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others? We have to move fast since the AD will have two enormous hires to make. Hardt is a disaster & u just have to know when to cut your losses early.

I know well enough to realize it won’t go down but I don’t want him near those hires. We should be bold & make a move now. But bold has never been in our vocabulary.
 
Queally’s term as rector is up next year. Not saying this will happen, but would not surprise me if at that point he parts ways with the university. There’s been a lot of controversy around him, and he may be pissed off enough to want to take his checkbook somewhere else.

Regardless, I don’t see Hardt going anywhere soon.
 
Our athletic program is going down very quickly. Once the basketball team graduates all the players this year. It's going to be a very long rebuild. Football doesn't look much better. Don't have a descent QB and offense coordinator is totally clueless.
 
The AD is judged on a few core metrics typically, including overall athletic success, key program success, fundraising, sports revenue, and in our case academic achievement.

I get the impression that key program success and perhaps overall athletic success don’t move the needle a ton for Hardt if fundraising and academics are good. I don’t know that revenue really registers but who knows.

Therefore I don’t know that he’s in much danger barring the president or BoT significantly shuffling success criteria.
 
Hardt is going nowhere - just like Mooney is going nowhere.

Basketball will win 20 games - make the NIT and we will put out another mission statement that says we compete, which is exactly what we did.
 
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SFspidur said:
Queally’s term as rector is up next year. Not saying this will happen, but would not surprise me if at that point he parts ways with the university. There’s been a lot of controversy around him, and he may be pissed off enough to want to take his checkbook somewhere else.

Regardless, I don’t see Hardt going anywhere soon.
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Don’t give us false hope SF!!!!
 
MrTbone said:
The AD is judged on a few core metrics typically, including overall athletic success, key program success, fundraising, sports revenue, and in our case academic achievement.

I get the impression that key program success and perhaps overall athletic success don’t move the needle a ton for Hardt if fundraising and academics are good. I don’t know that revenue really registers but who knows.

Therefore I don’t know that he’s in much danger barring the president or BoT significantly shuffling success criteria.
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This is well said. There has been an unmistakable erosion in interest in Spider Athletics over the past few years but that may not register particularly high on Hardt's list of priorities, rightly or wrongly.

Has he been on the football sidelines much this fall? I didn't see him yesterday.
 
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Mo 2.0 said:
This is well said. There has been an unmistakable erosion in interest in Spider Athletics over the past few years but that may not register particularly high on Hardt's list of priorities, rightly or wrongly.

Has he been on the football sidelines much this fall? I didn't see him yesterday.
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This is a great point. It is to the point where it's eating away at the diehard fans. The Administration makes it hard to be a fan of the Spiders. When fans care more about winning than those at the head of the athletic department, there is a real issue. They say they care, but talk is cheap. Their actions, or lack thereof, is all the proof you need to see.
 
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Mo 2.0 said:
This is well said. There has been an unmistakable erosion in interest in Spider Athletics over the past few years but that may not register particularly high on Hardt's list of priorities, rightly or wrongly.

Has he been on the football sidelines much this fall? I didn't see him yesterday.
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He sure keeps a low profile. Take away his occasional email letters to Spider supporters and you would think we didn't have an AD.
 
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To be fair, fans and specifically die hard fans, will always care more than anyone else about the athletic programs. So I don’t expect John Hardt to care anywhere near as much as I do about spider basketball.

But he is failing his own stated goal about “competing for conference championships” or whatever that mealymouthed objective was. He’s basically on an O-fer with perhaps a tick mark for 2019-20 bball. Not super inspiring.
 
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We don't fire coaches - so you think we will fire an AD. Please. Again - your thinking that the University cares that much about athletics, they do not. For the AD to get fired - you would need the president to step up and voice displeasure with the Board. We just hired a new president - from Cornell (Ever heard of it - Office joke of course), not a place that is high on athletics. So expect the same from him as well. And just as Hardt was new and not willing to make those big changes in his first year - I can't see a new President coming in and asking to replace the AD right away.
Not to mention - our two biggest sports - Football and Basketball, will likely have decent seasons. Or seasons they can at least argue - we competed. Football was 3-1 in COVID year, and is now 5-5 with W&M left. If they can win that game - you will get no complaints from the school on performance. Basketball will win 20 games this season or be close. And they will have counted the COVID shortened season as an NCAA year. Fully expect Mooney to get extension after this season to carry him through the 3-4 year rebuild process that will happen after this season.
 
