Stop with the A10 title already. UR tied for a regular season best record… tied. The A10 Champs are the team that wins the A10 tourney.
OOC Grade is in!!! No surprise, it's an F
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Just for reference
VCU is currently 3-0 with a convincing win over BC.
Dayton is 3-0 with a 5 point over Northwestern.
Loyola is 4-0 with a 5 point over Princeton (FYI - Princeton finished 55 in the NET last year).
So yes it is possible to build on the momentum, and I thought UR did with the transfers we brought in - especially when we started to get guys from UCONN and Michigan. But so far, Michigan has been seated on the bench and UCONN helped Marist win with a late tech.
Not likely we win 15 in a row. But I think likely we have some form of repeat from last year. We struggle in OOC until about the W&M, where I think we win that game, then we beat VMI, FGCU and open with 3-4 wins in the A10, maybe more as our opening schedule is not too terrible in the A10. Maybe we string together a few games like we did last year where we won last 3 OOC games and then won the first 8 A10 games before falling to VCU (of course). Not sure we could open up with 8 A10 wins, but I didn't see that coming last year - but our schedule could easily produce 4, maybe 5 wins to start the A10 season. But then again - we would be in same position as last year - even if we won the A10 regular season with our poor OOC, we would need an A10 tourney win to make the dance.
8legs1dream
Graduate Assistant
the curse of the big exhale, after ruminating on it I wouldn't be surprised if this was partially caused by Moon knowing that he had done enough to fight off any substantive hot seat talk and with another 4-5 years of check cashing coming his way could relax again.
Mooney sucks. He gets lucky every several years and it's a big celebration. He is not in Beilein or Tarrant's league.
8legs1dream
Graduate Assistant
Any average coach could have reached 3 NCAA's in 20 years here. Or are we supposed to believe this is as good as it gets?
So true. But yes, I think so. Or forced as Captain A said. Really rough feeling. But they’ve reconditioned things to make you think his tenure is top success and great performance and made us “one of the top basketball programs in the nation”. We were better pre Mooney. It now gets u minimum 24 years job security.
I made this comment in another thread because I had to LMAO after student17 said a down year is inevitable. Mooney has them 40% of the time. 40! IF if this year is another non winning .500 or below season that will be 8 out of 20 years for Moon. That’s insane for a vet coach. If he gets swept by vcu he’ll be at 25% win. 25! Look at those numbers. One would then think he’s crushing it the rest of the time. Nope. 3 NCAAs.
You know how many inevitable down .500 or below years coaches Tarrant and Beilein had at U of R in 17 combined years?
One.
Mooney has definitely lowered the bar. It's crazy to think about, the excuse mongering and woe is me messaging this dude generated over the years. Just wild.
Take for instance the fact that we can't win an OOC road game. Not like we are playing juggernauts, but moon is always whining about how hard it is to win on the road. He again sets the bar low.
Take for instance the fact that we can't win an OOC road game. Not like we are playing juggernauts, but moon is always whining about how hard it is to win on the road. He again sets the bar low.
Competing is all that matters, no matter the level of the opponent.
