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[AnnapSpider]

Hi folks,
I thought I’d come back for an end of season comment.
Hardt has let go our women’s bb coach, soccer coach, baseball coach with positive
results . He very well may be under the pressure of Quealy and other donors not to
let Mooney go
That’s all folks.

 

[MrTbone]

Hi folks,
I thought I’d come back for an end of season comment.
Hardt has let go our women’s bb coach, soccer coach, baseball coach with positive
results . He very well may be under the pressure of Quealy and other donors not to
let Mooney go
That’s all folks.

Not sure which soccer team you’re referring to, the one that went 4-10-3 this year or the one that went 3-11-4 the year before.

I mean yeah, that’s a half game improvement but it’s not setting the world on fire.

But I’ll give you that both WBB and baseball are looking great. It begs the question of why would any donor of substance want to be so mediocre (or poor) at MBB when UR has shown it can be quite successful at it and other sports.

 

[Gallipoli]

If the school was going to remove Coach Mooney, they would have made an announcement by now.

 

[spiderstudent17]

Would love to hear an announcement similar to this from Roussell.

 

[spiderstudent17]

I’ve been saying here for a while that I think with Mooney there’s more involved and a level of politics than with other coaches. Meaning, Mooney is well liked by the administration and big donors that play a hand in decision making. Factor that in with the higher cost of a buy-out for a contract and the fact that we’ve had recent seasons that were good enough in the eyes of the administration, even last year that didn’t result in an NCAA appearance, and you can see why Mooney hasn’t been let go. Like I said in a previous thread it’ll either take a noticeable drop in fan attendance for consecutive years or the more likely option of big donors (and BoT now with NIL from school) not happy with the results.

I think Hardt has been great as an AD. So far he’s hired one phenomenal coach in Roussell and hopefully one soon to be phenomenal coach in Aoki with baseball (won’t quite move him up in that category yet without winning an A10 championship). I agree that men’s basketball carries the most weight out of any of our sports in terms of markers of success for an AD. Keep in mind under Hardt we’ve won 2 A10 trophies while his predecessor had 0.

With MBB there are a lot more layers to it as it is the face of our athletic department, than all the other sports where Hardt probably has more free rein to make decisions without as many hoops to jump through. I do think if he is tasked to hire our men’s basketball coach, he has shown me enough ability to make good hires for UR, that I think he will do a great job for that too.

 

[GKiller]

Hi folks,
I thought I’d come back for an end of season comment.
Hardt has let go our women’s bb coach, soccer coach, baseball coach with positive
results . He very well may be under the pressure of Quealy and other donors not to
let Mooney go
That’s all folks.

By “let go” they were all non renewals with expired contracts, none fired with term.

Hardt & Hallock just gave Moon an extension 9 months ago. It’s not even a fleeting thought.

 

[GKiller]

Whoa, how about this...the greatest three-point shooter in Spider history moving from "chief strategist" at SMU to Radford head coach.

The Coaching Changes account had a tweet last night mildly ripping the Chu hire. Can’t post it…now deleted. That account also likes Mooney. Who got to them? The Mooney circle can get billboards taken down, tweets taken down, but can’t win games.

 

[GKiller]

Small sample size I think, but UCSD having huge year. Irvine coach? Yes, be glad to be on the committee but it is a few years away.

 

[Eight Legger]

It's really the damnedest thing I've ever seen in sports. EVERYONE makes excuses for Mooney. Even as they use the same exact measuring sticks AGAINST other coaches. It's like they've all been brainwashed but only specifically for him.

They'll agree that it was time for NC State to move on from Keatts even though he just went to the Final Four last year. Bennett's act was getting stale at UVA, and oh yeah I guess that natty was nice but it was awhile ago. McCaffrey may have been the winningest head coach in Iowa history and made the tournament every other year for 15 years, but he needed to go.

Mooney has 3 tourneys in 20 years and 4 losing seasons in the past 8? He's doing an incredible job and is such a great representative for the University! Give him another year or 12, you jerks!

 

[spider23]

The Coaching Changes account had a tweet last night mildly ripping the Chu hire. Can’t post it…now deleted. That account also likes Mooney. Who got to them? The Mooney circle can get billboards taken down, tweets taken down, but can’t win games.

Coaching changes is one of the biggest POS accounts on Twitter. Constantly wrong, advocating for terrible coaches, etc. Then when they make stupid tweets they hide behind the old "this account is running by multiple coaches with logins" bs. Right. Whatever. They probably had one of their cronies in the running for the Radford job.

 

[spider23]

Hardt is failing. His grade is 95% mens basketball and he apparently has no influence, other than when he talked Mooney into scrapping the match up defense years ago, but is apparently back. And though I swear there was an article about that discussion with moon may have been a figment of my imagination.

 

[SpiderGuy]

It's really the damnedest thing I've ever seen in sports. EVERYONE makes excuses for Mooney. Even as they use the same exact measuring sticks AGAINST other coaches. It's like they've all been brainwashed but only specifically for him.

They'll agree that it was timer for NC State to move on from Keatts even though he just went to the Final Four last year. Bennett's act was getting stalker at UVA, and of yeah I guess that natty was nice but it was awhile ago. McCaffrey may have been the winningest head coach in Iowa history and made the tournament every other year for 15 years, but he needed to go.

Mooney has 3 tourneys in 20 years and 4 losing seasons in the past 8? He's doing an incredible job and is such a great representative for the University! Give him another year or 12, you jerks!

Spot on. If the professors or students at our school performed similarly to Mooney, they’d probably be on probation; not extension.

 

[GKiller]

Hardt is failing. His grade is 95% mens basketball and he apparently has no influence, other than when he talked Mooney into scrapping the match up defense years ago, but is apparently back. And though I swear there was an article about that discussion with moon may have been a figment of my imagination.

Yes there was article, & discussion. U r recalling this famous one.

Tho Mooney decided on own. So it says. But from everything I know about Moon he would never listen to a football lineman out of Iowa on any basketball strategy.

Just another media member carrying water for Moon because we are leafy, little ol' Richmond with a family man coach that looks the part from Princeton.

Congrats to our own KE Spider. It will remain 1 of the great disappointments of GK's life to not have been quoted there. I suppose I still have the Roll Spides twitter account quoting me without attribution to look fwd to.

How do you like Chris Mooney now?

Spiders fans were once losing patience with Mooney, but he has Richmond poised as the A-10 favorite to make the NCAA Tournament.

www.nytimes.com

 

[GKiller]

Looking back on the two main questions from both the author and Mooney is both funny and sad.

How do you like Chris Mooney now?
“How can we more consistently be at this level?” Mooney says. “That’s the challenge.”

Well let's see we've had 2 of 3 losing seasons, 4 of 8, 1 in 14 NCAA, and continue to get our ass kicked by VCU.

Questions answered. It would be great to get a follow up article from our friend Eamonn, but you know...they never do that.

Selection Sunday is easily 1 of the best days of the year if your team is in or a good chance to be in. Yet at Richmond it feels like we're starting from scratch with a 20 year coach.

 

[spider23]

No the media is a bunch of bi@#$es. They only do the articles when moon has his rare success to rub it in the fake fans faces. Nothing about worst rivalry coach ever or the big slides and lack of adaptability.