Roussell has some work to do
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I did introduce myself. He’s a good dude. I told him how a few times at these tournaments I got asked I know Addie Budnick cause she’s from around here. I thanked him for staying with us too!
Looks like Roussell is holed up in Mooney's barn office! Where the heck is this?
I assume it's their offices up on the second floor of Millhiser. The roof of the old gym angles down like that.
Class of 2026 Erica Gribble is ranked #80 in the country on espn class of 2026 rankings. I believe this is the highest ranked recruit ever for women’s basketball and 2nd recruit to be in ESPN top 100 (the other is Elaina Chapman ranked #100 class of 2019). A program continuing to be on the rise!
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I see Sanai Green on there at #23. She was a local kid at Steward lighting things up even as a frosh, and Vol said he'd heard from someone in the know that she was a quiet commit to us way back then. That didn't end up panning out, unfortunately. She moved to Long Island last year and missed a bunch of time with a knee injury, and committed to Duke last month.
I think it's the Richmond Basketball text on the upward facing angled surface. It makes everything look askew. Otherwise it would just be an angled metal truss and paneled "ceiling" surface.
Everything else in that area is curving down to follow the building, but then the text is perpendicular to that and therefore facing upward. That beam or whatever that the text is on needed a covering to create a vertical surface, or else just left plain with no text.
Everything else in that area is curving down to follow the building, but then the text is perpendicular to that and therefore facing upward. That beam or whatever that the text is on needed a covering to create a vertical surface, or else just left plain with no text.
I remember having fraternity brothers who had better decor in their off
campus places. This looks terrible. Maybe the furniture is on order.
campus places. This looks terrible. Maybe the furniture is on order.
Seeing the A10 trophies in his office reminded me of the plans (unfulfilled so far) for the Robins Center to have an atrium filled with photos, trophies, etc. honoring Spider basketball. Those trophies should be on display, not sitting in a coach's office.
New women’s basketball transfer, Skylah Travis, posted about spider nil collective. Hope this is a sign that our women’s team is also getting a share from the NIL Spiders Collective AND will be getting house settlement funds. If our women’s team is getting NIL money, I wonder if there is a way to donate specifically to the women’s team or if it’s all pooled out of one big collection.
The desk is strange too. Is that his main desk? It looks like a card table that he could fold up and stash in the closet.
Maggie unfortunately did not make the Americup final roster. Still, was a great honor to be invited to the trials and must have been a great experience.
Roussell undoubtedly has tons of connections already, but have to think this experience will pay some dividends.
Maggie was the only one at trials not from a power conference.
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Doogan Invited to USA Basketball Women’s AmeriCup Trials - University of Richmond Athletics
RICHMOND, Va. — Following a historic junior season in a Richmond women's basketball uniform, Maggie Doogan has been invited to compete at the 2025 USA Basket...
First let me say, this past year’s ladies basketball was the first time I have ever been so enticed by
Their play, and Maggie deserves every accolade and more that she received.
But, it’s hard for me to believe that there aren’t other women in the Mid-majors that didn’t deserve a
look.
I give Roussell a ton of credit for being so well recognized in the ladies basketball world, which had to help
influence who was picked to try out. I hope we’re giving him anything he wants and needs.
Their play, and Maggie deserves every accolade and more that she received.
But, it’s hard for me to believe that there aren’t other women in the Mid-majors that didn’t deserve a
look.
I give Roussell a ton of credit for being so well recognized in the ladies basketball world, which had to help
influence who was picked to try out. I hope we’re giving him anything he wants and needs.
Glad to hear that we’re giving Roussell the financial salary and financial resources that he deserves. Like Roussell referenced in the latest JOC article, all evidence points to us being fully committed to women’s basketball, as we should.
Roussell is getting recruits who are top 100 in the country, playing for team USA, likely going to WNBA. He is personally coaching team USA level and winning coach of year awards for conference and nationally (mid major coach of year). We are going to be nationally ranked, play top competition, win conference championships, and advance in the NCAA tournament. All of that can and is being done here and we haven’t reached our peak yet either.
I don’t doubt that Roussell will be offered a lot of money to coach at other schools. He is a phenomenal coach. What I’ll be disappointed in is if we don’t choose to match that salary. We can do it. It’s a matter of whether we choose to or not. Basketball is our flagship sport and when you have a generational talent coach like Roussell and achieve the success in women’s basketball that we all aspired to have, you do whatever it takes to maintain that. This is the one sport that we have to have the investment of a P5 school when we get a coach at this caliber or can be in a position to be nationally ranked every year. Any other sport (with the exception of men’s lacrosse) I get having our limits of paying a coach. But not when it comes to basketball. Give him the money he deserves. The recognition for our school and other ROI will be well worth it.
Roussell is getting recruits who are top 100 in the country, playing for team USA, likely going to WNBA. He is personally coaching team USA level and winning coach of year awards for conference and nationally (mid major coach of year). We are going to be nationally ranked, play top competition, win conference championships, and advance in the NCAA tournament. All of that can and is being done here and we haven’t reached our peak yet either.
