For the second year in a row, Roussell has earned a contract extension. Terms not disclosed of course.
Roussell gets another extension
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A lot of great quotes from the article, but the one in the end is my favorite from Roussell "My excitement, pride, and love for this program are at an all-time high and I can't wait to continue this journey with our fans and Spiders everywhere.” Us too coach, us too.
Other comments that I also liked: great to see Hardt making it a priority to retain coach and wanting to build a top program in the country. Great to see Hallock comment on this too. Don’t know how many coaching extensions we do where the president of the university makes a remark on, but certainly warranted with basketball. Also, I liked this quote from Roussell too “I'm grateful to be surrounded by leaders with such strong alignment and a shared vision of the amazing potential women's basketball has at Richmond”. All around great job by the admin in getting this done. Let’s capitalize on the moment like I alluded to, and go all in on women’s basketball success. This is a wonderful step in that direction.
Don’t know too closely but seems like he was in the mix at Wisconsin and according to this tweet turned down Georgia Tech. Great to see and believe Roussell has the same vision for UR WBB that many of us have. Like he said, the apex for WBB hasn’t been reached yet. We have a wonderful university, city, and fan base. He has a great relationship with Hardt and Hallock who appear to be giving the resources/funding needed to be successful. He is winning championships and receiving major accolades (mid major coach of year for instance), has a team that’s beating ranked opponents, will be ranked next season too, and garnering a ton of respect nationwide. There’s no reason to believe our ceiling can’t be just as good if not better than most P5s. He has built something special and it will continue to grow and he has a job for life with a fanbase that loves him. Recruiting continues to get better each year so we don’t rebuild, only reload. A lot for Roussell to like about his situation at UR. Become the Mark Few equivalent for WBB and have a statue and/or something named after you when you retire.
After what his team had just done to Georgia Tech, he knew it would be a step down. 
Glad UR got something done. I am not surprised that GT was turned down though. I think that after next season is going to be the true test. Definitely doesn’t seem sustainable to keep offering extensions, so hopefully this latest one does keep Roussell happy for a number of years.
Thank goodness. Well deserved and well earned. FWIW: Hallock didn't comment on the most recent Mooney extension, at least in the university press release.
Love his tweet too. Nice to have a coach who uses social media in the year of 2025.
Love his tweet too. Nice to have a coach who uses social media in the year of 2025.
Why not? He definitely deserves them. More than just extensions I am hoping he gets a considerable pay raise too. Should be paid as a P5 coach.
I agree. But like I said in another post, with our recruiting getting better each year, we don’t rebuild, we reload. Even with Doogan and Ullstrom graduating, I am confident that we will have other players step up and also complement our with key portal additions to continue performing at this level. The ceiling for UR WBB in my eyes is just as high of not higher than most P5s. Why leave when it can be achieved here.
I think the "unsustainable" part is that at some point, we won't pay him what he could earn at a P5. But hopefully he will be earning close to that here if he keeps winning and will feel compelled to stay and build his program from the bottom to a perennially top-25 team.
I am happy to see this. At least we can keep him one more year and hopefully beyond. And I think most of us would agree that it was an excellent use of athletic department funds.
I’d like to think my $100 donation on giving day is what got this extension over the line
You’re all wecome!
You’re all wecome!
I hear you Eight, but my hope is that UR gives the money to him that he deserves and is representative of a P5 salary to maintain him as our coach. We’ve spent so much on basketball over the past decade that I hope this isn’t the area where we are cheap on. Figure out some way to raise the funds either through philanthropy or university funds and pay him. The return of investment and publicity far outweighs the cost in my opinion.
I coin this the “Disney Phenomenon”. I went to Disney with my wife a couple years ago. We spent however much money on travel, hotel, food, and park tickets. At the park, we spent like $50 more to upgrade to lighting pass tickets so we could go on many rides sooner than others. I was surprised at how many people don’t do that though. My thought was how could someone spend all this money and time to go somewhere like this, but not pay the relatively smaller extra fee to have a better park day experience? Same with basketball. We spent how many 10s of millions on upgrading Robins Center, building a practice facility, plus money we will be spending now in house settlement, to finally get an elite level coach to just throw it away because we didn’t want to spend the extra $500K extra (or whatever it is) to keep someone of his caliber? Doesn’t make sense to me. I get UR, as wealthy as a school as it is, doesn’t have an endless money pit. If it was any other UR sport, then fine, but not basketball. Pay whatever it takes to keep someone of his caliber.
Lol, but you have no problem spending all of that money in the men's program (and to be clear all of those millions to upgrade the Robins Center, practice facility were not built for our women's team) and than continue to stick with a non elite coach that can't take fully advantage of all of those investments.
Out of respect for Coach Roussell and this program, I don't want to bring up men's basketball in this thread that is supposed to celebrate Roussell and the women's teams achievements. I can discuss in another thread. I will say though that the goal at UR is to be a top basketball program in the country. Right now, we are doing well with 50% of that equation on the women's team. So thoughts/feelings of men's team aside, we should do everything in our power to continue growing and becoming the best we can be in women's basketball. While we focus on improving success or lack thereof on the men's side, shouldn't take that idea away.
Great timing with UR Giving Day, too.
Hallock is a big fan of these women and this coach. He took a whole week off of regular duties to be with this team in LA! He made it very clear to me when I spoke with him how much he respects this program, student-athletes, and coach. He is very proud of their accomplishments and how well they represent the university!
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Yeah, I take him at his word that he loves it here. I think you can see it with him. Seems the whole family loves it here too! Loved seeing them in LA!
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When I saw what Huesman was making ($763,000) I was shocked and thought that WBB coach would be making great coin given the exposure WBB has recently given us.
Do you think its a good move or bad move that UR doesn't disclose terms of these agreements? Or at least just some of the basic terms. I mean - what is UR hiding? I know UR doesn't have to because of private school. But would sharing term length, buyout, and overall salary be that negative? And if these coaches plan on moving up the ladder - its going to happen at some point anyways in their career.
I guess from a fan/supporter view - I just think if UR is on par with others or better, then sharing would show everyone UR is committed to Athletics and investing. Now - if we are below and not on par, then I would get not making that information public, but that is the only reason I can see. Again - not saying you have to release the entire contract like public schools do with FOIA, but high level details - is that too much or crazy to ask?
I guess from a fan/supporter view - I just think if UR is on par with others or better, then sharing would show everyone UR is committed to Athletics and investing. Now - if we are below and not on par, then I would get not making that information public, but that is the only reason I can see. Again - not saying you have to release the entire contract like public schools do with FOIA, but high level details - is that too much or crazy to ask?
I guess it comes down to whether you value privacy or not. In this particular case it’s not really any of my business, so it’s a bit much to ask.
It also holds hardt accountable if the contract is public...if private, he can't be criticized....think about that...
I saw Duke releases some of the details - they release the contract length and provide some of the bonuses - such as winning ACC, making final four, etc. So they provide some. I don't think Davidson in the A10 provides any details - similar to UR.
I guess I could see somewhere in the middle being good - don't give exact salary amount, but give the length, maybe give the buyout amount, give examples of the bonuses, etc.
In our case, everyone knows Mooney is the central figure from a salary standpoint on the campus - so valuing privacy is out the door. Plus - you can get their tax returns and see their income, so its never a total secret.
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