Cooley beats Mooney by leaps and bounds every year, in recruiting, or in games. He just beat our brains out with his superior team that could have played two games nonstop, since they NEVER miss but a few shots. I think Mr. Vitale calls it superior talent.
So what does Coach Cooley do? He says that Richmond made the right choice to stick with Mooney ("so that I can continue to wipe the floor on the recruiting trail with Mooney until the cows come home.") He compliments Mooney as being one of the best coaches and programs in the country ("so that Richmond will get lazy with its financial support of basketball, so they get screwed in admissions - unless Hardt keeps them honest - and the fairy tale of Richmond's winningest coach in its history - who is actually the losingest coach in its history - will make all those Southerners fat and happy - and I can then out-recruit them year after year and win tons of games." Yeah!") ("At least, now, Mooney thinks I am a good guy")
"Hey - I can take video of our game to the Atlanta AAU Classic this summer. I wonder who will choose Richmond after seeing that!" "A month after that, I'll have to pull some strings to get Chris Mooney selected as some sort of Man Of The Year for his work outside of basketball. Richmond will brag about that - and my guys and I will still out-recruit him and win 25 games per year for the next ten years! If the opponent is underachieving, that means that I should make certain that his school keeps him." "I don't have very many years before retiring." "Yeah - that's the ticket."
Come on Mr. Hallock, Mr. Hardt, Mr. Queally, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Hale - let's give Chris what he needs in order to help him in this offseason. We don't have much coming back next year regarding experience. Make Chris a player in the transfer portal. Make certain that we are all on the same team, top to bottom. Go Spiders!