherry picking land. As most have pointed out repeatedly, Mooney is a 55 pct winning coach. But good enough for some.
Not cherry picking. Responding to the "we have an inability to compete" talk. I would think to make my point I should use years where we did compete, at a very high level, the very highest last March. But, hey, you just keep being you and do it your way while wrongly accusing others of cherry picking.
You're absolutely cherry picking. Most people on here that whine and complain as you call it do so because of the inconsistency of winning (competing) at a high level. You keep throwing 2020 24-7 out there so is it safe to assume that is your definition of "high level?" If so, then there has to be a preponderance of seasons where Mooney's winning percentage is less than 77% for him to have a life time winning percentage of 55%. That's the issue. 20+ win seasons that lead to NCAA bids are great when they happen but they don't happen often enough to justify the school's investment in our basketball program. It's totally hilarious that you continue to call all of us fine UR graduates foolish for wanting something more. Keep him, name a building after him, provide 55 free parking spaces at the RC in his name, I don't really care at this point but please quit trying to convince some of us that we can't do better and that we're idiots for believing that we can. As another poster has stated we got beat by a team cobbled together a couple of months prior to the season starting who just got beat by the worst team in the league. We're mediocre in a mediocre league. Not good enough.
Well, I was talking about why does my opinion and my being more positive than most bother so many on here? And, this post, like so many on here, amazes me. The either pretending last March didn’t happen, or not caring that it did. Or, as some even said on here, wishing it would not have. I find it highly doubtful any co workers felt sorry for you being a Richmond fan last March. Give me a freaking break.
Ah yes, the ole academic excuse. You got a million of them VT
Correct.
I know it isn't possible. But I would really like to see a record vs Top 100 adjusted by location) since 1974.
True, and I had to escort a UR friend out of a game at the Stu one year that you won. However, it goes both ways. I loved getting harassed all game the year that Mo dunked at the end of ot or sitting beside the student section while the majority of them chanted F U VCU the year of the cramp from hell.
Shaka was the catalyst and vcu rode it and continues to do so...coaching matters...
Of course coaching matters, until we win 4 in a row in the A-10 tourney and beat Iowa in the dance. Then, it's 100% the players, right?
I think it’s entirely on both and perhaps we acknowledge that we had a little bit of heat and a ton of luck at the right time.