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Mo 2.0 said:
This is well said. There has been an unmistakable erosion in interest in Spider Athletics over the past few years but that may not register particularly high on Hardt's list of priorities, rightly or wrongly.

Has he been on the football sidelines much this fall? I didn't see him yesterday.
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Walsh was on the sidelines yesterday - have to imagine Hardt was probably on a boat eating steak and potatoes.
 
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Trap I don’t think anyone has said it will happen, in fact my 1st post said “I know well enough to realize it won’t go down” but it is a message board and ok to have an opinion on what should happen. Fwiw the last AD was pushed out.

also something to consider for future as I don’t think Hardt is particularly long for job regardless. Remember he was a hand picked puppet hire by Queally and as SF mentioned I also expect PQ to take his ball & go home soon.

but u r right Richmond does need to care lot more about athletics first.
 
It’s not crazy to think that our new president who does seem to like/care about sports might ask questions about why we can’t seem to make the postseason.
 
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What makes you think the new president cares about sports? I mean - other than saying he cares. If he cares about sports - then his actions will need to speak louder than just words. But like any new boss - I don't expect major changes in year 1 or 2. Especially like I mentioned - Football can beat W&M and finish with winning season, and basketball wins near 20 games, makes NIT.
 
SpiderTrap said:
What makes you think the new president cares about sports? I mean - other than saying he cares. If he cares about sports - then his actions will need to speak louder than just words. But like any new boss - I don't expect major changes in year 1 or 2. Especially like I mentioned - Football can beat W&M and finish with winning season, and basketball wins near 20 games, makes NIT.
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No evidence other than he’s said he’s a sports guy, so don’t interpret my comment to mean he’s prepared to remold us as a liberal arts version of Ohio state. I’m not suggesting that at all.
 
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It’s not crazy to think that our new president who does seem to like/care about sports might ask questions about why we can’t seem to make the postseason.
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Time for a town hall with the new prez by those on this board. Never mind. He just needs to observe in game management by Russ & Mooney. Add that to approximately .500 or so bodies of work, and prez should be able to come to his own conclusions. Not that it'll make a difference, but...
 
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The way I see it playing out is either:
A) We make a run and win the A10, get into the NCAA. Hardt , Mooney, Matt Smith 4700 smile as Mooney pens another extension with a strong endorsement. 5-10 more years of the same.
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B) Hardt is told to fire Mooney. The two man search team of PQ and Hardt hire a slightly worse coach than Mooney and the beat goes on.

Welcome to Richmond basketball purgatory.
 
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The way I see it playing out is either:
A) We make a run and win the A10, get into the NCAA. Hardt , Mooney, Matt Smith 4700 smile as Mooney pens another extension with a strong endorsement. 5-10 more years of the same.
or
B) Hardt is told to fire Mooney. The two man search team of PQ and Hardt hire a slightly worse coach than Mooney and the beat goes on.

Welcome to Richmond basketball purgatory.
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I see us being a hair better than .500 in the A-10 this year.
 
spider23 said:
The way I see it playing out is either:
A) We make a run and win the A10, get into the NCAA. Hardt , Mooney, Matt Smith 4700 smile as Mooney pens another extension with a strong endorsement. 5-10 more years of the same.
or
B) Hardt is told to fire Mooney. The two man search team of PQ and Hardt hire a slightly worse coach than Mooney and the beat goes on.

Welcome to Richmond basketball purgatory.
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Next year will be 1000 times worse. Burton is like the only player we have. Wilson is a defender not a scorer. Look at Mooney history. When you have a stretch of winning 16 games it goes to 20. Then falls off to like 10 wins.
 
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Say the impossible happens and Mooney gets fired at the end of this season. What school could you see picking him up?
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He won't be making the money he's making now anywhere else. Those that could pay the money we're paying him don't want him, and those that want him can't afford him at the current salary. If he wants to lower his standards, I'm sure an America East, NEC or Patriot League team would pick him up. Maybe even a Horizon League team.
 
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