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Today I sent this letter to John Hardt at jhardt@richmond.edu.
I included my name, by the way...

I encourage you to do likewise....

Mr. Hardt,
This message is sent with the utmost respect.
When it comes to the UR Men's Basketball coach, I state simply..."Do Your Job".
Longtime Spider supporters like myself long for the glory days of UR Basketball. The positive impact to the university, to it's students and alumni is unmistakable. I doubt that you have experienced such a phenomena. Pride is a priceless commodity!

I ask you simply, if someone hired Coach Mooney today and you were responsible for hiring his replacement and someone told you the coach you were about to hire would make the NCAA tournament 2 times in the next 16 years....would you hire him?
If you would you are the wrong man for the job and if you would not, then certainly you should understand the situation UR basketball is in today. Picked to finish first but finishes eighth while our crosstown rival is picked to finish ninth and finishes second and is once again NCAA bound.

Please do not get on the excuse train. 55% in 16 years is an undeniable fact and is the very definition of mediocre. No matter how many high scoring seniors we have, a team that is not coached to rebound or play defense will not be a consistent winner.

Once again, speaking I know for hundreds of loyal alumni like myself, I say with all due respect, please "Do Your Job!"

Sincerely,
XXXXXXXX, UR '68
(Daughter, UR '93)
(Son, UR Law, 2012)
 
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He’s received so many of these emails/letters that now they just go straight to the spam folder.
The emails and letters are falling on deaf ears, and it’s a waste of time to even bother writing it.
 
Spiders10 said:
He’s received so many of these emails/letters that now they just go straight to the spam folder.
The emails and letters are falling on deaf ears, and it’s a waste of time to even bother writing it.
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sorry, can’t afford a billboard
 
I agree. I have written similar emails in the past and every time I receive a reply from someone who works under him that just says; “thank you for your concern. We are committed to competing at a high level in the A10 and we are working to make that happen.” They don’t care about the regular fans like us, if you’re not writing million dollar checks you might as well not even bother reaching out to the AD.
 
Are there any BoT email addresses we can contact?

FWIW, my email won't even mention Mooney's name. Bball has been a disaster, but at this point for me it's more about how the University and AD handled the third covid pause with such dishonesty, and how the University has abandoned it's values and integrity to appease the largest donor.
 
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Don't use the stupid generic email address on the website that says I'm obligated to put this up here but I really don't want to be contacted. Otherwise yes that probably goes to his assistant Tara and is Gone with the Wind.

use jhardt@richmond.edu
 
Just sent mine off. Thanks Chop for the info. They were short. One word. PLEASE.
 
Any idea what’s a ballpark bottom line on the AD budget? Little in the red, majorly in the red, running in the black and don’t care, etc?

I understand that a million bucks goes a long long ways, but Is an ncaa bid the difference between the AD being in the red and black?
 
Only recourse for fans is to not support Hardt, Mooney, Quelly, or the program at all by not attending games or donating. The bball team will be crap for the foreseeable future anyway.
 
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I sent a note to him 2 years ago...that obviously did nothing. I'm waiting to see if he retains this staff first--because if he does then the offseason conversation he had with Coach was not really a meaningful conversation or set any expectations.
 
SFspidur said:
I feel like the "do your job" angle just gives him reason to get defensive and tune the message out. Make your case but don't attack the recipient.
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well “with all due respect” and “please” isn’t exactly an attack but you may be right. if it just adds to the number of negative emails sent to his spam folder at least it’s more evidence of dissatisfaction and i feel better.
btw, i find queally to be an enigma. we credit him with all this influence but never hear a word from him. i guess silence is golden and money talks!
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I need a famous writer to type my letter. That letter will get lost at the post office. Take several days to receive it at Richmond. Once it arrives at Richmond it will be opened then thrown into the trash. They didn't see any cash so into the trash it goes.
 
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I need a famous writer to type my letter. That letter will get lost at the post office. Take several days to receive it at Richmond. Once it arrives at Richmond it will be opened then thrown into the trash. They didn't see any cash so into the trash it goes.
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Got a letter from the school today soliciting money for covering Covid testing. Send money please. Not this time. No, not this time.
 
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8legs said:
Today I sent this letter to John Hardt at jhardt@richmond.edu.
I included my name, by the way...

I encourage you to do likewise....

Mr. Hardt,
This message is sent with the utmost respect.
When it comes to the UR Men's Basketball coach, I state simply..."Do Your Job".
Longtime Spider supporters like myself long for the glory days of UR Basketball. The positive impact to the university, to it's students and alumni is unmistakable. I doubt that you have experienced such a phenomena. Pride is a priceless commodity!

