Richmond basketball history

[712_VT]

There is no "disrespect" in being considered a Cinderella team. Nothing in sports does more for a school's national renown than a tourney run. Ask the AD or president of Abilene Christian, Oral Roberts, or North Texas if they are perceived as a "low quality" program.

Low seeds are better than no seeds.

Nobody nationally cares what our computer ranking is at the end of the year. I doubt very much Charles Barkley considers our 1984 program inferior to our 2021 team, no matter what the computers say.

Being a consistently good program does even more for a schools reputation than a few times as a Cinderella. In 3 or 4 years when you ask people who Abilene Christian is or if they remember them winning their first round game people will respond with “who?” now if they keep winning then that will change. Believe it or not but The University of Richmond doesn’t have that favorable of a reputation among people my age and it’s easy to see why. Maybe win some basketball games and stop acting like the school is some exclusive club for the elite and that will change.

 

[SpiderK]

Being a consistently good program does even more for a schools reputation than a few times as a Cinderella. In 3 or 4 years when you ask people who Abilene Christian is or if they remember them winning their first round game people will respond with “who?” now if they keep winning then that will change. Believe it or not but The University of Richmond doesn’t have that favorable of a reputation among people my age and it’s easy to see why. Maybe win some basketball games and stop acting like the school is some exclusive club for the elite and that will change.

Hey now, Tech is getting harder to get into every year. New Jersey students will take over there too before long.
By the way, Hokies need a point guard that is a threat to score.

 

[712_VT]

Hey now, Tech is getting harder to get into every year. New Jersey students will take over there too before long.
By the way, Hokies need a point guard that is a threat to score.

Ya Tech is getting a lot harder to get into but I don’t think New Jersey is overtaking it. It’s more like Northern Virginia people taking over and at least they are still in state, as different as they may be. Also we just picked up a scoring point guard a few weeks ago in Storm Murphy from Wofford. He was a 4 year starter at Wofford, 18 a game scorer this past season and damn near a 50, 40, 90 guy. However he may best known for this video:

 

[KWeaver]

Yes, 3 at large bids in the history of the program. We would have had 2 more if it wasn't for Covid and injuries over the past 2 years and Gilly is going to lead us to one in 21-22. It is a great time to be a Spider!

This is a load of bull. That’s all.

 

[wr70beh]

Interesting, I didn't realize that every team lost 4 of their top players including 2 all-conference players and one of the top 3 point shooters in the country, along with 3 covid pauses. The positive is that a vast majority of fans and the administration understand the true story.

Well if we're the only team out of over 300 to have crippling injuries, then that says something about the program in that they're developing porcelain players. VCU has had devastating injuries and they seemed to adjust, and didn't whine about it. Would you rather whine or get tougher? You're preaching softness.

 

[97spiderfan]

Well if we're the only team out of over 300 to have crippling injuries, then that says something about the program in that they're developing porcelain players. VCU has had devastating injuries and they seemed to adjust, and didn't whine about it. Would you rather whine or get tougher? You're preaching softness.

Excuse making or as I like to state is a lack of personal accountability is pretty much a hallmark of the Hardt, Mooney, PQ regime.

 

[Gospiders06]

History has shown over the past 16 years. Mooney coaching at the same university. Just win some games lose at the most pivotal moments. The last four minutes of games if we are losing our record is 1-10 under Mooney. Our record verses VCU is 7-25. Only ONE conference tournament championship. And haven't been to the big dance since 2011. We keep saying two years age our bid was set in stone. If that's the case with the same group of players. Same coach. The only reason was injuries from achieving the goal. We finished in 8th place after being ranked in the top 25 in the same season.

 

[UR80sfan]

There is no "disrespect" in being considered a Cinderella team. Nothing in sports does more for a school's national renown than a tourney run. Ask the AD or president of Abilene Christian, Oral Roberts, or North Texas if they are perceived as a "low quality" program.

Low seeds are better than no seeds.

Nobody nationally cares what our computer ranking is at the end of the year. I doubt very much Charles Barkley considers our 1984 program inferior to our 2021 team, no matter what the computers say.

