Amen, it's just staggering that he allowed this to happen and is totally cool with it. Just not at all how a competitive person who cares about outcomes behaves.
Paul Queally
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Could you imagine donating your time, (a large sum of) money and effort, and a significant amount of the alumni, professors and students hate you? Mostly because of a bad quote and taking a position on an issue that certain people disagree with you on.
You may start caring less about the status of the basketball program and focus your attention on other areas including outside of the university.
PQ has exponentially more money and influence than this entire board combined and enough to buy many professional sports franchises. Find the 3-5 smartest 4/5* recruits each year and give them NIL money.
If I made racist and stupid comments, I wouldn't blame the people who got upset about it. But despite that, do you really think he's only capable of caring about one thing at a time in 10 years? Why does he keep giving huge sums of money specifically to the basketball program if he doesn't care about it? Seems pretty stupid to me.
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I agree with you but would substitute your last word from behaves to manages. That in itself makes his leadership or lack of more questionable.
How long has the hating you refer to been going on? How long has Mooney's mediocrity been in place? Are the answers to those two questions along the same time line, or has the hating been more recently in terms of years vs 17 years of .500+ basketball mediocrity?
It was the referees who caused Queally to make those stupid comments 😅
I want to make sure there’s something I don’t know about here. Are you referring to the “regular” comment?
Please don't say that - even though it is in jest..........don't want it to happen to you or to anyone. Not trying to be "uptight" in this post ....but too many people actually do it. And yes I know you will not do it and are joking to make a point...................
I am sorry things are not going well for you. I am fine with you posting your extremely negative comments about the basketball program, but I draw a line when it comes to personal attaches. You called Paul a loser and indirectly criticized his contributions to make U of R a better school. There is a lot more to the university than just the basketball program. If your going to criticize him, you need to explain what you have done to make U of R better, which I expect is absolutely nothing.
All of us on this board should try to do their part in making the University a better place, which includes volunteering your time or making a financial contribution based on your ability. We should focus on making U of R a great place for future students to attend and stop being so selfishly one dimensional.
It is possible that focusing on making the basketball program great would result in a major improvement in both student experience and alumni interest.
Should this be moved to off topics. I mean this is a basketball board visited by basketball fans who care deeply about the state of our basketball program.
You're barking up wrong tree here. Can't speak to the treasure, but EL has given significant amounts of talent and time to the university.
I seem really negative on this boards as well. I support and care a lot about university. I attend a few games and want us to win. However, I only see a change at head coach changing our result. I would recommend a change right now at mid season. Let Hovde or assistant coach run the offense. Having Mooney complain or show zero ability to win baskeball games is ridiculous.
Unfortunately sometimes negative gets confused with fact and reality. It is hard to have witnessed and experienced over the years with the bb program to not become negative or cynical. Many of us on this forum probably feel the same as you. Keep making your good posts.
I pretty clearly was referring to his legacy within the scope of athletics, as I indicated in my post. If you bankroll losing programs -- which let's face it, we are, because we haven't won a damn thing for 11 years -- then I think the phrase fits. But that's my opinion. You're free to have a different one.
I didn't realize that criticizing his role in funding our soft, mediocre basketball coach was not something I could do in the basketball message board. Perhaps I should look for the Arts and Sciences message board and post my basketball thoughts there instead?
I also didn't realize that it was incumbent upon me to prove I have done things to improve UR (which incidentally I believe I have to the best of my abilities) before I can criticize the failed state of the basketball program.
It’s pointless to argue with Mooney apologists. They’re never wrong. Spelling and grammar aside.
It's been a problem for a while. CM is just not a quality in game coach.
No, I expect our basketball coach to be able to draw up a plan to get a quality shot out of a timeout. That possession was inexcusable and yet another failure on CMs part. He didn't put our players in the best position to be successful. This entire mess the last 11 years is on CM. He's the head coach and he is not getting it done, period.
I think the tv announcers were debating whether we would hold the ball and go for the tie or go for the quick two. Obviously Mooney was playing for the win. As much as I want him gone I can’t bitch too much about it although it was poorly executed and the wrong guy ended up taking the shot. But that’s Mooney in a nutshell.
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If we played as hard as VDU every game we could have 5 more wins.
Well at that point we were down three, so we were playing to tie if that was the case. I don’t mind if you want to shoot a three, but the only reason you let the clock wind down is if you’re highly certain you’re going to make it (We shot 18.2% from 3 as a reminder). Otherwise take it early in the clock and go for the steal or foul Right away.
It seems pretty indefensible, and I’m not talking about our chances of making the shot.
I think most coaches, with 25 seconds, would take it to the hoop, get the 2 and maybe plus 1. After the basket, go for the steal or foul. If they make both foul shots you're still only 2 or 3 down and going for the win or tie.
I was surprised Burton didn't try to make both FTs, too. There were 3.9 seconds left. Make them and foul immediately. You would have 3.5 left and at worst be down three. That's plenty of time to get down court and take a decent shot.
I remember Curtis Blair dribbling the length of the floor and laying it in against American in that time for a CAA tournament win.
Agree. When we took the time out after his first shot he was given his orders to purposely miss but must not have been told about having to hit the rim.
One of the worst decisions I have seen by Mooney ... we got so lucky to even have a chance at the last shot since if they had hit the 2FTs, game over with the 4 pt margin.
When you're 1 for 12 the chances of hitting the rim are not so good. I'm sure he was trying, he's been playing the game his whole life. It was that kind of night for him.
Honestly, the intentionally missed FT was probably one of his better shots of the night. Tyler is all screwed up mentally right now.
I think you’re 180 degrees off when you make a comment like that.You don’t know Tyler,never met Tyler.Typical hide yourself behind the internet cowardly statement.Very bold.
Interesting stats. Not sure if that's the correlation or not. We played a number of decent teams OOC that are certainly as good if not better than A10 teams, and he achieved at a high level. We are mid pack A10. I'd have to check his performance against the weak A10 teams we've beaten. I think some of his low performances may have even been against these. If so, that makes little sense. Better A10 teams - VCU strong defense; Davidson not so much.
Whatever is going on, hope he corrects, as he's really a good player and needs to be a go to option. I feel badly for him.
Yeah, the "regular students" was the most recent example, and obviously a pretty awful one.
Here was another: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html
Here was another: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html
Yeah I’m familiar with both of these stories. I’m sure you’ve never slipped in a comment before or said something that might be misinterpreted. As soon as he made a decision they disagreed with (ie not renaming the buildings) it was almost certainty that he would be called a racist and that they would try to get him to resign.
No, I've never jokingly suggested that Black students were not "regular" students or used derogatory terms about gay people, if that's what you're suggesting. I also haven't called him a racist, but he's clearly SAID things that are offensive and racist. Given his prominence with UR, it's fair to hold him to a squeaky clean standard, IMO.
What if Hallock were caught at a private dinner calling the Republican Party a racist organization or suggesting that he would only hire minorites to positions of prominence at UR? Would we just brush it off as no big deal? I hope not.
What if Hallock were caught at a private dinner calling the Republican Party a racist organization or suggesting that he would only hire minorites to positions of prominence at UR? Would we just brush it off as no big deal? I hope not.
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did you get this upset when Grant talked shit on Tyler during his Super Senior video that was played at the game on Saturday?
