Interesting thoughts from some of the coaches in the league
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We should be top 3 in facilities (with Dayton and VCU). Article mentioned the new practicie facility, but maybe it wasn't factored into the rankings.
Some quotations from the article:
"The Spiders care about college hoops, but it’s been up and down"
“Men’s basketball is the featured sport at the school, the arena is nice and there’s a practice facility on the way. New administration that seems to be committed.” – A-10 head coach
Other coaches and writers are seeing the work that is being put into advancing our college hoops program. The effort is being made. We just need this effort to manifest into results.
Some quotations from the article:
"The Spiders care about college hoops, but it’s been up and down"
“Men’s basketball is the featured sport at the school, the arena is nice and there’s a practice facility on the way. New administration that seems to be committed.” – A-10 head coach
Other coaches and writers are seeing the work that is being put into advancing our college hoops program. The effort is being made. We just need this effort to manifest into results.
Interesting stuff.
I think it points to us being on the way up. Our ratings on atmosphere, facilities, and resources ate improving vastly. I think some of the atmosphere hits are based on what it had been before the revamped arena (to paraphrase a player when I was there, “old white people sitting on their asses”), where as now people seem more into the game (though still mostly middle aged/old white people. The resources and facilities are clearly on the rise.
Agree with the tradition (mostly). I know many here still remember the Tarrant years, as a Big East fan growing up, the only thing I knew about Richmond is they won once against Syracuse. I knew Dayton and UMass were good schools. VCU can eat a bag of d&$@s.
Also, this was a coaches polled list, therefore a lot of is perception, not what is actual. Hopefully we can use this info to improve ourselves!
The only thing that I disagree with is Davidson is better academically.
Glad one of the other coaches thinks that our new admin "seems" to be committed. Says all you need to know about our former adminstration.
The perception of our local fan base being "old people" is a result of the approximate 25 year period when the university's admissions focused on applications from the Northeast while Virginians were ignored.
I did not see a prior survey. What ratings are you basing this statement on?
While the author does make the "top academic school" statement in the article, it's unclear how he reached that conclusion. It's not a survey on academic quality. Admissions Requirements is not the same thing.
I will get my old white ass up out of the seat whenever there is something to cheer about.
The years in that 25-year period are known as the "golden years," though some go so far as to liken it to the period of Enlightenment when our school emerged from cultural and economic deterioration caused in large part by an unrelenting homogenization of our student population. Most of the homogenized embraced the change though it is rumored that a few of the still living homogenizidens still fail to grasp the advances it brought to alma mater.
That said, none of those homogenizidens have been so foolishly bold as to admit their disdain; nor have they ever voiced, even hypothetically, why such an advancement might be viewed through a different lens.
I don't know when you attended UR. It is obvious of your disdain, put down and utter hatred of those who attended and graduated from UR during the 1970s and earlier.
I am proud of the so called UR culture of the 1970s and earlier. I realize you hate those that went to UR during those years.
Blah, Blah, blah, blah, blah. The only reason the school is what it is today is because of a man named E. Claiborne Robins and others like him who are part of the past.
Homogenization, what kind of dribble is that and when did geography become another diversity group?
I think you meant drivel, but that's okay. Probably the result of homogenization...living proof of its failings.
The Robins gift ensured excellence and heterogeneity. The two have been interdependent in our ascendance.
Hot seat alert - again maybe more than 5 people on here are questioning our coaching
https://watchstadium.com/news/the-college-basketball-coaches-on-the-hot-seat-this-season-10-22-2018/
https://watchstadium.com/news/the-college-basketball-coaches-on-the-hot-seat-this-season-10-22-2018/
That also has Mullins...
So Ulla was at least half right. Not that they are expected to be bad, but that there is pressure on the coach.
So according to ispider the generations of UR students and university alums from the 1970s and earlier are or were "failures".
Interesting that three of the 11 other coaches on the list will be facing CM this season. Little bit of irony.
Nope. Not true. Not even you.
Who are you quoting when you use the word "failures"?
How in the world do you reach such a conclusion?
I have a theory, but I'd love to hear your explanation.
BTW, even though I have merely responded to a few posts in this thread, I think that this discussion is more appropriate for the OT board. I'd be happy to respond to your assertions there.
Why don't you start a thread there?
You should entitle it as one of the following:
"I AM NOT A FAILURE; I AM JUST A MISONEIST FROM THE SEVENTIES"
or
"HOW NEOPHOBIA CHANGED MY LIFE"
I'll stop posting on this thread now and await your new post on the OT board.
No they have not. Richmond was in financial trouble before Robin's gift, and with out that foundation to build on Richmond wouldn't be the Richmond of today.
I have read every book on the history of the University of Richmond that has been published and many manuscripts not published. I am aware of the financial condition prior to the Robins gift. I do not know what you think that I am suggesting, but I agree with you that the financial situation prior to the Robins gift was dire.
Great word. Appreciated by this philologist.
I hadn't heard it before and had to look it up: Vaginia
UR is free for anyone who is admitted from a Virginia household with an income of $60k a year or less. That's a pretty nice deal. I know UVA just announced the same plan but with a higher threshold of $80k, which is great as well. But we've been doing this for awhile now, seemingly under the radar.
And a sliding scale exists after you exceed 60k. I'm not quite sure how we haven't marketed this better, everyone looks at our full tuition and says Wow, but I wonder how many folks actually pay the full ride these days.
507 of the 840 freshmen.
333 received aid averaging $48,645.
heck of a deal if you're getting that aid.
not so much a deal if you're one of the 507 families overpaying to subsidize those getting that aid.
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