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[Not-A-Homer]

My opinion on here has been pretty consistent. I am not for or against Mooney inherently, but just want to see results being produced. If Mooney can do that, then he deserves to stay longer. If he cannot do it and has been given ample opportunity to do so (which he has), he should be fired. As things currently stand, I am in the position that Mooney should be fired. Again, if Mooney can win the A10 tournament I will change my mind.

Unfortunately, I have the same feeling that many of you here have regarding Mooney staying here another year. Like others have said, Hardt will more than likely fire Schaeffer to show that he can fire under performing coaches to hopefully deflect the fact Mooney hasn't been fired. I remain hopeful that Hardt will still fire Mooney at the end of this year - if results play out like the first half of the season - because there will be many good coaches on the market.

I don't know what Hardt is thinking so this is complete conjecture on my part. I still think that there remains some possibility of Hardt firing Mooney this year, but it'll require an atrocious A10 record like 3-5 wins to finish out the year with a total record of about 10-12 wins. However, that won't likely happen since we will beat enough of the bottom feeder teams to finish A10 play with at least 7 wins. So with a record of 14-17 wins, even with an overall losing record, will be enough to justify the same old "improvement" "wait for next year". Especially if Mooney has more leniency with recruiting, the new practice facility being built, etc.

If this were to be the case that Mooney has one more year and Hardt came out and publicly stated that next year is NCAA tournament or be fired, I won't be terribly disappointed (but still disappointed to some degree) in keeping Mooney another year. But I really mean Hardt stating that it is NCAA tournament or fired. I don't mean just "improvement" or "being competitive" and I don't mean losing in the A10 championship and being first four out. At the end of the day,it is either we make the NCAA tournament or Mooney is gone, no ifs or buts. This is probably wishful thinking on my part, but it'll at least be nice for Hardt to set objective goals and publicly holding himself accountable to make the necessary changes if we don't meet those objective goals

Hardt will not make such a statement publicly.

 

[nathanw19]

Amen. I've said the same thing before. He's basically the second-highest paid employee of the university. If he thought he deserved to have more leeway with recruits, he should have fought like hell for it. If Gill wasn't helping, go public with complaints if you need to until things are resolved. What was going to happen? They weren't going to fire him, obviously. Instead, he did nothing.

No.

You don’t air your dirty laundry. I hope and assume he fought for these recruits, and he lost. I think there is plenty of room to criticize his inability to win those fights.

But going public and having a tantrum? Hard no thank you. I don’t think anyone should slum to those tactics, and I especially don’t want it from our coach (or anyone else at Richmond).

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

No.

You don’t air your dirty laundry. I hope and assume he fought for these recruits, and he lost. I think there is plenty of room to criticize his inability to win those fights.

But going public and having a tantrum? Hard no thank you. I don’t think anyone should slum to those tactics, and I especially don’t want it from our coach (or anyone else at Richmond).

See Rocco, D.