Not when the coach hasn’t had a back to back 20 win season since the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. And you can’t blame all of it on the portal.
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Skinn off to a good start with GMU. They got to raise their first Kenpom 100 banner since 2012 last season, and now kenpom ranked 78 so far this season. GMU never had as great results as their roster seemed under English. Never understood the big time interest in him, other than he is a tall good looking man, that played in the NBA. Guess he has the Mooney "looks like a coach" thing going for him. I think the seat is already getting hot for him at Providence - he only has one really go to scorer on his roster - and he has been out hurt a lot and they have looked pretty bad at times.
Kenpom is showing this one as 72-59 GMU. So Traps powers that be should be very happy if we can keep it in single digit range.
Kenpom is showing this one as 72-59 GMU. So Traps powers that be should be very happy if we can keep it in single digit range.
Providence did Mason a favor for sure. Never understood that hire. 56% career winning percentage, positively Mooneyesqe. Providence won't put up with that though like we do. He either starts winning or he will be gone.
Yep, already seeing rants on twitter from Providence fans. Definitely more and higher expectations from their fan base. Again, Moon has it so easy here. That is one thing he has/had going for him, when he had the initial success with KA, he knew enough that he had it easy here and did not want that smoke of a power league expectations and accountability from the AD.
This is why Mooney is never leaving. His performance would not fly at any program higher than ours (and shouldn't fly at the A-10 level either).
I remember the Rhody fans had an acronym for Jim Baron: CFL - Coach for Life.
He was only half a Mooney term - he had 11 seasons at URI. But even worse results - 0 NCAA's. I think we knocked them out that one season, really good game at URI - was planning to go but we got a Northeaster that dumped about a foot and a half.
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MoonMan laughs at your puny 11 year contract
I remember that game. Moon's first NCAA team w/KA, Gonzo et al. Butler hit a really long 3 (by the 2010 standards, today not so much) and I think it may have been URI's only home loss that year. I also remember a tweet saying that UR may have locked up a bid with that win, URI on the road was a really good win that year. Granted that team had won a game vs Florida in Sunrise, Fl and had beaten Miss. State and Missouri in S. Padre Island. Lost to VCU and W&M in the OOC, so some things never change.
Long time since UR could lock up a bid with an A10 regular season win. That game, 15 years ago, to be precise, now that I think it over. Bc the next year UR won the A10 and still only got a 12 seed, meaning a loss in first couple rounds of A10 would have been dicey chances for a bid.
15 years.
Patience please. It's only been 20 years. When we catch up to the NIL & portal thingies, when he shows flexibility in changing his basketball system, and after a couple more extensions, then you'll see a difference.
We are an at large killer for every A-10 team. When they do the resume comparisons for teams on the bubble in February, loss to Richmond, will be cited as one of the bad losses holding them back.
The only relish I have left for this season is that we put one of those on VCU.
That would be quite nice. But typically - as GK can tell you - the years we are good we somehow lose, the years we are bad, we lose bad, and the years we are mediocre we lose.
I tried to do some Googling and ChatGPTing to find coaches records vs rivals but no go. I do agree with GK's belief that Mooney vs VCU may be one of the all time bads. Maybe SF has some AI commands that could pull something like that?
For sure. GK is on point. Mooney is VCU's bitch. Their fanbase loves Mooney as much as our loathes him for him a reason.
As far as public vs private, I wonder what the record is between UPenn and Penn ST…in football?
They are rivals right?
I think your post is sarcasm but you can never tell on here. Just in case.
Penn State is FBS and UPenn is FCS. Totally different divisions in football. Plus they never play each other. The answer though is Penn State 15 wins, 8 losses in the match-up. But the last time they played was 1957.
But lets not forget - this only comes into play because we are unable to achieve our other top goals.
I have always said - the program should have 3 main goals.
1) Make the NCAA tourney
2) Win the A10 Regular Season and/or A10 Tourney
3) Beat VCU
If you accomplish 1) - I am not too worried about the other 2. If you achieve 2, in most years (last year it was not the case) - you will also get 1). If you don't accomplish 1 or 2 on a consistent basis - then 3) becomes very highlighted. And that is what we have here. I think if UR was making the tourney on the regular and consistently in the top 4 of the A10 with a few conference titles here and there, we would not be as concerned with the VCU record. But since those have not happened all that much - the VCU record gets highlighted.
Very similar to OSU and Michigan. OSU loss to Michigan this year. You think the fan base will care all that much if OSU wins the National Title - probably not. But not make the playoffs, lose first round - then your record vs. your rival gets attention.
not 1 of. THE worst rivalry coach of ALL Time. Even got the interns on this project once. I challenge anyone to find someone worse. No coach at our level or higher has got as many games as Moon vs. rival and done this bad. Some like VT4700 once tried to find others but they all got FIRED. Yes, that's the point. That's why he's the best. of course some have worse percentages since nobody else sticks this long, it doesn't exist in big boy sports. Add football, doesn't exist there either. As Trap says below, u think if that bad we must be going to a bunch of NCAAs. Nope. 3 in 20. 8legs posted his A10 record, it's .500 propped up by pillow fight wins in before the quarters. 4 semis ever. 40% of his seasons are .500 or under.
Then u look at the "rivalry". 9-25. Tho Trap also used to say how at least we played VCU close. We don't. Get blown out often.
Moonicorn. Doesn't exist in sports. But honestly I think we should play it up. when u r the BEST at being the worst it's still noteworthy. would garner attention. Imagine all the rooting interest we'd get. the sympathy. Play it up on Richmond Bball social media. With spellcheck. Look at little ol' UR with the 2 million coach at a 3 billion school. It must be so hard to be beat the commuter school down the road in the exact same league. Maybe u get Barstool to cover it or some other national outlet, because we know the RTD won't say a thing.
worst rivalry coach of all time
Would have been interesting if OSU had lost in the first round of the playoffs if Ryan Day would have kept his job or not. If he wins the Natty, the loss to Michigan will be but a distant memory.
On one hand I get why OSU fans is upset about Michigan, But on the other hand, Ohio State is a Top 5 program in football and really think they need a dash of perspective that every single program outside of Alabama and Georgia wants to be where Ohio State is at right now.
Yes I know FBS/FCS mostly sarcasm but trying find a comparison for our last 20 years…
