No question.  I think the St. Bonaventure fans are more upset, coming off of an NCAA bid and having everyone back.  The wheels started to come off for Richmond during last year's COVID season, and a goodly number of Richmond fans don't have faith in Chris Mooney and wanted him out of there for the past few years.

Wildwood13, with your coaching experience, could there be a negative side of having everyone back?  I would think that opposing coaches would be able to develop better scouting reports and game plans having familiarity from playing against the same team 4 to 8 times previously.  Of course, you still have to execute to beat them; and right now, I would say Davidson, VCU, Saint Louis, Dayton and perhaps George Mason have enough talent to do so.

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I was skeptical about the two teams that brought everyone back.  I think teams can get stale with the same coaching, and same routines for six years in some cases.  They have a lot of guys who probably would have moved-on if they had better opportunities professionally.  A guy like Lofton for example is a very good college player, but doesn't shoot well from distance, so his value is limited as a pro.  He can probably play in Europe.  I saw the Bonnies squeak out a win at St. Joe's over the weekend, but Osunnyi suffered what looked like a pretty bad ankle injury.  Without him they are toast!  
I saw a good bit of Dayton at Richmond last night, and it was far from an artistic matchup; offensively pretty painful to watch for both teams.  Richmond just had no long-range shooting, and their leading scorer, Burton had a miserable night.  He was scoreless from the field for much of the game.  Dayton did just enough to win, but also looked pretty bad offensively.  Pete Gillen who does the color on many of the A-10 games for CBS Sports was finding it hard to find positive things to say, but kept reiterating that the A-10 is a great league and Bernie McGlade is doing a wonderful job.  It will be interesting to see how the A-10 Tourney plays out with Davidson possibly being the only team that is in good shape for an at-large bid if they fail to win the tournament.  Worse case scenario for the league is that Davidson wins the tourney and nobody else gets an at-large.  

A83 wrote:

Definitely Duquesne. Those other programs experienced success. DU’s failure has actually sucked the joy of watching college basketball out of me. I always used to enjoy watching other A10 games. Nothing this year.

I bought NCAA tournament tickets. I’m giving them to my nephews. After watching DU play, I would probably not recognize the sport.

I feel the same.   Almost bought NCAA tickets but, like you, lost interest early in the year, no joy or fun.   I have started watching the better games on tv recently.   Really enjoyed Duke blasting pitt last night, caught a bit of VCU running StB, that was nice too.  :-)))

Napa...I know you are angry, but Ferry was worse and Nee was at the bottom.