Yup, that is why I like being in the A10. I don't want U of R to be viewed like Abilene Christian, Oral Roberts, or North Texas.

Also, I do think Barkley still has nightmares about Bill Flye. It was an exciting win during that history of our program.

 

[SpiderK]

Yup, that is why I like being in the A10. I don't want U of R to be viewed like Abilene Christian, Oral Roberts, or North Texas.

Also, I do think Barkley still has nightmares about Bill Flye. It was an exciting win during that history of our program.

Yes, beware the Tarrant 4th year big man. We had quite a few.

 

[SpiderRick]

Interesting, I didn't realize that every team lost 4 of their top players including 2 all-conference players and one of the top 3 point shooters in the country, along with 3 covid pauses. The positive is that a vast majority of fans and the administration understand the true story.

Losing players to injuries is no different than losing players to transfers, dismissals, and graduations. GET REAL. I bet when you were young, your parents, teachers, and coaches just LOVED all your excuses

 

[Ferrum Spider]

It’s more like Northern Virginia people taking over

Happening in the city here as well. All they are building are more and more ugly townhomes every day. And ugly apartments.

 

[SpiderTrap]

Fact of the matter is we didn't make the tourney this past season. We played under the same circumstances as everyone else. I am okay with using injuries as an excuse if we were to lose 2-3 major guys (Gilyard, Golden, Burton, Cayo, Francis, Sherod) to season ending injuries for the majority of the year. But the fact of the matter is - we only lost Sherod. We played with everyone else for the majority of the year - and suffered some injuries down the stretch, but every team deals with those at some point. But we had losses with all our guys - we lost to Hofstra, WVU, VCU, LaSalle, and St. Louis when we had everyone - so whats the excuse there. If we win 3-4 of those games, then you can afford a loss or two down the stretch due to injury. But we didn't do that and there is no excuse for that other than we were not good enough on those nights and that hurt our resume at the end.

 

[8legs1dream]

Fact of the matter is we didn't make the tourney this past season. We played under the same circumstances as everyone else. I am okay with using injuries as an excuse if we were to lose 2-3 major guys (Gilyard, Golden, Burton, Cayo, Francis, Sherod) to season ending injuries for the majority of the year. But the fact of the matter is - we only lost Sherod. We played with everyone else for the majority of the year - and suffered some injuries down the stretch, but every team deals with those at some point. But we had losses with all our guys - we lost to Hofstra, WVU, VCU, LaSalle, and St. Louis when we had everyone - so whats the excuse there. If we win 3-4 of those games, then you can afford a loss or two down the stretch due to injury. But we didn't do that and there is no excuse for that other than we were not good enough on those nights and that hurt our resume at the end.

I mean, if we win those two games that we absolutely should have won and then at least one of the others listed we would have been in the drivers seat but no instead we were most likely out of the tournament already no matter what we did in the A10 tournament short of winning the whole thing. Of course yet another failure of a season means nothing to the Mooners out there as long as they have a few good excuses to cling to like a security blanket.

 

[SpiderK]

I mean, if we win those two games that we absolutely should have won and then at least one of the others listed we would have been in the drivers seat but no instead we were most likely out of the tournament already no matter what we did in the A10 tournament short of winning the whole thing. Of course yet another failure of a season means nothing to the Mooners out there as long as they have a few good excuses to cling to like a security blanket.

Agree, we absolutely had to win the A-10 tourney to get in. We didn’t compete there either.

 

[SpiderGuy]

History has shown over the past 16 years. Mooney coaching at the same university. Just win some games lose at the most pivotal moments. The last four minutes of games if we are losing our record is 1-10 under Mooney. Our record verses VCU is 7-25. Only ONE conference tournament championship. And haven't been to the big dance since 2011. We keep saying two years age our bid was set in stone. If that's the case with the same group of players. Same coach. The only reason was injuries from achieving the goal. We finished in 8th place after being ranked in the top 25 in the same season.

Those are strong stats that the next coach will have a hard time emulating. Long term success is difficult to argue with.