conceptually I'd agree ... because we all chose Richmond and wouldn't think of choosing Olean over it. but they've historically been very good and not just under Schmidt. maybe recruits like Olean more than you think. maybe it's the brown uni's.
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You get criticized for the totality of your posts. Literally, EVERYONE on here knows that you lack any source of objectivity.
Mooney is the biggest ripoff in the country. $1.5 million for 10 years and absolutely NOTHING to show for it. And yes nit bids count as nothing.
In my time as a Spider, the most “important” game I’ve ever seen Mooney coach was the NIT quarterfinal against Miami where we blew a huge lead in truly embarrassing fashion.
Eveyrthing good Mooney did was before I got here, so I truly have no allegiance to him. This is a what have you done for me lately business. And ya haven’t done much the past 9 seasons
Eveyrthing good Mooney did was before I got here, so I truly have no allegiance to him. This is a what have you done for me lately business. And ya haven’t done much the past 9 seasons
I hear you ply. Makes sense. I can think of 3 real important games the last few years. The losses to VCU in the quarters when a win likely gets us in the dance, and the OT loss to VCU in the semis. Also, I would include the final game last year against Duquesne since IMO, that got us in the dance.
Morehead’s going to get the win and likely cover...up nine with 14.6 seconds left.
Edit: 76–65, Eagles. Sixth straight win.
Edit: 76–65, Eagles. Sixth straight win.
This just showed my point. The A-10 quarters shouldn’t be a huge game...winning that should be easy and expected. But Mooney has coached so poorly that it is now an important game. And that’s why the criticism of him is so loud.
Sure if UR had beaten vcu in the A10 tournament in 2015 they would have made the NCAA’s. However it shouldn’t have even came down to that game but it did because UR couldn’t beat jmu or a bad george mason team earlier in the season.
He coaches in Olean, NY. The armpit of NY State. Average snowfall of 100 inches a year. Population of 13K. 1800 undergrad enrollment. The fact that he has the second best record in the A-10 over the past 5 years in miraculous.
My favorite was the Epic Meltdown in the last 5 seconds against Charlotte in the A10 tournament, it may have been the quarters. We were ahead by 3 with 5 seconds left. There was a foul on Lindsay, a missed free throw. Derrick Williams was fouled, he retaliated, was called for a technical. Mooney went nuts and was given 2 technicals. Charlotte made 8 straight foul shots and won 68-63. Coach Mooney did a very good job with that team. They practiced hard and they provided a chance to overcome at the end. Character is not what happened in the past, but how the team responds. Great things are ahead.
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Wait. Quick drink koolaid. Mooney is a great coach, Mooney can save the planet. The future is better.
In my time of watching Spider hoops I cant remember us winning ANY big A10 tourney games. Every one we had to win we lost.
Off topic... Obi Toppin is fu yo watch on Knicks. Dayton had a good chance of winning it all last year.
USU and CSU in a dogfight. USU went up 10 early, but Colorado State stormed back to take a couple 6-7 point leads. Got tied back up, and the Rams are up two at the half. USU are really struggling from three, but staying in it. Thomas for CSU went on a run off the bench...drained a bunch of threes and scored like 11 straight for them.
That was my freshman year. That was literally my first impression of Mooney...I don't understand how the hell I liked the guy for so long after that being the conclusion of my first year as a fan.
It was a 4/5 game. We lost to a VCU team that won 26 games. Not sure why that should be an automatic win, but whatever.
Year we won A10 tournament was huge as we had to knock off Xavier and went on to NCAAs.
We didn't play Xavier in that tournament. Our big win was Temple in the semifinals.
I've got bad news for you, ply....every Spiders season of the modern (not just Mooney) era has ended with a crushing loss...
Except last year! So we've got that going for us, which is nice....
Lol. Someone realizing they mistakenly used their burner account. Good but transparent try at the schtick recovery.
Chris Mooney is basically the Joe biden of college basketball. A nice guy who is bad at his job but gets to keep his job because he represents his school well despite the fact that he has never done anything and has a very large sample size of doing so.
I was there in Brooklyn. We were in control most of game and then withered. Was also at the semis game in Pitt. The one where we ran a terrible iso for Shawndre resulting in a fadeaway jumper with the game on line. The reason Moon's pants are on fire can be seen in those two games. He sucks vs VCU and in A10 tourney. Putting those 2 together is peak Mooney.
X win was the year prior (2010). Lost to Temple in the final. Those Atlantic City years were fun, but were a lifetime ago.
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VCU over Dayton 33-13 at the half. Let's see if they shit the bed in the second half like the last game
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I suddenly find myself completely uninterested in this thread.
SF read your message and realized that once again a classic movie clip sums it all up.
Zero. The problem is that because we’ve lost to two garbage teams AT HOME, we now need to win every game against the good teams remaining. That means sweeping SLU and VCU and beating Bona if we play them again. Which means any other loss would come to a team that isn’t that good, and that would be another stain on our record. So the margin for error has evaporated completely.
We have 2 Quad 4 losses.
I'd say 1 max, and either La Salle or Hofstra need to climb out of Quad 4.
Completely agree. Unfortunately, that's not just going to happen. So disappointing.
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