This was maybe the most pathetic game in the modern Mooney era. The coach quit. The team quit. And we all saw it coming.
The coach and the team have quit
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Hardt slept through it and Queally was snuggled up with his retrievers at the practice facility. spiderman is blaming the players, 4700 is typing into his iPad with wifi turned off, and 80s is looking for stats more obscure than SARS
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.I am ready for the GW game. Man that was such a great game. We totally competed and play so well. See everyone at the Tavern tonight!!! Drinks paid by Mooney.
Oh my!! Like many of you, I was watching this one saying where is the damn fire? Competitiveness, pride, I didn't see any. Agree completely that Mooney and those on the floor looked numb and shell shocked. I don't think it too far to say that they QUIT. Fire Mooney now (which isn't going to happen)!
should have put in the walk-ons at the 5 minutes to play mark
should start the walkon next game
should start the walkon next game
Mooney should resign or take any job besides this one. Why must we be tortured?
If he had any dignity he would resign tonight. what an embarrassment. His time has come and gone. No energy, no fire, no desire, no leadership. If Hale, Hardt or the Prez had a pair, they would be changing the locks in the robins center tonight
I am too damn embarrassed to wear red much less anything with Richmond or a Spider on it.
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Beck has been around forever working with Bob Black. Great player but indoctrinated in the ways of Mooney. But tomorrow we need to lock out Mooney, Jones, hovde, Bob Black, Matt Smith and start over.
it was kinda embarrassing he left in gilly to the end & golden near it. Even to prove a little tiny point u sit them.
turn the team over to joseph and hovde...throw the rest of them out
Throw in the second string at this point. The season has more hope with the second string. Actually develop some future.
this is a very weak minded and weak physical team . They are soft like baby dupa, and Coach jacket today too short , bad fit
Yep you got it Fezz, 5 more years of players and 18 of coach will not change this.
“I don’t think anything would change in terms of how we approach each coming game, or each individual game.
“It’s just a matter of us being ready, fresh, alert and things that I think we have been.”
Good to know the status quo is satisfactory.
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“It’s just a matter of us being ready, fresh, alert and things that I think we have been.”
Good to know the status quo is satisfactory.
VCU again sends message: 'We run Richmond and we wanted to make that known'
Complimentary gold T-shirts draped on Siegel Center seats read “Some Rivalries Are Forever.”
“I don’t think anything would change in terms of how we approach each coming game, or each individual game.
“It’s just a matter of us being ready, fresh, alert and things that I think we have been.”
Good to know the status quo is satisfactory.
VCU again sends message: 'We run Richmond and we wanted to make that known'
Complimentary gold T-shirts draped on Siegel Center seats read “Some Rivalries Are Forever.”
Mooney the Tin Man. & why change its working so well.
Mooney stood there with the last 10 minutes of the game with his hands behind his back, just chatting with the officials when they were nearby. Just bend over and take it. Utterly pathetic.
Serious question for you as a vcu fan? Do you guys somewhat fear what would happen if we got rid of Mooney because you know we might actually become a challenger? My guess would be no because y’all know that no matter who our coach is the attitude for the whole university is just to compete, not actually try to win anything.
He does that because he wanted to try to get the score under 20 points. He always keeps his starters in when losing big to save face. “Hey look, we only lost by 20.”
the guy is truly pathetic.
All of us on this board (aside from the visitors) are passionate fans of Richmond basketball. We all care, probably to the point of it being detrimental given our awful yearly results. Yet we still invest our time, money, and emotion into this program. That's why it's so frustrating to watch our performance yesterday, where we got punched in the mouth and completely gave up - both players and coaches. These last 4 games will be very telling - if we go out and quit like we did last night, 0-4 is a very likely outcome
1-3 likely just based on chalk. We’ve not shown much this year to think we’d overperform.
I’m trying to think of the last time CM showed any fire over a particularly bad loss. Obviously I recall the Charlotte meltdown in the A10 tournament, but I’m talking recently.“I don’t think anything would change in terms of how we approach each coming game, or each individual game.
“It’s just a matter of us being ready, fresh, alert and things that I think we have been.”
Good to know the status quo is satisfactory.
VCU again sends message: 'We run Richmond and we wanted to make that known'
Complimentary gold T-shirts draped on Siegel Center seats read “Some Rivalries Are Forever.”
Does he just not care about these bad losses anymore? Read the room coach…
Well sure but I don’t think that precludes him from showing some passion. Unless he genuinely doesn’t have any. Which is possible.
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8legs1dream
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He knows he can't fix it and he also knows that history has shown there are no consequences for not fixing it. Why get fired up? Why worry? Everything is fine.
While I somehow missed knowing this forum existed until last fall, I have been a loyal fan since school in the early to mid 90s … I get no pleasure in criticizing players or even Mooney and wasn’t supportive of the billboard approach … but believe after not succeeding with this talented class that somehow beat VCU twice four year ago ago, change must happen. He has tried and not succeeded. Time to let it go.
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When CM mercifully finally departs UR, hopefully by April (I can see the press release now: "The University of Richmond and Chris Mooney, the winningest coach in school history, have mutually agreed that...") it will be mildly humorous to see where he eventually ends up. Clearly not a higher conference and doubtful even a lateral move based on his resume. Would Patriot or CAA even have an interest since they are typically more focused on up and comers? Pitino was damaged goods for other reasons but even with his pedigree had to go way down to the MAAC. Maybe Alma Mater Princeton to save face, but can't even see them being interested and at 18-5 they're not looking.
Richmond won't have another successful season until CM is gone. He's literally had talents such as Kendall Anthony, TJ Cline, Shawn Dre Jones, etc. He hasn't been to a tournament since 2011 if Richmond really cared about their program he would've been fired a long time ago.
Lol, the announcer Cuff certainly got that talking point watching practice, mentioned that we play with great fluidity.
He should coach offense as an assistant for a coach who knows how to coach.
Being a multi-multi millionaire tends to soothe the soul.
Honestly hard to imagine you guys doing well next year no matter who coaches. Cupboard seems bare. Got any monster recruits coming in?