I don’t doubt that Roussell will be offered a lot of money to coach at other schools. He is a phenomenal coach. What I’ll be disappointed in is if we don’t choose to match that salary. We can do it. It’s a matter of whether we choose to or not. Basketball is our flagship sport and when you have a generational talent coach like Roussell and achieve the success in women’s basketball that we all aspired to have, you do whatever it takes to maintain that. This is the one sport that we have to have the investment of a P5 school when we get a coach at this caliber or can be in a position to be nationally ranked every year. Any other sport (with the exception of men’s lacrosse) I get having our limits of paying a coach. But not when it comes to basketball. Give him the money he deserves. The recognition for our school and other ROI will be well worth it.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not lol because of Hardt’s comment describing our men’s basketball as sensible but if he becomes a million dollars a year caliber coach, then we need to pay him a million dollars a year. Otherwise we will start over in hopes of finding a coach who will takes us back to the level Roussell has. Just doesn’t make sense to me. We finally have someone who can make this program nationally respected and we’re going to skimp out on the hundreds of thousands of dollars (difference between his current salary and million dollars+) that is a rounding error for UR, when we’ve invested so much to get our program to where it is. Pay the man. It’s a great sign our president is involved and not just the AD. All signs have pointed to having a commitment towards women’s basketball. That commitment will need to grow as our expectations and success grows.
We pay the head coaches of our 8 women's teams a total of $1,000,000 (and change) combined. We can wish for it all we want, but the university isn't going to pony up that much for one women's coach, especially in the current environment. The women's hoops team doesn't bring in a ton of revenue even with the success it's having, we've got major new expenditure commitments on the House settlement revenue sharing side, our men's hoops team isn't regularly making the NCAA Tournament to earn units of its own for the department, and the conference distribution units from the NCAA we still receive are also getting sliced due to the settlement.
Yes, we're a rich school, but until the university shows it's willing to spend beyond "sensible" on athletics, I'm going to be incredibly skeptical.
Yes, we're a rich school, but until the university shows it's willing to spend beyond "sensible" on athletics, I'm going to be incredibly skeptical.
Can part of the salary be raised through donations? Other coaches can demand a raise all they want, but I don’t see how paying Roussell more means others will necessarily insist on making more. Mooney makes by far the most salary as a coach and I don’t see that affecting our other men’s sports coaches. Fact of the matter is basketball - both men’s and women’s - is the most important sports at our university. We have invested $10s of millions over the last decade in facility upgrades, travel expenses, and many other things for our basketball program. Yes it’s been mostly for men’s basketball but also women’s basketball too has also benefitted. I assume we’ve invested all this money in the hopes of achieving national success in the sport. We might actually have sustained national success now with our women’s team. Rather than starting over and hoping the new coach will get us to this level again, I would hope we focus our resources and efforts to pay our current coach who has achieved those things to continue doing so.
Women’s basketball revenue is continuing to grow. More people are going to the games and we’re getting revenue from NCAA tournaments, and likely other areas too. Plus it gives us publicity and with the continued growth of women’s basketball in general, the ability to gain even more publicity. It takes time to build to the point where WBB is generating revenue but we are heading in the right direction.
Women’s basketball revenue is continuing to grow. More people are going to the games and we’re getting revenue from NCAA tournaments, and likely other areas too. Plus it gives us publicity and with the continued growth of women’s basketball in general, the ability to gain even more publicity. It takes time to build to the point where WBB is generating revenue but we are heading in the right direction.
Everything is speculation. We don’t have a P & L to work with, but I suspect that when there’s a will there’s
a way. Do you all remember when Mooney was going to leave for GA Tech, and this was years ago, we all of
a sudden were paying him a million, and it’s only gone up. It’s a business and we don’t know what is in the bank.
Knowing we would never see the MBB and WBB P&L's for comparison, I would love to see the comparative net (revenue less expenses) for the two. The men's program definitely has more revenue but it certainly spends way more. In that light, I suspect the return for WBB on invested dollar is way more as it resides in an up and coming sector of basketball. As such, when it comes to spending incremental money, I'd rather bet on WBB vs. MBB.
Yes, the U of R is committed going forward to sharing NIL with the woman's basketball team. This is great news for the woman's program.
Excellent! Is there a way to make women’s basketball only NIL donations through the collective?
According to federal disclosures, men's hoops has total expenses of $7 million (including $1.9 million in operating/game-day expenses), while the women's program has total expenses of $3.3 million (including $800,000 in operating/game-day expenses).
Revenues by program in the disclosures are meaningless, because as with most schools we list revenues as exactly equal to expenses, counting internal transfers from the university as revenue for the programs.
Through the main Spider NIL Cooperative, I do not think so. It is my understanding it will be split based on some percentage between the men's and woman's teams with a majority going to the men's team.
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