The Official Smash the Richmond Spiders in the Stu Thread

What is VCU by the numbers? always hear him mention it, but don't know what it is. I don't have Facebook to be fair.
It’s on George’s FB page, VCU Fans, Good, Bad, and Ugly. It’s a rundown of stats. You can get the same thing in this forum.
 
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The success of UR only helps VCU and vice versa. It creates exposure and excitement for college basketball in the City of Richmond. This has been a top quality rivalry for the past 4 decades and if UR has to downgrade because of NIL thats really a sad thing for all of college basketball. UR has great history and has always been what is right about college basketball. So trashing them from a VCU fans makes zero sense. They help us and we help them.
1) Top quality rivalry? We have a 65% winning percentage against them.

2) Let's not pretend that Richmond is Virginia State. We've been dragged by their elitist fans for years regarding their money and resources. Sorry for not joining any pity parties regarding NIL and their inability or lack of desire to compete.

3) What have they done that has been so "right about basketball?" Because their team and playing style looks like a scene from the movie Hoosiers?

We were selling out games before we joined the A-10 and we'll be fine if Richmond decides to join the Patriot League. We kicked ODU to the curb and life went on without them. Yeah, it's cool having a local team in the same conference. But we can have similar rivalry with Mason if/when they ever get their stuff together.
 
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The only person over there I feel bad for is Hunt. Aside from that, I don't pity them, and they wouldn't pity us if the roles were reversed. Many of their fans are reasonable and acknowledge this isn't much of a "rivalry," but that doesn't stop too many of them from talking reckless. The "we run Richmond" chants from them a couple years ago after they beat us? Lol. The elitism? Don't feel too sorry for them, if they bounce back in a season or two you'll regret the compassion.
 
Richmond's problems are all of their own creation. It isn't our fault that they pissed off the Ukrops family (check the latest post by the company instagram, it's in support of VCU Hoops and refers to us as the city's home team) by cancelling existing sports to start a lacrosse program to please another donor who doesn't even live here, and also now seems to call all of the shots in their AD. Anybody who actually pays attention to that place knows it has a very nice facade, but just about any time they're forced into making a decision they find a new creative way to bungle it. Could you imagine that Athletic Department/school trying to put something together like the Athletic Campus? It would never get done, ever.
 
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Here we go again:

"We all know the reasons we can compete with VCU, but if you forgot - let me list them out again.

1) Lower admissions - VCU is a dumber school that will allow anyone in while UR is a place of higher academic learning with higher standards. How can we compete when a good portion of their players would not gain entry to UR?"
 
Here we go again:

"We all know the reasons we can compete with VCU, but if you forgot - let me list them out again.

1) Lower admissions - VCU is a dumber school that will allow anyone in while UR is a place of higher academic learning with higher standards. How can we compete when a good portion of their players would not gain entry to UR?"
Duke University is really hard to get into, but they manage to field a pretty good team.
 
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Here we go again:

"We all know the reasons we can compete with VCU, but if you forgot - let me list them out again.

1) Lower admissions - VCU is a dumber school that will allow anyone in while UR is a place of higher academic learning with higher standards. How can we compete when a good portion of their players would not gain entry to UR?"
It doesn't matter how you get in; it's how you perform after you get in. I'm thinking there was an article from VCU that the Athletes had higher GPA than students.
 
VCU and UR have different missions. VCU serves the citizens of the state of Virginia, and is a Research 1 University; it has many centers of excellence within its large academic/research structure. UR is a small private school that serves some Virginians, but mostly citizens of the Northeast; it has few nationally recognized centers of research and prides itself on being more selective in admissions. Both produce successful and productive grads.

As for athletics, however, the argument that VCU basketball players would not be admitted to UR is pure unadulterated hogwash. If one goes back and checks the scholarship offers over the years, you will find that many of the same players were recruited by both VCU and UR. Moreover, of VCU's current roster, Fats and Jennings were both recruited hard by UR, and fplayers named Burgess likewise. Among past UR players, Sherrod and Buckingham were recruited by VCU, among others. Thus, when it comes to basketball recruiting and admissions, VCU and UR are swimming in the same pond, period, even if they don't serve the same student populations. As we say in the academic world, UR and VCU are not PEER institutions; however, they are PEER athletic institutions -- same NCAA level, with same entry standards, D1 schools and in the same athletic conference.

As a 1973 VCU grad, I down right despise the Spiders. I watch UR televised games just to root against them. As I say nearly every day, the only good spider is a dead spider!!!
 
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