Our fanbase is mostly made up of folks 60 years and older. We are on a decline. If we don't work on getting younger fans, the "home side" of the RC & RS will be empty in about 15 to 20 years.
Is it Russ or is it our Administration?
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Agreed, they just don’t let many local kids into the school. We are a long way from the Jersey Tpke and the Great Wall.
Most colleges and universities are having trouble getting younger fans. Even when they come into the games
they leave at half time. Pro football is beginning to have a fall off of attendance.
There are numerous reasons given, but the saturation of games being televised has become a double edge sword.
I quite agree. I think that they should shoot all our fans over 60 and merge UR with JMU so that we can obtain a young fanbase. All the old farts do is complain. Bitch and moan. It galls me too. And it never stops. It's so depressing. Even when we win.
A merger and a mass shooting is the only answer.
How old are you?
You’re wasting your time with that guy.A nothing.
Behind disruptive defense, Spiders found themselves on way to two consecutive CAA victories
JOHN O'CONNOR·1 hour ago
Move past the University of Richmond's first two games, in which the Spiders handled non-scholarship Jacksonville 38-19 and were handled 45-13 at Boston College. Not much could be learned about UR through its expected 1-1 start.
UR then lost two in a row (Elon, Fordham) before winning two in a row (Albany, Maine). The progression could have been forecast, given attrition that left the Spiders with a new mix of personnel seeking a group identity to start the year.
Of the 82 players on Richmond's roster, half are freshmen (23) or redshirt freshmen (18). In the top two classes - redshirt senior and senior - the Spiders have 10 players. Four of them are graduate transfers.
From the 2018 team, the Spiders (3-3, 2-1 CAA) lost 13 scholarship players with eligibility remaining. Eight transferred, five as graduate transfers, and each of the eight was a significant contributor.
Transferring from UR as graduates were receiver Dejon Brissett (Virginia), defensive back Micah Keels (Eastern Kentucky), quarterback Kevin Johnson (Western Illinois), tailback Deontez Thompson (Western Illinois), and tailback Jay Palmer (University of Charleston).
Also gone: defensive back Samari Springs (Arizona), linebacker Grayson Overstreet (Emory & Henry), and offensive lineman Jack Doherty (Columbia), as well as three players with eligibility remaining who graduated and stopped playing football, and two undergraduates who stopped playing football.
Also after last year, five members of Russ Huesman's 10-man coaching staff were either asked to leave, or left for other reasons.
"You always go into every season thinking you can win, and thinking that you'll be pretty good early," said Huesman, who's in his third year at UR. "The coaches have adjusted great. I think our players have adjusted to the new coaches.
"Obviously we've got some guys in positions that haven't played, but have played college football before, whether they're transfers or redshirt freshmen. There's never an excuse for not playing well, and we hadn't been playing real well (early)."
Richmond won two straight by eliminating turnovers that bedeviled the Spiders all last year and through the first few games of this season, and by discovering a winning formula: lead with an athletic defense spearheaded by senior end Maurice Jackson, and produce just enough offense.
In a 23-20 win over Albany, Richmond was outgained 302-183, and the Great Danes had four more first downs. At No. 18 Maine, where UR won 24-17 Saturday, the Black Bears outgained the Spiders 398-295, and had four more first downs.
But in both games, Richmond played disruptive defense (totaled 11 sacks among 17 tackles for losses) and did not commit a turnover. Jackson, the CAA preseason defensive player of the year, had three sacks versus Albany and two more at Maine.
The Spiders go for a three-game winning streak Saturday at 6 p.m. against visiting Yale (3-1), which was defeated 42-10 at Dartmouth Saturday.
Russ + Administration = Russtration. That is an acute form of frustration experienced by Spider fans during football season.
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