I ask you simply, if someone hired Coach Mooney today and you were responsible for hiring his replacement and someone told you the coach you were about to hire would make the NCAA tournament 2 times in the next 16 years....would you hire him?
If you would you are the wrong man for the job and if you would not, then certainly you should understand the situation UR basketball is in today. Picked to finish first but finishes eighth while our crosstown rival is picked to finish ninth and finishes second and is once again NCAA bound.

Please do not get on the excuse train. 55% in 16 years is an undeniable fact and is the very definition of mediocre. No matter how many high scoring seniors we have, a team that is not coached to rebound or play defense will not be a consistent winner.

Once again, speaking I know for hundreds of loyal alumni like myself, I say with all due respect, please "Do Your Job!"

Sincerely,
XXXXXXXX, UR '68
(Daughter, UR '93)
(Son, UR Law, 2012)
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Quite a gap between daughter and son!

My letter was 4 words long "TIME FOR A CHANGE"
 
Dr. Spidey said:
Nobody should contribute a dime. We have all been hoodwinked, from the poor coaching in football and in basketball.
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Why shouldn't I contribute to the women's basketball and baseball programs, as I do annually, because some believe we should fire the men's basketball and football coaches?

I'll continue to contribute, as I've done almost every year since I graduated. UR means far more to me than men's basketball.

I think men's lacrosse fans, which we seem to have a lot of here, should love Queally. Wouldn't have a program without him.
 
plydogg said:
Looks like the decision to oust Ukrop and switch to appeasing Queally has been among the worst decisions the school has ever made athletically.
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It does seem to go hand in hand with the Mooney era. I feel like if everyone gave $200 more could drive out the influence of super donors like PQ, they are bad news and too much influence, as we see with the paper tiger Hardt in charge.
 
Wood Hall said:
Why shouldn't I contribute to the women's basketball and baseball programs, as I do annually, because some believe we should fire the men's basketball and football coaches?

I'll continue to contribute, as I've done almost every year since I graduated. UR means far more to me than men's basketball.

I think men's lacrosse fans, which we seem to have a lot of here, should love Queally. Wouldn't have a program without him.
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Don't be naive, Woody. You don't think that if they need to, they won't take your donation to women's lacrosse and send it on over, to say, men's basketball or football?

For every parent who can't get their30 year old out of the basement, hunger is a great motivator.
 
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I can't comment on women's basketball because I have no interest in it at all. Men's basketball @ UR has all it needs to be a very successful program. Great school, great facilities, and the resources to be very successful. It is leadership that it lacks. My hope is that the new president really values winning and sees the value of a winning basketball program to the University. Until winning is valued, our potential will not be realized. It starts at the top. 2 NCAA tournaments in 16 years should NEVER be acceptable at Richmond. It has not only been accepted but the coach has been rewarded with contract extensions. It's a failure in leadership at the school and athletic department that has led us down this road.
 
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I can't comment on women's basketball because I have no interest in it at all. Men's basketball @ UR has all it needs to be a very successful program. Great school, great facilities, and the resources to be very successful. It is leadership that it lacks. My hope is that the new president really values winning and sees the value of a winning basketball program to the University. Until winning is valued, our potential will not be realized. It starts at the top. 2 NCAA tournaments in 16 years should NEVER be acceptable at Richmond. It has not only been accepted but the coach has been rewarded with contract extensions. It's a failure in leadership at the school and athletic department that has led us down this road.
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Everything you say is true. I'd certainly support getting a new coach. But until we do, I want the current one to win every game. And I won't let the success, or lack thereof, of the men's basketball program stop me from giving to the university I have loved since first stepping on campus in 1971 as a high school junior.

Mr. Rick, I don't financially support women's lacrosse. I have no interest in that sport whatsoever, men's or women's. My brother played soccer at UR and I'm still not happy they dropped the program.

And I think directing specifically-targeted donations to another sport or activity is frowned upon. The University has oversight of the Spider Club and I trust my donations go to the proper sport. In fact, I'm sure they do, because I hear from the coaches of those sports following my directed donation.
 
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Spider B said:
I can't comment on women's basketball because I have no interest in it at all. Men's basketball @ UR has all it needs to be a very successful program. Great school, great facilities, and the resources to be very successful. It is leadership that it lacks. My hope is that the new president really values winning and sees the value of a winning basketball program to the University. Until winning is valued, our potential will not be realized. It starts at the top. 2 NCAA tournaments in 16 years should NEVER be acceptable at Richmond. It has not only been accepted but the coach has been rewarded with contract extensions. It's a failure in leadership at the school and athletic department that has led us down this road.
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New president coming, he apparently gives at least a small hoot about sports and understands economics.
 
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